John Schmidt - How high will he go?
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That's is a weak call...a neighbor of bar pool rules.
There is no opponent and it didn't impact the game at all.
Yet, a foul is a foul. As far as "opponent" goes - well, the record holders, living and dead, are the opponents, no?
It wasn't a bad hit. He was drawing the ball up table to get clear of the rack. If you watch the video again he took a break and the racker cleaned the cue ball with his gloves prior to the rack. Then in the middle of the rack John marked the cue ball and cleaned it and said "a string or something" was on the ball. That cue ball should not have scratched.
With the gear he was in all he needed was to get clear of the rack. He wasn't going to miss.
Never said he was going to miss. I said he was careless with his breaks several times.
I feel any record attempt like what JS is doing should be squeaky clean and just like the DCC 14.1 Challenge comply with the all balls foul rule.
If it's good enough for the DCC 14.1 Challenge -- the closest formal competition to what he's doing -- it should be good enough for his attempts. It should also be noted that the DCC 14.1 Challenge is far from a pool event in a bar.
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Wasn’t Willies run on 4x8 and 5-1/4 inch pockets? I read Mosconi did it on this small table cuz it was the only Brunswick table avail for the exhibition. I think John Schmidts 434 is just as impressive as 526 on the smaller table. I also would be willing to bet (w odds) he’ll break 500.
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I wonder if John will match Mosconi's table specs of a Brunswick 4'x8' table with 5.25 inch pockets and use similar cloth? If I had pockets like those, I could run 526 - reality = 74. Okay, maybe 62.
I think John has a good chance to break the record. First off, he has patience. It's incredibly difficult to run hundreds of balls only to be stymied by a bad roll or a misscue and etc. His break shots are superior to other top players I have seen. He wants it so bad he can smell it. He's come within a 130 balls or so and that's very close. Lastly, he gets great action on the balls in the rack when he goes into them.
I would like to think Mosconi played to play the game the best he could, he didn't play to beat a record.
I guess it was 384 but here’s that bank I was talking about
https://youtu.be/3HCILjt11Wo
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Forget the bank, holly batman, who ressurected the Sardo Rack from the dead?! ha ha ha.
Lol! Yeah he wasn’t pushing down on it. One rack John took over and used a regular rack. Bizarro world
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