DarkPoseidon6
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I remember a while back when watching Earl talk about the differences of tables, and in particular pocket size and how they played. He remarked about how the facings in the pocket was key to the shot, even more than the pocket size itself. I agree....
I had an example of this happen tonight on the league. On my last game, I shot the 8 ball for a no-brainer win and yet it had a bit of spin on it and hit in the inside of the facing and got rejected and went all the way out of the pocket and scratched in the side.
A number of players from my team said that I hit it too hard. In fact, one player actually said after I told him it was unlucky and due to the pocket "it wasn't luck, you didn't hit the center of the pocket". Some interesting things happened after that.
After I lost to that, the player that told me "it wasn't luck" the very next game, his opponent made the 8 on the break. I thought that was ironic.
To follow, about 5 times (including players from our team that said to hit softer) had soft-shot object balls rattle around in the pockets due to bad facings and spin on the ball. Some of those shots cost our players to lose, and by the time I had to get out of there due to bad weather, we were behind by at least a few.....
They never learn, no matter how many years....:wink:....
I had an example of this happen tonight on the league. On my last game, I shot the 8 ball for a no-brainer win and yet it had a bit of spin on it and hit in the inside of the facing and got rejected and went all the way out of the pocket and scratched in the side.
A number of players from my team said that I hit it too hard. In fact, one player actually said after I told him it was unlucky and due to the pocket "it wasn't luck, you didn't hit the center of the pocket". Some interesting things happened after that.
After I lost to that, the player that told me "it wasn't luck" the very next game, his opponent made the 8 on the break. I thought that was ironic.
To follow, about 5 times (including players from our team that said to hit softer) had soft-shot object balls rattle around in the pockets due to bad facings and spin on the ball. Some of those shots cost our players to lose, and by the time I had to get out of there due to bad weather, we were behind by at least a few.....
They never learn, no matter how many years....:wink:....