Sounds like a bad thing to me. A luck shot. Or a trick shot. Isn't making shots on purpose more admirable?
BTW, GS, one of the links in your signature is broken. Something about stealing from Fox News.
Justin Bergman said he'll play anyone for $10K min.
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BTW, GS, one of the links in your signature is broken. Something about stealing from Fox News.
Thanks Bob. The links were to info on the murder of an old friend of mine
Mike Surber who was killed in his home in Mississippi in 2010.
Suspect has never been caught.
People have tried to take the break out of 9 ball, but it has not worked.
These guys are good at overcoming any rack or break rules.
I'm fine with a wood rack and loser racks as I;ve played that way all my life.
I never played tourneys much so its not a problem for. Also, I'm not a run-out
player. At my level, getting out on spreads is good enough to get the cash.
TC
Who won? Curioso
And the easy break works the same for both sides...although knowing the table is pretty big.
You're asking about Olinger vs. Winters, right?
It was best 2 out of 3 races to 25, 8-Ball on a 7-foot Diamond table.
Olinger won:
Set 1 -- 25-18
Set 2 -- 13-25
Set 3 -- 25-23
[Total -- 63-66]
Scores per terryhanna in this thread: https://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?490501&p=6352665#post6352665
Yeah that’s what I was wondering, thank you
I just noticed the link. I have to keep up I never saw that
I just noticed the link. I have to keep up I never saw that
I missed it also...the thread was in the Live Stream Area
This is my home room. I play out of Club Billiards. Tiny owned it for several years. He ran a very good Pool Hall. Recently Tiny passed away. The new owner is doing everything he can to step it up a notch or several notches. He is making a sizable investment and taking substantial risk to do so. I for one am very pleased with the direction he has taken. Hopefully this kind of action will become the norm for our home room as it will inspire interest, excitement and action across the board. For an old pol player such as myself I find that very pleasing indeed.
It's kind of like bowling between two champions. You better keep making strikes! Eventually someone flinches.
Like you, I'm an old school guy. We were on the hunt every day just looking for a game and weren't too particular about who, what and where. Just put your stick together and get it on. Let the best man win. I'd walk into a poolroom prepared to play anybody, any game on any table in the house! Most of the time it was 9-Ball back then, One Pocket second most popular (I guess some things never change). Occasionally I played Banks, Eight Ball (almost exclusively on bar tables), and even gambled a few times at Pay Ball on the 10' snooker table, a little Three Cushions and some 14.1 on the East Coast.
Any game was better than no game and we had to adjust to the conditions whatever they were. Table rolls, dead cushions, chipped balls, obstructions, bad cues, all of that. It was all part of the game! My attitude back then was that if I was a better player it would show up no matter what game we were playing. And most of the time I was out there on the lonesome, no one to back me up but myself.
The education I got and the confidence I gained during that time in my life helped me immensely in whatever success I achieved later on.
Adjusting to the conditions didn't include a gaff rack which players can make the same ball and leave close to the same layout 9/10 times.
People broke hard and still managed to string incredible packages together.
People broke hard and still managed to string incredible packages together.
It's threads like this that make you realize why Ten Ball has become the game of choice for top players. That one extra ball changes everything! The break is no longer automatic and the run outs become a lot more difficult. For me personally, I'd much rather watch the best players compete at this game than 9-Ball. That said, 9-Ball still has it's place and just by moving the nine to the spot the degree of difficulty on the break is increased. No need to change a lot of rules imo as Sir Jewett has suggested. We don't need to make the game any more complicated than it already is. I've watched enough 9-Ball to know that most of the time the best player finds a way to win in a match, be it long or short. Even in short matches (MC for example) the pressure is ramped up and the weaker player will often falter first.
I will agree on that. I'm against allowing the soft break. Three balls past the head string is a good rule in this case.
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Strickland does not play these?
Strickland does not play these?
He's got no chance against the top money players any more. And he knows it.
Might have a game brewing now this just in :smile:
:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: Gosh, maybe someone was listening. Or maybe it's just a good idea.:thumbup:
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Now you're talking! No more break and runs five or six racks.
Johnny swears by you. Just the other day he said to me, "Bob who?"