US OPEN: This breaking format is killing me...

filluptieu said:

If anyone was paying attention, neils just crushed the rack, made a ball and one ball passed the head string, another ball came up to the line but the center of that ball did not.

ILLEGAL BREAK. neils pissed and I would be too.

there were a lot more then one illegal break yesterday BTW

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nick serdula said:

See what happens when everything is easy.
Nick

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BmoreMoney said:

Crazy idear here, so back in the 90's pool was plenty popular and plenty of money going around - both tourney and action. They were breaking a rack racked by a triangle, on Simonas cloth, with no break box and about an inch off the rail AND putting together some good packages with winner break format. Now all of these " break rules " and what do we have........... Just a thought

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BeiberLvr said:

Pool was dying long before these rules came along.



But if you really want to play devil's advocate and assign blame, you can point two fingers, one at Corey Deuel and the other at Joe Tucker.

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BmoreMoney said:

Crazy idear here, so back in the 90's pool was plenty popular and plenty of money going around - both tourney and action. They were breaking a rack racked by a triangle, on Simonas cloth, with no break box and about an inch off the rail AND putting together some good packages with winner break format. Now all of these " break rules " and what do we have........... Just a thought

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BeiberLvr said:

Pool was dying long before these rules came along.

But if you really want to play devil's advocate and assign blame, you can point two fingers, one at Corey Deuel and the other at Joe Tucker.

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realkingcobra said:

Why, did Cory design the Sardo rack....or just expose a flaw in perfect racking?

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MuchoBurrito said:

He hacked the rack with his soft break, forced the rest of tour to start soft breaking in order to keep up. Took too much of the excitement out of the game.

Hence the break rules (3 balls past headstring, etc.) were brought in to prevent people from soft breaking and turning the game into an exercise.

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JAM said:

I've seen a couple forfeits on the chart -- this, after they win their first match. Then forfeit the second match?

Is there all-night action going on at Q-Masters? Just curious. Can't imagine why anyone would forfeit a match on the winner's side after winning a match on the winner's side.

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MuchoBurrito said:

He hacked the rack with his soft break, forced the rest of tour to start soft breaking in order to keep up. Took too much of the excitement out of the game.

Hence the break rules (3 balls past headstring, etc.) were brought in to prevent people from soft breaking and turning the game into an exercise.

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realkingcobra said:

So let me get this straight....Cory figured out that a perfect rack, racking the balls had a flaw. And that flaw was that if you broke the rack a certain way you were guaranteed to pocket a ball on the break, and therefore being a great player....he could run out just about every time........hmmmm....my only question I guess would be.......what stopped the rest of the world full of Professional pool players.....from figuring out the same break?

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realkingcobra said:

So let me get this straight....Cory figured out that a perfect rack, racking the balls had a flaw. And that flaw was that if you broke the rack a certain way you were guaranteed to pocket a ball on the break, and therefore being a great player....he could run out just about every time........hmmmm....my only question I guess would be.......what stopped the rest of the world full of Professional pool players.....from figuring out the same break?

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BeiberLvr said:

They did.

Hence the new rules.

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realkingcobra said:

The new rules to favor the dead money players ya mean.....gotcha!

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JC said:

Ah, the old dead money favorites. When does the window open so I can bet on them?

JC

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Brozif said:

Did he hack the rack, or did he just figure out a good speed to hit the balls in order to make a ball and continue his run. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the point to the game? The Sardo rack combined with Simonis cloth, made that scenario possible, and now with the Magic rack, the ability is still there. Good on Corey for figuring it out. While everyone else was smashing the balls and sending the cue ball flying all over the place, he took a nice easy stroke and ran rack after rack.:thumbup:

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