Biggest myths in pool today
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Gambling is good for pool.
Banks
Banned
Pool is dead.
Barboxes are the devil.
Better players lose because of equipment specs.
There is no money in pool.. or no way to make it profitable.
Leagues are killing pool.
You have to play better players regularly to improve.
Everyone on azb is a shortstop.
A 6-pack player regularly puts together that kind of run or close to it.
Playing in a pool hall or on nines means you're better.
More expensive equipment makes you better.
Lessons are always worth it.
The science behind pool is too complicated to prove scientific claims of products.
Gambling with a spot is for nits.
Barboxes are the devil.
Better players lose because of equipment specs.
There is no money in pool.. or no way to make it profitable.
Leagues are killing pool.
You have to play better players regularly to improve.
Everyone on azb is a shortstop.
A 6-pack player regularly puts together that kind of run or close to it.
Playing in a pool hall or on nines means you're better.
More expensive equipment makes you better.
Lessons are always worth it.
The science behind pool is too complicated to prove scientific claims of products.
Gambling with a spot is for nits.
On average they are. However if the best players of yesteryear would have come into their prime now they would surely be top players having adapted to the modern game.
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I agree when it's ten ball played the right way, call shot/call safe/pass shot option
When it's played like 9 ball with one more ball then that's all it is.
I kind of disagree. I think the 10 ball rack is much more difficult to run out than a 9 ball rack. That extra ball seems to totally change the spread of the break and difficulty of the run (at least from what I have witnessed in matches as well as have experienced). I'd like to see the pros stats on break and runs in 9 ball vs 10 ball over a given sample size (tough to show I know with all the other variables). I am guessing the gap might be bigger than we think.
Calling out Atlarge for b&r stats on the US Open 9 ball, vs World 10 ball.
Your answer should arrive shortly........ :thumbup:
Laminated shafts
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How about all the pros use Laminated LD shafts because they are better then solid maple ....
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How about all the pros use Laminated LD shafts because they are better then solid maple ....
The races today are too short to properly distinguish between pros especially on super slick cloth, where a mere sneeze will spring the balls apart. On a slower cloth, you'd really separate the wheat from the chaff, in straight pool. I do however feel that there is an even better game for the pros to play; Straight rotation. The Phillipines got it right.
Bar tables belong in bars, where they serve an admirable purpose, breaking the fall of drunkards and absorbing puke from the same. They are also handy places to place one's drink or make love after hours (if other kinds of uses doesn't make this to unappetizing of a prospect).Other uses than this should be expressly forbidden.
Personally I don't consider any game played on less then a 4.5*9 surface pool at all, that includes the worst game of them all, UK pool.
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Banks
Banned
Bar tables belong in bars, where they serve an admirable purpose, breaking the fall of drunkards and absorbing puke from the same. They are also handy places to place one's drink or make love after hours (if other kinds of uses doesn't make this to unappetizing of a prospect).Other uses than this should be expressly forbidden.
Lol. Myth for sure.
Having played three sets the other day of nine ball and switching to the Magic rack in the middle of the second set I agree with you. Nine ball with a magic rack automatically becomes seven ball with a shot on the one when the player figures out the right speed to use on the break.
So for that reason ten ball is much better than nine ball if 9 ball rules are used.
But overall as a game with the same excessive reward/punishment for lucky rolls it sucks.
Ten ball (or nine ball) that is call shot/call safe is a way better game. Still some luck but not nearly as much.
Mike Tyson dogging any ball is a myth.
at least that's what he'll say. :wink:
at least that's what he'll say. :wink:
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Chuck Norris missed once.
CTE ? :thumbup:
