14.1 shots from the Woodshed

[Williebetmore]

Just a taste of some of the extraordinary pool seen recently in the woodshed. Other than daily practice and the recent start of straight pool league, my only competition has been a weekly 14.1 marathon against a top pro, and some of the pool I've seen has been spectacular. So, for your viewing pleasure:

Table #1 - my opponent freezes me on the bottom of the pack, the tangent line goes directly into the corner pocket.

Table #2 - I have played a Danny D. "Special" safety by aiming slightly into the 12 with low right half-masse', and sneak the cue ball into the jaws of the pocket - thinking I've got the rack cinched from this position.

Table #3 - My opponent studies the table for almost 5 whole seconds, calls the 3 in the side, then kicks it in 2 rails (its sitting about a balls width away from the pocket), then runs 40 and out. I continue to perfect my racking skills.

Its freaking difficult to get to the table against this type of opponent. In the same game to 150 my opponent made 2 successful jump shots (one short and one long) - the first time I've seen jump shots in straight pool. Well, back to the woodshed.

 

[breakup]

Does your opponent also do the escape from a milk can filled with water shackled hand and foot trick?

 

[Black-Balled]

And how many puffs are required, in the woodshed?

 

[Williebetmore]

Does your opponent also do the escape from a milk can filled with water shackled hand and foot trick?

BU,
LMAO!! If you don't mind, I'm going to use that line the next time my opponent performs one of those miraculous escapes (which of course happens several times every game).

 

[kennyratt]

14.1 info.

Just a taste of some of the extraordinary pool seen recently in the woodshed. Other than daily practice and the recent start of straight pool league, my only competition has been a weekly 14.1 marathon against a top pro, and some of the pool I've seen has been spectacular. So, for your viewing pleasure:

Table #1 - my opponent freezes me on the bottom of the pack, the tangent line goes directly into the corner pocket.

Table #2 - I have played a Danny D. "Special" safety by aiming slightly into the 12 with low right half-masse', and sneak the cue ball into the jaws of the pocket - thinking I've got the rack cinched from this position.

Table #3 - My opponent studies the table for almost 5 whole seconds, calls the 3 in the side, then kicks it in 2 rails (its sitting about a balls width away from the pocket), then runs 40 and out. I continue to perfect my racking skills.

Its freaking difficult to get to the table against this type of opponent. In the same game to 150 my opponent made 2 successful jump shots (one short and one long) - the first time I've seen jump shots in straight pool. Well, back to the woodshed.

Thanks for the info. I enjoy the straight pool tidbits offered on AZB. Maybe more will follow.Very difficult to even find a game in rural N.C. Regards, Kennyratt

 

[Williebetmore]

And how many puffs are required, in the woodshed?

BB,
If I was going to make stuff up, I would claim that I made the shot (which of course would truly be fantasy).

 

[zeeder]

BB,
If I was going to make stuff up, I would claim that I made the shot (which of course would truly be fantasy).

I don't know Willie, I'd have a hard time believing that you'd even fantasize about attempting that shot...lol!

 

[Williebetmore]

I don't know Willie, I'd have a hard time believing that you'd even fantasize about attempting that shot...lol!

Z-man,
Well, obviously I would never fantasize about it, because I DIDN'T EVEN SEE IT, or I would have played a different safety. Maybe you can vouch for me though, you know my opponent is eminently capable. This type of shot is commonplace in our Wednesday game (though still requires an element of luck).

 

[zeeder]

Z-man,
Well, obviously I would never fantasize about it, because I DIDN'T EVEN SEE IT, or I would have played a different safety. Maybe you can vouch for me though, you know my opponent is eminently capable. This type of shot is commonplace in our Wednesday game (though still requires an element of luck).

I can certainly vouch for the capability of your opponent! I'm not sure I'd have seen the shot either. I'd have probably sold out either way though.

 

[Rod]

Well Willie, I doubt he's not gonna shoot that in a real game. By real, I mean a tournament. Course if the o/b is a little closer to the side he may.

I see the angle, the shot is there. If the line is as shown I'd imagine it took a touch of right to straighten the angle out a bit. Playing nine ball one day in a close match I took such a shot. Problem was the c/b followed the o/b straight in the hole. I lost that match BTW.

This shot and many similar have a fair chance of going. Shots like this come up in golf all the time so the possibility surely exists. They even come up playing nine ball as mentioned, not always to make a ball but to get a good hit. When both balls on the same side of the table your limited so a two rail to me is the simplest way to hit the ball. Well what can you do, just grin and rackem. LOL

Rod

 

[Williebetmore]

Well Willie, I doubt he's not gonna shoot that in a real game. By real, I mean a tournament. Course if the o/b is a little closer to the side he may.

Rod

Rod,
You are of course correct, with the world championship on the line, I'm not sure we would see that shot (unless no good safety was available). The Wei (as always) is a little off, the shot required no English correction, but the object ball was just far enough away from the pocket to add a little doubt to the outcome.

I think I was more impressed by the rapidity with which the decision and the shot itself were executed. This player plays with significant intensity even in practice - serious as a heart attack; and is a very accomplished billiards and 9-ball player (so kicking is second nature) - and in fact owns a heated 10 ft. billiard table that stands next to the table on which we play. I always suspect that great players take more liberties playing against inferior opponents (like me); but it certainly allows me the opportunity to see some fabulous shots.

 

[2wld4u]

BB,
If I was going to make stuff up, I would claim that I made the shot (which of course would truly be fantasy).

you could have got out from there, I would have called the 8, you have guard rails, I would have kicked the 11, sent the 9 up table, either the 9 or the 9 off the 5 would have made the 8, your opponet sold out to you! your just letting him off the hook..


2wld4u

 

[Gerry]

I was gonna declair shinanigans on that shot, ........but then you said he has a billiard table....that changes EVERYTHING...

You need to open up a can on this guy!....let your stroke out and put up some numbers, so he thinks twice next time about those kind of shots. Great players HATE sitting/racking and watching someone else run out.....Gerry

 

[Williebetmore]

I was gonna declair shinanigans on that shot, ........but then you said he has a billiard table....that changes EVERYTHING...

You need to open up a can on this guy!....let your stroke out and put up some numbers, so he thinks twice next time about those kind of shots. Great players HATE sitting/racking and watching someone else run out.....Gerry

Gerry,
My opponent came within 1 ball of beating Efren at bank pool a few years ago at DCC. Unfortunately the equipment we play on is extremely tight with deep drops on the pockets - no long runs from me seem to be forthcoming; defense is my only alternative. The only can I've been opening is a can of Diet Coke to keep me awake until it is my turn to rack again. Now where did I put that "whoopass" can????

 

[Snapshot9]

Wille ...

I keep getting this vision in my head of your woodshed.
A pot belly stove in the corner, a couple of the ole fellas
sitting close to it, playing dominoes, hitting spitune now
and then, philosiphizing about the outcome of the games
going on. You boys having relaxed conservation, analyzing
the table layout, shooting a fantastic shot now and then.
Grabbing a cold one from the portable fridge now and then.
A little green crossing over the table. You saying, y'all come
back now as they are going out the door.

 

[zeeder]

I keep getting this vision in my head of your woodshed.
A pot belly stove in the corner, a couple of the ole fellas
sitting close to it, playing dominoes, hitting spitune now
and then, philosiphizing about the outcome of the games
going on. You boys having relaxed conservation, analyzing
the table layout, shooting a fantastic shot now and then.
Grabbing a cold one from the portable fridge now and then.
A little green crossing over the table. You saying, y'all come
back now as they are going out the door.

Just a little bit off. I've been trying to convince Willie to let me live in his woodshed! It's pretty much my definition of heaven!!

 

[Gerry]

Gerry,
My opponent came within 1 ball of beating Efren at bank pool a few years ago at DCC. Unfortunately the equipment we play on is extremely tight with deep drops on the pockets - no long runs from me seem to be forthcoming; defense is my only alternative. The only can I've been opening is a can of Diet Coke to keep me awake until it is my turn to rack again. Now where did I put that "whoopass" can????

Sounds like you all play on a Diamond table. You know, I had my GC triple wedged thinking it would "help" my game, it did'nt. It just made me more tense. I put them back to double shim, like most of the tables in the nice pool rooms play. Then I went back to runnning balls!...........Go get em'......Gerry

 

[Williebetmore]

I keep getting this vision in my head of your woodshed.
A pot belly stove in the corner, a couple of the ole fellas
sitting close to it, playing dominoes, hitting spitune now
and then, philosiphizing about the outcome of the games
going on. You boys having relaxed conservation, analyzing
the table layout, shooting a fantastic shot now and then.
Grabbing a cold one from the portable fridge now and then.
A little green crossing over the table. You saying, y'all come
back now as they are going out the door.

Snapshot,
Your visions are quite disturbing, but don't worry there are breakthroughs in medication every day that hopefully will help.

My wife agreed to the large plasma tv on a moveable arm. She was good with the big refrigerator and bar stocked with several kinds of beer, ice cream treats, and 20 kinds of soda. She was kind of okay with the built in sound system, 300 CD player, and home theater system. She liked the black leather couches, recliners, and throne-like spectator chair. She insisted on the bedroom, full bath, and music room attached. She approved the brand new mahogany GCIV, and even hand picked the custom light. She resisted a little bit the 80 photographs framed and hung. She grudgingly approved all the trips necessary to accumulate the 80 autographed cue balls. BUT SHE IS NEVER GOING TO GO FOR THE SPITTOON AND POT BELLIED STOVE!!!!! You are going to have to go outside if you want to chew.

P.S. - the rest of your hallucinations were uncomfortably accurate. Well, I need to go check on my critters, and clean up around the cement pond.

 

[Snapshot9]

Lmao ...

Snapshot,
Your visions are quite disturbing, but don't worry there are breakthroughs in medication every day that hopefully will help.

My wife agreed to the large plasma tv on a moveable arm. She was good with the big refrigerator and bar stocked with several kinds of beer, ice cream treats, and 20 kinds of soda. She was kind of okay with the built in sound system, 300 CD player, and home theater system. She liked the black leather couches, recliners, and throne-like spectator chair. She insisted on the bedroom, full bath, and music room attached. She approved the brand new mahogany GCIV, and even hand picked the custom light. She resisted a little bit the 80 photographs framed and hung. She grudgingly approved all the trips necessary to accumulate the 80 autographed cue balls. BUT SHE IS NEVER GOING TO GO FOR THE SPITTOON AND POT BELLIED STOVE!!!!! You are going to have to go outside if you want to chew.


P.S. - the rest of your hallucinations were uncomfortably accurate. Well, I need to go check on my critters, and clean up around the cement pond.

Wille ... lol ... You sure know how to destroy a vision fast, don't you ...
It sounds extra nice and very modern. I was laughing all the way through
your reply .. 80 autographed cue balls, what a collection. Just curious, but
how do they get the autograph to stay on the cue ball permanently? And
no, I do not chew. If I end up getting the big 'C', I don't want to open my
mouth and see it. The 'Woodshed'? You must have a little 'country' in you.

 

[Williebetmore]

Wille ... lol ... You sure know how to destroy a vision fast, don't you ...
It sounds extra nice and very modern. I was laughing all the way through
your reply .. 80 autographed cue balls, what a collection. Just curious, but
how do they get the autograph to stay on the cue ball permanently? And
no, I do not chew. If I end up getting the big 'C', I don't want to open my
mouth and see it. The 'Woodshed'? You must have a little 'country' in you.

Snapshot,
Very sorry to disillusion you. The autographs are done with a Sharpie - they stay on perfectly as long as you don't handle them or play with them. The woodshed is a term coined by the old, black, country blues guitarists (Robt. Johnson, Gary Davis, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Mississippi John Hurt, etc.) to denote a place for intensive practice. Just starting out, the juvenile guitarists were exiled to the woodshed to practice where no one could be bothered by their feeble attempts (much like my pool game). I've played guitar for a long time, and as soon as I can play pool as well as I can play guitar I'll be able to spend less time in the woodshed, and more time playing (a friend reckons this will be about 2 weeks from NEVER).

Anyway, feel free to stop by and play some on the fancy eating table, but you need to bring your own pot-passer. And after a portion of the "varmint-du-jour" please keep your bones out of the little buckets on the fancy eating table.