Playing from the loss side in any discipline is not easy. Playing from the loss side in One Pocket events is tougher. In addition to shared aspects of loss-side life in the worlds of 8-, 9- and 10-ball competition (extra matches to play and the fact that another loss sends you home), One Pocket has the added issue of being something of a ‘grind’ to begin with, on either side of a bracket, requiring quantities of patience, stamina and mental gymnastics that are certainly a part of the other games, just not as often, in such concentrated and intense quantities.
In races to 3, Larry Kressel went undefeated through five matches to get into the hot seat at this past weekend’s (Oct. 7-8) VA State One Pocket Championships that drew 32 entrants to Q Master Billiards in Virginia Beach, VA. When Matt Clatterbuck chalked up his win in the semifinals, he’d won eight matches in all, seven of them on the loss side. He arrived to compete against Kressel in the finals, having played three more matches than he had, which in One Pocket is a lot of extra matches. Clatterbuck had enough left in the tank to finish it, defeating Kressel in those finals to claim the VA State One Pocket title.
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In races to 3, Larry Kressel went undefeated through five matches to get into the hot seat at this past weekend’s (Oct. 7-8) VA State One Pocket Championships that drew 32 entrants to Q Master Billiards in Virginia Beach, VA. When Matt Clatterbuck chalked up his win in the semifinals, he’d won eight matches in all, seven of them on the loss side. He arrived to compete against Kressel in the finals, having played three more matches than he had, which in One Pocket is a lot of extra matches. Clatterbuck had enough left in the tank to finish it, defeating Kressel in those finals to claim the VA State One Pocket title.
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