Derby City Straight Pool Challenge 2011

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The event is coming up soon. Preliminaries begin this Sunday at Derby City.

If anyone wants to volunteer to help me, Marop and Elvicash, let us know.

Greg Sullivan said that this is the last year he will be putting up the $1000 bonus for a filmed run over 200 on the Diamond, so let's get the heavy hitters in there for one last shot.
 

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i just saw on Dennis's facebook that Corey Deuel just ran a 125, altough i dont know if thats the high for the day. I Know Niels ran a 102 earlier !!!
 
Darren Appleton-183!

That's the event record. Who knows where this will end up. Can't wait to see the second year of the SBE 14.1 Challenge in March.
 
Day One

As you guys already know, Darren Appleton ran a nice 183 on his only attempt yesterday. Corey had a 125 on his second attempt and Niels had a 102 on his second attempt.

The rest of the results are as follows. Mika had a 68 and missed a relatively easy cut in the side with a nice two ball end pattern waiting for him. He only took two attempts and I expected him to come back but he did not.

Tommy Tokoph had a 52 and had a very open table when he touched his tip to the cue ball while getting down on a shot.

After that, nobody was doing much of anything. Six guys had high runs between 28 and 33.

John had a 149 the day before with dirty balls and dirty tables before we started. Max Eberle zipped through a 65 in practice, but when he put his money up, the balls did not cooperate.

Others we expect to play who we have not yet seen are Alex Pagulayan, Stevie Moore, Charlie Williams, Thorsten Hohmann, Ralph Eckert, Jeannette Lee, Alan Hopkins and whomever else gets the urge.
 
BayGene said:
That's the event record. Who knows where this will end up. ....
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183 is also the high run for any 14.1 competition so far as I know. The previous record was 182 set by Joe Procita against Willie Mosconi in 1951. I think it is important to distinguish between competition and practice or exhibition runs.
 
Bob Jewett said:
183 is also the high run for any 14.1 competition so far as I know. The previous record was 182 set by Joe Procita against Willie Mosconi in 1951. I think it is important to distinguish between competition and practice or exhibition runs.
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Very good point Mr Jewett, nothing like the pressure of a match !!!

-Steve
 
Were any of you there watching Darren's 183? 183 is huge no matter what, but I was wondering if he had to shoot any banks or combos or anything like that.
 
StraightPoolIU said:
Were any of you there watching Darren's 183? 183 is huge no matter what, but I was wondering if he had to shoot any banks or combos or anything like that.
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Dennis, Marop and Elvicash are there running the show. we will have to wait for one of them to chime in, and i am sure they will. because they are probably just as excited as we all are, maybe more so !

-Steve
 
Bob Jewett said:
183 is also the high run for any 14.1 competition so far as I know. The previous record was 182 set by Joe Procita against Willie Mosconi in 1951. I think it is important to distinguish between competition and practice or exhibition runs.
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Bob:

But would you put an actual match high run (like Procita's) in the same category as a "here, set up your own breakshot, run balls until you miss -- and you have three tries to boot" competition? I would think these two are completely different animals. Not to take away from Darren's run -- it's the highest I've heard in a "competition-like" setting (the previous being Johnny Archer's 174 in the recent 14.1 Worlds -- an actual match). But I'm thinking the pressure of having an opponent fire back at you if you miss, (vs. "ok, I still have 2 more tries -- I'll just set the optimum breakshot up and try again") has got to play in there.

Thoughts?
-Sean
 
sfleinen said:
Bob:

But would you put an actual match high run (like Procita's) in the same category as a "here, set up your own breakshot, run balls until you miss -- and you have three tries to boot" competition? I would think these two are completely different animals. Not to take away from Darren's run -- it's the highest I've heard in a "competition-like" setting (the previous being Johnny Archer's 174 in the recent 14.1 Worlds -- an actual match). But I'm thinking the pressure of having an opponent fire back at you if you miss, (vs. "ok, I still have 2 more tries -- I'll just set the optimum breakshot up and try again") has got to play in there.

Thoughts?
-Sean
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I completely agree. In a high run competition a safety is never a consideration. The player will attempt to pocket something no matter how difficult, and may just pull it off to keep the run going. In an actual match if a player is faced even with a makeable though difficult shot and a good safety is available, he may very well play the safety, thereby ending his run.

Two different animals.
 
DogsPlayingPool said:
I completely agree. In a high run competition a safety is never a consideration. The player will attempt to pocket something no matter how difficult, and may just pull it off to keep the run going. In an actual match if a player is faced even with a makeable though difficult shot and a good safety is available, he may very well play the safety, thereby ending his run.

Two different animals.
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Yup, agree on all accounts there.

As an aside, if we're going to include these high-run challenges into the "highest run in competition / match situation" stats, Darren's 183 isn't the highest. Last year at SBE's straight pool challenge organized by our own Charlie Eames, Schmidtty (John Schmidt) ran a 204. (Though I'm not sure all of the run was caught on tape, if I recall correctly. John's first four high run attempts got off to a less-than-stellar start with only one of the four runs in the double digits. But attempt number 5 was the magic number.)

-Sean
 
I had forgotten about the 204.

Yes, a high-run competition is not as tough as a match, but I think it deserves a spot in the records.
 
Still remembering the straight-pool world championship where Oliver Ortmann made so many 100er runs in competition.....that was really impressive-was it 2006?
 
Ratta said:
Still remembering the straight-pool world championship where Oliver Ortmann made so many 100er runs in competition.....that was really impressive-was it 2006?
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Hey Ingo,

That happened during the 2009 Worlds !!

Steve
 
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