For the Beard.... Tadd and banks

E

enzo

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Beard,

I recently got an accustat of Mark Tadd playing Parica a race to 5 short rack banks at the LA Open. Parica plays pretty good and conservative and goes up 3-0. He then shoots at a long rail bank semi jacked up and misses it by a hair. If he would have made it he would have had a hanger (which he left for Tadd) and would have went up 4-0. He ended up putting that same shot up after the match, he knew it was the pivitol shot.

Anyway, since it was winner breaks, the score is now 3-1 Tadd breaking. He breaks the balls like he's playing a game of 9ball (ie wide open, Parica was breaking soft). He makes a ball on the break and runs 5 and out. Score 3-2 parica.

Tadd wins game 6 after a hard break and now he's making alomost every bank, parica only gets a couple shots. In game 7 he breaks and runs again and its now 4-3 Tadd. He breaks em open again and wins the last game with parica really only getting a couple opportunities and took it 5-3.

Ok, after all that my question.... I don't have your book in front of me but i remember reading something like "no bank players break hard for their cash" or something like that. Anyway, I know nothing about bank pool and am not second guessing, I guess I just wanted you to comment on the way in which Tadd won this match. Do you feel his chances would have been even better with safety breaks??

Thanks in advance,

Enzo
 
Freddy is under the knife for knee surgery, so I'll step in :)

Short rack banks are broken hard -- the chances are so good of making a ball on the break, and you usually have some kind of shot, that it pays too. Besides, at least in tournament play (Derby City), you are required to at least knock a ball past the side pocket.

Full rack banks are generally broken soft.
 
1pocket said:
Freddy is under the knife for knee surgery, so I'll step in :)

Short rack banks are broken hard -- the chances are so good of making a ball on the break, and you usually have some kind of shot, that it pays too. Besides, at least in tournament play (Derby City), you are required to at least knock a ball past the side pocket.

Full rack banks are generally broken soft.
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unless your me then you break 15 ball banks hard to :)
 
1pocket said:
Freddy is under the knife for knee surgery, so I'll step in :)

Short rack banks are broken hard -- the chances are so good of making a ball on the break, and you usually have some kind of shot, that it pays too. Besides, at least in tournament play (Derby City), you are required to at least knock a ball past the side pocket.

Full rack banks are generally broken soft.
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I grew up in the heart of Bank pool country and there were 2 versions of the game played here.

open or hard break, either 9 or 15 ball rack, if you make a ball you bank
'till you miss

what was known as 'safe bank' - I assume making a ball did not entitle
the breaker to shoot again, because everyone broke softly, much
like straight pool. Scratches cost you a ball

In general, the top players played only safe bank, the recreational
guys played open break

In northern KY, ther was a sort of ring bank pool version that started with
a fifteen ball rack, not sure about break, but I think it was open break.

you need 6 banks to win, at least 3 players, but 5 or 6 was not unusual.
if there was no winner by the last ball of the rack, they left it as a break
ball like in straight pool

one Sat afternoon I recall watching Joe Favre(Phillipino Joe) play
a short cross corner thin cut, like a typical 1 hole bank, on the break ball,
and send the CB up and down the table to break open the stack - guy
could play

Dale
 
Enzo that was not an accustat, its one of JJ Jenkins tapes. Great tape though, Tadd plays awesome to take down the cash.
 
uwate said:
Enzo that was not an accustat, its one of JJ Jenkins tapes. Great tape though, Tadd plays awesome to take down the cash.
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Where do you get JJ Jenkins' tapes? Thanks.
 
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