Highest number of rack run in a row in 9 ball.

[X Breaker]

I am interested to know what is the highest rack of nine ball you have run in a row.

Larry Nevel once told me he ran 13 racks in a row...and he has done it twice.

I heard from my friend that Neil Feijen has ran 17 racks in a row, which is supposed to be a record.

I watched a match in Japan featuring Pei Wei Chang and this Japanese player whose name escapes me. I cannot remember the exact details but it went something like this: Japanese player ran 4 racks, Chang ran 5 racks, then Japanese player won the next rack, then 4 in a row and won the match 9-5.

Richard

 

[sjm]

I am interested to know what is the highest rack of nine ball you have run in a row.

Larry Nevel once told me he ran 13 racks in a row...and he has done it twice.

I heard from my friend that Neil Feijen has ran 17 racks in a row, which is supposed to be a record.

Niels Feijen ran 15, not 17. My personal best is 7 racks.

 

[CaptiveBred]

I heard from my friend that Neil Feijen has ran 17 racks in a row, which is supposed to be a record.
Richard

Last I heard, it was 15 on a bar box. Next time it will be 19 on a snooker table lol

 

[Anecdote]

It was during a practice game vs a local player for a bit of money in his poolroom in The Hague. Niels Feijen doesn't practice on bartables.

If I recall correctly; he ran the set 6 racks and out. He never had run more than that and decided to try and run some more and got 15.

Supposedly Efren Reyes ran 21 or 22 racks of 9-ball???

Johnny Archer ran 13 racks and out against Francisco Bustamante in a race to 13 set.

http://www.azbilliards.com/roadstories/index.html

 

[X Breaker]

Niels Feijen ran 15, not 17. My personal best is 7 racks.

Thank you. My friend told me he watched a Bert Kinister taper and that is what was stated, may be he was mistaken.

7 racks is really good.

I am not a good player. Most of the times, I have problem running a single rack. I have ran two racks a few times on tables with buckets. I ran three racks once when I was playing a lot and the table was breaking really well, and the pockets were very big.

Is 15 racks the world record?

Richard

 

[Little Joe]

I personally watched a match between Durbin, and john Hennessey where Durbin ran 12 out in an 11 ahead match. hennessey broke and ran a rack, played safe and never got to shoot again. Memphis 03'.... I use to play in tournaments against larry Nevel when I lived in Wisconsin, and I would bet on that 13 he's run. My personal best was 8 in a 300.00 set going to 9... those were the 8 to get out though.. quit after that..

 

[X Breaker]

I personally watched a match between Durbin, and john Hennessey where Durbin ran 12 out in an 11 ahead match. hennessey broke and ran a rack, played safe and never got to shoot again. Memphis 03'.... I use to play in tournaments against larry Nevel when I lived in Wisconsin, and I would bet on that 13 he's run. My personal best was 8 in a 300.00 set going to 9... those were the 8 to get out though.. quit after that..

Yes, I believe him. Larry said it as if it was nothing, "I have done it twice."

It is amazing how a player could run 8 racks in a money match without even giving the other guy a shot. Would you care to share with us what was on your mind when you were on say, the last run out?

Thank you.

Richard

 

[Rod]

I played Louie Roberts 4 times with Louie always on the short end. The last time we played I ran 7 and Louie asked for weight. I told him no way and after a few minutes of talking with his backer and me he said ok lets play. He said call it for the break. I said what do you mean call it, I have the break, you win you break. LOL I broke, ran two more then Louie pulled up.

I read where some guys like to see how far they can go. To me when it's over, it's over. I've never seen any reason to belittle an opponent for the sake of my vanity. Back then I had a number of 5 and 6 rack runs with the looser pulling up. Same goes for 14-1 or any game, I've stopped with over 100 balls in the hole.

I'll tell you what was on my mind when the bet got pretty good, Don't Miss!

Rod

 

[Jaden]

My best is eight....

I just posted in a previous thread that my best is eight, I've had a couple of sevens and several six packs as well......I've just started to seriously compete and I don't play for money so I don't have a best in competition. Well I think I got two or three in one of my matches in the swanee.....?

 

[Steve Lipsky]

I read where some guys like to see how far they can go. To me when it's over, it's over. I've never seen any reason to belittle an opponent for the sake of my vanity. Back then I had a number of 5 and 6 rack runs with the loser pulling up. Same goes for 14-1 or any game, I've stopped with over 100 balls in the hole.

Rod

Hey Rod. I just want to clarify what I had said in the earlier thread (14.1 High Runs), about how people are human and they want to see how many they can run.

I absolutely never meant to suggest a player should continue a run if he was in a set that had just ended, and more sets were to be played. I agree, that - to say the least - would not be very classy at all.

All I meant was that if a top player is practicing, or even if he runs a bunch-and-out on a guy and the guy leaves, it is just not believable that he NEVER tried to see how many he could run from there. As John Schmidt said, "I don't care who you are, you don't run 250-300, then get something to eat in the middle of the run and never come back."

- Steve

 

[Rod]

Steve,

My comment was just that a comment. I never even had you in mind or anyone else for that matter. One thing (at the time) I felt would have been not brilliant on my part was making me look better than I was. Then I'd get asked for more weight. Now I can't run three friggin balls so it doesn't matter.

Rod

 

[Cameron Smith]

My high run is 6 racks, 4 if you don't count the early 9 combos. But I do. A one inning win is a one inning win.

 

[sniper]

To the best of my knowledge, Feijen's 15 rack run is the current world record. The player he ran it against posts on another board I frequent and gave us the juicy details right after it happened. Just for the record it was NOT on a bar table, and IIRC there were no golden breaks either, Feijen ran out every single rack

 

[skins]

Racks Run

when i use to play in turney's i ran a bunch of 7's and 6's ect.. and so but the funny thing is when i wasn't playing so much and had just moved, reset the table with 860 and double shimmed the pockets for practice i ran 11 with only 1 early nine. who'd a figured! i practice now by throwing 10 balls on the table and play ball in hand on the 1 and have run 23 and 9/10ths racks. the phone rang, i answerd it and when i came back i jawed the 10.

 

[JustPlay]

1989- Johnny Archer ran 13 and out against Bustamante at the Glass city open in a money match. Earl Strickland ran out 10 racks of 9-ball for 1 million dollars.

For anyone to run mulitple racks, a lot of luck has to go into it as well as skill...

 

[tom]

It is amazing how a player could run 8 racks in a money match without even giving the other guy a shot. Would you care to share with us what was on your mind when you were on say, the last run out?

Thank you.

Richard

If u want, Richard, I can share what's in your mind when a player (Sandor Tot) is running 8 racks on you during a (luckily cheap) money match. Race to 7, he won the flip, ran 7 and out then he broke and ran the first rack of the second set. He was playing soo fast and easy, I love pool and I just enjoyed the show. My only worry was to give him a good rack. BTW, I managed to win the second set 7-6, then I decided to quit. Wise decision, in fact he suddenly played another guy and ran 8 and out in a race to 9. Nobody could beat him that day.

If Tom Storm from Sweden would have stopped his run at 150 not to belittle his opponent I wouldn't have witnessed to the highest run I've ever seen in person, 264 (or 267, drinking beer and smoking a cigar). Fortunately, that time I whatched the show for free (not his opponent).

 

[Snapshot9]

Already said ...

Stated before, on a bar table, I ran 11 once for $100 a game.

The one that blew me completely away was when David Matlock was here for a tournament at Rumors, I asked him his record, and he said he had run 28 consecutive racks of 9 ball on a bar table, and I personally watched him run 9 racks on a big table in a ring game with 6 other guys.

 

[Cameron Smith]

For anyone to run mulitple racks, a lot of luck has to go into it as well as skill...

It certainly does. I have a worse break than steve davis, so i often feel that making a ball on the break and having a shot on the 1 is the hardest part.

 

[cuenut]

My personal best is 4. Running racks in practice is a whole lot different than running them with alot of money on the game.

The great thing about Earl's run was that it was a taped match (I think locally by a Dallas news station), and the only match the 1M was offered was in the finals. That's pressure. He got screwed out of the million too, as Lloyds renegged on the policy CJ Wiley purchased. From what I remember, CJ paid Earl over $200k out of his own pocket and sued Lloyds. Never heard much since. It all probably settled out of court, but at the time it really showed the class of a guy like CJ. I used to watch him play almost every weekend at his place in Dallas (early 90s). When he wasn't shooting, I was normally watching his wife, who was always nearby. She was really pretty.

 

[hobokenapa]

For anyone to run mulitple racks, a lot of luck has to go into it as well as skill...

Yes, for that reason alone, the statistic is pretty meaningless in my eyes. A fairer (but easier) test would be how many straight racks have you won against the ghost. While I am not denying the enormous skill required to run multiple racks, if you make a ball 75% of the time on the break, by the time you run seven racks, the fact is you only have a 13% chance to actually make seven breaks with balls made in a row. Any streak that involves luck on this scale cannot amount to a worthwhile statistic.