how are ya'll doing in league ?

lorider said:
good shooting banks:thumbup:

well i might have one more shot at goin to vegas. yesterday i had a choice between doin some yard work at the house or going to watch our 9 ball ltc's......well you know the answer.:thumbup:

i hopped on my bike and took off.:D while hanging out there a lady whom i have known for years asked me if i was playing in the jack and jill qualifier in a few weeks. i told her no. she said she would like to talk to me at league tonight about she and i entering it.

well i got 2 conversations this weekend about the the qualifier. one with this lady who i fell we got a good chance at winning the qualifier. her and her son came in 2nd iirc in the scotch doubles in vegas last year.

and the other conversation with my g/f.about the possibility of me and this lady going to vegas.:eek:
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...... and the plot thickens.....

Will the gf be coming?
 
Banks said:
After losing my first two matches by a hair, I pulled it together and carried my weight for a win to help my team clinch a spot in the apa masters in Vegas. Finally I'll get a chance to meet some of you guys that will be there, instead of just reading about it for the last several years. One of our players couldn't be there, so this weak link got a little table time in. See ya'all there!

Now.. time to celebrate!
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Good job bud! Always a good feeling to come back from a loss and get it together for the next one. Well done!
 
I just joined an 8 ball league at Mile High Billiards in Arvada Colorado.
We play on real pool tables,Diamond bar boxes.I've played 3 nights 15 matches.
I'm starting to call this the "Run Out League" So far everyone I've played is capable of running out and some have done just that.
I played 3 games one night and never missed a ball.
Game 1-I broke dry and my opponent ran out
Game 2-I-My opponent broke and ran out
Game 3-I broke and ran out.
The leagues I've played in before were mostly one notch above bangers.I never had to really bear down.
This is different.Miss or make a mistake and you are going to lose.
The up side is the games go fast and I'm done in 2 hours or so.
 
tonight is the finals of our 9 ball ltc. i want to congratulate tracy whitten....the owner of high pockets. his team made it to the finals. for the 2nd year in a row a team from high pockets will go to vegas. he happens to have to play another team from high pockets tonight so no matter what ..a high pockets team will be going .

last year it was my high pockets team that went to vegas.

i have some friends playing in the finals in the other bracket also.....we send 2 teams every year. i wish them well also.

last year tracy was at the southern nationals in tunica. some one called him and told him my team made it to the finals. he hurried back and got there in time to watch us pull it off . he said he was happy we won and finally a high pockets team knocked off the reigning champs from another venue who had went for about 5 years in a row.

he still wont let me take the team trophy home. :frown: i am gonna go and cheer for tracy any way.:D
 
Just another update on how jacked up our APA league is, down here.

I went to practice yesterday and met up with an "acquaintance" that I used to play against in another league. He asked to play nine ball, so I obliged. I asked if he wanted to play a few races to 7 and he declined. He said he would rather play some short races to 4, so I went for it.

I won the first set 4-0 with two break and runs.
I won the second set 4-2 with one break and run.
I won the third set 4-3.
He won the fourth set 4-2.

I started to slow down and take risks into the last sets. He told me he was put as an SL7 in 9-ball and quit shortly after. I asked him if we would rather play 8-ball, since he started complaining a bit about "not playing well" at 9-ball. He told me he still plays APA 8-ball and I believe he is ranked a SL5.

Anyway, he breaks the first 8-ball rack and runs out. He breaks the second rack and runs out. He breaks the third rack and comes up dry. I come to the table and make a super sloppy runout. Next rack I break and have to play safe. He gets out from there.

Now tell me, how does a SL5 run a two pack out the gate after getting pummeled in 9-ball?
 
DAVE_M said:
Just another update on how jacked up our APA league is, down here.

I went to practice yesterday and met up with an "acquaintance" that I used to play against in another league. He asked to play nine ball, so I obliged. I asked if he wanted to play a few races to 7 and he declined. He said he would rather play some short races to 4, so I went for it.

I won the first set 4-0 with two break and runs.
I won the second set 4-2 with one break and run.
I won the third set 4-3.
He won the fourth set 4-2.

I started to slow down and take risks into the last sets. He told me he was put as an SL7 in 9-ball and quit shortly after. I asked him if we would rather play 8-ball, since he started complaining a bit about "not playing well" at 9-ball. He told me he still plays APA 8-ball and I believe he is ranked a SL5.

Anyway, he breaks the first 8-ball rack and runs out. He breaks the second rack and runs out. He breaks the third rack and comes up dry. I come to the table and make a super sloppy runout. Next rack I break and have to play safe. He gets out from there.

Now tell me, how does a SL5 run a two pack out the gate after getting pummeled in 9-ball?
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i am a 5 in both 8 and 9 ball. i have never ran a 2 pack in league......i dont try to.:grin-square:

how ever i have more break and runs in 8 ball than i do 9 ball. before i replied to your post i looked up my apa life time stats. i did not bother to look up my napa stats but i think its about the same ratio also.

9 break and runs in 8 ball

1 break and run in 9 ball.

some people just play one format better than the other.

i got to thinking about some thing though. in apa there have been times i came close to a break and run in 9 ball but the match was stopped because i reached my required points. that has skewed my numbers a lil bit but i still think i would have more in 8 ball regardless.
 
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Won my 8-ball match last night, that makes 16 league matches in a row...

Wish I felt good enough to crow about it. Played a sl3, so I should have won. Problem is I didn't get the shut out, I let him get a game. Talk about frustrating. This was a night when we as a team needed to make hay...their entire team are sl3's, and if I wanna think I'm getting close to moving up, I need to close these kinds of matches out and get all three points.

Grrrrrr....

I will likely draw an sl5 in next weeks match (given that teams roster), that ought to get me motivated.
 
As i stated in an earlier post I am playing in a league with some pretty good players.
Last night I'm watching the other team warm up. I like to do a little scouting.
They had a 16 year old player that was just pocketing every shot with authority.
I thought this will be a good match for me.So i play him and he missed a whole lot more in the game and I beat him.I guess he just needs a bit more seasoning.
I scored a 47 out of the max of 50
I am 6th on the player standing list and hope my 47 will move me up a place.
They count total points towards the standings.
Also my team is in 3rd place-go team.
 
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justadub said:
Won my 8-ball match last night, that makes 16 league matches in a row...

Wish I felt good enough to crow about it. Played a sl3, so I should have won. Problem is I didn't get the shut out, I let him get a game. Talk about frustrating. This was a night when we as a team needed to make hay...their entire team are sl3's, and if I wanna think I'm getting close to moving up, I need to close these kinds of matches out and get all three points.

Grrrrrr....

I will likely draw an sl5 in next weeks match (given that teams roster), that ought to get me motivated.
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don't sweat it dub...we all have bad nights every so often .

i had a bad night last night in my money league. you know the drill..... missing easy shots....getting out of position. cue ball rolling a lil too far...or not far enough when trying a safe.

tonight was a different story in napa league.

my opponent won the lag. race matrix was as follows.

8 ball 4-3 me going to 4

9 ball 4-3 me going to 3

10 ball was even at 4-4

he chose 9 ball . i won 3-0. unbelievable to me that i have won my last 3 9 ball matches 3-0 every week.

these guys think i cant play 9 ball because my 9 ball handicap is 20 points lower than my 8 ball handicap. if i keep this up it won't be long before my 9 ball handicap catches up with my 8 ball and then i am gonna have to be spotting them.

on 2nd thought i am gonna start choosing 9 ball in my sat league and my handicap will stay down. sat league is chock full of a players who always give me a beat down in 9 ball. that is why my handicap is so low. in 8 ball i hang with them pretty good due to my safety play.
 
measureman said:
As i stated in an earlier post I am playing in a league with some pretty good players.
Last night I'm watching the other team warm up. I like to do a little scouting.
They had a 16 year old player that was just pocketing every shot with authority.
I thought this will be a good match for me.So i play him and he missed a whole lot more in the game and I beat him.I guess he just needs a bit more seasoning.
I scored a 57 out of the max of 60.
I am 6th on the player standing list and hope my 57 will move me up a place.
They count total points towards the standings.
Also my team is in 3rd place-go team.
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good shooting.:thumbup:

i am in 1st place in points in my wed napa league and my team is also in 1st. 20th place in my sat napa league and my team is in 4th place. see above post about the strong players in my sat league.
 
Practice pays off...

Finally had the opportunity to play an APA 9-ball match again. Our new player, seasoned 8-ball player and friend of mine, went up first against a super sandbagger SL3. I coached him through a lot of tough outs and jam up safeties; All of which he played perfectly :) They put me in blind in the second match, hoping they would dump, but they ended up putting up their SL6. I took it down 18-2! Come to find out, our team was in 2nd place, so those wins helped big time!

The one thing that had me ticked a bit was that SL3 sandbagging. He would miss shot after shot until there was four innings (that was the magic number). Then he would come to the table and run out. He cut two balls which were almost 90* cuts past the side pocket down the rail... SL3's can't do that...
 
justadub said:
Won my 8-ball match last night, that makes 16 league matches in a row...

Wish I felt good enough to crow about it. Played a sl3, so I should have won. Problem is I didn't get the shut out, I let him get a game. Talk about frustrating. This was a night when we as a team needed to make hay...their entire team are sl3's, and if I wanna think I'm getting close to moving up, I need to close these kinds of matches out and get all three points.

Grrrrrr....

I will likely draw an sl5 in next weeks match (given that teams roster), that ought to get me motivated.
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No biggie. 3's and 4's are and interesting breed and can be very tough to play. A lot of times they are terribly under-rated. More often than not, in a team match they get sacrificed to a 5, 6, or 7, so they keep improving and don't get their s/l raised because they keep loosing and the win percentage stays low. So while you're playing a 3, in reality they may well a 4 or even a 5. Chances are that even if they are a true 3, higher level players will give up a game and sometimes a match. Don't sweat it, probably a momentary lax in focus, just remember it for when it really counts.
 
The summer session hasn't started because a group of us went to NAPA Nationals.

It was a good time, for the most part.

It was my first national event of any kind but I wasn't very stressed about it. I played Team Captains, 9-ball, 10-ball, and Laggers Choice. When I wasn't playing matches and after I got knocked out of an event, I found an empty table and practiced.

Team Captains was 8-ball and that put my in the Class A division, barely. I'm only a 70 (the bottom of the cut-off for A) and I lost my first match, won 2 (I think) in the loser's bracket and then got knocked out.

Lagger's Choice was straight NAPA races based on the draw. The first match was a 4-4 race in 9-ball. I lost the first 3, then came back 4 straight to win it. The next match was 5-3 (I think... maybe it was 5-4) and I only lost one of those games as well. Then I lost my next 2 and I was out.

10-ball (Class B - SL 67) was interesting. It was the last event of the week and by this time I had been spending 4-5 hours every day practicing. My first match was against the guy who knocked me to the loser's bracket in 9-ball. He wasn't a factor. I played very well and he never really had a decent shot at it. I lost my next match, won my first on the loser's side. In my second loser-side match, I played lights-out until... I got to the 10 ball. In a 4-4 race, I gave my opponent 3 easy shots on the 10. As he was filling out the score card, he said, "well, you're definitely the better player..."

9-ball (Class B) was my best event so I kept it until last. I'm probably under-ranked in 9-ball -- I'm only a 60 which gets comments sometimes -- but that didn't make it easy. The whole day was a blur but when the dust settled I was T-13 and got in the money.

I played in a couple minis, won a cue in a raffle, watched the Phillies whoop on the Braves, and all-in-all had a pretty good time.
 
Celophanewrap said:
No biggie. 3's and 4's are and interesting breed and can be very tough to play. A lot of times they are terribly under-rated. More often than not, in a team match they get sacrificed to a 5, 6, or 7, so they keep improving and don't get their s/l raised because they keep loosing and the win percentage stays low. So while you're playing a 3, in reality they may well a 4 or even a 5. Chances are that even if they are a true 3, higher level players will give up a game and sometimes a match. Don't sweat it, probably a momentary lax in focus, just remember it for when it really counts.
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Oh, I get it. And my opponent truly is a SL3, not under handicapped...he's relatively new to all this. Can make a shot or two, but still very green. Thing is, at this point I should be shutting these types of opponents out. Not letting down enough to let a game slip away.

And lorider, the cool thing really is when I can call that a "bad night". :p
We as a team were joking about that afterwards, when we get 11 points (including the bonus) and its an off night, we're doing alright

Thanks guys
 
DAVE_M said:
The one thing that had me ticked a bit was that SL3 sandbagging. He would miss shot after shot until there was four innings (that was the magic number). Then he would come to the table and run out. He cut two balls which were almost 90* cuts past the side pocket down the rail... SL3's can't do that...
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Mark some of those misses as safes...it's the only way to counter act it.
 
So much for that.

Lost, 12-8, against another SL5 that I play pretty much even with. Except that he hung several balls for me, and I couldn't capitalize on his mistakes.

I'm pretty sure I have a bugaboo in my head about 9-ball. We shall see, after I likely play the same opponent on Tuesday in 8-ball....
 
krupa said:
The summer session hasn't started because a group of us went to NAPA Nationals.

It was a good time, for the most part.

It was my first national event of any kind but I wasn't very stressed about it. I played Team Captains, 9-ball, 10-ball, and Laggers Choice. When I wasn't playing matches and after I got knocked out of an event, I found an empty table and practiced.

Team Captains was 8-ball and that put my in the Class A division, barely. I'm only a 70 (the bottom of the cut-off for A) and I lost my first match, won 2 (I think) in the loser's bracket and then got knocked out.

Lagger's Choice was straight NAPA races based on the draw. The first match was a 4-4 race in 9-ball. I lost the first 3, then came back 4 straight to win it. The next match was 5-3 (I think... maybe it was 5-4) and I only lost one of those games as well. Then I lost my next 2 and I was out.

10-ball (Class B - SL 67) was interesting. It was the last event of the week and by this time I had been spending 4-5 hours every day practicing. My first match was against the guy who knocked me to the loser's bracket in 9-ball. He wasn't a factor. I played very well and he never really had a decent shot at it. I lost my next match, won my first on the loser's side. In my second loser-side match, I played lights-out until... I got to the 10 ball. In a 4-4 race, I gave my opponent 3 easy shots on the 10. As he was filling out the score card, he said, "well, you're definitely the better player..."

9-ball (Class B) was my best event so I kept it until last. I'm probably under-ranked in 9-ball -- I'm only a 60 which gets comments sometimes -- but that didn't make it easy. The whole day was a blur but when the dust settled I was T-13 and got in the money.

I played in a couple minis, won a cue in a raffle, watched the Phillies whoop on the Braves, and all-in-all had a pretty good time.
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glad you enjoyed it. wish i had went but my apa 8 ball ltc was held during the same time.

i really enjoyed going to the last 2 previous nationals. i watched some live streaming and it really made me wish i had went.

i would have been in "b" bracket in 8 ball and 10 ball. "c" bracket in 9 ball. no i am not that bad in 9 ball ...i probably would be dq'ed at nationals in 9 ball.

the reason my handicap is so low is i usually play 9 ball against 80's or higher and lose quite often. my last 3 9 ball matches where i played guys close to my handicap resulted in me shutting them out 3-0.

my opponents captain complained to my lo about my handicap last tue night after i shut out his player 3-0 in 3 innings. my lo told him i am better than my handicap indicates but my handicap is a reflection of my over all losing record.

i guess there is something to be said about apa's handicapping system. its based on your best matches...not your overall win/loss record.
 
justadub said:
So much for that.

Lost, 12-8, against another SL5 that I play pretty much even with. Except that he hung several balls for me, and I couldn't capitalize on his mistakes.

I'm pretty sure I have a bugaboo in my head about 9-ball. We shall see, after I likely play the same opponent on Tuesday in 8-ball....
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it just happens that way some times dub.nothing you can do about it except move on to the next game.

tonight i was put up against a 4 in 8 ball. he was shooting good....real good for a 4.

in the 1st rack i had 1 ball left and he was on the 8. i could make my last ball with no problem but was uncertain about getting on the 8. i decided to leave him hard. i just nudged my ball up against the top left corner pocket leaving the cue ball a few inches off the head rail about center table. the 8 ball was just about on the foot spot.

he looks at the bottom right pocket....then looks at the bottom left pocket. i could tell he was concerned about scratching in the opposite corner of whichever one he called.

he decides to call the top right corner banking it off the bottom rail. he rears back and smacks the cue ball at warp speed hitting the 8 ball. it hits the bottom rail ...comes back up and hits the top rail inches from the right corner pocket.

the 8 ball flies back down table hitting the bottom rail again...bouncing off and heads up table again. rattles the right corner pocket before finally falling in.

pissed me off. :angry: need less to say i saftied the shit out of him and won the next 4 games winning 4-1. :grin-square:

9 ball comes up. i face the same player again. i lost 31-16. nothing you can do when a guy runs 4-5 balls ...misses leaving you hooked. i make a succesfull kick but dont pocket any thing and he runs out. dang near every rack was a repeat of the same scenario.i actually felt pretty lucky not to lose worse than i did .
 
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