How hard IS one pocket to watch?

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An incident yesterday in Rugby, ND speaks to the thread last week about whether one pocket can be difficult to watch.

funny story -- as told to me by others -- alcohol likely involved...

Rugby, ND--home to Samsara Cues-- just had a big 8-ball tournament this weekend. Saturday afternoon I was in the hotel room with my friend Rory watching streaming video of Chohan/Adam Smith, and Rory--basically a bar-box 8-ball player--was soaking up moves like a sponge.

At midnight I went to bed, but Rory and a few others went to the Samsara shop for a cocktail or two.

Jim S. has a tight-tight diamond table there appointed as only one owned by a world-class woodworker could be... Rory and Jamie P. from Minneapolis were woofin a bit, but it looked at 3:00 am like nothing would come of it ...

.....until Jim S. picked an $850 cue off the wall and offered it to the winner of a race-to-4 one pocket set between Rory and Jamie.

Lots of thinking and bumping and nudging and moving balls around later, Jim started to suggest that these guys start shooting at their holes... Lots more thinking and bumping and nudging and comments and a couple hours later--with the score 3-1 in Rory's favor, Jim walked quietly into the shop and the guests could hear the sound of one of his many fine precision instruments in operation...

Jim returned with the butt of the cue in two pieces of size ratio about three to one. He handed the larger one to Rory and the shorter one to Jamie, and said,

"Here. This is about the score, right?"
 
guess it depends

I thoroughly enjoyed watching Hillbilly and Nick Varner nudging two balls around for quite awhile yesterday. Neither could afford a mistake but both were making purposeful moves.

When folks seem to start nudging for the sake of nudging and turning the table over to the other player over and over is when it gets old.

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mikepage said:
An incident yesterday in Rugby, ND speaks to the thread last week about whether one pocket can be difficult to watch.

funny story -- as told to me by others -- alcohol likely involved...

Rugby, ND--home to Samsara Cues-- just had a big 8-ball tournament this weekend. Saturday afternoon I was in the hotel room with my friend Rory watching streaming video of Chohan/Adam Smith, and Rory--basically a bar-box 8-ball player--was soaking up moves like a sponge.

At midnight I went to bed, but Rory and a few others went to the Samsara shop for a cocktail or two.

Jim S. has a tight-tight diamond table there appointed as only one owned by a world-class woodworker could be... Rory and Jamie P. from Minneapolis were woofin a bit, but it looked at 3:00 am like nothing would come of it ...

.....until Jim S. picked an $850 cue off the wall and offered it to the winner of a race-to-4 one pocket set between Rory and Jamie.

Lots of thinking and bumping and nudging and moving balls around later, Jim started to suggest that these guys start shooting at their holes... Lots more thinking and bumping and nudging and comments and a couple hours later--with the score 3-1 in Rory's favor, Jim walked quietly into the shop and the guests could hear the sound of one of his many fine precision instruments in operation...

Jim returned with the butt of the cue in two pieces of size ratio about three to one. He handed the larger one to Rory and the shorter one to Jamie, and said,

"Here. This is about the score, right?"
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mikepage said:
Oh, and by the way they did finish the match for the sake of the rail bets--and Rory won.
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Being familiar with the players involved, that's quite funny. Thanks Mike.
 
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