Important Things To Remember When Playing Pool.

JoeyA

JoeyA

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I would like to knock out a couple of the easy ones and ask that you add to the list.

Stay down on the shot until after the cue ball has made contact with the object ball. (Don't jump up while shooting the shot)

Take a picture in your mind's eye of the shot, standing up, from behind the cue ball.

Once you have lowered your body, do not fidget around trying to get another sight picture of the shot. You should already be in a position that will allow you to just go ahead and shoot the shot.

Try to keep it serious guys (Smorg, I know you must have one legitimate pool suggestion). Please keep it a Judeitious thread.

JoeyA
 
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JoeyA said:
I would like to knock out a couple of the easy ones and ask that you add to the list.

Stay down on the shot until after the cue ball has made contact with the object ball. (Don't jump up while shooting the shot)

Take a picture in your mind's eye of the shot, standing up, from behind the cue ball.

Once you have lowered your body, do not fidget around trying to get another sight picture of the shot. You should already be in a position that will allow you to just go ahead and shoot the shot.

Try to keep it serious guys (Smorg, I know you must have one legitimate pool suggestion). Please keep it a Judeitious thread.

JoeyA
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Well, I would say that the most improtant thing IMO is to let the cue do the work. Too many times I see people forcing the cue through the CB and making it do something other than intended. Just let the weight of the cue do all the work.

P.S. was that a play on words? or did you mean judicious?
 
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JoeyA said:
I would like to knock out a couple of the easy ones and ask that you add to the list.

Stay down on the shot until after the cue ball has made contact with the object ball. (Don't jump up while shooting the shot)

Take a picture in your mind's eye of the shot, standing up, from behind the cue ball.

Once you have lowered your body, do not fidget around trying to get another sight picture of the shot. You should already be in a position that will allow you to just go ahead and shoot the shot.

Try to keep it serious guys (Smorg, I know you must have one legitimate pool suggestion). Please keep it a Judeitious thread.

JoeyA
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Tune out ALL distractions that are not conducive to the game at hand. Keep a damp paper towel handy to wipe your hands & cue shaft periodically.
Doug
( AND, always wear or (carry with you), clean underwear. You never know when you might be in an accident and have to go to the Hospital ) imo


Edited to add: Don't dance around the table during a game/match and NEVER twirl your cue. :)

Re-edited to add: Always wear comfortable shoes and don't do drugs..... imo

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Play the balls on the table, not your opponant, BUT keep your opponant's personality in mind. Play to his weaknesses and avoid his strengths.

If you dog a shot, don't fall down and roll around on the floor like you can't believe you missed. By all that jive, you're giving the impression that you can't belive you missed, which add psychological heat to yourself by making you feel you have to play over your capability so as to not miss again, when in reality, everybody misses sometimes.

When you make a good run out, act like you've been there before and don't go bragging on yourself like "I ran that rack!!" That's bush-league.

Be a humble winner and don't be all pouty if you lose. Don't have a hissy fit until you're sure no one else can hear your screaming and whining at yourself!:D

In my opinion, playing top shelf pool is more mental than physical. If your basics are not overly flawed (everybody has some different quirk to their own style) than the rest of the game is mental. I really think that learning to deal with psychological heat is a real key to improvement.

Gambling is a touchy subject for some, but there's denying that if you learn early to play for your own money, it somehow stablizes your nerves and either makes you or breaks you as a real player or not. And by real player, I'm refering to that time honored bench mark of "short-stop" speed. Very few of us will get better than that level when we also have a myriad of family responsibilities that do take precedent over pool. That's hard to say, but still true.
 
Jaden said:
Well, I would say that the most improtant thing IMO is to let the cue do the work. Too many times I see people forcing the cue through the CB and making it do something other than intended. Just let the weight of the cue do all the work.

P.S. was that a play on words? or did you mean judicious?
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I coined that word out of respect for one of our more serious posters who have made it a mission to post excellent pool threads to improve our respective games. Think of on of the Beatles hit songs.

BTW, I like that important piece of advice you gave, very much.
JoeyA
 
JoeyA said:
I would like to knock out a couple of the easy ones and ask that you add to the list.

Stay down on the shot until after the cue ball has made contact with the object ball. (Don't jump up while shooting the shot)

Take a picture in your mind's eye of the shot, standing up, from behind the cue ball.

Once you have lowered your body, do not fidget around trying to get another sight picture of the shot. You should already be in a position that will allow you to just go ahead and shoot the shot.

Try to keep it serious guys (Smorg, I know you must have one legitimate pool suggestion). Please keep it a Judeitious thread.

JoeyA
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I would say that follow thru is very important along with commiting to your plan for the shot prior to shooting it. Bye the way, how good are u, Joey A? I seem to have picked up thru various posts that u are a very good player...Just curious
 
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chicagomike said:
By the way, how good are u, Joey A? I seem to have picked up thru various posts that u are a very good player...Just curious
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That JoeyA. can knock de ball in the de hole, but he can't knock ALL de balls in de holes every time.... imo
Doug
( which reminds me of another "important thing to remember"... never drink wine while playing )
 
After deciding how to shoot the shot and making your approach remember to reset and start over if you ever find yourself doubting your shot during your pre-shot routine
 
Your elbow on your grip arm must not move up, down or sideways during stroke, only the forarm moves. If you move the elbow it causes the shoulder to slightly move which causes you to make adjustment on final stroke (steering), not good. But your elbow will dip down on follow through.

Secondly, make sure your forarm is straight up and down when the tip of your cue is right at the cue ball.
 
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I heard this one from Willie Mosconi and George Breedlove (independently; and both considered it the most important part of each shot):

Make sure you pocket the ball.


It sounds simplistic, but you must be relentless about making sure (with all of the other concerns about position, match score, and that hot chick sitting at the bar) that you do WHATEVER is necessary to pocket the ball, no matter how simple or complicated the shot.
 
which brings up KISS

Willie's post brings up KISS. Keep It Simple! Most pool games are extremely simple. We can overcomplicate them and cause ourselves all kinds of grief when all we really need to do is make a ball and set up on the next one. We don't get style points for how we accomplish these goals or how many rails we can hit.

If we try to find the most reliable way to accomplish our goal we will usually find it is also the simplest. Probably the biggest flaw I see in many people's game is running the cue ball around in traffic when they don't need to.

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Williebetmore said:
I heard this one from Willie Mosconi and George Breedlove (independently; and both considered it the most important part of each shot):

Make sure you pocket the ball.


It sounds simplistic, but you must be relentless about making sure (with all of the other concerns about position, match score, and that hot chick sitting at the bar) that you do WHATEVER is necessary to pocket the ball, no matter how simple or complicated the shot.
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This is something that helps me figure out the correct patterns to play. When you are playing postion on the next ball to be pocketed, your margin of error is much larger if you come in towards your next object ball, i.e. down the target line, rather than moving across it. You can't do this all the time, but whenever it's possible I try to do this.

Also, when in doubt as to where you need to have to cue ball when your OB's are along the rails, center table, out of traffic is never too bad a place to be, and is pretty easy to get to without having to worry about the pockets.

Both of these go back to the KISS methodology though. The more intricate the shot, the more difficult, the more likely you'll screw the pooch.

Dags
 
chicagomike said:
I would say that follow thru is very important along with commiting to your plan for the shot prior to shooting it. Bye the way, how good are u, Joey A? I seem to have picked up thru various posts that u are a very good player...Just curious
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Chicagomike: JoeyA has an exceptionally fine pool game....SPF=randyg
 
"Important Things To Remember When Playing Pool."

When I play I try to duplicate my practice routines. That way I don't have to "remember" anything while I'm competeing. Kinda "aw natural" to us Texas folk.........SPF=randyg
 
chicagomike said:
I would say that follow thru is very important along with commiting to your plan for the shot prior to shooting it. Bye the way, how good are u, Joey A? I seem to have picked up thru various posts that u are a very good player...Just curious
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Sorry, I can't consider myself a very good player. I'm not that good, Mike but I would like to get a little better. I'm just an amateur player struggling like the rest of us.
JoeyA
 
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