Insane Game of One Pocket - Frost vs Schmidt

thanks Lenny..mighty fine.


edit: I especially thought both had great cue ball control in this match. And patience by both.
 
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Fast Lenny said:
This match goes hill to hill and this is the last rack of it, what transpires might be one of the best racks ever. This will be on the Power One Pocket Volume 2 DVD with Scott doing a player review on it. Very interesting to watch if you are a one pocket aficionado.

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great game, will watch that one more than once for sure :thumbup:
 
Why do you hate me?
 

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Thats the first one hour game of one pocket I have watched on video in a long time. Enjoyed the hell out of it.

Be very cool to hear Scott talk through this on commentary.
 
Thanks a ton Lenny! That was a great match and an education to watch. I was lucky enough to watch John learn 1 Pocket from Jack Cooney every afternoon for months at Hard Times in Bellflower. We all referred to him as "Victorville" John at the time. He certainly paid his dues and always with a good attitude.

One afternoon he came in and was laughing with Cooney. He told him that he thought that he had learned the basics of the game pretty well from Jack but that Friday night he had played Keith McCready for 2K and that Keith had killed him by breaking every rule he had learned from Jack. That was Keith. lol
 
GaryB said:
Thanks a ton Lenny! That was a great match and an education to watch. I was lucky enough to watch John learn 1 Pocket from Jack Cooney every afternoon for months at Hard Times in Bellflower. We all referred to him as "Victorville" John at the time. He certainly paid his dues and always with a good attitude.

One afternoon he came in and was laughing with Cooney. He told him that he thought that he had learned the basics of the game pretty well from Jack but that Friday night he had played Keith McCready for 2K and that Keith had killed him by breaking every rule he had learned from Jack. That was Keith. lol
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That is high-larious.

8 & out is the best move.
 
Schmidt might be the most talented pool player on earth, I've never seen him as the motivated type...if he was, I could see him destroying all

send the boy to the philipines for a few months asap
 
GaryB said:
Thanks a ton Lenny! That was a great match and an education to watch. I was lucky enough to watch John learn 1 Pocket from Jack Cooney every afternoon for months at Hard Times in Bellflower. We all referred to him as "Victorville" John at the time. He certainly paid his dues and always with a good attitude.

One afternoon he came in and was laughing with Cooney. He told him that he thought that he had learned the basics of the game pretty well from Jack but that Friday night he had played Keith McCready for 2K and that Keith had killed him by breaking every rule he had learned from Jack. That was Keith. lol
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I heard someone talk about Keith's one pocket game as;

"He never saw a shot (at his hole) that he didn't like."

Folks like him who are incredible shotmakers struggle because they see every shot is makeable.

I have seen it so many times where a player sets "traps" for shotmakers. YOU KNEW THAT THEY COULDNT RESIST....:p
If they make the ball, they are usually in great shape, and apparently THAT day, Keith made them. If you watch Efren play one pocket. He doesn't make incredible shots to make a ball, he makes incredible shots so you are locked up tighter than a drum, which eventually ensures that Efren makes SEVERAL BALLS or gets out entirely.

Ken
 
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Thanks for the link Lenny. Can't wait for P1P2.

Scott had his chance after fighting off the incredible shooting by John.

I don't remember the score, but he missed shape after running 4 or 5 and had balls to run out.

Awesome game!!
 
So many fouls...

I can't wrap my head around how readily top players take foul after foul. At one point Scott was down -9 to 1. That means he's playing John Schmidt 17-7 from there. Scott's a great player, perhaps the greatest 1p player playing the game today, but there has never lived a player who can spot a guy of Schmidt's caliber 17-7 and like it. Case in point: from there he outscored John 13-7 and lost.

I guess if I understood the game a little more deeply I'd understand why he had no choice but to kick away from the balls over and over.

-Andrew
 
Efren and Keith are my favorite players to watch play. Even Efren got a kick out of Keith and his antics. One Sunday during the weekly tournament Keith rushed up to the table that Efren was playing on and slapped down a fistful of money and told Efren it was time for them to play. Efren smiled, scratched his head and forfeited his match as the money laid on the table was far more than he would get for winning the tournament. The tournament director, to his credit, gave them a table and Efren and Keith walked over to the table. Efren smiling all the way while Keith talked trash. What a pair--different sides of the same coin.

Thanks again Lenny. Props to Scott for holding his mouth--except when he begged for a roll and who can blame him for that..

I also believe that John going to the Philippines would really temper his steel and make him formidable with a capital F.
 
Thanks for the compliments. It really is a great game. Here is a ghostly image captured during it. I cannot remember who took this picture, if someone knows speak now. :smile:
 

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Great anecdote about Keith and Efren. Never heard that before, who won? You gotta tell that part too.

John in the PI for pool...seriously?!

GaryB said:
Efren and Keith are my favorite players to watch play. Even Efren got a kick out of Keith and his antics. One Sunday during the weekly tournament Keith rushed up to the table that Efren was playing on and slapped down a fistful of money and told Efren it was time for them to play. Efren smiled, scratched his head and forfeited his match as the money laid on the table was far more than he would get for winning the tournament. The tournament director, to his credit, gave them a table and Efren and Keith walked over to the table. Efren smiling all the way while Keith talked trash. What a pair--different sides of the same coin.

Thanks again Lenny. Props to Scott for holding his mouth--except when he begged for a roll and who can blame him for that..

I also believe that John going to the Philippines would really temper his steel and make him formidable with a capital F.
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