Insane Game of One Pocket - Frost vs Schmidt

Certain Matches

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.

http://youtu.be/yme5_H69ou0
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That was an epoch match no doubt. There are certain matches that one should watch from time to time in order to understand the moves of the game and that match is definitely one of them. The others I like so far have been Shannon Daulton and Efren Reyes at Galveston.
 
The Foul Concept

Andrew Manning said:
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
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Yes I agree with you but after watching Scott take all of those fouls what I see was he was faced with a good hit on the balls but a very possible bad outcome which can cost a lot more than the scratch. By taking the scratch yes he loses a little ground but he knows he can get the game back even if he forces the other player to make a mistake. At one point I think he had won the match but he missed a ball when he had other balls left to go get. That probably cost him the match much more than those fouls.
 
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