Someone offers you the 7 and out and you think it is a good spot, is it really a good spot playing a giant killer of a player??? Nine ball is the game we are talking about! Winner breaks. Thanks.
Many Regards,
Lock N Load.
If you aren't also a monster player then no. Winner breaks the monster player is going to control the game. If you can break and run seven in a nine ball rack consistently then you can run to nine so the spot is not relevant.
Spots like that only come into play when the people playing are actually close in speed and really only a ball or two different. When the speeds are way apart - monster player vs. amateur then the spot is meaningless.
As a road player I knew said to me while sitting at my kitchen table counting out my share of the score he just made after spotting a pretty good player the 7-out in barbox nineball, "it's like robbery without a gun."
You don't really know how good a monster player is until you come up against them. Jesse Bowman gave me the last four on a barbox and I thought I would be stone stealing. By the end of the session my arm felt like jelly and I couldn't drop a ball in the pocket if he allowed me to pick it up. The guy flat ran over me running out from everywhere with ease, kicking everything in, perfect safes with NO OUT, just ridiculous precision and ease that frankly scared the shit out of me.
THEN after I dropped two sets my friend who plays at least two balls better than me jumped in getting the same spot and while he did a little better Jesse still barbecued him. I still get the shakes thinking about it to this day..............
The line I love best though is Billy Incardona's from his one pocket tape.
Billy is ticking off the various things he learned from great players over the years and he gets to Efren and he says, 'From Efren, (long pause), from Efren I learned not to play him.'
