Jayson Shaw's 714 becomes 669?
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Aside from no reason to question their integrity, it doesn't make sense for Jayson to foul on the 45th ball and not call it. He starts over and almost certainly runs more balls the next rack. He had almost nothing invested in a 44 ball run.
There is also the matter that all of us that have played much pool have rolled a ball back and forth with the side of the shaft without being able to feel it. This is a very believable accidental foul, especially considering it happened near the end of a very long day. Unfortunately, since there wasn't a restart of the ball count after the 45th ball this whole effort is a 44 ball run and a lot of wasted effort behind that. Hard to see it differently.
I do believe Jayson can run seven hundred again. Eight hundred, even a thousand may not be out of reach. I wish him luck!
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You can't hit balls on the process of shooting.
If you could then just part a ball away from the cueball everytime you are jacked up.
Pool goes nowhere because as a whole nobody can get their shit together on the most basic of rules.
I don't believe Mosconi's record run had any formal regulation or refereeing at the time he made it. Am I correct? Were the people who were there qualified to make a valid assessment? Was his run in a match or a competitive situation? Would you accept that as a valid accreditation today?
And I think you identified the solution to both this foul and SVB's foul (or not) in the recent UK open. Players should try to avoid these situations so they aren't at the mercy of a bad call or accident.
From Willie's book:
On March 19, in Springfield, Ohio, I ran 526 balls, a record that still stands. I was playing a two-hundred-point match against an amateur by the name of Earl Bruney in the East High Billiard Club. He made three balls off the break, then I ran two hundred and just kept going. The run took two hours and ten minutes, which means that over that span I averaged four balls a minute. I finally missed a difficult cut shot, but by that time I was weary; it was almost a relief to have it come to an end. There were about three hundred people in the audience, and one of them was an attorney who prepared an affidavit attesting to the validity of my claim to a new record. A few days later, the BCA gave it its stamp of approval.
Cohen, Stanley; Mosconi, Willie. Willie's Game: An Autobiography . Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.
From somewhere else....
The record was set on a 4 × 8 foot Brunswick table with 5 1/4 inch corner pockets at the East High Billiard Club. The 526-ball record just happened to be on a 4 × 8 ft table, a size seldom used in professional play, but used for the billiard club exhibition that day. In fact, the room owner expected the exhibition to take place on the room's 9 foot table. That table was not a Brunswick, so Willie was required to play on one of the Brunswick 8 foot tables.
Maybe jayson should hit the road and do straight pool exhibitions. Do some high run attempts and then play a match with some local talent. Then maybe a pay to play with the pro. That would be cool I’d pay to see that.
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Or even just line up a dozen 100 point games per day and continue any run larger than 70 or something. Still not the same thing as Willie’s context, but it’s in ball park at least.
Who is going to organize this?
In the old days Brunswick had a guy on the road a few weeks ahead of Willie, traveling the route across the country, to get rooms/owners to commit and put up posters. No way that’s happening now.
Lou Figueroa
And in today's world that's not needed. Get online and make some phone calls.
I’m just brainstorming. But my thought would be to do it in one venue and get some volunteers. Or even make them pay $10 per match to sit in the chair.
Every city has a few people that know how to run events, just put a post up on the different FB pool groups and you'll have all kinds of opportunities.
I was thinking it might be more economical to do it in a single room to save on travel costs with gas so high right now. But it would be cool to do a traveling exhibition and it’s something that is missing from pro pool these days.
I bet a hundred people in my little town would pay to see him shoot live and have an opportunity to play him.
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Maybe his billionaire buddy that is promoting his high run attempts would do it?
I think any room owner would jump at the chance to have him come play for a couple days. Most local businesses owners know each other so finding a hotel owner to donate/ discount rooms for him and crew wouldn’t be to hard. As for a front man ahead of the player doing promoting and advertising he could easily do all that from home on the phone/internet via social media and most effectively through local pool league operators sending fliers with the paperwork. You could raffle off tickets and draw a half dozen to see who gets to play him a short race in front of everyone. Maybe 25$ get you in for the day with a raffle ticket and for 50$ a picture, autograph and video of his run also. While I’m pretending, have Diamond and taom as sponsors to travel with him and set up a table for him to play on. There are moose,Kc,eagles,VFW,elks lodge clubs all over this country that are sitting empty that could possibly donate space for the production.
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Yep, one room in each city
Absolutely. They just had Earl and Oscar (was supposed to be SVB but his schedule changed) here in Boise and it was full to the brim, what do you think would happen if it was Shaw. Pool is actually doing VERY well right now and there is no doubt, if the pros started doing little shows, people would pay.
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Don't be so sure. Room owners are in the pool room business. They don't like shutting down tables even for tournaments.