I've watched a lot of pool but I don't think I've ever seen more bad luck than what happened to little Ko with all of the scratches in the Semis. He should leave the area immediately and not even put a dollar in a slot machine on the way out the way his luck is running.
Little Ko Needs to Get Out of the Casino ASAP
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Maybe he's due!?!?!
Scratching isn’t bad luck.
It’s bad pool.
It’s bad pool.
Quantum reality you know...
When Lechner got back to 9-10, he scratched on the break. Chit happens, like a golfer hitting a tree on the final hole, only to have it land back on the fairway, get into the play offs then win, when the other guy had it locked up. LIFE with the round objects.
The mathmetoids will tell you this just isn't so. I think the bad rolls are only temporary. Once they have served their purpose, they become irrelevant and unnecessary.
Yep, the pool balls have a memory of what happened in preceding matches, and they can telepathically communicate that to other ball sets**, so all the ball sets throughout the world know who is due.
**Interestingly enough, ball sets with a purple five cannot communicate with ball sets that have an orange five, so if you've been running bad with a purple five, you need to continue playing with a purple five or else you will not get paid back with a lucky streak. This is part of Matchroom's strategy to make purple fives more widespread.
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Speaking of the "KO" brothers, they have license to claim being the best brother combination in pool of all time. Even Hank Aaron and his brother are the best home run combination. Hank hit 750 something and his brother hit one home run.................LOL
I'm guessing you didn't watch the semi-finals.
I can remember twice that Max played Ko safe and he had to make a difficult kick to make contact. Once he kicked and managed a hit, but then double kissed off the ball and into a corner pocket.
Another was a cross table kick where he caught half the ball, sent the 6 up table, and trickled into the bottom corner (diagrammed below).
Finally on hill-hill he was facing a very tough table length jump on the 4 ball (diagrammed below). The good news is that even if he missed the shot the 5/6 were problematic, so unless he left an easy shot with a great angle Max would have to really earn the run out. He made the jump shot, then improbably scratched off of the back side of the 9 ball. Max now had ball in hand to deal with the only problem on the table. It would've been better for Ko had he missed the 4 ball than what resulted.
I love being accountable for results, controlling what we can control, not blaming luck for losses. And I understand that there are consequences when you turn the cue ball loose. But pool is about percentages, and sometimes you can't control the outcomes of your shots. When you are facing certain kicks and jumps where even the correct shot involves some unpredictability, execute each of them to perfection, and get the worst possible outcome 3-4 times in a row, then I think it's fair to say that is some bad luck.
Now, as a champion he'll take it in stride, go back and work on his game and try to continue to control what he can control to the best of his ability, and be ready to fight hard in the next event. He's no victim. But part of being a competitor is not trying to control things you can't control. Everyone who watched that match knew he played well enough to win and that sometimes the balls roll funny for everyone.
If the carom tradition is brought back it would make players aware of paths after contact. The creative safe in moments of pressure to pocket are when the most calculating players show their talent.
The pool lovers romanticize the percentages of pocketing a shot and completely ignore complicated paths post contact in the presence of a challenging pocket. Sometimes the smarter play is not going for it, but the percentages on when and why are not available. I think they are absent in pool sims as well, like no one ever considered it or it was complicated.
The pool lovers romanticize the percentages of pocketing a shot and completely ignore complicated paths post contact in the presence of a challenging pocket. Sometimes the smarter play is not going for it, but the percentages on when and why are not available. I think they are absent in pool sims as well, like no one ever considered it or it was complicated.
9 ball doesn't lend itself to figurable complexity. True there could be a lot more adventurous strategies and those with extensive carom experience fare well - uh two separate words - but the proportions are too big to really nail those NASA shots.
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