Lousy Roll

DJKeys

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I was practicing yesterday, and was on 28 with a thin break shot. I made the shot, blasted the pack wide open, but the only shot I had was uptable. The 8-ball was about in the middle of the table, around the head string. CB was about down to the right of the rack about the second diamond. I stroked the ball well, no english a little above center medium speed. All I had to to was make it, as there were plenty of open shots coming back down table. I made the shot BUT, the cue ball hit the short rail, and slowly came back down table and scratched in the side at like a 35 degree angle.

It really ticked me off!!!

Thanks for the vent-

-dj
 
Yeah i hate when those rolls happen.... Just keep in mind that you did your part, and it was just a bad roll.. also it wasnt your fault that all you had available was one ball up table after the break..

Keep Pushing on, and keep up the 14.1 it will click before you know it !!!

-Steve
 
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Yes, thats tough luck for sure. Reminds me of a scratch I had when I was stationed in Turkey back in the mid 70's. I was playing an Army guy that came around to the AF base sometimes,
and we always played a game of 14.1 to 150 for anywhere from $50 to $500 per game. That was a LOT of money for 2 GI's back then. I had ordered a Palmer and had been playing with it
for about 2 weeks when this ocurred. My high run before this was 68. I was on 75 when i shot a ball in the side and went down table and rebounded back up table, rolling very slowly. The
cue ball hit about 4 inches from the corner pocket and rolled in the side pocket for a scratch, ending my best run. I have shot that about 200 times since then trying to get it to scratch again.
BTW, that put me ahead 75 to nothing, but I was so mad at the scratch I never did recover and lost the game something like 115 to 150, and that was a $500 match lol. I learned a lesson that
day and it probably made me many times the $500 as I learned not to let things like that get in the way of winning.
 
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