Mosconi Cup Day 4 updates thread

[Jaden]

Anytime something that is so unlikely as to almost never occur.

i have wondered about this before. when people say they got bad rolls they almost have to mean because of what the other player left them right. i mean i have seen people playing and shoot a shot and the cue ball roll up behind another ball or roll slowly and scratch and the comentators say oh they got a bad roll. the only bad rolls there really are the ones where the cue ball is kissed in on the break and the ones that come from a defect in the equipment right, the rest would just be bad shots? just wondered.

You get bad rolls anytime that something happens that is not meant that is soo unlikely to occur as it almost never happens. If you happen to carom off a ball and you're off to within a single degree or less and that is the only way it could've scratched, hidden safe, etcc..... then that is a bad roll, or a good roll depending on which side of the mat you are on.

 

[Jaden]

ok thankx....

I meant I liked your commentary.
Thanks.

JoeyA

Thanx I tried while I was doing it to comment as acurately a play by play that I could. If you didn't see my commentary from the first couple of days you might want to look it up because there's a thread labeled Mosconi updates that has almost every single game from the first two days. Yesterday I wasplaying in a tourny so I didn't do it and today I wanted to watch it in full screen and relax a little.

 

[Thecoats]

i have wondered about this before. when people say they got bad rolls they almost have to mean because of what the other player left them right. i mean i have seen people playing and shoot a shot and the cue ball roll up behind another ball or roll slowly and scratch and the comentators say oh they got a bad roll. the only bad rolls there really are the ones where the cue ball is kissed in on the break and the ones that come from a defect in the equipment right, the rest would just be bad shots? just wondered.

I would say a bad or lucky roll is like the one Ralph got when he missed the third from the last ball by about four inches and it and the cue ball rolled four/five rails around the table and left Rodney in a very difficult position. The game before Ralph tried to carom the cheese in and missed underneath it and the cue ball hit both points perfectly and froze up against the nine rather than scratching, that was also kind of unlucky for Rodney.

I agree if you hit a shot in and the cue ball barely glances a ball to either scratch or hook you that is on you, you this the cue ball there.

Don.