Mr 714!!! Babe Ruth of Pool!

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Bring back Straight Pool Tournaments! Congrats to Jayson Shaw Broke record 714 balls and Q-ball was kicked for a scratch! He never missed and was on fire! Best straight pool I have ever seen in my life and I got to see it on live stream! Will never forget this moment with the other 1000 people watching! Your a true champion of the sport we all love! Hopefully straight pool on a come back now! You tied Babe Ruth’s record haha Inspired the entire pool world!

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You are the Babe Ruth of Pool. Thank you for this memory!
 
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Bring back straight pool tournaments?

If anything this will stick a fork in them! I suppose that's a conversation for another day, but I've always thought 14.1 was a great game for amateurs and not-so-much for pros. They are just too good and I've always thought 14.1 knowledge was overstated a bit. There's a long list of 9 ballers somehow learning just enough in a short period of time to win at 14.1. Now Shaw has shown just how easy the game is for the top tier.

14.1 will forever be relegated to novelty status and/or just high run attempts. I'm sure this is the opposite of what BC and company were hoping for with this event but I don't see it playing out any other way.

Oh I guess that conversation wasn't for another day.
 
TxBullDog said:
Bring back Straight Pool Tournaments! Congrats to Jayson Shaw Broke record 714 balls and Q-ball was kicked for a scratch! He never missed and was on fire! Best straight pool I have ever seen in my life and I got to see it on live stream! Will never forget this moment with the other 1000 people watching! Your a true champion of the sport we all love! Hopefully straight pool on a come back now! You tied Babe Ruth’s record haha Inspired the entire pool world!
You are the Babe Ruth of Pool. Thank you for this memory!
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Here's a dumb question. When he scratched, shouldn't he lose a point?
 
BasementDweller said:
Bring back straight pool tournaments?

If anything this will stick a fork in them! I suppose that's a conversation for another time, but I've always thought 14.1 was a great game for amateurs and not-so-much for pros. They are just too good and I've always thought 14.1 knowledge was overstated a bit. There's a long list of 9 ballers somehow learning just enough in a short period of time to win at 14.1. Now Shaw has shown just how easy the game is for the top tier.

14.1 will forever be relegated to novelty status and/or just high run attempts. I'm sure this is the opposite of what BC and company were hoping for with this event but I don't see it playing out any other way.

Oh I guess that conversation wasn't for another day.
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yea its so easy cause he just barely beat svb`s high run right
and every 14.1 tournament every just runs out in 1 inning, right???
 
BasementDweller said:
Bring back straight pool tournaments?

If anything this will stick a fork in them! I suppose that's a conversation for another time, but I've always thought 14.1 was a great game for amateurs and not-so-much for pros. They are just too good and I've always thought 14.1 knowledge was overstated a bit. There's a long list of 9 ballers somehow learning just enough in a short period of time to win at 14.1. Now Shaw has shown just how easy the game is for the top tier.

14.1 will forever be relegated to novelty status and/or just high run attempts. I'm sure this is the opposite of what BC and company were hoping for with this event but I don't see it playing out any other way.

Oh I guess that conversation wasn't for another day.
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No one is sitting in his chair waiting for a miss. These challenges are nothing like actual tournament play. If you miss doing this you just re-rack and start over. Miss against an actual opponent could send you home broke. Big difference. Can't really compare the two. I think the hi-run in the WC's is around 200.
 
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Texas Carom Club said:
yea its so easy cause he just barely beat svb`s high run right
and every 14.1 tournament every just runs out in 1 inning, right???
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Huh? Not taking anything away from Shaw as he's an all-time great. Just pointing out he may have just beat the game, it's like he reached the final level in some video game. It's reminiscent of when they had to change from full rack to 14.1.

Monumental achievement for Shaw. Not such a great thing going forward for 14.1.
 
BasementDweller said:
Huh? Not taking anything away from Shaw as he's an all-time great. Just pointing out he may have just best the game, it's like he reached the final level in some video game. It's reminiscent of when they had to change from full rack to 14.1.

Monumental achievement for Shaw. Not such a great thing going forward for 14.1.
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'Full rack to 14.1'?? Not sure what you're referring to.
 
garczar said:
No one is sitting in his chair waiting for a miss. These challenges are nothing like actual tournament play. If you miss doing this you just re-rack and start over. Miss against an actual opponent could send you home broke. Big difference. Can't really compare the two.
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I understand that but to properly challenge top pros at this game it has to be played on tough equipment. But then you run into the same problem that 8 ball has. Make the equipment difficult and then you just slow the game down and lose the visual beauty like we just saw with Shaw. I don't know....it just doesn't work for me as a competitive option.
 
BasementDweller said:
I understand that but to properly challenge top pros at this game it has to be played on tough equipment. But then you run into the same problem that 8 ball has. Make the equipment difficult and then you just slow the game down and lose the visual beauty like we just saw with Shaw. I don't know....it just doesn't work for me as a competitive option.
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Yeah agree. 14.1 matches are not a viewer sport for the masses; only hard core players will watch. Kind of like one pocket……. These type of events however - all offense - are pretty awesome!

Perhaps this will spur more recreational 14.1 leagues. I play in one and we struggle to get more than 10 players…..
 
Not bad but ...

Is Jayson going to keep hitting them trying to get to an even number? Mr 714 somehow doesn't have a real ring to it! Anybody else going to take their turn trying to beat 714? Things are getting real now!


I didn't get to see any of this run but watched 30-45 minutes of his earlier 406 run. The balls were opening up but not anything fantastic or unrealistically easy. Nor did I see fantastic straight pool thinking. This isn't to knock but to say if this gives Jayson an interest in straight pool which it would almost have to, eight hundred is certainly within reach, maybe a thousand! If he has any interest somebody needs to sponsor him like Willie Mosconi was to go around giving exhibitions. Amazing to say after a 714 but he does seem to still have untapped potential!

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garczar said:
'Full rack to 14.1'?? Not sure what you're referring to.
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Continuous pool was broken by safeties until Keough invented 14.1 and reinvigorated pocket billiards.

The last hour of the stream was the most exciting pool I've ever seen. I thought Shaw might run 1000.

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I'll say it again...

We can't critique a top cueist's patterns using the same paradigm that's used for mortals because shot percentages are way different. That's another part of the beauty of 14.1 that goes out the window for these guys. If Shaw is staring at a shot he can make 100 out of 100 tries, it's not the wrong shot even if it would be a 90 percenter for others. This concept then applies to his patterns as well. So on day 1, when many were criticizing his patterns, I thought they were criticizing them because THEY wouldn't be able to execute them that way, but not really because they didn't make perfect sense for him.
 
TxBullDog said:
Bring back Straight Pool Tournaments! Congrats to Jayson Shaw Broke record 714 balls and Q-ball was kicked for a scratch! He never missed and was on fire! Best straight pool I have ever seen in my life and I got to see it on live stream! Will never forget this moment with the other 1000 people watching! Your a true champion of the sport we all love! Hopefully straight pool on a come back now! You tied Babe Ruth’s record haha Inspired the entire pool world!
You are the Babe Ruth of Pool. Thank you for this memory!
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I fell asleep at 4:00am and didn’t know there was another stream🤦🏻‍♀️
 
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