New 14.1 personal best! (bittersweet)

Mr Machine said:
But for the life of me I can’t remember how many I got in the rack before! 8? 10? 12? 3? lol
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I am in the same boat. My high run was in the mid 90's. I do not recall what I ran before setting up the first break shot. I rarely got passed that so I guess I didn't care. I ran the table out and got another decent break shot. Ran that table and then blew the next break shot. This was on a horrific 8 foot table (in bad shape, not super tight pockets) and shooting with a cue with a slip on tip. Did not have access to better equipment a the time.

I go out each morning now and start with a few racks of straight pool. Even though I suck, it's my favorite game.
 
easy-e said:
I've been playing a bit of straight pool lately trying to join the century club (100 ball run if you didn't know). My past high run was 84 balls. I got too steep on the break ball for rack 7 and rattled it.

Yesterday I started rolling along and found myself at 56 with a pretty nice break ball. I cleared the next rack and got long and tough on the break ball but a nice angle so all I had to do was make the ball. I drilled it and got a nice spread! Finished that rack to tie my record at 84 and had a near perfect break ball. The nerves were there but I was ready! I probably hit the shot too hard, made the ball and the cue ball went way up table and ended about an inch off the top rail. I surveyed the rack desperate to find a dead ball. I saw one I liked, but the pocket it was heading towards was a bit blocked. I had maybe 3/4 of the pocket to work with. I opted for a different shot. Makeable, but long and near straight. It offered guaranteed position on a few balls if I made it. Of course, I hung it in the pocket and my run was over. I put the cue ball back where it was and fired at the dead ball. Straight in the pocket and exploded the rest of the balls. :cautious: I still like the choice I made.

Getting so close to 100 again was both awesome and frustrating. The game is so much harder than it appears on the surface. I'm playing on a Diamond with standard pockets and a wood rack. I'd love to try it on the table Jayson set his record on with generous pockets and template racking. Back to the grind!
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84 is no joke -- congrats!

Lou Figueroa
 
easy-e said:
I've been playing a bit of straight pool lately trying to join the century club (100 ball run if you didn't know). My past high run was 84 balls. I got too steep on the break ball for rack 7 and rattled it.

Yesterday I started rolling along and found myself at 56 with a pretty nice break ball. I cleared the next rack and got long and tough on the break ball but a nice angle so all I had to do was make the ball. I drilled it and got a nice spread! Finished that rack to tie my record at 84 and had a near perfect break ball. The nerves were there but I was ready! I probably hit the shot too hard, made the ball and the cue ball went way up table and ended about an inch off the top rail. I surveyed the rack desperate to find a dead ball. I saw one I liked, but the pocket it was heading towards was a bit blocked. I had maybe 3/4 of the pocket to work with. I opted for a different shot. Makeable, but long and near straight. It offered guaranteed position on a few balls if I made it. Of course, I hung it in the pocket and my run was over. I put the cue ball back where it was and fired at the dead ball. Straight in the pocket and exploded the rest of the balls. :cautious: I still like the choice I made.

Getting so close to 100 again was both awesome and frustrating. The game is so much harder than it appears on the surface. I'm playing on a Diamond with standard pockets and a wood rack. I'd love to try it on the table Jayson set his record on with generous pockets and template racking. Back to the grind!
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Nice run Ace!! 👊🏻
 
maha said:
ill never know what mine might have been. really its just a number from a certain day.

as gambling i only played to 8 or 25. 50 or more was too long and gave away too much info.
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curious. playing to 8 there's really only one scoreline where what you're playing has a chance to even qualify as 14.1 continuous.
 
When playing 14 and 1 don't try to break up the whole stack when shooting your break ball! If you go into them hard you turn your cue ball loose and a few of the balls wind up the table and you really don't want that! Keep the stack where it is and just partially break them up. By doing this you can pick the balls off around the stack making easy shots and break the rest of the stack softly and keep the balls at that end of the table. By half way thru the stack locate a break ball and work around it. I would always look for a secondary break ball if i got out of line with my cue ball. The more you practice 14-1 the better player you become. It can be frustrating but you learn from it. Position is everything! All your great nine ball players never have a tough shot hardly. Their position is precise and they consistently put multiple racks together.
 
Keith thompson said:
When playing 14 and 1 don't try to break up the whole stack when shooting your break ball! If you go into them hard you turn your cue ball loose and a few of the balls wind up the table and you really don't want that! Keep the stack where it is and just partially break them up. By doing this you can pick the balls off around the stack making easy shots and break the rest of the stack softly and keep the balls at that end of the table. By half way thru the stack locate a break ball and work around it. I would always look for a secondary break ball if i got out of line with my cue ball. The more you practice 14-1 the better player you become. It can be frustrating but you learn from it. Position is everything! All your great nine ball players never have a tough shot hardly. Their position is precise and they consistently put multiple racks together.
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Epiphany for me was if you loosen the stack wrong you end up with a very uncooperative pile of rocks.
 
on the faster tables of today you can break them open more with a lesser speed stroke. so one open racks scattered more, and gives you less chances of having getting tied up later on.

old humid tables many times just grabbed the cue ball and didnt scatter them and left you not many options..

the best were able to get around that but a lesser player, say one that cannot run over 100 balls would get in more trouble.
 
A pair of 84's certainly isn't bad! Certainly far better than I have ever done. I have probably set a high number in games in a row won but I was usually gambling and trying to keep the other player on the table.

My race is run and I will never see 84. At a guess I might have ran about half that. One thing that might be worth trying is just banging away until a run gets over fifty or sixty then bear down. About half the strain of trying to run a hundred from ball one.

If you can run 84 you can run 100. Get it done, then buy a decent plaque for your wall! How about buying the board and leaving the number blank until you break a hundred. That will keep you thinking!

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
A pair of 84's certainly isn't bad! Certainly far better than I have ever done. I have probably set a high number in games in a row won but I was usually gambling and trying to keep the other player on the table.

My race is run and I will never see 84. At a guess I might have ran about half that. One thing that might be worth trying is just banging away until a run gets over fifty or sixty then bear down. About half the strain of trying to run a hundred from ball one.

If you can run 84 you can run 100. Get it done, then buy a decent plaque for your wall! How about buying the board and leaving the number blank until you break a hundred. That will keep you thinking!

Hu
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I like it! I definitely play looser until I hit the 3rd or 4th rack. I also bear down on the last two or three balls. Most of my runs end within a couple balls of the break ball on either end. I have a lot to learn about break balls and how to hit them...
 
run a bunch of balls and when sitting on the rail in the pool room they will say to your next customer hey that guy ran 100 balls or some such.

if you are a money player you dont ever do that. if a fun player or tournament player then that is certainly in your favor.
 
Keith thompson said:
When playing 14 and 1 don't try to break up the whole stack when shooting your break ball! If you go into them hard you turn your cue ball loose and a few of the balls wind up the table and you really don't want that! Keep the stack where it is and just partially break them up. By doing this you can pick the balls off around the stack making easy shots and break the rest of the stack softly and keep the balls at that end of the table. By half way thru the stack locate a break ball and work around it. I would always look for a secondary break ball if i got out of line with my cue ball. The more you practice 14-1 the better player you become. It can be frustrating but you learn from it. Position is everything! All your great nine ball players never have a tough shot hardly. Their position is precise and they consistently put multiple racks together.
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I've practiced my break shot so often that when I see a ball roll down table past the side pocket, I know I've messed up. And I blow em open pretty good. Keep em all at one end and work those patterns until they're rote.
 
ShootingArts said:
A pair of 84's certainly isn't bad! Certainly far better than I have ever done. I have probably set a high number in games in a row won but I was usually gambling and trying to keep the other player on the table.

My race is run and I will never see 84. At a guess I might have ran about half that. One thing that might be worth trying is just banging away until a run gets over fifty or sixty then bear down. About half the strain of trying to run a hundred from ball one.

If you can run 84 you can run 100. Get it done, then buy a decent plaque for your wall! How about buying the board and leaving the number blank until you break a hundred. That will keep you thinking!

Hu
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Your game wasn't straight pool. Mine suffered like hell while gambling and travelling. I'd set up to practice some and embarrass myself. Totally diff games and mindsets, in your defense Hu.
 
maha said:
run a bunch of balls and when sitting on the rail in the pool room they will say to your next customer hey that guy ran 100 balls or some such.

if you are a money player you dont ever do that. if a fun player or tournament player then that is certainly in your favor.
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Never do any miracles in your home town. 😁
 
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