One Pocket - Youths' Trojan Horse

[SixSence]

When I started reading your post it was starting to chap my a** as it looked like you were an old dude venting relentlessly on younger people because they chose not to play one pocket. The young people get enough heat. ADD? Most of the people in the world have it when it's something they are not interested in.

There is more money in gambling at one pocket than there is at any other game and a young guy always gets the old guy's action even if the young guy is better. The old guys with the dough don't mind going off to the young guys because they appreciate a wise young man. It is kind of cool to see a young guy playing one pocket though. It shows that he is either atttempting to become or is a more rounded player than most youths his age. You have to appreciate that but the biggest benefit to one pocket is it will make you smarter. Okay, okay, okay maybe it won't make you smarter but you will feel good when you make a score against a straighter shooter than yourself.

I think for the money GRADY MATHEWS TAPES ON ONE POCKET ARE THE BEST BANG FOR YOUR BUCK. You get a phenomenal amount of information for a small amount of money and none of his tapes are choreographed like most tapes. Grady lays it all out there for you to see, making no apologies for missing a three rail bank. Get Grady's kicking tapes which will help you in 9 ball, 8 ball and one pocket

Shoot, locate Grady's name through the MEmbers TAB above and send him an email asking him to autograph some of the stuff are catch him at one of his traveling pool schools. Send him the dough and you get collectible pool memorabilia to keep and use and make even more money with.................... Arrrrgh, don't it do it it sounds like a pyramid scam.
Okay, okay, okay go ahead and spend the money on Grady's stuff. You won't regret it and you will become light years advanced over all of your peers and that's on the square.

JoeyA

Thanks for the video advice.

 

[selftaut]

Great thread! glad to see all games coming back!

 

[Gerry]

I was in a similar situation maybe 15 years ago when TCOM boom hit. EVERYONE was playing 9ball, BUT the room I played in was mainly a 14.1 haven. At 25 I played good enough 9ball to play in open events and cash occasionally, but I couldn't run 20 balls. Then I made the switch to 14.1 and my game jumped 2 balls the first year, and my first 100 (106 and out) came a year later.

Now, at 40 I've been playing playing tons of 1P and by far the game needs the most attention from the player with 14.1 a close second. I also thought I had good cueball control when I played pretty good 14.1 running 40/50 every day with bigger runs occasionally......uhhh, no

....then I played 1P! and realized I needed to pull my CB control down from "area position for 9ball"...."side of the ball position" for 14.1....to being pissed when I kick 3 rails and don't lock up behind a ball stuffed in the corner!

for you young guys coming up...there is a natural progression I feel works. 9ball teaches you shot making, 14.1 teaches you to run balls and learn patterns, 1P will demand all your physical and mental control AND mostly IMO creativity......give it a try, and I'll take 9/5!

Gerry

 

[Black-Balled]

Believe me, I intend to lose alot of money playing this game before I get a descent hold on it. I'd like to learn as much as I can from books and videos though, and then let experience teach me the rest. If anyone knows of any useful aids in learning one-pocket, please share.

Ready when you are...just up 95!

 

[Craig Fales]

How often do you see teenagers and even people in their early-to-mid 20's avidly playing one-pocket in your local pool hall? I know it's extremely rare or non-existent where I'm from. I rarely see a strategically, well thought-out, or methodical approach to a game of nine-ball for that matter; Just the attempt at instant satisfaction, whether it be slamming a 9-foot long cut shot into the back of the pocket with 1 warm-up stroke while hardly aiming, or barely missing a 3-rail bank. It's beginning to look like an ADD convention with pool tables to keep everyone thoroughly distracted. It's the technology age in full swing. Even when their talent and young eyes are wasted this way, with no real work put into their game (Just Friday nights banging balls around with friends), their youth allows them to excel at games like eightball and nineball.

It's no wonder why the older players capitalize on this and play one-pocket, which actually requires attention to be focused for more than 2 seconds at a time, as well as vast knowledge and intellect that takes years of hard work and studying to gather. They figure they have a fish or at least have the upper hand when playing an 18 year old 9ball player at one-pocket. My point is that if young players would realize this, start studying this game as if learning to play chess, and put work into it, eventually their young eyes would become a strong advantage even in one-pocket. Any of the one-pocket players would jump up to play the young-guns, possibly underestimating the underlying potential

So, in an effort to exploit this vulnerability and expand my horizons (as I'm one of these 9ball bangers ) , I've been trying to learn one-pocket lately. If anyone knows any good books or dvd's/matches to order, or possibly an online tutorial, or any wise words, it would be greatly appreciated. I don't even know where to start . Thanks in advance

P.S. To all young guns, let's stand up and show everyone this generation isn't just a bunch of careless, ignorant, text-messaging, myspace surfing party animals on ritalin . For instance, we are well-seasoned veterans when it comes to the art of sarcasm and litigation

All exaggerating and stereotyping aside, I hope more people my age start to play more one-pocket. There's plenty of money in it for a young-gun who knows the game. They won't know what hit em.

This is where it all starts...the ones that take an interest it pool in general will move on to more cranial games like 1-pocket...

 

[desert1pocket]

There are certain regions, and certain pool halls where 1-pocket is the predominent game. I am in my 20's and I hardly play anything else, and part of the reason is that's what most of the players play at my local poolhall. There are 6-8 of us younger players who prefer 1-hole to anything else, but having traveled around a bit, I know that's pretty rare.

 

[Dead Money]

I played it some yesterday for the first time ever. Played 3 games total winning 2 of the three. Fun and very different from 9 and 10 ball which I mostly play.

 

[ballmover]

1p

i hold out hope that 1p will one day be the game you see when you stumble upon pool on espn. i think its the best spectator game of pool. jmho

 

[ironman]

One Pocket is a favorite game of the over 50 crowd, that is for sure, but here there are more and more players under 30 that have been bitten by the One Hole Bug..

BTW, Tony Chohan is under 30... LOL. so is his cousin Amar Kang.

Still lots of interest in this game by all ages...

The 'retail' pool players are still 8 ball bangers...

You could also mention that Shannon Daulton has been playing it since he was about 16. Also, Jerry Slivka, John Hager, Sylover Ochoa and many others who played very well at a young age.