Played an APA 2 in league tonight and......

Standbykid

Standbykid

Results or excuses?
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I won't say she beat my a$$, but she won and deserved the win. She shot very well and played very tactical safeties. She only made a few unforced errors and played me close the whole time.
I'm afraid my undoing was a bank on the 8-ball in the second game of the match. I scratched. I couldn't quite settle myself after that. But, Brenda played like a woman possessed. Brenda, if you're on this forum, great job tonight.

BTW, I'm a SL5 in 8-ball and a SL6 in 9-ball.
 
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A 2?

:rotflmao:

J/k, that's the APA's crackproof "equalizer" handi-capping system at it's finest.
 
push out APA

A seven is playing a 3 . 3 Breaks ,hooked . The 7 could easily masse or kick to a good hit . The 3 has no shot and the 7 gets ball in hand and makes 7 balls and plays safe for another BIH. and 5 more balls. Why can't APA see clear that a push out gives the lessor player at least a chance. It is a no brainer. It slightly helps to level the playing field.
 
Because the whole process of pushing and deciding to take it or not and explain the rule every week would keep everyone past midnight.
 
fat Albert said:
A seven is playing a 3 . 3 Breaks ,hooked . The 7 could easily masse or kick to a good hit . The 3 has no shot and the 7 gets ball in hand and makes 7 balls and plays safe for another BIH. and 5 more balls. Why can't APA see clear that a push out gives the lessor player at least a chance. It is a no brainer. It slightly helps to level the playing field.
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It would certainly help people who move into tournaments from the APA. Had a guy play in a local handicapped 9-ball tournament who had no clue what pushout was. Someone just said "pushout allowed", so he pushed out in the middle of a rack. :eek: Someone would have warned him, but he didn't call pushout, so nobody knew what he was doing. He told me APA didn't have pushout... I honestly thought he was pulling my leg, LOL. Never seen someone capable of putting small packages together who didn't know what a pushout was.

Aaron
 
I watched a SL2 beat an SL8 about 3 weeks ago. Talk about sloppy!?!?!

The 2 was running 4+ balls without even knowing what was going on. Slam it, 3 rails, two caroms, drops. Slam, 2 rails, drops. Perfect accidental position everytime! Kills me!!!!



I can get 19 points in 2 racks on a good night...so 19 balls aint s***.
 
Just my assumption....

fat Albert said:
A seven is playing a 3 . 3 Breaks ,hooked . The 7 could easily masse or kick to a good hit . The 3 has no shot and the 7 gets ball in hand and makes 7 balls and plays safe for another BIH. and 5 more balls. Why can't APA see clear that a push out gives the lessor player at least a chance. It is a no brainer. It slightly helps to level the playing field.
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The better player is likely to be breaking more often and is faced with that obstacle more frequently.
 
Standbykid said:
I won't say she beat my a$$, but she won and deserved the win. She shot very well and played very tactical safeties. She only made a few unforced errors and played me close the whole time.
I'm afraid my undoing was a bank on the 8-ball in the second game of the match. I scratched. I couldn't quite settle myself after that. But, Brenda played like a woman possessed. Brenda, if you're on this forum, great job tonight.

BTW, I'm a SL5 in 8-ball and a SL6 in 9-ball.
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That's the bad part. Scratch against the 2 and your opponent only needs to win 1 game on his or her own for the match. If they are really on and if you're off your game.......that changes everything.
 
K Knight said:
:rotflmao:

A 2?

:rotflmao:

J/k, that's the APA's crackproof "equalizer" handi-capping system at it's finest.
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The point of the "Equalizer" (an unfortunately named system, as it turns out) is to allow the lesser player the chance to compete against the better player. If the lesser player plays very well for them and the better player doesn't play as well as they usually do, then there is a more balanced game.

Nowhere can these matchups ever be considered equal. Just an attempt at giving the lesser player a chance. Our OP would proably beat that SL2 19 times out of 20, even with the handicap, but every so often...

Thats what makes it fun. The chance. We had an SL5 lose to an SL3 last night, same deal. Not fun to be the guy who loses like that, but it happens. It's fun when it's your SL2 or SL3 gets a win like that.
 
And these are just a few of the reasons why I will never take part in an APA league again. BCA, TAP, or a house money league.
 
I just jumped to TAP, but I was a SL6 in APA. I used to hate playing 2's, way too easy to lose by mistake. One 8B scratch and one bad game puts you out- that's frustrating! I had to stop fearing the small mistakes, just focus and put em away fast. Safe em when needed, they can't bank n kick. :)
 
fat Albert said:
A seven is playing a 3 . 3 Breaks ,hooked . The 7 could easily masse or kick to a good hit . The 3 has no shot and the 7 gets ball in hand and makes 7 balls and plays safe for another BIH. and 5 more balls. Why can't APA see clear that a push out gives the lessor player at least a chance. It is a no brainer. It slightly helps to level the playing field.
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When you're a 9 playing a 7 (who is more than capable of running out simple patterns) and you get hooked so bad you cannot hit the 1 ball, it really sucks. The 7 may put 20 points on you. Then its a 75 to 35 race against someone who is capable of running out. Its total BS, and one of the man reasons I quit APA 9 ball.

The push takes an element of luck out of the game. It belongs in rotation games.
 
I played one session of APA 9-ball after my ex begged me to, NEVER will I let that mistake happen again. I spoke with the league operator my first night because I knew that starting me as a low handicap would not be fair to the opponents and I had no desire to sandbag or abuse the new player system. He appreciated my honesty and started me as a 7 the first night and very shortly afterwards I was playing as a 9, which i felt was accurate.

The dreaded "9" handicap was a nightmare because the opposing teams 6's and 7's would argue about who would play me and invariably put up some 2 or 3 thinking that it was a smart play. There was nothing worse than watching some 7 so scared to lose his precious handicap that he force a 2 into the match.

That paired with the night that one of the teams put up an obvious sandbagging 3 pushed me over the edge. I started the match with a 5 pack and then broke dry, I never got out of my seat again as he ran out the match. The sad part about it was that this team actually went on to win the vegas tournament with a roster filled with 3's, 4's and 5's.
 
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