The Best Advice You're Ever Likely To Get
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Best advice...avoid these threads.
No shit. If you're down to asking advice from this collection of loonies(and i count myself for sure) you are in deep shit.
Based on your description it could have been the Billiard Palcade at Mission and Geneva -- the table to the right was a snooker table and there were a lot of pay ball matches on it, but the counter was as you walked in to the left, so I dan't know.
I only knew Sax and his wife, Evelyn?, in passing. There was a room that Dee Hulse ran in Redwood City. I think I only went once.
Lou Figueroa
You know better.
This site and forum is all about Pool, in particular.
Your post didn't say that, in contrast, it was the best advice you ever got.
It could only be construed as just a statement of your own particular point of view.
Okay. Fine.
If your post / statement is what your point of view is, tell me and the rest of us:
then why are you even here at AZB if you don't care what we think or have to say?
Shit, I don't think anyone would ever hit a ball! ha ha ha
Oh, well. That was a big tournament around '76-'77. Kim taught me a good lesson.
And Sax's biting comment did as well.
Thanks.
I only said that if you can't do these 5 essential things, you should consider hanging it up.
I am just pointing out what is needed to succeed so you can think about it.
And that the tasks to succeed are staring you right in the face.
And your solutions to accomplish them are right in front of your eyes.
I think I can succeed. And I am nothing exceptional.
So most probably anyone else can too.
Louie LeBlanc was the original owner of Fremont Family Billiards and he knew Cole quite well
from an early age. He told me around 1969 that Cole could be the the very best, if he only wanted to be.
1. dont shoot the shot if you cant get position.
2. raise the bet anytime you believe you have the best of it.
the rest will take care of itself
and don't take advice from any broke pool players as they aren't able to take or heed advice to improve their own self.
2. raise the bet anytime you believe you have the best of it.
the rest will take care of itself
and don't take advice from any broke pool players as they aren't able to take or heed advice to improve their own self.
are you saying that this is the best advice that everyone is likely to ever get?
Why don't you come up with something intelligent on your own we can all benefit from.
Instead of attempting to throw a plate of spaghetti up against the wall and see if something sticks.
Many of the commentators on Accu-Stats videos recommend that if you can't get shape on the next ball, play shape to play a safety.
Just thought of it: it could have been Van's on Van Ness or Family Billiards on Geary in one of its many incarnations.
Lou Figueroa
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How can I play shape to play a safety if I don’t pocket a ball *this* shot and have to give up the table?
Shouldn’t the advice be “if you can’t get shape on the next ball (
EDIT: hmm, never mind. I think you mean “play shape on *this* ball to shape the next shot as a safety.”
so your thread is supposed to ask a question?
WHAT is the best advice?
is reads like a statement,
(this is) the best advice
my question isn’t unintelligent at all
and i don’t throw pasta
Identify and play the "BEST" shot that you feel CONFIDENT, with YOUR abilities, you can PERFORM as PLANNED in your HEAD, whether it be making the ball or playing a safety.
Just because you can make a ball, it doesn't mean that is the best "shot". If the layout after making a ball puts you in worse table position than you had before you made the ball, you probably "identified" the wrong shot or you don't play as well as you thought you did.
How many times have you seen a player, including yourself, who made a ball and tried to get some difficult position wind up hooked on the next ball or totally out of line when they had a PERFECT lockup safety they could have shot that would have given them BIH?
It happens more times than you can count.
Just because you can make a ball, it doesn't mean that is the best "shot". If the layout after making a ball puts you in worse table position than you had before you made the ball, you probably "identified" the wrong shot or you don't play as well as you thought you did.
How many times have you seen a player, including yourself, who made a ball and tried to get some difficult position wind up hooked on the next ball or totally out of line when they had a PERFECT lockup safety they could have shot that would have given them BIH?
It happens more times than you can count.
I am just laughing at the assumption the OP makes that everybody should be playing to be competitive and win. There a ton of people who play pool without the intention of playing the best they can play, and they do so for relaxation and recreation. The hope that their object balls disappear without any understanding of control. You are suggesting that no one bother playing unless they take it seriously?
On the other hand, perhaps you are just sending a message to serious players. In that case telling us to maybe just not shoot ever if we don’t follow your procedure is kind of smug. I just don’t like the tone. Is this the tone you intended?
On the other hand, perhaps you are just sending a message to serious players. In that case telling us to maybe just not shoot ever if we don’t follow your procedure is kind of smug. I just don’t like the tone. Is this the tone you intended?
that is also right.
but you are able to get position for your next shot which happens to be a safety.
of course there are exceptions to everything and variables that need to be accounted for, but a thinking player does all that.
When playing pool, you have to think like a "gambler" if you want to win consistently.
You are playing the "odds" of performing one shot over a lot of other potential things you could possibly do with the same shot.
You go with the BEST odds.
If you consistently go against the odds, you wind up with "circus" shots or no shots at all.
