The Legendary Pearl to Take On 14.1 Attempts

Straightpool_99 said:
His I've just watched a little bit, and his patterns are really, really weird. Too me it looks like he's never even played straight pool, almost, though I know for a fact he has (Maine event). He does display knowledge, but it's more general pool knowledge, rather than straigtht pool specific knowledge. He breaks up clusters at the right speed and does seem to plan ahead, but his plan seems different than what other players may do. It just doesn't look like a straight pool run. The pocket size may play into it, he may not take "insurance balls", proper patterns and other such concepts as seriously, because he thinks he can shoot his way out of anything the table leaves him. He can, but not to a high enough percentage to break the record(s). He of course has the stroke and the touch, that goes without saying, but he needs more that that to break even 526.

Anyway, I do wish him all the best and I wouldn't be surprised if he started improving or adapting quickly as he went along. He certainly has the talent.
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Earl took 2nd to Mika in a major 14.1 event about 5 years ago.

I didn’t watch the matches that closely- did he use substantially different strategies in that tournament as compared with what he is doing now?
 
realkingcobra said:
the ONE thing a 14 1 player NEVER forgets is how to run a rack of balls playing pattern after pattern, and controlling the cue ball like it was on a string. SVB shot the same kind of patterns Earl has picked, ALL OVER THE PLACE.
. . . Ruslan sticks out as a real 14.1 player because he ran racks so effortlessly as opposed to Earl or SVB.
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You have perfectly captured the best way to explain to emerging Straight Pool players the historical distinction between the renowned great Straight Pool players and all other ones. A distinction that is unmistakable when watching truly great performers making the process look so logical and deceptively -- but so pleasurably . . . easy !!

Arnaldo ~ Players who are fortunate enough to instinctively see and enact the logic of it all while learning and playing our beloved 14.1 are enviably gifted.
 
SBC said:
Nonsense.
It was filmed, it happened....
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You misunderstand me. The other fellow suggested that Johns attempts were not an event. I am saying that it can’t be an exhibition and not an exhibition at the same time. I am not questioning whether the run happened
 
realkingcobra said:
And they started the bad mouthing first, let's NOT forget that!!!
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I don't know about that.

John verbally attacked me out of the clear blue sky at a tournament many years ago because he had been told I'd said something *which I had not.* A year later he came up to me at another tournament and apologized and I was/am good with that. I have no beef with John.

I am also aware of the numerous insulting things John has said to and about Bobby and when they were said. I think you'd lose on that one too. Regardless, this event is about Earl and other great players shooting 14.1.

Let's all try and keep our eye on the ball ;-)

Lou Figueroa
 
lfigueroa said:
I don't know about that.

John verbally attacked me out of the clear blue sky at a tournament many years ago because he had been told I'd said something *which I had not.* A year later he came up to me at another tournament and apologized and I was/am good with that. I have no beef with John.

I am also aware of the numerous insulting things John has said to and about Bobby and when they were said. I think you'd lose on that one too. Regardless, this event is about Earl and other great players shooting 14.1.

Let's all try and keep our eye on the ball ;-)

Lou Figueroa
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So when are the straight pool players going to start showing up, you've only had one so far. Watching anyone else playing 14.1 is like having to sit on a dock, seeing someone flailing their arms all over the place just to keep from drowning, and they drown anyway, because they don't know how to swim 10 feet to reach the dock. And the funny thing is, there should have been a sign posted saying DEEP POOL, DON'T enter if you only THINK you know how to swim, there's no lifeguard on duty to save your ass when you finally realize you DONT know how to swim!!!!
 
westcoast said:
Earl took 2nd to Mika in a major 14.1 event about 5 years ago.

I didn’t watch the matches that closely- did he use substantially different strategies in that tournament as compared with what he is doing now?
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How a top professional 14.1 player would approach a tournament match to 150 or whatever as opposed to how they approach this high run challenge is obvious - there’s no comparison as far as strategic differences.

In a tournament match, it’s not a minimum 80% or even a 90%+ to make shot, they’d be looking for a safety. Or in a tournament match, the player may be fore planning to run a number of balls in a rack that is not laid out well before playing a very strong safety.

In this format they are on 100% offense mode, taking advantage of all opportunities to break out balls, even if they are not exactly sure of what kind of shot they may have next..
 
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ChrisinNC said:
How a top professional 14.1 player would approach a tournament match to 150 as opposed to how they approach this high run challenge is obvious - there’s no comparison as far as strategic differences.
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In tournaments you play a safety on a circus shot.

In high-run attempts you are forced to shoot a circus shot if that is all you have.

Apples.

Oranges.

In tournaments the goal is to win…even if you never have a high run.
 
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HawaiianEye said:
In tournaments you play a safety on a circus shot.

In high-run attempts you are forced to shoot a circus shot if that is all you have.

Apples.

Oranges.

In tournaments the goal is to win…even if you never have a high run.
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And a single race to 150 to get by an opponent is a joke. Should be a best of 3 at the vary minimum!!
 
realkingcobra said:
So when are the straight pool players going to start showing up, you've only had one so far. Watching anyone else playing 14.1 is like having to sit on a dock, seeing someone flailing their arms all over the place just to keep from drowning, and they drown anyway, because they don't know how to swim 10 feet to reach the dock. And the funny thing is, there should have been a sign posted saying DEEP POOL, DON'T enter if you only THINK you know how to swim, there's no lifeguard on duty to save your ass when you finally realize you DONT know how to swim!!!!
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Good grief, Glenn -- we got Earl frippin' Strickland shooting on a free stream.

What's not to like?!

If you can't enjoy it tell the guy standing behind you with a gun to your head forcing you to watch our event to just go ahead and pull the trigger.

Lou Figueroa
 
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