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The Legendary Pearl to Take On 14.1 Attempts
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I'm 65, haven't played since 1990, I work in pool tables, but I know a 14.1 player when I see one, and Earl is NOT one. If this event is supposed to find a player that can BREAK JS's record, good luck going about it they way its heading, its a waste of time showcasing players that can't play 14.1.
Even the HUGE corner pockets couldn't help Earl, its sad that his inability to run racks can impress you so much, you must not know much about 14.1 either, which just goes along with most of the crowd anyway. At the rate this event is going, it might finally have a player break a 400+ run in the next 10 years!
15 runs of 100+, 7 runs of 150+, and 2 runs of 218+. Not too shabby for a 60 year old!
And he is making them at Mach speed, too.
He is almost running 100 before the average player gets through a couple racks.
tomatoshooter
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Averaging 74.5 for 10 innings is still some damn good shooting. I'd be ecstatic if I could do that for 1 inning.
Inability to run racks?
How big of an ass do you intend to make of yourself here lol?
His top number is trending up each day..I am still hopeful he puts up some bigger numbers. 300+ would be great!
They should let you have a go at this event. You are a "World Champion Table Mechanic" and often a "World Class Ass Clown" too. That makes you very qualified to enter in my book.
Bobby would you grant him entry?
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I think Earl needs a timer.
Not a timer to speed him up, but one to slow him down.
He is literally shooting some shots in just a couple seconds after his previous shot.
He likes to shoot fast and gets a rhythm going, but sometimes he out dances the music.
He is shooting so many power shots in such a short period that he “pulls up” on quite a few of the shots he is trying to “baby”. That has caused him to shoot several balls that failed to even reach the pocket.
I hope he slows down his pace, but Earl operates on a different frequency than most of the other great players.
Go, Earl, go!
Not a timer to speed him up, but one to slow him down.
He is literally shooting some shots in just a couple seconds after his previous shot.
He likes to shoot fast and gets a rhythm going, but sometimes he out dances the music.
He is shooting so many power shots in such a short period that he “pulls up” on quite a few of the shots he is trying to “baby”. That has caused him to shoot several balls that failed to even reach the pocket.
I hope he slows down his pace, but Earl operates on a different frequency than most of the other great players.
Go, Earl, go!
I have a committee that votes on the players to participate so I'm only 1 vote, however he can just go find a table anywhere and post videos to you all to look at. I'm busy enough not to deal with him. A player does have to have a Sanctioned World Tournament to participate and I don't think World Champion Ass Clown or table mechanic as you say will get a single vote but I will ask the committee members anyways.. He sure is a hateful old person for no reasons. Maybe he wet the bedsheets in his van and just needs to start wearing a diaper.
So in one post you’ve insulted the event, Earl, and the readers of this thread. I didn’t realize this was the official ‘belittle people’ post. In that case:
If this event is such a threat to your giant JS erection, why don’t you go back to revolutionizing the world of billiards by pouring blue dye into cans of glue, playing with spinny things on top of other spinny things, and making up proverbs that make no sense. Actually, I think the one you’re most proud of, it being pinned to the back of some door in the Diamond head office, could probably be applied to your animosity on this thread: “Difficult tasks are made easier by people who don’t do them.” If that wasn’t it exactly, it was something similarly nonsensical.
I have enjoyed watching Earl play. He's just so different to everybody else in everything. He has a huge javelin with a 14mm tip for a pool cue. He plays quick and with a lot of flair. He's up there in years but it doesn't show at all, he plays quick and keeps his pace consistent for a long time. If people still played rotation the way he does, I'd watch a lot more pool.
I also would like for him to do well, so I think maybe he should revise his pattern strategy somewhat. There are just too many moving parts in his machine to sustain for 500+ balls in my opinion. I'd be really impressed if he could break 400 his way, but I kind of doubt that is possible.
I also would like for him to do well, so I think maybe he should revise his pattern strategy somewhat. There are just too many moving parts in his machine to sustain for 500+ balls in my opinion. I'd be really impressed if he could break 400 his way, but I kind of doubt that is possible.
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I’ve also enjoyed watching him, despite the frustration sometimes. I haven’t been playing 14.1 for very long, and I have no one to play with, so all my knowledge has come from watching stellar examples of straight pool on YouTube. As such, I’ve set extremely high standards for myself in terms of finding a perfect break ball, key ball, etc. Watching Earl has made me realize that sometimes, it’s okay to not be perfect, that’s it better to give yourself a chance by playing off three rails to get on a break ball, or to leave yourself a non-traditional break ball, than doggedly strive for “perfection” and fail.
15 runs of 100+, 7 runs of 150+, and 2 runs of 218+. Not too shabby for a 60 year old!
You are right Earl cant play 14.1 at all.
Every decent 14.1 player knows about aerial bombing the rack with a jacked up cue.
And sometimes, because none of us is Mosconi, three rails is the best way to come up on a ball when you've left yourself too much angle on a cut shot. And sometimes a power draw to break up a cluster is the smart way to go because A. You'll have a safety ball you can use and, B. You'll be sending balls into an open area of the table and not creating more congestion.
Of course a 163 ball runner like you would know all that.
Lou Figueroa
Not for nothing, but I remember watching Earl play the National 14.1 tournament in the early 2000’s. I believe I saw him at another 14.1 tournament in the northeast, but they all blend together.
Although he did shoot relatively more long shots than the old guard with ease, he played 14.1 the “right way.” His 14.1 game was awesome and beautiful. I don’t recall him shooting one bank shot in the 5 or 6 tournament matches I watched, for example, unlike Ginky, Efren or even Jeanette. He didn’t hit his break shots at warp speed, unlike Alain Martel or Roger Griffis.
Could *that* Earl Strickland run 400? I would say I never doubted it for a millisecond. What I see today in Earl’s attempts is that his mental acumen is shot. It’s almost like he’s playing with reckless abandon on purpose. I never saw him play any of these poor shot selections in that tournament. Watching him today, you’d think he doesn’t know the basic concepts of clearing lanes and triangle-out patterns. I know he understood these basic concepts back then.
Although he did shoot relatively more long shots than the old guard with ease, he played 14.1 the “right way.” His 14.1 game was awesome and beautiful. I don’t recall him shooting one bank shot in the 5 or 6 tournament matches I watched, for example, unlike Ginky, Efren or even Jeanette. He didn’t hit his break shots at warp speed, unlike Alain Martel or Roger Griffis.
Could *that* Earl Strickland run 400? I would say I never doubted it for a millisecond. What I see today in Earl’s attempts is that his mental acumen is shot. It’s almost like he’s playing with reckless abandon on purpose. I never saw him play any of these poor shot selections in that tournament. Watching him today, you’d think he doesn’t know the basic concepts of clearing lanes and triangle-out patterns. I know he understood these basic concepts back then.
Well certainly you could still get up a post up a 60-70 ball run, no?
Wasn't it you that said a 14.1 player never forgets how to run balls?
Lou Figueroa