Good player isn't destroying anyone if they are hooked every time they get to the table after their opponent chowed it.
The only way I will ever play 9 ball again...
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Good player isn't destroying anyone if they are hooked every time they get to the table after their opponent chowed it.
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People are lucky just like people are ugly.
And blackjack is a numbers game, so that comparison is kinda null and void. Like Superstar said, luck runs the whole spectrum.. some people will get what seems to be every roll, some won't get any and then there are a whole mess of people in between.
Is it just as much luck to snap a 9 for the money as it is to snap it for fun? Ask the guy that has to pay out.
And blackjack is a numbers game, so that comparison is kinda null and void. Like Superstar said, luck runs the whole spectrum.. some people will get what seems to be every roll, some won't get any and then there are a whole mess of people in between.
Is it just as much luck to snap a 9 for the money as it is to snap it for fun? Ask the guy that has to pay out.
Um.
We are not talking about skill.
They are all highly skilled players.
We are talking about luck in general as a FACTOR in 9ball.
Which it most undoubtedly is.
You stick any of the top players together that are evenly matched, and it wouldn't be a surprise if a roll determined the match.
PURE nine ball?
. Nine ball is nine ball. Leave it alone. Don't play 9 ball if you hate 9 ball. I don't bowl very good, let's change the rules to suit me!! That's crazy. I hate creamed peas, so I don't eat them. Simple stuff here.
Yes, there is no luck invoved in blackjack either...
It's just funny that I don't know any pool player that always gets lucky. I do know a guy who always gets his ticket pulled for the break n run drawings... but, he also buys 4x more tickets than anyone else. Guess he's lucky. But he never breaks and runs out, so... he can't be too lucky.
Just cause you don't know them, doesn't mean that they aren't out there.
Funny
We were watching two very good players match up last weekend and one of them crapped a two ball in. He apologized, and ran that rack and the next two to win the set. His oppponent said 'You wouldn't have won if you hadn't got lucky and made that two ball shot'.. He said 'yeah and the other 25 shots with shape in a row really didn't matter'...
We were watching two very good players match up last weekend and one of them crapped a two ball in. He apologized, and ran that rack and the next two to win the set. His oppponent said 'You wouldn't have won if you hadn't got lucky and made that two ball shot'.. He said 'yeah and the other 25 shots with shape in a row really didn't matter'...
See that's wrong.
We aren't talking about skill.
But the question of if he would have won or not without the OPPORTUNITY that crapping in the 2ball gave to him is a prefect example of what i am talking about.
Again, you fail to see the forest for the trees.
Nobody ever wants to blame their OWN mistakes for why they lost, they want it to be someone/something else's fault. Luck is just one of those excuses.
What about the balls you missed? Bad safties? Missed kicks? Those are why you lost, not luck... If you take care of business AND DON'T GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO GET LUCKY, then luck won't affect the outcome of the game.
You can place the blame on "luck" as to why you lost a set, but you are only fooling yourself.
Really???
At some point you must acknowledge that luck will only get a player so far. Yes a luck may present an opportunity, but skill turns it into a win.
At some point you must acknowledge that luck will only get a player so far. Yes a luck may present an opportunity, but skill turns it into a win.
But why would you even want luck in a game of skill? Sure we all think it's great when it happens for us, but I know at least for myself that if luck is what caused me to win that I am not the better player so to say. So why not make a game that can eliminate most of it. I think 10 ball is pretty close, 14.1 is better but is not played enough.
This is a legal shot in both 14.1 and 10ball (call shot/call safe) I've seen this happen hundreds of times.
You will never get rid of luck.
Sure, in a pure pocket nomination game like 14.1, 10-ball, and 8-ball.
But not in banks. In banks, if you say, "Cross side" and you miss, but it goes back and forth across the table 3 times, into the same side pocket you called, you're going to find yourself spotting that ball you just pocketed, and turning the table over to your opponent. Likewise if your bank otherwise "works" but caroms off another ball into that called pocket -- you're spotting it and sitting in your chair.
Bank pool, to me, is the cleanest and purest form of pool there is.
-Sean
Except the break...
Bar owners love Nine Ball, as it fill the Coin Op tables with Coinage!
This has absolutely nothing to do with what we are talking about. Back to the NPR with you.