meh. I've been playing 1pocket for the last 20 years or so. Money games, tournaments, a few US Open, even commentating from the booth. That's what I'm using -- how 'bout you?
Lou Figueroa
Tony Vs Dennis Chit Chat Thread
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meh. I've been playing 1pocket for the last 20 years or so. Money games, tournaments, a few US Open, even commentating from the booth. That's what I'm using -- how 'bout you?
Lou Figueroa
And we've all seen the tragic result of that experience when you played John.
er, thanks, Jay...but I'm not sure we're in actually agreement because what I said was about breaking towards the right pocket, which would mean breaking from the left side.
Guess I'll have to ask easy-e to divine if what you said is not what you meant.
Lou Figueroa
For someone who does not play for $10,000 everyday, on a worldwide stream, from the Accu-Stats Arena, in front of a live audience, after all the hoopla and crappola that led up to that match, I did fine ;-)
How 'bout you?
Lou Figueroa
Yes, you did great. How 'bout me what?
Good try, but not exactly. I'm not even a one pocket player, but I know that they are both breaking from the same side (the left side of table), because they are both right-handed players. If both pockets play the same, a right-handed player should ALWAYS break from the left so that they get the pocket to the right. The reason, a right-handed player can more easily REACH THE SHOTS when playing to the pocket on the right side of the table. It's as simple as that. It's a big advantage if you don't need a bridge or you don't need to shoot behind your back on a few of the shots at the lower end of the table.
Ahhhh, I see Jay answered the question before me. Jay is correct. It's all about reaching shots.
Are you asking about my experience? How I came to my conclusion? Ok, I'll try it like you listed yours. I played my first game of one pocket about 20 years ago. I have also gambled at it many times and played in many tournaments. I have also done commentary. When I'm old enough to retire, perhaps I will play in the US Open. Most importantly to this particular discussion, I've played one pocket enough with the guy who made the comment to make an educated guess about what he might have meant! Please tell me that makes sense.
And for the love of god, can you please tell me who Spicey is so I can know if I should be offended or not?
Speaking of behind the back... how about that bank trex made behind the back, from the stack, with unnatural english, at speed, behind 6 to -1, with dennis' winning nugges in front of dennis' hole?
It was allright.
It was allright.
It's been established that you have no idea what you're talking about. Please shut up.
If it's relevant to the on-going pissing match. I don't know anyone so completely unbiased opinion. I never, not for one second, was under the impression Black Balled meant it was a hard and fast rule. I took when he said "generally" that he meant more times than not (which can simply mean 51% of the time) people break at the same pocket because most players are righties and they usually break for the hole where they can reach the table better. All things being equal, most righties would break at the same hole. Key phrase is all things being equal. Table breaks same from both sides, no roll off, etc. Not sure how someone is supposed to phrase their opinion if they can't assume "all things being equal". Is one supposed to preface their statement with "well if the table breaks better to this side but rolls of on this side then I'd break from here but I'm a righty and so I'll break from this side cause I feel like I can reach a little better and that offsets the 1/4" role".
#fakenews.
#LMAO. Good one. Johnnyt
I agree. I feel more comfortable, as far as hit and control, breaking from the right side into the left pocket.
However, being right handed, I prefer shooting into the right pocket for all the reasons you just mentioned.
That is why I will take the right pocket when it is my turn to break.
I've always played where the breaker has a choice of which pocket they are breaking to.
He may be a little bit "stale bread" at the moment, but I don't think he is "toast" just yet.
He got a bit "wild" at the end of yesterday's set and let Dennis catch up a bit...he needs to stay focused and not get overly aggressive.
So you wanna the chit chat, eh?
I am also interested in knowing crowd size. I can say that here, the rooms wer packed to see dennis rumble...and he wasnt playing anybody as renowned as trex.