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In practice it was 69 some years ago. This season it was 55 in a straight pool tournament and 40 and 41 in league. I'm pretty confident it could be more in the future.
Yes, Pat was a slip stroker. Here's a little 1-minute video of him posted by David Sapolis after Pat's death in 2009. It doesn't really show his slip stroke because of the angle of view, but at the end it indicates that his high run was 338.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXa5d6hIAyg
46. And starting to wonder if I’ll ever break 50.
I feel like 50 would be a milestone achievement for me since I’ve never done it. It just gets frustrating. A guy I comfortably give the 7 to playing 9-ball was all excited and told me he had just run 63 a couple of days prior to seeing me. I was happy for him, but also even more disappointed in myself. I have lots of runs in the low 40’s, but something always happens going into the 4th rack.
My best, aside from the 46, is back-to-back 42’s.
Depending on the table, cloth etc... 40's to 50's is no small accomplishment for most.
You ain't kidding. Here in Germany, tables mechanics have never even heard of such a thing as an "extended subrail".
But, the Germans generally shoot pretty straight, so they tend to like to reduce pocket sizes. Which brings us to pretty much every table in a competitive club in Germany being double or triple-shimmed. Which makes them play like dog doo.
And my table at home, albeit WITH extended rails (I coached a local mechanic through the basic requirements, and he did a decent job..), is quite tight, somewhere in the range of 4 1/4" to 4 3/8", so putting up a big number will require me to focus a lot more on my fundamentals, and on stroking balls in on the break, rather than using a more forceful stroke.
Or........lol
Be like the average amateur 9 ball player and "suck" at 14.1 because it's a lot harder to hold concentration for an "endless" number of balls vs. running 9-balls-n-out.
Disclaimer:
I suck at both.
One year at Derby City on exactly that equipment, Thorsten Hohmann failed to run 50 on any of his attempts.... On the other hand, if your table is a 9' and has 4.5 or smaller pockets and has a deep shelf such as the diamond pro-am, well, 50's is a very respectable number for any amateur....
One year at Derby City on exactly that equipment, Thorsten Hohmann failed to run 50 on any of his attempts.
On the other hand, if your table is a 9' and has 4.5 or smaller pockets and has a deep shelf such as the diamond pro-am, well, 50's is a very respectable number for any amateur.
One year at Derby City on exactly that equipment, Thorsten Hohmann failed to run 50 on any of his attempts.
Reading this actually makes me feel a little better...a little. My 46 was on my home table with 4.25” corners and 4.75” sides. It’s a GC though so the shelf isn’t deep. There’s an old school place near me with a bunch of 9ft Annaversary tables with huge pockets. I’ve never been there but I may just wander out there one day and try to break 50 on those tables. I dunno though...might not make much difference. My patterns are terrible.
I do have a couple of runs in the 20-30 range on a 4.25” pocket pro-am at a local action spot though.
I was thinking, "Why did I leave myself on the head rail for the breakshot?" Oh, yeah, bad end pattern.Come Bob, if 98 was my best "current" high, I wouldn't even mention it. Especially, if it was on a 4.5x9....
What were you thinking?????
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102 but it was on a 4x8 and 43 years ago. I had a 98 on a 4.5x9 this month.