Really hard to believe that after a week of having to defend myself, and provide reality checks, I have to do it again...
This time it's to shit-can some incorrect revisionist history that was posted up today...
I sure wish John hadn't forced my hand like this..really hard to believe...why force me to have to say unpleasant things -
true things, in order to defend myself...
First of all, to make this clear to all -
I wasn't getting staked by John in this partners match - although the phrasing he used in his post "putting up % of the money" can make it sound as if he was ...that said..if somebody wants to bet more $$$ than I'm betting in a partners match - it sure as hell doesn't give them the right to tell me what shots to shoot -
especially when I know the game better than they do...and re. the fact that most people/players believe Dr. Billy to be the best analyzer of players speeds and match-ups in the pool-gambling world today...
...and since scrzbill told me he was $$$-partners with John for this partners game - John couldn't have been betting more than a measly $100 more than me anyway...
...
So why would I listen to someone telling me "which shots in the game I should shoot" - when what they're telling me is wrong...and here's some more validation for what I'm saying here...Chris Gentile was sweating the match and I was sitting next to him in between shots..well, those few times that I saw by the look on John's face that he didn't like/approve of my shot choice..I sat down and asked Chris if he agreed that my shot choice was the right choice -
and each time he immediately, without pause, said, of course - and every time he said this, he had an expression on his face that was saying that it was like I was asking him if 2+2 = 4...
It was a short race - to 4 or 5, I forget....and as previously/correctly said, neither John or I played well in this match (but John's bad play was much more costly to us)...
all that said..what were the two main/glaring reasons causing to lose this short race?...
#1. In the third game Billy made the corner ball on his break, and with open balls spreading out for him to run - he ran 6, and we had no chance to win that game after that...
#2. In another game, Freddy scratched with the score somewhere's around 2-2 - it's John's shot - he has a wide open table with runnable open balls in down-table and mid-table positions..with ball in hand, John has a perfect ball to shoot at, 6" in front of him - he dogs it - shoots it straight into the long rail, putting his head down on the table afterwards in dismay.....Billy proceeds to run 5-6 balls, and we lose that game.
And as for the one safety vs. offensive shot of mine that John brought up, where he wanted me to shoot the safety...we were not, as he said, ahead at the time by several balls...and, I was afraid of possibly scratching if I played the safety, with the object ball sitting at the edge of Billy's pocket...and besides that ----->
And as for me - I
don't feel better for having been forced to give the
reality check version of this story.
- Ghost