Just For Fun: Scratches, Errors Of Commission Or Omission?

Jimmy B

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When the cue ball is right up against a ball it can interfere with your stroke, because you don't want to disturb it. This is one way to scratch from here.
 

bstroud

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Well I had one happen yesterday.

Had the 7 ball at the middle diamond between the two pockets and the cue ball up table about head string and in the middle as well.

Spun the 7 in my pocket and scratched in the side pocket.
Go figure.

Opponent said it was bad luck?

I was playing shape up table. Never seen that before?

Bill S.
 

Cowboy Dennis

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You have a 7-2 lead against Him. How do you scratch from here?

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Arthur "Mistake-Free" Bodendorfer said:
Wel dennies ill till you wat id due. Ove corse the shuter probly tried to 3 rail the 10 ball and dblekised it and sratched in the side. That's npt a good shOot to shot. PlaYers today due not now the wright way to play the game like all ove the plyera I played and beet.

You are a very knowledgeable player Artie, SVB did indeed try to 3-rail the 10 ball and he did scratch in the side:p:D.



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Jimmy B

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Ok. Grady gets a double kiss and goes in the side. KM goes around and goes in his own pocket....
 

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I can see Grady banking that ball "straight back" toward his hole with inside english to avoid the kiss, and either scratching in the far corner top left by going one-rail with the cue ball, or with a little extra english, going three rails with the cue and scratching in the side on his side of the table.
 

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McCready I can see drawing the cue ball as he two-rails (twice across) that ball toward his pocket and scratching in the top corner on his own side.
 

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Balls go where you shoot 'em. Here's JR's response to SD's break in game 3. This is from the 2001 D.C.C., JR was still thinking like a 14.1 player, he had yet to come to the one-pocket thought process, although, he would probably shoot from here everytime anyway, he plays too good not to:eek:.

Do you think he learned anything?:)


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He was the first guy I ever saw beat Nick Varner, at the wedge game in a tournament.
Then a year or so later he won a One pocket championship, I think it was 1997.
 

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He was the first guy I ever saw beat Nick Varner, at the wedge game in a tournament.
Then a year or so later he won a One pocket championship, I think it was 1997.

JR had one of the smoothest, most free-flowing strokes I've ever seen. Back around 1997-2000 or so he was learning the game. Richeson would give him 10-8 and JR would learn things, then they'd switch it up and play 14.1. I don't recall if any weight was involved but probably a little. Richeson ran the ugliest 94 balls you've ever seen(cueball flying everywhere) and still lost the game. I played JR a couple of times and it was always on my mind how many balls he could run. Naturally he played the stack very well also.

Dennis
 
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