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Pool! Billiards? 9 Ball Break and Run, Can You Run a Rack?

 I started a thread on a Billiards Forum recently. I thought it would be fun to post it here as well. Please comment with your own pool and billiards run out stories. 

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Don’t you have to wonder why Billiard Games are always being displayed on various TV shows and Movies? You would think that with all of these plugs the sport as a profession would be more popular.

Billiards is not treated the same as other sports. The top professionals are not paid the same as other sports such as golf, foot ball, basket ball, base ball, etc. Even Poker takes care of top players in a much higher monetary way.

For the person who is not into billiard games as a serious pool player, there is much luck involved in the game. People who only play pool once in a while and never watch it on ESPN feel that the entire game is lucky. Many people will even bet on the game, thinking they are pretty good when they don’t even play shape. (cue ball position)

I love running into this type of player in a tavern out of my home town. They think they are betting on a game of chance. My game does not leave a whole lot to chance. Any serious pool player takes luck out of the equation through practice and education.

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I know, I said i was going to make several posts during the pool tournament. When I played my next match and lost it took the wind out of my desire for writing for a few days.

I played my friend Chris and he won the first game. I answered with a break and run. He broke dead and I ran out again, finishing with a throw shot on the 8 ball because I played bad shape on the shot. I broke and ran the next rack making the score 3 to 1 My lead.

I cleared the next rack and failed to get to the last ball before the 8. This left Chris with an open table and he cleared it out. I had the break in the next game and again cleared the table with no shot on the last ball. Chris cleared the table again. This put the score at 3 to 3.

I won the next game making it 4 to 3 my lead. The next game looked good and I should have ran out. I started getting out of line a little bit on the 5th ball and ended up playing shape on a cross side bank shot for the last solid. I missed the bank, left Chris an open table and he ran out again.

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