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  @goldsilverstackers14 күн бұрын

  good instructional video! Thanks

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  @ShortstopOnPool25 күн бұрын

  Congratulations! Nice run!

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  @tonyrobles907026 күн бұрын

  Straight Pool is the best game ever! Great shooting Sir! 👍😊 🎱

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool983626 күн бұрын

  Yes it is - Brutal and rewarding! Thank you!

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  @bryanburt8014Ай бұрын

  I counted 55 sir... Good run

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool9836Ай бұрын

  Thanks! 4 racks would be 56. I left 5 balls on the table in the 4th rack, making it a 52 ball run.

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  @bryanburt8014Ай бұрын

  (14 x 3) +10 = 52 Got it...

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  @michaelgalicia531Ай бұрын

  good job keep it up

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  @cbnyjwlАй бұрын

  Nice run. Is this a regulation size table? Stick you are using appears to be a 3 cushion billiard Que as I see a tiny Ferrule. What State are you in? I'm always looking for a nice friendly game. I have a table home too.

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool9836Ай бұрын

  Thank you! It’s a 4-8. The cue is a pool stick, called a Zeus. I’m in OH.

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  @goldsilverstackers12 ай бұрын

  Very nice!

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  @user-mz2hv1hs5xsaharaskye2 ай бұрын

  😮

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  @user-mz2hv1hs5xsaharaskye2 ай бұрын

  Mind blown!

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  @user-mz2hv1hs5xsaharaskye2 ай бұрын

  I have seen him play in person. Never fails to impress. So accurate and smooth! Great pool as always.

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  @Strype132 ай бұрын

  Damn. The ghost at my house is way better than the ghost at your house.

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98362 ай бұрын

  Thanks! It was a good day shooting.

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  @goldsilverstackers12 ай бұрын

  Thanks, great advice!

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98362 ай бұрын

  Glad it was helpful!

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  @goldsilverstackers12 ай бұрын

  Really cool!

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  @jamog642 ай бұрын

  Great Great RUN!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 About to practice some Straight and 10 ball myself as well. I also have a Brunswick 8’ Question- what type of cue do you shoot with and is it a 12.5 tip? Anyway keep up & Shoot Well going forward 😊

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98362 ай бұрын

  I play with a Zeus cue and the carbon shaft is 12.5. Thanks for the nice comments!

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  @shaunigothictv10032 ай бұрын

  He the son of minnesota fats.

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  @hilltopper6002 ай бұрын

  8 OR 9 FOOT TABLE

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98362 ай бұрын

  8’

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  @boscobeans2 ай бұрын

  Great run, lot of testers in there. Excellent shot making and 55 is dynamite. At 78 I gave it up a few years ago but remember my high run of 77 when I was in my 20's. I felt like "Fast" Eddie Felson. LOL.

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98362 ай бұрын

  Thanks! 77 is respectable!

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  @BMWLDRider2 ай бұрын

  Yeah. That was a tough shot.

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  @pandastroll49942 ай бұрын

  pockets look very big but anyways very nicely done!!

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98362 ай бұрын

  Brunswick tables typically have larger pockets. I have these shimmed to 4 3/4". They still play a bit loose though.

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  @corycooper67652 ай бұрын

  Make sure to actually challenge yourself. Pretend another person is playing. To play for position against yourself. Even an amateur can run a table if its 1. Clearly wide open and 2. You can hit any ball Nonetheless great pinpoint shooting

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  @abedalrahmannaser45582 ай бұрын

  Very nice run

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  @tylerlacroix38762 ай бұрын

  Man you don’t miss. Crazy good shooting 👍

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98362 ай бұрын

  Thanks for the nice comment. Oh, trust me, I do miss. On this day, I shot pretty well though.

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  @tylerlacroix38762 ай бұрын

  @@fortheloveofstraightpool9836 I just started playing a lot about a month ago. How long have you been playing?

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98362 ай бұрын

  Over 40 years.

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  @tylerlacroix38762 ай бұрын

  Impressive. The way you control the cue ball is insane

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98362 ай бұрын

  Thank you!

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  @j7central2 ай бұрын

  Nice video! Hoping to get my own pool table soon.

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  @typshii71872 ай бұрын

  Nice shooting bro your boiler is loud tho lol

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98362 ай бұрын

  thank you! That's the dehumidifier. I'll need to turn that off next time.

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  @Nverlayup2 ай бұрын

  Great job!!

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98362 ай бұрын

  Thank you!

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  @Nverlayup2 жыл бұрын

  Great shooting!! What table and cues are you playing? Keep going. You’ll get that 100 run soon.

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98362 жыл бұрын

  Thanks for the vote of confidence! The table is a Brunswick Heritage and the stick is a Zeus cue.

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  @robertdenson33753 жыл бұрын

  Straight pool , the mother of all pool games. Patience, accuracy, focus, preplanning, and consistency. Run your age folks. At least once a year. See how far you can go.

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  @Rubster7603 жыл бұрын

  Nice run 👍.

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98363 жыл бұрын

  Thank you!

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  @mikecintron49634 жыл бұрын

  Thanks for this drill. I'm jealous you have access to a table lol. How many balls is the cue ball away from the rail. 2??

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98364 жыл бұрын

  Yes, the cue ball is 2 balls away and the object ball is 1/2 balls away from the short rail.

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  @LeonFleisherFan4 жыл бұрын

  At 23:45, it looks as if you could have rolled in the 3 and gotten the perfect angle to shoot the 2 and slide to the bottom rail (to the right of the 1 from the camera perspective) to get straight-in on the 1, thus leaving the cue ball below the break shot instead of above? By the way, if you want to have any chance of opening the stack kicking in the break shot you ended up with, you'd need to kick to the opposite side and aim to hit the second rail fractionally before contacting the 1. It's a low-percentage attempt anyhow, why not go for the maximum result in a high-run attempt?

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  @LeonFleisherFan4 жыл бұрын

  At 16:30, any reason not to go around the break ball (shooting the 7 with outside versus inside English, aiming to come off the second rail at about two and a half diamonds)? Great execution of what would surely not be my favorite break shot, by the way: you sure know your table!

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98364 жыл бұрын

  I remember looking at that for some time and just kept picturing hitting the 13 and not being able to get around it or come past/above it and get shape. So I played the more difficult break shot. This is where my execution or lack there of gets me in trouble.

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  @LeonFleisherFan4 жыл бұрын

  Is that a wine cooler back there?

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98364 жыл бұрын

  It is. In the drawer on top of it is a cigar humidor. Are you a wine fan?

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  @LeonFleisherFan4 жыл бұрын

  @@fortheloveofstraightpool9836 Wine lover, yes!

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  @LeonFleisherFan4 жыл бұрын

  Mightily impressed with some of your recovery shots, such as the 7 at 14:40 minutes into the run. Preoccupied with problem-solving, hard to discuss end patterns before all remaining balls are open, but at 19:00 minutes into the run, try to bump the 1 from the 5 at maybe one-fifth of the speed you're using, the 4 will serve as insurance. Then, at 20:30 minutes, shooting the 1-4 combo at half the speed would have left you with a perfect break shot. Again, beautiful stroke at 22:50 and 23:55 - execution would seem to be the least of your problems! At 27:55, I'd be you'd be able to shoot the 11 drawing the cue ball to bump the 8, lightly enough to promote it up to break ball or key ball position, thus holding the cue ball for the 14 - all the balls have a pocket once that 14 were gone. Referring to 31:44 minutes into the run, again, with your quality stroke, it should be a piece of cake shooting the 14 just like a stop shot, maybe a quarter tip low, so the cue ball comes back maximum one and half rotations, instead of drawing the cue ball, which requires greater feel (which is not what you want to rely on when the adrenaline is flowing).

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98364 жыл бұрын

  Thanks Leon! Great tips. I started placing my bridge and tip much closer to the cue and I’m getting better precision and finding I’m moving the cue ball less and getting better results. I need to take more time to review options for each shot. I’m trying to keep the speed up, but unfortunately my decisions suffer.

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  @LeonFleisherFan4 жыл бұрын

  @@fortheloveofstraightpool9836 You're welcome! I'm David from over at Facebook. Leon Fleisher is the name of a legendary San Francisco-born pianist and teacher whose career was cut short by illness - an inspiration to me and many others.

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98364 жыл бұрын

  LeonFleisherFan now that explains everything. Thanks for clearing that up. Too funny!

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  @LeonFleisherFan4 жыл бұрын

  A couple of questions to ask yourself: at 10:33 minutes into the run, notice it looks as though you're about to push balls towards the 6 on the rail, which you don't - did you check everything was lined up so this wouldn't happen? Also, following the cue ball into those loose balls means you're playing position onto a "moving target" as I call it - did you know what your next shot would be when you shot the 5?

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  @LeonFleisherFan4 жыл бұрын

  Notice the tic-tac-toe pattern you're shooting after 6:20 minutes into the run? All you needed to do was to get from the 3 to the up-table balls and leave all that, and you'd be much closer to and less off-angle on your next break shot. If this were a 9-Foot table, that same break shot would look quite a bit tougher. Great execution, by the way, but I'm glad you got up again to have a second look after shuffling your feet back there a couple of times. Be sure to step into the break shot (any shot for that matter) from an upright position. "Don't creep around the table", is what I used to tell students.

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98364 жыл бұрын

  Up table after the 3, back down off the 12 or 8 and leave the 15 for the key?

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  @LeonFleisherFan4 жыл бұрын

  @@fortheloveofstraightpool9836 Yes, unless you don't want to take the risk of getting off-angle on the 15 late in the rack - what I'm saying is: you have a choice of shooting the 3 and go to the up-table balls directly OR get rid of both the 3 and what looks like the 12, then get to the the up-table balls from there, so the 15 becomes the most likely key ball without the need of getting to center table more than once nor "precisely" (getting straight-in on the 12 requires more precision than getting to a similar mid-table break shot position in the exact same manner, not sure if I'm being clear?). There's a limit to what one player can answer for another when it comes to deciding what type of shot or positional play one is more or less likely to make a mess of. Personally, taking a step back at 6:20 minutes into the run, seeing I need to get roughly straight-in on that 8 later, the question I'm asking myself, already at that time, is what are my chances of getting too thin or too straight on the 15 following 8/7, and if that could possibly end my run. I don't think so. But I'd decide right there, not later. It's not a matter of what's objectively speaking more or less "correct". If I decide against, it means I'm shooting off the 3 AND 12. It's just my way of thinking: playing Straight Pool, what I want to have in mind is a plan or solution that I can set aside once I've made the decision, so I have a clear mind to continue shooting. I firmly believe we have no doubts because we make decisions, not because we necessarily make the RIGHT decisions. Make up our mind without second-guessing would seem impossible if one needed to be "right" all the time - Earl Strickland once told me that if he shoots quick and that means he picks only second-best solutions most of the time, that he'd still be more successful than second-guessing all his decisions. That's precisely the point. Pick one, stick with it. You're right because you're making it work.

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  @LeonFleisherFan4 жыл бұрын

  Noticed what happened on the break shot at 4:44 minutes into the run? Wow!

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98364 жыл бұрын

  The double kiss was lucky. I was advised to draw this shot next time.

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  @LeonFleisherFan4 жыл бұрын

  You asked for advice on FB, just started watching, but already seeing something in the first rack, curious if this is catching on: you have no problems getting the balls off the tables, stance, stroke etc. all fine, but you're playing the whole rack inside out, leaving that 14 on the rail until late (may pose problems, doesn't necessarily have to if there were a lead ball to it, and/or if it were a lead ball to e.g. an end pattern, but hardly recommended to leave as part of an end pattern, as positional play is limited), but more importantly, what's left isn't an end pattern in the sense that you're leaving yourself balls that connect, i.e. require little or not position play: instead what happens is you're doing a great job playing a 9-Ball type positional shot from the 9 to the 14, perfect angle and all, so that the last three balls (the actual "end pattern") look like a piece of cake, when in fact two shots earlier you had me wonder if you'd get there. You literally couldn't have done better - which means you're asking too much of yourself. Unless you're able to repeatedly get this perfect every time your cue ball travels five-plus feet, my advice is this: try to find end patterns that don't require perfect execution (such as a perfect stop shot triangle), but be sure to get rid of all the "unnecessary" balls early in the rack, so you won't have to sacrifice that perfect end pattern at the worst possible moment (at the end of a rack when there aren't any balls left). Also, while the first end pattern (the break ball, the key ball and the K2 as I call it - key-to-the-key or lead ball to the key ball) looks great on paper, I firmly believe middle pocket key balls that are out in the middle of the table cause more problems on average than one likes to admit (the need to reach over them if you're short, the fact that they occupy center table which causes all sorts of position play problems, and the difficulty to get perfectly straight-in on them unless there's a lead ball or whole lead ball scenario, which most of the time, one had better not leave in and around the center of the table for the exact same reasons). Sorry for going into so much detail, going to try and be brief from now on…

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  @fortheloveofstraightpool98364 жыл бұрын

  Good advice. The balls in the middle of the table have been problematic. I need to work on easier end game patterns.