[Pin]

This was a question put forward by a member of our team tonight.

I thought about it and realised that you probably can, most of the time, but that I never actually watch out for it or consciously try to 'work them out'.
(Though when it's obvious you do pick up on it eventually).


Do you think you can usually work out your man in 3 shots?

What are you looking for and how do you use the information?

[MitchAlsup]

If the player is actully playing to his ability, yes--you can probably tag him into his APA group number.
If the hustler is playing to hook a victim, no--the best can make you believe that they have never held a cue in their hands before.

[FASTLARRY]

MitchAlsup, on May 27 2009, 07:46 PM, said:

If the player is actully playing to his ability, yes--you can probably tag him into his APA group number.
If the hustler is playing to hook a victim, no--the best can make you believe that they have never held a cue in their hands before.

It takes me a full set to figure anyone out, sometimes 2 or 3 sets. But I am looking for everything. 3 shots, ridiculous, Hell even I can come out and miss 3 shots in a row and look like a rube.

[Pin]

In real play, what do you do with the knowledge once you have it?

[FASTLARRY]

[quote name='Pin' date='May 28 2009, 02:20 PM' post='26255']
In real play, what do you do with the knowledge once you have it?

I am charting what he does and does not do. How good is he at banks, safes, cuts. Can he run out from the 5, or the 7? It takes at least a full set for all these shots to come up and see how he deals with them.

[Pin]

I remember reading about 007 in the book about Kid Delicious. He supposedly had a couple of pages of notes on near every money player in the coutry.

Perhaps I should be trying to learn a thing or two about some of the local guys - at least keeping some kind of record (mental or otherwise) after I see them in action.


How valuable do you think this kind of knowledge is?

Worth making this kind of effort for?

[FASTLARRY]

Pin, on Jun 5 2009, 06:49 PM, said:

I remember reading about 007 in the book about Kid Delicious. He supposedly had a couple of pages of notes on near every money player in the coutry.

Perhaps I should be trying to learn a thing or two about some of the local guys - at least keeping some kind of record (mental or otherwise) after I see them in action.


How valuable do you think this kind of knowledge is?

Worth making this kind of effort for?

When I played in the leagues in the late 80's and early 90's, I had a book on every player we faced. I knew if they were 1 or 2 on the wire, and what their strengths and weakness were.

The key piece of data on 9 ball, is what ball they can get out from 90% of the time. If its the 6, and you can ride the 9 on the 4 or 5, fire away, because 90% of the time, even if you fail, he wont run out and will screw it up and leave you a 1 or 2 ball easy out for the win, which now looks lucky.

The book on me is I am a world class banker, never safe and leave me a bank, I will drill you 90% of the time. But I am diagnosed with the CSS disease, cant see shit, so you leave me long shots, and I am weak on wide cuts also into tight pockets. I am deadly on a short race, but my endurance mentally is now weak on a long race. Just knowing that about me, in a tight match, can be enough to defeat me.
Never play me during the day when I am sober, I begin drinking at 5PM and by 9 I am half she-yit faced and can be beaten then easily.
All that data is right in front of you, just pay attention to what you see, make notes and make books on these people you play.