Re: When to Pushout

Mere moments before death, "Bob Keller" <bk42762@xxxxxxxxxxx> hastily
scrawled:


"Ed Chauvin IV" <edcfour@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think Bob is
saying that, as you can't know what you opponent might do

Which I don't agree with at all. There's no reason to assume your
opponent is some magical pool god. He's human, just like you, you've
played before and he's no better or worse than you.

I'm not suggesting that my opponent is some type of magical pool god. What
I'm saying is - if as you suggest you do your best at pushing the cue ball
to where you think you have a 50/50 position, your opponent steps to the
table and shoots a shot that you didn't see - that doesn't make him a pool
god - it just means that YOU are NOT able to imagine every possible shot
that your opponent might choose - which means you cannot measure what may or
may not be a 50/50 position.

What makes you so sure that my opponent will see a shot I didn't see?
We're talking hypothetically here, so what if my opponent is my clone
and has exactly the same knowledge and abilities as I?

I'm not sure why this point isn't sinking in.

Because I don't consider it to be a valid point. Of course your
opponent *might* see something you missed. But, your goal prior to
pushing is to be certain that you've not missed anything.

Let me throw it back on you - how do you KNOW that you have left your
push-out in a 50/50 position?

I've never said that you can know this, only that you should strive to
get there as a goal. It's certainly true that you can fail, but by
striving for perfection and practicing perfection you can eventually
reach the point where you will be able to judge with a high degree of
accuracy where the 50/50 position is.

I play people who are very equal in skill to
me all the time, and they nearly ALWAYS shoot shots, position routes and
other choices differently than I would have.

And yet you know this, and refuse to account for it in your push
strategy. Why is that?



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