Re: Predicting Lady Luck


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Why Mike that is an excellent post, a little intellectual, brainy and
over the heads of the bozos left here hu are mostly knuckle dragging
nit com poops like Strumond and Hass. Ya wanna du like I'ze do dude
which is speak down into dare vocabulary so dey's will understand
youse. If not, youse talks over dare heads and youse lose yo
audience. Youse must be cognizant of the IQ base you address or Hu
will miss what youse is telling him.

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ONLY SHOOT SHOTS YOU KNOW YOU CAN MAKE. PLAY SAFE ON THE ONES YOU ARE
NOT SURE OF. STUFF YOUR EGO, BE A PERCENTAGE PLAYER. STOP SHOOTING
SUCKER SHOTS. Don't ever be known as a great shot maker like I was.
That means your position play is lousy and you have had to learn how
to bank and cut 85 degrees to get out and win. That was what finished
off Jimmy Caras, one of my teachers. He won 5 world championships
playing other great shot makers like Greenleaf when it was manly to
shoot at every thing that came up. Later the percentage players like
Mosconi eventually owned him and his wins stopped. Great players bore
me to death because all you see is short straight in, over and over.
Watching me play is exciting because when I get out I am all over the
joint. I am getting better at that but still today when I get in dead
perfect stroke; I become so bored I stop playing. I can't stand to
see my self play perfect.

I teach that there are only 150 shots and about 75 of them come up the
most, 70% of the time, so that is all we practice, perfecting those
150 and then when close variations of them come up you can still make
them. The other 10,000,000 shots can be then ignored. All of these
shots are diagramed in a book the advanced student is given and I
personally help him to understand, perfect and master all 150 of
them. As Hogan said, there is not enough day light to be able to
practice all of the shots one needs to win.
So we don't. We just practice the main one's and duck off of the rest
of them.

We now divide shots up into two categories, those we shoot at and
those we play safe off of. Every shot you see in practice the student
attaches a rating; it's a 10% or 20% shot. It might be 60 or 90%. He
is taught to recognize, quickly and automatically gauge and rate each
one fast. He might rate a 30% shot 50% and be 20% off but that does
not matter. What we are trying to ID and see are the sucker shots we
do not want to shoot any more, the 10-20 and 30% shots. Those we do
not shoot in matches and we don't even practice them. Why, because
even if we waste all of that time it might become a 30% shot which
still means we sell out and lose on it 70% of the time and those odds
I do not like.

We might now and then shoot at 50% shots, but usually we lay back and
wait for the 3 or 4 ball out where they are all 70 or 80% shots.
We let our stupid opponent early in the game shoot the 20% shots, and
if he makes them, we keep feeding him the same shots again because
like the casino, in time the odds and percentages makes us a winner
and him a loser. He can't keep making the shots is the point. So
when he feeds us a 20% shot, can we make it, yes, 2 out of 10, we duck
and try and feed him a 20% shot back he will try and make. If he
keeps shooting them, we own him very soon, it is only a matter of
time.




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