jrhendy
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Artie
Artie
I have played and sweated one pocket with many of the best for fifty years and did not play Artie until three years ago when we were both "old guys". We have each won a race to seven and it took a total of around thirty hours of playing time.
Artie does things to wear you out and break you down. You are always frozen to a rail, jacked up over a ball or both. He takes multiple balls out of your hole with shots only he understands.
I can only imagine how good his game was when he was younger with more firepower. He analyzes every possibility before he pulls the trigger and that can be aggravating, but he isn't stalling, he actually puts that much brainpower into each shot.
He never says a peep unless you ask him something and he never sits down in the whole session. A sweator who was watching us play in one of the matches said he would rather have needles stuck in his eyes than to watch again.
His style is not pretty, but it works for him and gets the cash.
Artie
My own opinion is that the players I favor for the One Pocket HOF are the players that really adopted the game -- they lived and breathed and survived on it and advocated for it for years. That does not include the super all-around players that just happened to also be able to win at One Pocket because it was another cue game. That is why I will not be voting for Harold Worst, Jim Rempe or Mike Sigel for the HOF. Shane is only 28, so he has a lot of future in front of him. I also give him credit for getting in the box for cash at the game pretty frequently. By the time he is old enough it will be pretty clear whether he embraced the game or not.
Artie, from all I have heard -- not just from Freddy -- is that he played a carefully controlled game as well or better than anybody. I.e., he may not have had the firepower of the other "best" but he had the strategy, defense, patience and master plan, along with sufficient shooting skills to compete successfully with the best in his own manner. Even his detractors seem to agree he was about the best at that style of play. By the way, before I ever heard, "What would Efren do?", I heard, "What would Artie do?" -- and if you have listened to many of the older Accustats One Pocket videos you will know what mean.
I have played and sweated one pocket with many of the best for fifty years and did not play Artie until three years ago when we were both "old guys". We have each won a race to seven and it took a total of around thirty hours of playing time.
Artie does things to wear you out and break you down. You are always frozen to a rail, jacked up over a ball or both. He takes multiple balls out of your hole with shots only he understands.
I can only imagine how good his game was when he was younger with more firepower. He analyzes every possibility before he pulls the trigger and that can be aggravating, but he isn't stalling, he actually puts that much brainpower into each shot.
He never says a peep unless you ask him something and he never sits down in the whole session. A sweator who was watching us play in one of the matches said he would rather have needles stuck in his eyes than to watch again.
His style is not pretty, but it works for him and gets the cash.