lfigueroa
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Today a fellow at the pool room tried to convince me that if two players had the same Fargo, though based upon a different game, that that rating would mean those two players would be equally matched at 1pocket.
So I tried to explain the importance of knowledge and experience when it comes to 1pocket. And, though two players could be equally matched as ball strikers and position players, the player with the greater depth of knowledge and experience at 1pocket would alway prevail. From there I tried to explain different depths of knowledge for 1pocket and, what a newer player would think was good knowledge, would be surpassed by a more experienced player, and that that knowledge would be surpassed further by someone with even more knowledge and experience, and so on.
Basically, I tried to explain that what often happens at 1pocket, when there is a marked difference in knowledge and experience, is that the better player will alway be exerting more pressure and alway presenting more difficult situations to the less experience player. And, at some point, as with the fable of the frog placed in water with the temperature very slowly raised, they will boil and die without attempting to jump out of the pot.
Somehow, I think that's a good metaphor for 1pocket.
Lou Figueroa
So I tried to explain the importance of knowledge and experience when it comes to 1pocket. And, though two players could be equally matched as ball strikers and position players, the player with the greater depth of knowledge and experience at 1pocket would alway prevail. From there I tried to explain different depths of knowledge for 1pocket and, what a newer player would think was good knowledge, would be surpassed by a more experienced player, and that that knowledge would be surpassed further by someone with even more knowledge and experience, and so on.
Basically, I tried to explain that what often happens at 1pocket, when there is a marked difference in knowledge and experience, is that the better player will alway be exerting more pressure and alway presenting more difficult situations to the less experience player. And, at some point, as with the fable of the frog placed in water with the temperature very slowly raised, they will boil and die without attempting to jump out of the pot.
Somehow, I think that's a good metaphor for 1pocket.
Lou Figueroa