He's from Southern Wisconsin Doc. He actually lived here one summer and traveled bar box tourneys with Sky when Sergio was 16. He practiced every day while he was here.
I played Sergio many years ago at Romine’s In Milwaukee. Must have been about 15 years ago and he was one hell of a straight shooter then.
I was there that night 10 years ago. Sergio would’ve been 15 or so. I was going to play you but let the kid have a go. It was good experience for him since he was mostly a rotation player back then and was just starting to dabble at one pocket.
I’ve been there several times over the years and played a few guys there. Once or twice I went to Milwaukee Billiard Club. I got beat by some black guy that kicked better than a mule
Steve, who were all of the op.o members who played at Buff's with their screen names?
He's from Milwaukee, but he's staying in Hattiesburg and plays out of Buffalos.
Tying up your opponent's banking lane is already a key to good defense, but it will become more important with the Grady rule. Moving the balls to your side rail is a powerful tactic. It allows you to three rail balls at your pocket and hide the cue ball, while the opponent has no chance to run a lot of balls unless he can get a carom to his pocket. I find this tactic very effective and most players don't know how to combat it. They think they have stopped your banking, but what they have really done is allow you to shoot at your pocket and keep them from clearing it.i did not know where to ask this and this is not meant to be against the idea of speedo onepocket
but do you guys think the grady rules makes it more difficult to play the score when you are ahead in the score
since any ball you send "up table " there could be a ball going to the foot spot
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do you think if this becomes popular players will perfect the "side pocket wedge" ?
Thanks joe
Good call on him being a player to watch this year. He's playing well.
Three that I know of. JoeyA, jokerley, Me.
Oops. Seven
I like when my opponents try that- I shoot 1 , 2 , and 3 rail banks and leave them dbld up. Of course you can leave a cross bank but they only get 1 and often leave a better bank for me.
I thought I counted ten, but looking now I see it was 9. The seven mentioned above plus Bill Rowsey and Beau Powers. Could have been 12 except I did not enter, JD Dolan did not show up and Dave Gross had to cancel.