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posted by dave on Saturday, October 25, 2003 at 12:50 AM in category practice

I'm practicing 8-ball tonight, trying again to get somewhat ready for playing my friends in Seattle. I'm playing with my Predator since I shipped my Schon to Seattle yesterday (It got there thank the pool gods) and I cannot miss a ball.

I've always had a problem with constantly changing shooting styles, and tonight was I think a new one even for me.

Little bitty stroke, a couple of inches on most shots, four or five inches when I needed to get some cueball movement.

Every shot went in, and the cueball stopped exactly where I wanted. It was 8-ball the way it's supposed to be played, 8-ball the way I USED to play it.

Now I'm so excited that I cannot sleep and I've got a flight in the morning.

If I can somehow stay in the zone after travelling 2000 miles, shooting with a different cue, on a tiny 8-foot big-pocketed bar table, I'll be just about as happy with my game as I've been in nearly three years.

But for now I've got to try to get some sleep or the jet lag will kill me tomorrow night.

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