It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day 6 of my trip to Denver and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve hardly had any downtime. The 950 miles turned into two full days of driving with the stormy weather. I barely made it into town in time for league on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Samm<\/a> and I played in a tournament on Saturday at Rack \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEm Billiards<\/a> in Aurora. I was glad we ended up playing. We almost skipped it since our day started at 5:30 that morning where we spent five hours assembly and delivering fruit baskets for a volunteer project. We barely got home in time to shower and grab a quick bite before the tournament started at 1p.m.<\/p>\n It was bar table 8 ball, race to five, $10 entry. 39 players showed up and the room owner matched the pot. It was a good mix of players and after four matches, I was playing for the driver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s seat around 1a.m. I won and ended up splitting in the finals.<\/p>\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve really been hitting the ball well lately. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had the opportunity to play in so many big back to back tournaments. All this steady high level competition has been great for my experience and confidence. Just before leaving for Denver, I finished third at Spike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in Faribault. That was on Valleys also.<\/p>\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m beginning to feel a lot more comfortable with those Valley Aramith cue balls<\/a> (aka panther). I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been so spoiled playing leagues and tournaments in Minnesota on nothing but Diamond Smart Tables<\/a> that it takes me a little time to adjust to the heavier cue ball when I get on a Valley. It really does level the playing field.<\/p>\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be back in the Twin Cities before Christmas and leaving for Derby City the first week of January. <\/p>\n I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and I wish you all a Happy Holiday Season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day 6 of my trip to Denver and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve hardly had any downtime. The 950 miles turned into two full days of driving with the stormy weather. I barely made it into town in time for league on Thursday night. Samm and I played in a tournament on Saturday at Rack \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEm Billiards in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}