Our pattern is 38 feet of oil buffed to 45 feet, newer house synthetic, with OB outside the 5(IMHO). I make at least 90% of my spares, on an average night I may miss 1-2 spares because of the rare wash out(1-2-10 or 1-2-4-10) or 10 pin, this house is considered a "10 pin" house. I normally have a couple of boards to play with, nothing major. Most bowlers in this house try to shoot outside the 5 board, I assume that they think the bigger the hook the better-but for this house in my experience, 10 board works just fine. They ignore that I bowl inside around 10-board maybe swinging in out as far as the five but that's it. Most people say will say "He doesn't even hook the ball". I say to them "just keep shooting outside and average 170-190 and I'll shoot the 10 and average what I average.
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Pat Patterson