Recent content by Donny Lutz

Rhode Island Avenue Back around 1994 I scored $600 in a 3-ball game in about an hour in a tavern on Rhode Island Avenue in DC.

Because of health and economic issues, I've had to suspend my active status as a PBIA/ACS Certified Instructor. I hope to return to active status, but am still offering lessons in the meanwhile. Also, my current series of Fifty Game-winning 8- ball Safety Shots is coming to an end in Pool &...

Flexibility One of the things I liked about BCA leagues is that they allow some flexibility in such cases. That's why leagues should have their own set of rules (in addition to the recommended BCAPL rules) approved by vote of the board of directors (team captains). Some leagues do not allow...

yes About a dozen years ago, I tried a 54-inch cue for breaking that was a wall cue where I played. I like it and when a guy who owed me money gave me a Players J/B cue, I took 4 inches off the butt end, and used it for a few years. Loaned it to a friend and never got it back But then I...

treachery? Poor choice of words. Substitute "strategy" for "treachery" and it makes a bit more sense. treachery, noun Violation of faith, trust; betrayal

sandbagging In my modest experience not all league systems have a serious problem with sandbagging...

team play? All successful team play requires cooperation. Team play has been around for a very long time.

cash I won my first trophy as a teenager bowling in the 1950s, and by 1986, I had amassed approximately 100 such things from bowling and pool I got tired of storing and moving them, so I took off the nameplates and saved them in a cigar box. So I still had something to occasionally look at...

Very cool 1933 Brunswick cue presented to Babe Didrickson Zaharias during an exhibition match against Hall of Famer Ruth McGinnis! No. 262453856577 on Ebay.

other options On both shots I would have banked the 8 in such a way as to leave the CB and the 8 close to the center of the rail on both ends of the table. I'm near completion of my series, "Game Winning 8-Ball Safety Shots" in Pool & Billiard mag.

streaming? Will the event be streamed? I know that several streamers have offered to do it

?? When does it actually begin?

2-way shots Half a century ago, an old player told me that knowledge of 2-way shots are what separate the men from the boys...

npba The National Pocket Billiard Association began play in Milwaukee in 1959, and expanded to some five states by the '70s, hosting the US Open amateur team championships for years. For a variety of reasons they could not compete with the VNEA which organized in the late '70s, and the NPBA...

Nicky He played lots of 8-ball in the '70s and '80s, winning the BCA 8-ball Singles Title in Vegas, 1980.