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I watched that match on YouTube. Alex was wearing glasses, first time I've seen that. Oh well, it happens to a lot of us.

I'd sponsor a tournament. It would be an All-World Cue Sports Pentathlon; the best players in the world, 5 disciplines, $1 million first prize. Players compete in 3-cushion, snooker, Russian pyramid, 9-ball and 1-pocket. All players play all games, the best all-around wins $1 million.

It's the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. What a collection of talent, no genius, the 12 best on the planet. And the venue is sick. Who makes those tables, with all that gold on them ? One cool thing, there's a light under the table that glows either white or yellow depending on which...

I've been watching it for the last three days. The championofchampions site is good. The stream flakes out sometimes but it's been pretty good. Jeanette Lee has been doing some commentary and Semih did some today. Tomorrow's the final four. Don't miss it.

I have very similar memories of my old alma mater. Mine was located in a small town in Southern California. The room had originally been opened by a guy from Oklahoma. We also had dominoes, and the older guys played Moon. There were three 5x10 American snooker tables and a bunch of 9-foot...

Sounds interesting. How do decide who "breaks," or shoots first, and what does it mean to "call your side or pocket"?

Yeah, "Straight 8, No Slop, call all your kisses and banks." It's the bar room game. When I first learned 8-Ball in the pool hall, it was a slop game. You didn't have to call anything but the 8. As long as you got a good hit on one of your balls, you got anything of your color that fell. They...

I've heard Mexican players refer to this game as Pool Francesa, or French Pool. It used to be played in the US too, they called it Chicago in the olden days.

The Coke bottle thing is an old practice aid that I learned from pool. Most of the better pool players these days use a really long bridge. Maybe they learned it from watching Efren, I don't know. I use the same bridge lengths for both games and it depends on the shot. You wouldn't want to use a...

Torbjorn Blomdahl and Raymond Ceulemans were in SoCal in July for a tournament at Million Dollar Billiards in North Hollywood. Blomdahl won the thing, going undefeated if I'm not mistaken. The final match was Blomdahl vs. Guillermo Sosa of Mexico. POVpool had video up of the first half of that...

Maybe it's a fancy eatin' table, like in the Beverly Hillbillies. http://i.imgur.com/MUN6x7T.jpg

I guess that depends on which one is your cueball. I don't think that's a 5x10, I think it's a smaller home table.

How are you hitting the ball ? It looks like a draw/spin to me. Maybe hit it with low right ?

Sorry to be so cold, I just don't like those trick shots where they use racks, boxes, cues and other stuff. Just the balls please.

Look at that second shot. He goes off the red, which goes 3 rails before cutting the yellow into the corner just in time to meet the cue ball which has hit the required 3 cushions. I've probably watched that vid a dozen times, it still cracks me up.

Somebody said that shot was faked. I wouldn't doubt it, that guy's lame. Here's my favorite trick shot vid, forgive me if you've seen it. It's Semih Sayginer just showin' off. There's a couple of time shots in there and a lot of just, plain stroke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPYu8aNshiU

Has this ever happened to you ? It's happened to me a few times during my life, and it happened again today. I'm back in the corner of the pool hall, playing on the billiard table. Some kids are playing pool on a nearby table. They get curious and come over to ask what 3-Cushion is. Kid says...

I think they're talking about what we would call a dead ball: center ball hit, short stroke.

Exactly, first, you can't crotch 'em in the corner, then balk lines, then, finally, ya' gotta' get 3 cushions. Caudron has another one for 3C, same thing, he takes you through his thought process while he runs a few. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHgJ7OULYE

I try to warm up with straight-rail whenever I can, hoping that more awareness of where the 1st object ball goes will help me avoid kisses. Watch Caudron in this vid, it takes him about 4 minutes to gather the balls for a big run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A9VCXPc0vk