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Practice what I Preach
- By gregcantrall
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You can't play safeties in a ring game but you gotta, hold your man. So every shot considers. 
percentages and odds and practice results. Practice Practice practice.
A ring game in a new place or with new players is er uh suspect. I had two partner vs me at 1 and 2 with the weaker player setting up the gun slinger. Shrug
Just shy of 20 I told the gunner, "I can't beat both of you but will play You for 5 or 10." His set man interjected, "I want in." My reply was, "I will play Him for 10. I will play You for 20. What do You wanna do?" He er uh they slinked away.
percentages and odds and practice results. Practice Practice practice. A ring game in a new place or with new players is er uh suspect. I had two partner vs me at 1 and 2 with the weaker player setting up the gun slinger. Shrug
Just shy of 20 I told the gunner, "I can't beat both of you but will play You for 5 or 10." His set man interjected, "I want in." My reply was, "I will play Him for 10. I will play You for 20. What do You wanna do?" He er uh they slinked away.
Practice what I Preach
- By gregcantrall
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Twice a day? Well that's a luxury I can afford. So far. 
The second session gets all out 9 ball. Well the old ring game rules are a good way. Honest effort with following shooter gets option on any foul. Take it or give it back. Always from the kitchen when whitey leaves the table. Object ball in kitchen spots on a scratch.
We played 5 handed 1 on the 5 and 2 on the 9 , with respot of early money balls. Respot required 1 ball smaller to respot 5 ball. 9 ball required 2 balls on table to respot. A good practice for carom skills and combinations and kicks and....well just a fun way to stay in a soft game was ride them every shot. fun and game building..
Quarter fifty cents was the guppies game at The White Spot in Fife WA. I tore it up so bad none would give me a bill until the quarter machine was busted. My claim to fame is busting the quarter machine.....long ago and far away.
The second session gets all out 9 ball. Well the old ring game rules are a good way. Honest effort with following shooter gets option on any foul. Take it or give it back. Always from the kitchen when whitey leaves the table. Object ball in kitchen spots on a scratch.
We played 5 handed 1 on the 5 and 2 on the 9 , with respot of early money balls. Respot required 1 ball smaller to respot 5 ball. 9 ball required 2 balls on table to respot. A good practice for carom skills and combinations and kicks and....well just a fun way to stay in a soft game was ride them every shot.
fun and game building..Quarter fifty cents was the guppies game at The White Spot in Fife WA. I tore it up so bad none would give me a bill until the quarter machine was busted. My claim to fame is busting the quarter machine.....long ago and far away.
Modern snooker just celebrated a Birth Day back in 1875 in India by a bored British Officer !
- By JPB2
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Good article. But I think it will prompt me to learn a bit more about the history of cue sports in the USA which is much richer than the history of the single discipline of snooker. Interestingly it prompted me to look up Neville Chamberlain who is not the Prime Minister one. Late in his career, the snooker inventor had to resign after the Easter Rising in Dublin. British troops used artillery in town, plenty of wounded and killed, a bad event needless to say. In looking up more on American billiards history I saw an article I hadn’t seen before.
poolhistory.com
Long before the Easter Rising, it looks like a giant figure in American cue sports was supporting the Irish movement that some years later would involve the inventor of snooker. I should add that there was no specific wrongdoing found for Chamberlain in his role with the Royal Irish Constabulary but criticism of how intelligence was handled led to his resignation it looks like.
Michael Phelan: Father of American Pool, Irish Seditionist - Pool History
Pool aficionados know him as the sport’s first true champion; as a famous promoter, innovator and author. But what may come a surprise is that the man rightfully considered the father of our sport also conspired openly against the British government.
poolhistory.com
Long before the Easter Rising, it looks like a giant figure in American cue sports was supporting the Irish movement that some years later would involve the inventor of snooker. I should add that there was no specific wrongdoing found for Chamberlain in his role with the Royal Irish Constabulary but criticism of how intelligence was handled led to his resignation it looks like.