I have a Kaiser at 12.5, new $200 shipped CONUS

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Zhao finding his form.

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.

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.


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.

NevadaP said:

I don't see much of an advantage to covering CF with 'fake wood'.
And no matter what the manufacturer claims in the promo, veneer is 'fake wood'.

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Fake wood is plastic that looks like wood. See Triple 60 Whyte Carbon wood-grain shaft.

Wood veneer is wood, albeit damn thin wood that appears thicker than it really is.

i look at it like i am playing someone for money in the pool room. and he hits the same shot yapp did and i call it a foul on him because the cue ball went in a certain direction after the hit which was too close for me to call.

who thinks i am going to get paid.

same as a tournament, the ref makes their call based on how the hit looked to them..

Gotta wonder whether Gunga Din who, per Rudyard Kipling, spent much time in the presence of India-based British military officers, played snooker.

I can think of one way to "beat" it

Chicagoplayer said:

I was a kid, but I remember it being talked about.

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We used to party at a place called Aftermath, it was a club right by there. Good times!

billy-ks said:

Anyone know where the best place is to buy a new speed controller. Or a Dz236a1 control board? Mine went to hell.
thanks

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What is the motor you are needing a controller for? If it is the old Penn State 1/2 HP I Have some circuit boards.

tg_vegas said:

Are these the older original Zan tips, the more recent "Plus-2" Zan tips, or the most current Zan III tips ??

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These are the latest batch from Zan Japan wit the new logo on top. I am not quite sure plus or plus 2 or plus 3. I have never used that term when mentioning Zan tips. Old logo or new logo only!