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skor
soft cases are lighter and easier to travel with. That is why you see most of the traveling pros use them. These guys don't use high end custom cues anymore, they get sponsored by cue companies that provide them with cues and cases. Since 9/11 you can't take the cues up to the plain with you, back then we had travel bags for the cues cases. Today most players pack their cues into a large suitcase with everything else, so a smaller and lighter case is preferred to save room and weight.
Unlike the amateur pool fan that buy expensive cues that need better protection. In crowded clubs and bars, a hard case is safer.
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Where is the rule banning the "lift stroke" and the "sideways stroke" for close balls?

Bob Jewett
Bob Jewett said:
You forgot one. Trivia question: Which world champion's book has this on page 5?
... And you thought "furl" was just for flags, sails, and umbrellas.
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DeeDeeCues said:
It isn't cool cat, is it?
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markjames said:
mosconi?
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No, it was the other M, Mizerak, from about 1973. By 1990 he had found an editor/co-author who had a more orthodox orthography.
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Where is the rule banning the "lift stroke" and the "sideways stroke" for close balls?

iusedtoberich
GideonF said:
It’s funny how the historical BCA rules are archived in many people‘s minds.

In my area, to the extent they specify, most tournaments play by “BCA rules“. Except they are not playing by BCAPL rules. They are really playing by WPA rules or, perhaps more accurately, they are playing by what used to be BCA rules before the CSI takeover and sometimes without regard to current WPA rules. For example, its often CB fouls only, despite the recent WPA rule change. If playing 8b sometimes it’s BIH behind the headstring like old BCA and current WPA, sometimes it’s BIH anywhere like BCAPL.

I suspect that aside from the issue of BIH on the break, if I could find my old BCA rule book from the 1990s, it would accord to what everybody considers to be “BCA rules” in most tournaments here and therefore what most people follow even outside of tournaments.
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Same in my area. No one knows what the hell WPA is, no one know the BCAPL has zero to do with the BCA, and no one knows the BCA rules and table specs are gone, and morphed into the WPA equivalents.

Even on the DigitalPool app as a TD, it has a drop down section to select the rules for the tournament during setup. BCA is one of the choices.
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