Mensabum said:

learning curve to achieving this,

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Just like learning to Dance. There are visits to the pool table that favor different tempo. Sometimes a waltz, sometimes a Cha Cha.
Playing the cue like a musical instrument by various finger pressures. Ring finger as trigger finger works best for me.

penguin said:

Every person I've gambled with at last pocket 8-ball considers this a loss of game to intentionally foul by shooting the 8.

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Is it an intentional foul to shoot one of your balls prior to the 8-ball?

dquarasr said:

I assume you are referring to Ultimate. It uses a 30-second shot clock. It is perfectly acceptable to use every second of your 30 seconds plus your one extension to run out the 30-minute match clock if you are in the lead or tied and the points favor your team.

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I would expect everyone to strategically utilize the rules to their advantage.

HawaiianEye said:

Is it in the rules that you can't do that?

If it is legal in the rules, it may be strategically to your advantage to stall.

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I assume you are referring to Ultimate. It uses a 30-second shot clock. It is perfectly acceptable to use every second of your 30 seconds plus your one extension to run out the 30-minute match clock if you are in the lead or tied and the points favor your team.

Just a guess but
Black palm on the right
Wenge in the middle.
Not sure about the right

middleofnowhere said:

One thing I really don't like is stalling to run out the clock. That's been applied to pool now.

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Is it in the rules that you can't do that?

If it is legal in the rules, it may be strategically to your advantage to stall.

One thing I really don't like is stalling to run out the clock. That's been applied to pool now.

That sure looks like one of his cues. I used to go to the shop all the time when he was on Star island. I didn't go there much when he was doing Florida cue in the back of his brother's shop, Rich wood turning in Miami. It was kind of uncomfortable cuz he just had a little corner in the back of the shop.

The original Florida cues had this ugly decal on it of the State of Florida maybe about an inch long. They were the kind of decals that were water transferred like you have for plastic models. If the decal isn't there and the cue hasn't been refinished there might still be some indication as it was once there.

He once made me a nice cue a hoppie style and I didn't want the decal. He got kind of mad at me but he didn't put it on. He used to get mad at me all the time. He was a funny guy.

In one-pocket, people intentionally scratch, intentionally jump balls off the table, intentionally foul, and shoot balls into their opponent's pocket in order to change the odds and strategic layouts of the game.

Should all pool games incorporate those strategies?

We are changing everything else: break rules, jump cues, faster cloth, bouncier rails, smaller pockets, deeper pocket shelves, types of racks, and now some people are wanting to make rules on what type chalk you can use.

We are playing last pocket 8-ball and your last ball is in the jaws of a pocket and the 8-ball is right beside it.

If I make your last ball into that pocket, does that pocket become your last pocket or is your last pocket the pocket that YOU made YOUR last shot into?