Three Cushion Question

There was one World 3C Championship played with 'Optional CB'!

Overview



Welker Cochran did indeed win a World Three-Cushion (3-C) Championship that was played under the unique "optional cue ball" rule. [1, 2]
Cochran captured the World Three-Cushion Championship title in 1944 by reclaiming it from his longtime rival, Willie Hoppe. The 1944 tournament (alongside the 1928, 1942, and a few other iterations) implemented an experimental rule modification where players could select an "optional ball" as their cue ball to help increase scoring and make the game more dynamic for spectators. [1, 2, 3]

As a master of both balkline and three-cushion billiards, Cochran excelled under this format, which historically inflated grand averages for the tournament's competitors

The incoming player had their choice of what CB to start an inning, if that player scored a point they had to proceed to shoot with that 'Same' CB throughout that inning!

Sold 🔥🔥🔥 4Sale: 💥💢💥 Beautiful Super Clean East Indian Rosewood Rare 3/8-10 Tascarella cue by Pete SR💥💢💥 🔥🔥🔥

This was my player for a few years and I believe it to be East Indian Rosewood and not cocobolo. I could be wrong - I bought it from the original owner and that’s what I was told.

Monster player at any rate
Thank you brother.
I wanted to say rosewood also but wasn’t sure.
I will change to East Indian RoseWood.

Joe Rogan - What's in the bag

imagine being this small minded that you can’t imagine somone who works an insane amount of hours can’t remember the exact detail of every one of the 1000 cues he owns lol it must suck to be you to be so angry and negative about things all the time. Now I remember why I have you on ignore.
Owning a thousand cues… that’s real good for the game… 😂 and working hard at what? Peddling a script? He’s a hard pass from me. Dollar signs in his eyes wider than Fedor’s 😂 not particularly angry, and if negative means discussing things that consider more than one narrow avenue, then sure, call it as such, if you want… if you had me on ignore, you’d not have had anything to have a little bellyache about 😂

Cleaning out my cases.

Due to more car issues everything has to go to cover bills. From left to right,

2008 Bebot Bautista cue. Pink ivory, ebony and real ivory. Has 1 original shaft with ivory ferrule, one plain maple shaft i made when I first started out and one predator Z2. Radial pin and currently about 20oz. 8.5/10 condition. Rings are just slightly popped. $1200

2020 Schrader custom. 60" pink ivory and ebony with curly maple forearm. Has 1 unmarked jacoby hybrid 12.75 and a cynergy 12.5. Weight is about 23oz and is 5/16x14 threads. 8/10 condition has one super small chip somewhere and slightly popped rings. $600

1 Pechauer jump cue. Sold

2 regular maple shafts I think are around 12.5 with uniloc joint. Probably have a slight roll. $50 each or 75 for both.

1 predator Z2 with a uniloc joint. Sold

1 Custom carbon fiber jump shaft with a uniloc joint. 13.2mm. $100

I will offer discounted modifications to anything here after you buy it.

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