most throw paper or little less often rock on their first throw. so one throw.
so throw paper and free roll.
and carry good poker hand 100 dollar bills you don't spend. around places where you can get a game of it.
by flashing around a stack of them.

dont play for smaller amounts as they can then get bills from a cash register or someone else.

i also had friends die from overdoses. and got tired of long traffic lights and not being able to walk certain streets.
decided small tourist type towns were the place to live. have all the best things except pool rooms. one does and has some up to 100 a game action about a half hour away.

David in FL said:

Still means the same thing...

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Does this fall under the category of “No shit Sherlock?”


Poor examples on my part:

Now that’s satisfying. Er, uh, surprising.

A similar mechanical device to insure a perfectly straight stroke (with laser-light sighting attachment) should likely be allowed, since the template rack has become common. Soon we will have AI robots who can calculate cutting angles & shoot for us, no doubt.

VarmintKong said:

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Still means the same thing...

Wayne was a great guy. Used to talk to him all the time. When I started making cues he would give me a lot of pointers and ideas. There was never a design or industry secret with him. You could ask him anything. Need more people like him.

Kinda felt when he passed a whole era passed with him.

I was able to find one that has only been used once. Thanks yall.

The beauty of once having notoriety and now being older, is that young guns now think they can take you, and look at you as a way of developing a reputation.

As Maha said, there’s a lot of money that can be made showing them that was a foolish thought, without ever having to catch a gear.

straightline said:

A place that won't bet if you can draw? The obvious thermal is don't win or else.

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Not so much in the pool halls in the area I was in but if you showed you could draw effectively in a pub or bar you were considered a "player!" In the pool halls you weren't going to play other bangers or cowboys, you were announcing you were pretty serious there too and would be lumped in with the action guys! The owners would protect their recreational and semi-recreational players from you until they had seen you play enough to rate you.

The equipment we played on made it hard enough to draw that being able to draw with control was a sign of a lot of hours on a pool table. I would agree to that. Hadn't thought about it until mentioned by someone else but most owners at least gave a bolt or two of cheap green cloth from the local millery store a try. Poor performance and short life meant most didn't stay with these experiments long but what would be decent cloth on a dining table was sometimes encountered and my Sears and Roebuck table I bought used when I was fifteen was covered in plain green cloth. Garbage! Of course I paid $125 for a four by eight table. I paid twice that for the balls and was ready to go!

Hu