straightline said:

820 nonetheless. Waiting for higher standards and screw the number. 350 on 4" holes for starters. No contact penalties maybe no penalties at all. Like racing. Players might go for it. Come. Get loose. Post a number. Long live Lou Butera....

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Racing has more rules than Carter has liver pills! The World of Outlaws started out great. That died when they couldn't beat local cars with big engines on big tracks so they outlawed the cars they couldn't beat. Then they became one more racing organization. Fantastic racing but they aren't outlaw racing anymore. Supermodified did the same thing. Indy likewise. Racing has a long history of outlawing what they couldn't beat.

Pool with no limits would be ridiculous. What is wrong with seven inch pockets? How about ten inch pockets? As for the no fouls, I have demonstrated the problem several times over the years. "Cue ball fouls only" has never been anything but a name for a set of rules, never real in my over fifty years of playing. Somebody move multiple balls with their hands or side of their stick and tell me cue ball fouls only. I got up and raked all the balls with my stick except the money ball then tapped it in. "Cue ball fouls only." This was in gambling matches so I stuck my hand out! They whined like the bitches they were! Oddly enough, we soon sorted out what "cue ball fouls only" meant and went back to playing. I had the break so I could have raked the balls and stuck my hand out all night with the rules they originally tried to play by to make moving about four balls legal!

They are taking advantage of today's equipment and no rules for these runs. It makes the runs meaningless in the context of breaking Willie's run. Things have changed too much. It appears that Willie's run will stand forever and new runs will be established that are in no way related to Willie's. I'm fine with a run what you brung ruleset. If somebody puts up big money with no rules the high run will become thousands.

I played on a table with bucket pockets one night. I didn't time it but I got on the table daylight one day and the action ended when the last few people had to go straight to work the next day about eight AM. I never lost a game. I didn't count games while it was going on but it was a challenge table at five a game and I started with one five. When I counted fives the next day I had over eight hundred in fives plus the money I spent without counting. I bought beer for four of us all night.

The place wasn't much over an hour from home so I tried again about a month later. I played three games and all the challenges were pulled off the table. I tried again about three or four months after the second try. I put up my challenge and all other challenges were pulled. A fine example of the equipment being too loose and few rules. The only things I had to be careful of were scratching or making an early eight ball.

Hu

Looks like there's video of this, which would have been very helpful to include

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Looks like it's $25k ITM not per side, can anyone confirm?

IMO, a bit of a random match to highlight. Feels like there are plenty of more interesting action matches that don't get posted?

Apologies forgot to include price.

$3500 but only but have a brand new Revo 12.4 for $500. Butt is around 15.4 with a weight bolt. Predator extension included.


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Not a foul, because incompetent ref didn’t call it. Definitely a bad hit. For those referring to the tangent line, the original doesn’t exist, in relation to the eight ball. It is altered by the bad hit. There have been many recent threads about this exact thing, and so many people on the wrong side of it. This just reconfirms my policy of never allowing my opponent to call a foul. If there is no ref, I call it on myself. If my opponent wants to call a foul, he has to have video, that is conclusive.

my first cue was a low-end, plastic wrapped decal dufferin. not the best but it was the only one that I was able to afford considering I wasn't paid much back then. it was more of a broom stick to be honest and shoot's meh. it was back when deflection wasn't really much of a conversation back then and LD wood shafts were just coming out. so far, the newer Dufferins I have seen are far-fetched from the ones back in the day.