Have you ever visited a pool hall with really good house cues?

Yes. There was an upscale room in the Atlanta suburbs in the '80s (I forgot the name) that had McDermott jointed cues, merry widow style (maybe D-1s, D-2s and D-3s) in like new shape that you could rent for $1,00 and use them as long as you were there. My memory has faded but I believe that if you didn't bring your own cue you had to rent one of theirs, but with table time on the high side for that era (maybe $10.00 per hour for the table no matter how many players?), the $1.00 rent seemed cheap.
The Old Jaybird above is talking about the place I mentioned. Barley's Billiards!

Why Pool Leagues Should Embrace “ALL BALL FOULS”

Leave the leagues alone. The biggest one doesn't even go by game win/loss for match wins. It counts balls/innings. And you want to standardize rules? The leagues are not the target audience for serious pool. They are a night out of fun.

I disagree that leagues are just a “night out of fun.” That might be the case for low-division APA leagues, but many leagues are competitive, including some APA leagues. Low-level players don’t call other fouls like double hits (because most of them are clueless how to detect them), so they would probably let ball-touch fouls go also. However, league players who are competitive should play by the rules (unless they are playing against a complete banger, in which case they can let stuff slide).

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