2026 JOY Heyball Grand Masters Finals
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Thanks for finding this and posting.
Seems like the bottom half of the bracket is tougher than the top.
Thanks for finding this and posting.
Is that the world's class players?3c players these days are around the 12mm diameter.
4" is what I heard the commentators say. I don't know if they were correct.The WPA table specs include how parallel the facings are. There should be a specified amount of closing as you go into the pocket. This is very, very important for how the pocket plays.
I saw Fedor give a side pocket a long, hard stare after a ball popped back out. Are they really 4"?
3c players these days are around the 12mm diameter.That's something I wrote. Danny played with a big shaft for years. Then one day he comes in and decides to sand down his shaft to a 12.5 on my lathe. He said and I quote that Lassiter used to say he could not see how players played with those fat shafts.
Danny did say later that it improved his game.
At the old Congress billiards in Miami golf on the 6 x12 was the big game. Rex Williams was in town and hung around for a while. He played some golf when he was there. Surprisingly he was world champion snooker player
But could not beat the golf players at the Congress. As you know golf tables have roll offs that have to be memorized.
Point is though, the players got fascinated with his snooker cues. It was not long before they were using these weird cues with the tiny tips playing golf.
I always found it interesting how billiard players hitting those big balls use those short cues with like 10 mm tips. I wonder what the physics of that is. I knew Bob Byrne. He in his books he shows playing pool with a billiard cue. I always thought that was a mistake and was giving the wrong info to the reader trying to learn pool.
Ray Schuler made me a cue once for pool. Unfortunately it had too many billiard aspects to it. From butt to shaft taper you could not play good pool with it.
Now we have CF that not too many years ago would have sounded ridiculous to players.
The game after a century plus from the first custom built cues is still evolving.
I remember seeing pictures of pool tables in old western photos from the eighteen hundreds. Could imagine what it must have been like playing back then.
I don't know where I am going with this. I should just get out of bed and do something useful.
The WPA table specs include how parallel the facings are. There should be a specified amount of closing as you go into the pocket. This is very, very important for how the pocket plays.The Predator ARC table with the 4" side pocket seems to be unplayable even at the pro level. You can see players avoiding it if they can. Can the pocket be cut differently and still maintain the 4" width?
Except breakfast.AT ALL TIMES. And don't you forget it.
I learned to read the gaps back in the day when 8 on the break was a win playing 8 ball. I would stifle the giggle when they thought that a gap behind the head ball was a good idea.Learn to read the gaps
I'm going to introduce you to a concept called an "insurance ball", you may allready know it, but here it goes: Whenever you break up a cluster, it's a good thing to keep a ball near a pocket, such that if you get stuck up against a ball, you could still easily pocket it. Usually then, it will be on the side you are shooting the shot from. When you chose to break the cluster using the 4 ball, you should have kept the 1 as an insurance ball. This concept is of special importance when breaking the cluster from underneath, as it is very easy to end up with no shot or end up having to shoot over balls etc. The challenging bit here is getting on the 4 without using the 1, which is why I don't think it was the right play in this instance. I'd stay above the ball to give myself some margin of error, even if it gives less power to breaking the cluster.thanks, thats motivating to hear.
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here’s a condensed version of yesterdays heartaches.
roll off got me on the 11 at the end. gotta remember to keep the cue ball just above that speed.
That's something I wrote. Danny played with a big shaft for years. Then one day he comes in and decides to sand down his shaft to a 12.5 on my lathe. He said and I quote that Lassiter used to say he could not see how players played with those fat shafts.I remember hearing somewhere that Danny DiLiberto used a 14mm shaft originally, and was a great player with one, but when someone convinced him to switch to the 13mm or lower, his game elevated even more.