Built a simple Straight Pool scorekeeper — looking for feedback from 14.1 players

Hey everyone,

I’ve just pushed a major update for the Straight Pool Scorer app based on the feedback I’ve received from players actively using it at the table.

The biggest focus of this release is a completely rebuilt tablet-friendly UI. A lot of you mentioned wanting to mount an iPad or Android tablet near the table for easier scoring without squinting at a phone screen. The tablet and landscape layouts have been redesigned to take full advantage of the larger screen real estate, making it much easier to read scores, innings, and run history from a distance.

Here’s what else is new in this version:

  • Live Run & Rack Tracking: You can now see your ongoing run while running racks, the last run made, per-rack and last-rack ball counts, and clear rack labels directly in the inning log.
  • Match Deletion (with Auto-Recalculation): You can finally delete eligible matches. If it was a shared match, it requests opponent approval. Once deleted, the app automatically recalculates your all-time break ball stats, averages, and high runs.
  • Smarter Gameplay Flow: Added a new "Game Won" action for when you are within reach of your target score, plus the exact logic to pass back an opening break foul.
  • Under the Hood: Faster opponent QR scanning and a new feedback tool in the profile menu so you can report bugs or suggest ideas directly to me.
If you’re still using pencil and paper or an older legacy app, give this a try. It’s built specifically for 14.1, properly handles the 3-foul penalty logic, and even features a live OBS overlay for those of you streaming your matches.

Let me know what you think of the new tablet layout!

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/straight-pool-scorer/id6742416339
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ut.pool.scorekeeper.pool_scorekeeper

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The last of my collection

After 40 years of collecting cues, I have 5 left. I had over 40 cues at one point now 5.
That’s what you call thinning the herd.
2 Jeff Olney cues, 2 Garten Bierbower cues and one I took on a trade and he told me he thought it was an old Richard Helmstetter but, I’m not sure. I’m sure that I like it though. It’s a 57” cue 28 1/2 x 28 1/2.
Absolutely class choices Bob. 👍

CJ Wiley: flat earther

Possibly and yet why is the occult practiced all over the world and in all walks of society?

I first dealt with a haunted house when I was six years old, long before my first horror movie or ghost story. Lots of things that couldn't be explained then or now! I stayed up until after 2AM to watch the end of my first horror movie. One of the wax museum movies, I forget which then. I was the only one awake or in the living room. That movie was so scary I had to hide behind my dad's big recliner to watch it!(grin) Scared me mightily.

I have had premonitions a handful of times. The first when I was fifteen, maybe sixteen. I was playing pool in a place near the house and I couldn't shake an uneasy feeling. I went the mile or two home and got my pool cue which I never normally carried.

When I got back I got my cue butt out but still didn't put it together and play with it. A little later three guys I had gotten in a fight with showed up. Also there was William, a fairly recently retired pro boxer who was seeing a dancer that was somebody's ex wife. I knew the girl slightly, and I had played pool with William many times.

Next thing I knew, William and I were against an old stage in the back of the place. I had the butt of the across my chest like a baton and William was alongside me.

Things cooled off after awhile, I was looking pretty ready with the cue and more importantly William wasn't a picnic for anyone to take on. After five or ten minutes the people in the back of the crowd were pushing forwards and the people in front were obviously leaning backwards to not get pushed into William or my cue. William beat twenty-four men arm wrestling later when things calmed down, some multiple times, some with both hands. I faded with some friends I had made that night. Funny thing, neither William or any of those men had been in the place when the uneasy feeling settled on me.

I got that same feeling a half dozen more times. Sometimes I knew why later, sometimes I never knew. However, when I got that feeling of dread I bailed without question. Sometimes we know something without knowing why. Occult probably isn't the answer, I don't know. My guess is a sense we have that isn't recognized yet. Can't rule out the occult though and sometimes it is a matter of when in doubt get the hell out!

Hu

Tom coker

I have a Tom Coker cue that is somewhat similar with ebony points and ebony butt with a black leather wrap and I would expect to get in the neighborhood of $1500 for it if I was ever to sell it which I never will because it hits better than anything I have tried. I have seen some go in the $1000 to 1200 range occasionally, but they were not in perfect shape and not as eye catching. It is very difficult to find a better hitting cue for less money imo.
So if i was to sell this should i price it for 12 to 1500?

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