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Why Pool Leagues Should Embrace “ALL BALL FOULS”

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fastone371 said:
Even if 9' tables are tougher it doesn't matter to ratings because the players are playing each other on the same equipment against each other not against the table.
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I must disagree to some extent because 7’ tables tend to make shots easier for weaker players from bank shots to cut shots and especially……slopping in the 9 ball any pocket. Heck, in APA, even when playing 8 ball all slop shots count, except for marking your pocket on the 8 ball. I have lost games playing against weaker opponents on a 7’ table that can’t beat me on a 9’ table because of the added difficulty. Case in point is safety play where it is much easier to leave your opponent no shot on a 9’table resulting in BIH. Pool played on a 50”x100” Simonis covered table is much harder than a 7’ pool table.
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Any videos of Dr Dave in an actual match?

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It’s been discussed in the forums forever whether an instructor to be a good instructor has to be a good player.
I am in the camp that the quality as a Player is separate from the Quality as an instructor
So how well Dr. Dave plays or a tournament among the instructors regardless who wins I don’t think reflects on how good of an instructor they are
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Pool and Race

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ShootingArts said:
I remember white pool halls and black pool halls. Somehow black guys that could play well got much whiter than bangers! When I had worn out my welcome at most of the white pool halls around town I went to the black pool halls with a black friend who had been making laps of the white places with me. Apparently the main reason white men came was to chase black poon. Once they found out I was there to play pool I was welcome most places, not all. A few too many times the black gamblers gave me a voluntary guard out to my vehicle after playing because they heard somebody planned to cut me when I left. Had to give those places on the dark side of Baton Rouge up!

These days things seem pretty evenly mixed in southeast Louisiana with the local population being mainly what decides the make-up of people in the pool hall. I don't care if the crowd is mostly light or mostly dark.

Better tournaments are mostly white but the black players of appropriate skill level are usually there. I notice midlevel gamblers have little issue with race, green is green! All in all, race seems to be a nonissue unless somebody cares to make it one.

As a general rule, people go where they feel welcome. After a forced move after a storm I am still looking for a pool hall in Hammond, Ponchatoula, Amite, or points west Decent tables, nonsmoking. I have became highly allergic to cigarette smoke so that part is a rub sometimes.

Hu
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When I first started playing in the mid-60's, most of the pool rooms in Durham NC and Washington DC were all White or all Black (well, not when I was there). The biggest exception was Guys and Dolls outside of Washington in PG County, which prior to the opening of Weenie Beanie's Jack 'n' Jill in Arlington VA was one of the leading action rooms in the country, with regulars including the likes of Eddie Taylor, Joey Spaeth and Strawberry. Now all the rooms I go to are thoroughly mixed. Triple NInes in Elkridge MD is like a UN General Assembly, with its weekly tournament a near even mix of Whites, Blacks, Latinos and Asians.

FTR when Jack 'n' Jill first opened they had an informal rule against mixed race matches. I know this because when I tried to rent a table to play a Black friend I was turned down for this very reason. It was the best action room in the country, but in its early years it had a distinct redneck aura to it. Fortunately by around 1972 this pretty much changed. If the world at large paid as little attention to race as pool players, the world would be an infinitely better place.
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New 58" Carmeli 4 Point Fullsplice Cue with Veneers Inlays and Rings-One Off--Value Priced!

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