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Have you ever known any players who played really good with the heavy (mud) cue ball, that you see on so many Valley coin op tables?

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big balls and small balls depending on how the table returned the cue ball what they used..

i loved it as i never use draw/ or only a tiny amount and make it look difficult when gambling with an unknown.
as that is the tip off of how good you are.
the big ball was better as most decenet players had trouble figuring where to hit the object ball in their vision.

the small ball good players could draw it fine, as the tables were smaller so didnt have to move the cue ball as much.
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Does a Good Triangle/Rack Make a Difference.

sudocrushms
Bavafongoul said:
Turtle racks work fine for most games but for 14.1or 1 pocket, it isn’t suitable and you really need to rack the pool balls.

The opening break shot and object balls reaction requires the object balls not be impeded or affected by a plastic template used to form the 15 balls rack pattern. A template helps for pool games using a hard struck break shot but otherwise it’s not intended to be used in straight pool or one pocket. You want a honest tight rack that is formed sans any template.
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I play primarily 10b, but yeah if I'm playing 14.1 or 1p obviously use the actual rack.
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Larry Lisciotti

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Drawman623 said:
The classic "Roadrunners" photo
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A friend was with Larry at the hospital when he spoke to Ronnie Allen on the phone. The Prince described the worst consequence of having a terminal condition: "Now my bookie is making me post my bets..."

Larry had a sense of humor that wouldn't quit. I watched him play Mike Zuglan during a Joss tour event. It was in Mike X's room in New Bedford, Mass. Larry had enjoyed quite a few Szambucas and as he strode past Evgeny Stalev, the Russian phenom who was amid a 6 rack run to beat Strickland, he said "how's it hangin' Boris?..." and went on to his own match.

Grady Mathews told me that no man could match up better at straight pool than Larry. Few if any have inspired so many New England players

He was quite a character. His picture hangs at Snookers in the New England Pool and Billiard Hall of Fame.
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Can anyone help identify this stick?
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Joe Rogan - What's in the bag

iusedtoberich
JPB2 said:
Imagine working 80-100 hours a week and owning hundreds of cues and forgetting about whether points in one of them were coco or rosewood or whatever during a 10 minute live interview. Yes, I can. He did remember details of his shafts and the model name of the Gina he bought almost 30 years ago didn’t he, so….

I like his approach to jump cues, buy’em all and find out. If I had his money I’d do that. Heck, I don’t have his money but the % of jump cues I’ve tried compared to my net worth probably compares favorably to his ratio of net worth/value of jump cues purchased. 😝. Given his net worth I probably win handily. I cheated and sold some and tried some for free.
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Yeah he seemed super detailed actually. He wasn't really famous in 1997 when he bought the Ginacue, so it seems the bulk of his collection might have been before he was super rich.
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Joe Rogan - What's in the bag

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TheGrandWazoo said:
It's like any luxury item. Let's say the "John Mayer" Rolex Daytona with a green dial that nobody liked it until John Mayer decided to say, "Oh, this is the bomb," and then it went through the roof. Same thing with Joe Rogan and the Southwest cue. He doesn't need to know how the watch was made (read cue); he just needs to tell everybody that he thinks it's the $hit. If more celebrities adopt Southwest or pool in general, that's a good thing.

Make it fashionable and it will become more fashionable. Mind you this response is many beers into the long weekend.
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I like how he says he likes craftsmanship. Didn’t he come around on watches? I don’t watch a ton of his stuff but didn’t he used to be skeptical of luxury watches then came around to them?
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Joe Rogan - What's in the bag

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Flakeandrun said:
"I think it's a cocobolo..." imagine owning something that costs thousands, that you supposedly use as your main player, and knowing jack about it...
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Imagine working 80-100 hours a week and owning hundreds of cues and forgetting about whether points in one of them were coco or rosewood or whatever during a 10 minute live interview. Yes, I can. He did remember details of his shafts and the model name of the Gina he bought almost 30 years ago didn’t he, so….

I like his approach to jump cues, buy’em all and find out. If I had his money I’d do that. Heck, I don’t have his money but the % of jump cues I’ve tried compared to my net worth probably compares favorably to his ratio of net worth/value of jump cues purchased. 😝. Given his net worth I probably win handily. I cheated and sold some and tried some for free.
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If you live in the SouthWest beware of this HUSTLER.

Bishop
ShootingArts said:
I think Mike and his partners are most responsible for anything that happens on AZB. I have owned over two dozen businesses. When there is a problem, the problem is with me and it is my problem to fix. If Dave was that bad he would have been long gone. He was here when I came so I honestly don't know: How many years did he serve? It was a bunch!

Quite a few of the bans during Dave's time weren't his doing either. It was automatically assumed Dave was behind any issues with mods or admin.

Back when the door was first opened to more mod's somebody suggested me. There were a lot more agreeing with that idea! I was the one that shut it down. I had ran my share of sites already and my patience was zero! Those that think Dave had a short fuse would have found I had no fuse.

This site is easier to moderate now because it is damned near dead. It was a much different beast when I first came and it needed a half dozen people actively moderating it, not one!

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I’m not one to speak for others but Mike has said more than a few times that the Wilson situation should have been dealt with much sooner.

I know Mike has essentially delegated moderation long ago. Sure, he’s available but Wilson had way more power than he should have.

I don’t think AZB knows what to do to improve things here currently. They’re married to an antiquated demo here.

I was recently reading the billiards sub on Reddit and saw a number of members engage Mike which resulted in a few threads being removed from the NPR. That should have probably never existed in the first place.

This forum has honestly lost the plot.
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Have you ever known any players who played really good with the heavy (mud) cue ball, that you see on so many Valley coin op tables?

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garczar said:
Don't confuse the big ball with the mud ball, totally different animals. The mud ball was a standard size cb but with magnetic particles mixed in the ball. They played like a big heavy wad of gum. You had to play stop/follow with maybe short draw shots. Tulsa barbox wizard Fat Randy was one of the best with that cb. Matlock told me that Randy, in his prime, could gin it with that mud rock like few others. This cb was very common in the Midwest as the big ball faded away. Lot of really good mudball players 'cause it was so common.
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Oh the small ball with the slug in it? Yuk that thing doesn't even roll straight. In fact guaranteed roll off. I thought Aramith introduced the first ferrous ball. (?) Those play good. That's all they have on non optical tables now.
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Joe Rogan - What's in the bag

TheGrandWazoo
It's like any luxury item. Let's say the "John Mayer" Rolex Daytona with a green dial that nobody liked it until John Mayer decided to say, "Oh, this is the bomb," and then it went through the roof. Same thing with Joe Rogan and the Southwest cue. He doesn't need to know how the watch was made (read cue); he just needs to tell everybody that he thinks it's the $hit. If more celebrities adopt Southwest or pool in general, that's a good thing.

Make it fashionable and it will become more fashionable. Mind you this response is many beers into the long weekend.
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