Recent content by AmericanArchon

you remember correctly in the BCA & CSI a "lift" shot is explicitly illegal and constitutes a foul BUT in the APA the rulebook doesn't suggest that.

I have been playing pool for 54 years so I don't remember when and who I picked this shot up... be it from playing 8 ball or a grumpy Irishman who taught me snooker. The shot is you lay your cue on the table and bring the cue tip just past the edge of the cue ball so when raise the tip it...

thats the tickle.. I can see one of those 90k tourneys with a hill hill then on the break the chip lands on the table the 8 comes around and misdirected off the chip into a pocket. It isn't either players fault. I would hate to be the ref that had to make that call.

On a break the cue ball chipped... a piece about the size of a quarter... it was apparent it was defective. In 54 years this is the first time I have seen or heard of such a thing. In a pro tourney how would that be adjudicated? The reason I am curious is there were many "discussions" of what...

LOL amarillo slim told me and its going to be that way until we start playing pool in church

Is sharking really the same as gambling. The older guys who showed me the ropes certainly told the story of the game on both sides of the gambling coin so to speak. "Chopping up" leans to the seeder side of that pool history

I am almost 56 my father owned a couple of bars and the pool table was my baby sitter. By the time I was 12 I was playing 50 a match. When I was 18 I was having to give weight. I won a lot and probably lost twice as much. 8 ball paid for college. I give this as back story to the following. The...

In any other sport you practice to reduce mistakes. The team that makes less mistakes wins. Coaching has evolved some as a player with a phone and a understanding of the fundamentals a player can see the mistakes they make but can they weigh the flaws to gain the biggest bang for their practice...