Recent content by Bavafongoul

My friend just got a pool table from the Phillipines. It has terribly noisy subway pockets that take a long time to roll the ball and the undercarriage is amateurish. The rails look cheap but the rail action is very good. The pocket are cut narrowly and were bigger than Diamond tables by a 1/4”...

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...

Darker….lighter……it really matters very little to me since I think the color grey is just awful for a pool table cloth. It broke my heart when Sierra Bar & Billiards recovered their Diamond pool tables in grey switching from tournament blue. It is too light a color for playing pool and I’d...

I chalk with my grip hand, not my bridge hand and I am right hand dominant. I shoot lefty when I am too lazy to get a bridge or the shot is obviously easy. It seems more natural to apply chalk since I’m not equally ambidextrous with both hands. My right hand understandably has much more...

No I haven’t but I have played for 12 hrs…, 10 am to 10 pm and my cue shaft and ferrules remained clean but the ferrules are ivory so that doesn’t count, My fingers were clean and the only chalk accumulation, which wasn’t much to speak of, was on the heel and bottom palm area of my bridge...

I don’t get this……….I have been playing pool for 65 years…….different cities, tables and cues down through the years. And, of course, a variety of pool chalks have been used as you’d imagine. I have never had chalk on my fingers or hands and I use a closed bridge on 75-80% of my shots. If you...

I have never seen any pool player consistently perform at their best without ever taking any practice strokes nor when someone takes an inconsistent number of practice strokes, sometimes bordering on excessive. The best athletes and pool players usually use a pre-shot routine, they generally...

Here’s the solution. Get a Kamui Clear Plastic Bridge. Stick it on the end of a house cue, sneaky Pete or custom cue. It does not affect the finish of the shaft . Anyone gives you shit about using it to shoot, tell them is is legally a cue you are using as a bridge but it is a pool cue...

I agree but when you look at the gripes & moaning over the noise, it’s like some men are having menstrual cramps. 3-4 seconds of noise apparently is too much to tolerate racking pool balls. To each their own I suppose but really if that is bothersome, their mental stamina and concentration could...

I find it funny that people gripe about the racking noise of Delta Elite w/o inserts. It makes noise for what….3-5 seconds when you rack…. OMG.,… what sensitive ears some people must have?

Nah…..I just like to go to pool halls and wave them around in mid-ain’t shouting cues for sale or rent. If anyone knows Tommy Hill, just give him a call and ask him. Tommy and I have been playing pool for the past two decades. Ask him how good does Poppa Matt play pool? Tommy is a Master PBIA...

All of the cues in my case have matching specs so switching cues is much easier since the cues play similarly. When I open my case, I often choose a different cue than the last time I played pool. If one of my friends stops by the pool hall on the way home from work or while running around...

My vote goes to Brooklyn Bagels……opened in 2002…….QVC promotes them as the best……they claim it’s the water. I have enjoyed them for the past 24 years. My family on Staten Island keeps me supplied all year long. What a great sandwich bagels can create and the variety of flavors is delicious…..and...

The question about bagels is very simple……..the best bagel in NYC as everyone knows……it’s the bagel you last ate.

Gil Castillo made this case for me over a decade ago and it has just been a wonderful and still handsome cue case.