Recent content by Bavafongoul

I’m a Yankee Doodle baby and turn 80 coinciding with the 250th celebration on July 4th. I was playing pool at Ames with my step-dad a week after we saw The Hustler. Imagine, a pool hall in Times Square where the New Year’s Ball drops. My mom worked a couple blocks away at The New York Times. I...

No, I can’t…..I cannot recall any pool player losing a limb nor eaten alive because he had a bad day playing pool. If you want to say life doesn’t end because we get older, fine. But there’s no comparison of swimming with sharks and playing pool for even high stakes gambling. Pool is pretty risk...

Bob, I would but I haven’t found any that fits the bill. It has to be easily visible from 12-14 away for a 9’ table player and chess clocks and the like don’t fit the bill. Gosh, I would have thought APA and BCA would have adopted this by now which would have sparked demand to build a shot clock...

I’d spend $200 for a clock that can be easily seen while standing at the pool table. It would be great if it could be activated by a remote so it could be activated manually by the returning player when he/she returns to their seat. Slow play is infuriating, especially after your opponent...

I know…..and slow play really needs a cure which this clock can achieve. As far as the cue ball, I do hope you’ll recall I am one of your biggest fans and have said DigiBall is the best thing that happened for pool since chalk. I wasn’t part of the testers evaluating DigiBall but I boasted...

And get rid of the beeping after 10 seconds…….just one beep with 7 secs. remaining and no beeping countdown. That is just annoying, totally unnecessary and highly distracting. It should be 2 beeps midway In the countdown & a single beep with 7 secs. left. You don’t need multiple audible beeps...

I”d buy this clock right now for slow play at my local pool hall. Anyone that takes more than 45 seconds to shoot, regardless of how difficult the shot might be, including 3 rail kicks, is degrading the pace of play. The hardest shot imaginable doesn’t require upwards of a minute to evaluate and...

I’ll check the Diamond tables at Sierra Billiards. I don’t see any need or purpose for a difference in shelf size. I play on 9’ Diamond tables 90 % of the time, probably 95%. 7’ tables, even Diamond, just don’t have any real appeal but if the pockets were smaller, like 4”, I’d likely change my...

Why have so many of us stated we didn’t get ours sealed but rather just in the original box? Are sellers removing the shrink wrapping for whatever reason they might have? Anyway, it seems like a bullshit issue since as long as the balls as new, that’s really all that matters, IMO. But if...

Question……since the vast majority of us that have bought Aramith pool balls over the years that arrived in the manufacturer’s original carton that was not shrink wrapped, it seems curious, if not just suggestive, that the boxes arriving shrink wrapped wasn’t performed by the manufacturer. There...

Maybe if you pay more you get more but is it done by the seller or by the manufacturer? So let me ask the forum population how much more is shrink wrapped worth to you? Would you even pay $10 more for a shrink wrapped set of pool balls? Would you even care if the box wasn’t shrink wrapped as...

Gosh…..I was mistaken…..it is just the color……I didn’t notice a color option on Seybert’s . Just credit me with a foot in mouth experience. But back to my original resistance, why would anyone make pink chalk? Have you seen many pink covered pool tables? It is just a absurd color choice because...

I just checked the Titleist chalk and you have to be kidding me…..Pink? GTF outta here…..pink……I have 3 daughters and breast cancer awareness is very important to me…….but in a pool chalk, the color pink really sucks. I’d never buy or use it just because of the awful color….Pagulayan & TAOM...

Anyone recall years ago when the Russian MC chalk was the rave and nowadays, I never see it used by any players. I still see Blue Diamond occasionally but it seems mostly used is TAOM, Predator, Kamui, and Master Chalk. if I owned a pool room, I’d ban all red color chalk and the pasty Kamui...

I have purchased probably 7-8 Sets of Centennial pool balls and the red box was always not sealed aside from some small pieces of scotch tape on the side bottom to hold the lid tight on the box. If your set came sealed, it was done by the seller as a courtesy. I’m basing that on my prior...