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I like Team ROW. If the Asian based players think they are the best, let's see it! East vs. West implies 50/50 geography. I respect your opinion of this though! I'm a child of the toughness of the 1980's, where the attitude was "if you think you got it, step up, but be ready to get hit in the...

Congratuations to team Rest of World! Great work, gentlemen!

I did not say the version is lazy, but the break method is. In competition, it is not a good idea to get a good spread and not make at least one ball.

This is a nice extrapolation to include safeties and kicking/jumping.

Again, I only give one chance to have a civil, respectful conversation. I see what you are saying here, that reinforcing failure is not a good method of practice. However, I'm a believer in building patterns that are useful for the future. In reality, nine ball is a very commonly played game in...

Interesting thought. I only give one chance to have a civil, respectful conversation. It sounds like you have thought of lots of ways to challenge yourself in billiards, that is good.

It seems like a common theme is that people play it with 11, 15 balls, etc. instead of nine.

No, in my version if you make a ball on the break there is no ball in hand. It would be a true break and run. In my opinion, playing this way helps to train the practicer to have good enough breaks to be able to have true break and runs.

My understanding is that there are two main accepted ways to "Play the Ghost". One, the "pro" version is to break and play from the break. This would mean that one would need a full, true break and run more than 50% of the games to win. Two, the more common "amateur" version, where one breaks...

This is a pool playing picture.

I never understood what "dumping" is, probably because doing something blatantly dishonest is foreign to me. Kind of like stock options and leveraged security trading. Why not just invest straight up in a company that you believe in instead of "gaming the market" to siphon some dollars out of it?

It appears to me that Mike Sigel had a chicken wing.

We can all enjoy the show, on ESPN! https://www.azbilliards.com/espn-to-present-2026-roobet-reyes-cup-15-18-october/ How many years has it been since pool has had national TV coverage? Now is the time! Let's hope that ESPN covering the Reyes Cup leads to a trend of pool being televised, and...

The Pro Book is a great book for learning speed control and a variety of mixtures of english, angle, and speed, all directed for one specific outcome for a given shot. If one drills with "The Pro Book", one would gain a vast functional framework from which to execute a wide variety of shots...