Recent content by Clusterbuster

“…with 4 inch pockets it’s an easy miss.” Best example of understatement I’ve seen in a while.

Would I truly trust any one character in the film? Actually, yes. I’d trust Minnesota Fats. It’s been a few years since I’ve seen the film but my reaction to Fats was that he was the only one who acted with integrity throughout. Granted, he has a scumbag backer but, that said, he never did...

It seems to me that if someone is selling their own belongings they have at least some obligation to educate themselves about its value. I’ll acknowledge that valuing a pool cue, particularly to a non-player, can be a little difficult but even a modest internet search, while probably not telling...

I hate to say this but I once played a game of 8-ball where I broke and the 8 was pocketed (APA rules, so it was for the win) and neither of us saw it. We played two innings before we noticed. Story is also a testament to my making the 8 on the break so infrequently that I don’t even look for it.

No player should be left with one or two seconds to shoot. You might as well just DQ them. Maybe structure it so that once you are ”out of time” then you shift to a time limit that is really short, like ten seconds to shoot or it’s a foul.

You don’t sound like you’re being unreasonably slow which is admittedly a matter of degree but there is slower than average and there is glacier-slow. Regardless of why someone is playing slow, the effect is the same.

I don’t know much about chess clocks but my sense it each player re-starts time running by simply hitting a button. Adding time for innings completed, more time for later innings, etc. seems a recipe for delay and argument. Time clock like in chess seems like a good idea but you’ve got to keep...

I saw your post on your Aiminator. If you could send me ordering info, I’d appreciate it. Best of luck with your new product. Jay

Thanks to all of you for your input. Much appreciated.

It was kind of like Bob said. He just thought that the rail the ball was frozen to was dead. Not sure that he was confusing it with anything else so much as he was just wrong. I shouldn’t have deferred to him and just trusted my own judgment. Wasn’t worth a hassle.

So SeniorTom posted a question the other day about what constituted a foul. I was recently in a similar situation: An object ball was frozen to a rail. I lightly hit the object ball with the cue ball causing the object ball to roll a few inches out onto the table without contacting another rail...

I was in there a few months ago with a friend and we were talking about how big it was. He looked it up on some kind of municipal or government website (I’m not sure what) and it came back at over 33,000 square feet. That’s a big pool hall. They’ve got around 40 tables.

I’ve been an attorney in the criminal justice system for more than forty years. What you are describing is not overstated at all. True privacy is dead and buried in the modern world and we gave it all away one click at a time.

Go all in… house cues only!

Each an admirable goal!