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It was the standard 8-ball rules per the rule book into the 1970’s. When Mosconi played Fats on TV, they played with that rule. Fats lost a game like this.

@jay helfert I’m adding Jay because I believe this has been called good in the past

Run a humidifier in the room

And now they’ve resorted to card tricks in the stands.

In case you missed it, Scott was just talking about Gorst’s great form and delivery and doesn’t look like he can miss. And then Gorst shot this. Missed the pocket, caught the outer point. It bobbled and somehow like someone sucked it in, that ball dropped. There is no way in anyone’s wet...

Talking about small pockets… 2026 Reyes Cup, Day 3, Game 4 Teams play (Gorst) a few minutes ago. Ball dropped. Maybe they’ll changed to 3 3/4” next. This ball didn’t touch the rail on the way in.

With a 50+pt difference, was there a spot?

For all you cue whores (or Johns???) out there..., I need to reduce. But that's because I've decided that getting a few 1980's Meucci cues suddenly is in the frontal lobe, which admittedly could use the -otomy...

I was actually going to say this as well! Sigel was a hustler, too. And getting that IPT cash was a grifter’s paradise.

I just read this so my apologies for being six months late. It literally was Mike’s business! Of course it was a monetary gift from his buddy Kevin, Trudeau, and it was Mike that brought Kevin Trudeau into the Pool world. The whole IPT was Mike’s idea and of course he was gonna get paid. I’m...

Yep. Rotation 8-ball. Sometimes as a spot. Saratoga is a short rack version.

I became an APA 7 in 8-ball with both of those balls in the early 90’s. My local bar still uses the mud ball. On free pool Tuesdays, I’ll bring out the Meucci to the bar and wow the regulars. And recently I was at a bar that had the oversized ball. I still have one somewhere in my collection.

I have partial facial blindness (diagnosed last year!), but I assume that is Sydney Sweeney?

Yes, got with Josephine Balabushka and the sons Greg and George in 1987 to secure the rights to the Balbushka cue name.

Japan. That’s the Japanese pin. But if the bumper isn’t the brown, then I’d go with a later year. So, not 80’s. There was the transition when they first went to China. They brought all their equipment and presumably a lot of the material over to China. That didn’t last more than a year or...