Recent content by HawaiianEye

I have been told that if you spit in your opponent's chalk it will prevent them and you from breathing dangerous chalk dust. Be sure to help protect your opponent the next time you play. He will appreciate it.

$20 is a good deal for that if it includes 90 minutes of table time.

Back in the day, most of the top players you ran across were gamblers of some sort, even it it was only for small stakes. Many of them would not play you for funsies. In order to learn from them through competing, you had to gamble with them. I worked in a old-school pool hall as a kid and...

I am not playing in any tournament that is 9-ball, race to 2. It's a crap shoot, especially with handicaps.

Like I said above. CS = Competition Sports. Made by Adam, but without the Adam logo...unbranded. CS made a Hall of Fame line. Originally made in the Adam factory in Japan. Later made in China and I don't know if Adam has anything to do with them anymore. LOTS of Chinese FAKE "Adam" cues...

Competition Sports?

This is one of the reasons old-school gamblers preferred two-shot rollout or pushout 9-ball to the one-foul BIH crap that is played now. After a few games you could get an idea of which shots they would take or pass back after rolling out to certain places or shots on the table.

If you are not winning, you need to find the weakness in YOUR game.

If you are a good player and have the ability to run multiple racks, the only thing you need to concentrate on is keeping the same mental state that you had while running racks. Your fundamentals are already ok.

A BIG old-school cue ball is HEAVY.

I never had trouble drawing a big cue ball table length on a bar table.

Southern Illinois

A good practice routine to teach you tight control of the cue ball is to place all 15 balls scattered around the table but not too close to the rails. Shoot any ball you want but you have to make all 15 without the cue ball touching another ball or any rail. The only balls that can move during...

If you have lined up properly, are over the table, and see that you have the cue ball and object ball target in alignment, your target becomes the cue ball and ensuring it travels the LINE. I am sure most people who are looking at the cue ball last are also seeing the object ball in the...

The new neon colored cues look like CRAP if you ask me. They may play good, but they don't look good.