Recent content by HawaiianEye

I used to practice the shot at 1:30 all the time and I had it down. I have made and won a lot of 9-ball games with that shot and variations of it.

We also had the "No Jumping" and "No sitting on tables" and the owner would throw you out if he had to warn you more than once.

I still see him doing it on occasions.

Strictly for show. I played pool a couple of times with John Waihe'e, the Governor of Hawaii, in Hawaiian Brian's back in the early 90s. He used to stop in around lunch time and he would play for small money with the girl who ran the pro shop. He was not very good but he liked pool and cues...

The fast cloth and rails have killed all "strokes" if you ask me. There is no such thing as a "power" game anymore. They have made the tables so fast that "bunting" is now called a stroke. In the old days, it took a power shot to draw the cue ball long distances or to drive the cue ball three...

Maybe they should play 9-ball with a 10-ball rack to start out, with the 9 in the middle. Afer the break, the 10 ball is removed from the table.

It has changed pool into a completely different games. It is like taking all the shots that take power in golf out of the game and everybody playing short shots and putts.

The "power" game has all but disappeared. Today's faster cloth and rails have turned the game into "bunting". I prefer playing on tables where you have to have a stroke to play instead of a table so fast that you have to convert your stroke into a bunt. Today's tables remind me of pinball...

The way it was usually played in our old pool hall was that every player drew a set number of pills (usually 2 or 3) depending upon the number of players). Then they played a ring game of 15-ball rotation. If a shooter made a ball with another person's pill number, the person with that pill...

Accurate.

Old school pool halls were fun back in the day. Lots of characters with lots of things going on: dominoes in the front, money pinball machines on the side, snooker tables with people playing golf, people playing 9-ball ring games and Kelly pool, old timers playing one pocket, people telling...

I saw him at Keesler AFB in Biloxi in 1973. He drove a big dark green Cadillac and he had plastic signs held on with magnets on both front doors of his car. The signs said, "Jack White. World's Greatest Trickshot Artist".

I worked in a real "old school" pool hall from the time I was a kid until after I got out of high school. I spent HOURS in the pool hall six days a week for years. I played all of those games, but Kelly pool may have been my least favorite. I gambled at all games and played anybody and everybody.