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Top and bottom cues are Jackpots. Both are ebony Merry Widows with 3/8-10 joints. Top cue has a camphor burl handle, cored with purple heart by Larry Vigus. Bottom cue has a maple handle. Middle cue is a Merry Widow by John Chaplin, Coos Cues, and it is cocobolo cored with purple heart and it...

What does Mr. AI say?

Who is going to fund a pool training facility? If you think it is profitable, maybe you should be the first to open one and then start franchising them when you start making money. Pool will never get a lot of interest or recognition until it is an Olympic event.

There aren't enough "good" players to keep a pool room open. "Normal" players want to make balls and play socially, not struggle in a "pro" environment where they never make a ball.

99% of the people in the world don't play well enough to be requesting that pocket sizes be smaller. If you can't regularly string racks together, you don't need to be playing on smaller pockets. Normal pockets should be the standard for regular pool room tables.

20 pound ball? I think the highest weight is 16, except for some kind of illegal custom novelty ball.

In the lessons I let them shoot.

In 2022, Earl Strickland was using a Mike Gulyassy 58" cue with a 14mm shaft, a black phenolic ferrule, and an Elkmaster tip. Mike made Earl and I identical shafts at the same time. If you can play, you can play with anything.

A pool player strives to win even when playing novices and beginners. Pool players take no prisoners. Pool players put the game above the social aspect of the game when it comes to leagues, etc. Pool players can have just as much fun playing as anyone else. I enjoy teaching people things...

Was Vernon playing?

Never liked tournaments. I didn't mind playing any of the participants for money games, though.

I always wipe down my cue before I put it in the case. All of my cues stay clean.

I use a closed bridge.

I had Mike Pancerny convert it from this one-piece Titlist house cue.