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    Living and playing Pool in Florida

    jerseybillG We lived in Largo for 3 yrs. Lots of rooms in the area. Ray martin was usually seen in CN`s.....
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    This is ridiculous

    Awful coverage Love straight pool .Unless they get more young people interested i see it dying a slow death. I have given up worrying about seeing anything streamed in the USA. I have been watching live Snooker matches from all over the world .Clear as a bell. Hahasports . like watching a...
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    Table sizes over time

    5x10 brunswick in 1950 jersey city Started playing pool on a 4.5 x9 in a local fellows rec/room He set it up for kids to learn the game. Had dart, ping pong and the pool table. So i started going after school (age 13) 1949..about 2 yrs later was able to get in local pool room with 5x10 Billiard...
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    ✯✯2012 Champions League Snooker✯✯

    Help with hahasports I have bee watching haha since the Mosconi Cup, no problem, i started watching Snooker after that and have become a fan ...Been playing pool for 60+ yrs.now all of a sudden haha tells me my browser do`es not have or use Flash i checked and i have adobe flash 10 etc: any...
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    World 14.1 Live Stream

    streaming around the world See you all are having problems....strange but i can usually watch snooker/3 cushion etc:from France,Poland ,and just about anywhere and oh yeah...usually free. Shame ,thats why most of the 20/40 yr. old players who come to the room i play in have no idea what a great...
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    Players List World Championship

    player list Thanks for the list. Sure wish we would be able to see some of the matches.Growing up in NJ and the same age as Ray martin and also watching Alan Hopkins play when he was young ,it would give me great pleasure to watch ( on a stream of some kind)I live in NC (wilmington) and still...
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    Mosconi's record in challenge matches

    jerseybillg I too only saw willie after he retired...played on our poolrom 5X10 in ex. for Brunswick always ran a 100 or more .....i heard yrs. ago that most of the fims of him playing were lost in a fire at his home...sad
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    SVB is a machine... now what?

    Started playing in 1948 at age 13. played 8 ball 1st,Chicago(rotation),bottle pool,straight pool, 9,ball, cribbage, all on 9ft table. 3 yrs. later was allowed in pool room and played all of the above on 10 ft. table and learned to play 3 cushion on a 10 ft billiard table. Had a high run on the...
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    Why Not Rotation?

    rotation I play a couple days a week in Breaktime in wilmington nc, It is amazing to have young guys who are playing a couple of yrs and do not know what or how 14.1 is played.never mind rotation. There are only a handful of players who come to breaktime who play straight pool and all are 60...
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    Why Not Rotation?

    rotation Yes rotatation might be too long for leauge games.No leauges back in my day. Just word of mouth. I lived and played in jesey city and was a pretty good straight pool player .Had a high run on a 5x10 of 53 balls but mostly runs in the 20,30 range We heard there was a hot player in union...
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    Why Not Rotation?

    Rotatation/Chicago as we called it Growing up in the 50`s we played straight pool ,chicago(rotation) ,cribbage, 9-ball, 8 ball, and 3 cusion billards, All of these games and the knowledge they provided make you a better player (IMHO).Today at age 75 i still play all the games. I think playing...
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    High End, Elizabeth NJ

    Perth Amboy room I was about 30 i belive when i saw miz play in perth amboy (His fathers room)? It was a large room with snooker,billiard,etc: I belive Miz seior was nj state champ..I think miz was in college at the time he had already been running 100`s..
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    no mosconi cup streaming???

    great stream The stream is great....but that table looks pretty sloppy....balls hitting the rail 6 inches from pocket going in..I play on dimond pros and those shots NEVER go..But aside from that I`m loving the stream....
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    World 3c championship

    great finish Really enjoyed this tourn.Filipos only 26 and an awsome player.AND the setup for watching on line was great.
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    live feed from world championship

    great stream and player layout Thanks to whoever is steaming the 3 cushion tournement.Although i`m a straight pool player from the 50`s. My room had a 5x10 billiard table as you came in the door and behind it the 5x10 pocket table that i spent my youth on. When the other tables were busy..I...
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