Recent content by JPB2

I have a business card from an old poker player, rest his soul. One of the statements on the card as to his activities was “ Last of the Big Spenders”. He gave it to me in a low stakes game at the Aladdin back when. He splashed around for a while and had people kind of on tilt. He managed to...

Yeah, that first few seconds of the time stamped video shows the back hand of a slip stroke. Good work finding and posting that particular shot. Cisero pauses more in transition than others typically might with the slip stroke.

No, it’s a thing. You just have to have seen somebody who has one. It’s fluid and the cue has momentum. It’s not the Loch Ness monster or Sasquatch, it exists. Maybe near extinction, but its real.

That’s along the lines of what I had. If it’s in decent condition and set up well it will work. You will have to evaluate the seller and how well they can set it up etc….

When you say loft, what do you mean? I ask because if you want a commercial 7’ table your lower price option is a used valley which you can tighten up with ridgeback or penguin rails. That means one piece slate. I had a Brunswick home 8’ table for many years. It was pretty good. Toward the...

Calling it short rack 9 ball seems so……redundant. 9 ball is already short rack rotation. Maybe call it half rack 9 ball even though you can’t have a true half rack. 🤔

I actually think it makes sense. I have relatives on both sides of the family in various spots in the Midwest. Most of the Chicago contingent moved. The Elkhorn resident got out of Chicagoland a while ago. My other Wisconsin relatives like it I think. By moving we got disconnected from...

Two things. 1) In Idaho this year I haven’t had to get a snow shovel or snow blower out of the shed. 😎. I don’t want to get too cocky tho because other years can bring more snow than I want and this winter isn’t over either. 2). Close to sixty Januarys ago, my father left work in a large city...

For a minute I thought I was looking at my own bookshelf. Yours aren’t identical, but there is a huge amount of overlap between yours and mine. So that might be a problem selling books as a group. Although maybe others haven’t been buying them over the years.

I didn’t get to spend enough time there last year. But I heard some hilarious stuff from the sporting crowd gathered there. 🤣

Just a WAG, but I, not being a glass half full guy, suspect child support is not priority 1. Assuming anybody on the winning side has an outstanding child support order they are behind on. 😉

Just looked at the website. I think I’d like the Ross course and the 9 holes they made from an old course. The new Dye course I’d play maybe feeling obligated to. It is probably good in its way but if I played 20 times at that resort with my choice of courses I could see winding up Ross-18...

I thought it was a Donald Ross. At least the original. But I haven’t googled it before posting. Haven’t played many Ross courses though. I need to play more of them I think.

My opinion is just get the right one, the good one that is a bit more. But it’s your money so…..

Yeah, the super slow play can be bad and it happens in that tournament. Sometimes watching the replays I find myself fast forwarding through some extensive “studies”. It did seem worse this year. I didn’t stay up to see the 8 ball final - it went to 4:00 AM central or something didn’t it? I...