Recent content by KeithK

All this effort by Matchroom to build pool up but they haven't found a way to get the biggest audience draw event on to regular TV so that people can actually see it. Hard core fans might pay to watch on a pay for view service but if you're trying to make the game bigger and draw people into...

I watch Bob all the time. He interacts with his viewers regularly

It says break shot compilation disk but it's not..it's just the end patterns to get to the break shots

I haven't found all the break shots together but I love this compilation of end patterns that accu stats put together.

Thank you Bob. I was unaware of these other books. I will look for them. I am very aware of the the tournament at Q-masters. At this point it's really the only one left...which is a shame. To think that snooker can be so popular on TV in the UK and we can't promote straight pool is truly...

What they do is simple....they play the game. The European juniors play the game. The European Championships play 4 disciplines...8 ball, 9 ball 10 ball and straight pool with divisions for men, women and juniors. Straight pool is not promoted in the US anymore.

Some of the questions you're asking are influenced by the individual player preferences. George Fels who wrote Mastering Pool and the Derby City Straight Pool Challenge was named after almost always recommended the simplest approach to any pool problem. i.e. don't use 2 rails when it can be...

I wish there was more video available of Lou when he was a little younger. There is one YouTube video of him playing straight pool in Japan and you get a little sense of how quickly he played. Wild to watch. Wish there was more.

1 100% Correct on that. If the object ball is further away from the rack the spin has more time to take and the cueball path starts curving (forward or back from the tangent line) which makes it harder to determine exactly where the contact point is...on a good note, when further from the...

I got refocused on playing straight pool over the last couple of years and have watched lots of YouTube videos of all the top straight pool players and have noticed that the European players vary how they hit their break shots far more than I've typically seen from the top American players over...

This begs the question of how snooker is so popular on TV in the UK? Snooker pace of play is pretty comparable to 14.1 but it's very popular in the UK. (And the top players make more money than top pool players...The World Championship pays the winner a half million pounds)

That pocket looks like 4.25 at the opening. The centerline between the 2 balls being 4.5, where they are making contact at the points is below that center line but it's not a 1/2 inch difference.

Tony Robles has a great way to practice the end of the rack for straight pool. Toss 4 or 5 balls randomly on the table, put another ball down in a break shot position and then take ball in hand and see if you can run the balls and be on the break ball. He STRESSES before you do anything, try...