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Back in the late 80s when I took up 3c I played almost nightly in a complete dump of a room whose only virtues were 2 Brunswick billiard tables and a 6x12 snooker table, the first I'd ever seen, with a perpetual golf game on that I enjoyed watching while waiting to play. I was a smoker back...

Well it wasn't today, but being physically no longer able to play, a couple of weeks ago I recycled my Hanbat Kentauros Plus-K33 Billiard Cue with 3 shafts, a hard shell Hanbat case and a bunch of paraphernalia like chalk, cloths, tip maintenance tools, etc, by gifting them to my billiard...

Great clip.

When I went to watch the World Championship in Bordeaux a few years ago I met a Dutch guy who was telling me about the billiard club he belonged to. Members were only allowed to play on the metric version of a 9 foot table until they had achieved a certain average (I don't remember what the...

I'm curious what the effect on averages would be at the pro level and amateur level if they played on tables without any diamonds.

This kind of reminded me of the wag who commented about Mosconi, "He's not so great, I saw him run 150 balls and he never made a tough shot."

In that case some Django Reinhardt would be a better fit, IMO, both musically and culturally.

I got hooked years ago when I got Robert Byrne's "Byrne's Standard Book of Pool and Billiards" to learn more about pool, but found that half the book was an introduction and primer to 3C. I was fascinated and started playing 3C almost exclusively, even though I stunk at it. The book is still...

Wow, an 8-0 session over Ronnie and a 7-1 session over Mark Williams. Amazing.

OK, the horses are all out, it's OK to lock the barn door.

Thanks, Bert.

For those of us not in the know, who's the guy in the picture with Dave?

Congratulations, Dave, on a fine showing.

That's redundant, LOL.

You DID make it up if you never saw someone else shoot it before, IMO.