Recent content by lastminutepanic

A friend of mine was given a Dale Perry stick for Christmas, and asked me to look at it for him. Ive tried to find out who made the shaft, but can't identify the shaft ring anywhere. Any ideas?

Hey, don't complain! it means we're all one ranking higher on the world rankings. I'm officially #549,493,232 in the world now!

I wonder if someone who runs state wide or regional tournaments wants to chime in on the difference in registered turnout (paid in players) between an 'open' only tournament and a tournament with 2 or more brackets (handicapped as high/low or Open/A/B/C/etc). Because without the turnout, you...

each player has their own fundamental flaws in their stroke/approach/etc. If you don't fix the fundamentals before the faults are thoroughly ingrained, you'll regret it when you have to fix them later. I'd suggest having someone with a good grasp of teaching pool to give you a couple of hours of...

when I was a young teen and starting to play, I was taught a very low, snooker style address to the shot. and i would pop up occasionally, just like every new player does, whether due to it being a difficult shot, or a shot that's close to the CB. And I was told something that's stuck with me to...

So far i've only found one good place to play here in austin... The grand, $2 an hour/per person (all the time I think). Free pool mondays. Cheap beers/drinks till 7pm every day. Nice tables, tight pockets, good staff.

I think that's a good test. But the better one is to set the balls maybe a balls width + 1.5" apart, flanking the path of a straight in shot into the corner. Now set a ball PAST those balls, and try to get your OB in the pocket, and draw the CB back through the two balls flanking the shot line...

Well being a 'professional' doesn't mean it's what you get paid to do. I know people who are wretched salespeople, but continue to bring in 26k a year selling (or not selling as the case actually is) cell phones or cars, and will do for their entire lives. They aren't 'professionals', they're...

Just enough to get him over on you, not enough to make you think you're getting robbed.

I personally think there's nothing better than walking into a 3/2 bar tournament and seeing a couple of the best shooters in the state mulling around. It's really a coin flip as to if you beat them or not. You play great and they have one or two bad rolls and you've got them (and I have on...

I've always found that the issue with cheap cues isn't limited to who makes it, they're a bit more inconsistent than that. I've owned a players which I then upgraded with a 314 shaft a year or two later because it was pretty snotty (it just didn't have a good feel to it). That being said, that...

I'm sure you guys have come across this issue time after time, whether it's going to a national tournament (APA comes to mind), or just playing in a tournament where the players are divided into divisions based on ability (Open/A/B/C/etc). I'm a B player in michigan, and have now relocated down...

As far as I know, the 'captain' is a coach, correct? he doesn't play, that being said, be mature, accept that his competitive spirit and respect for his 'players' supercedes some conspiracy theory you guys are concocting. Do you freak out when a coach of a college football team went to a...

Thanks for the replies! I lived in northern michigan so we didn't get much time on the big tracks, although i'm not adverse to playing on them, i'd be a C player i'm sure. I did a little research online and barfly's showed up too. Anybody ever shot there?

Not that I was a particularly active poster on here, but I did spend a considerable amount of time perusing the forum and posting sparingly. Well, until a few months back when life really took over and I didn't have the time for much pool, or scanning the forum. I moved from MI to TX, and now...