Recent content by livemusic

If the secret is to attract new viewers, it'll be a challenge because I don't think non-player viewers have any conception of how good pros are. They don't understand that it's a combo of shot-making AND cue ball control. I think they think it's just shot-making. Heck, safeties look like...

I don't play snooker. Have only watched some on youtube. I don't know what a snooker type safety is. Can't you just describe what you did? You said "roll up my own ball." What does that mean? Sorry, not everyone on here is expert.

The pool room you had, why did you get out of that? Sorry, don't know your full history, just have read bits and pieces now and then.

Good for you! What does the emboldened part above mean? ("Roll up my own ball.")

I just read your links and your page... that is some good (and hilarious) stuff in there. Right on. What a crock "barroom pool" is, lol. It's a wonder there isn't a killing every night. The only possible way to lessen the number of killings is to post the bar's official rules. I don't think I...

I just thought of something else. I have seen "scratch with any attempt on the 8ball and you lose." And barroom players ALWAYS shoot at the 8, no matter how hard the shot is. In such situations, I have played safe, executing a shot where there is no way I will scratch and had people say "you...

Local bar has started a regular tournament and brought in some league players to seed the roster. Several local regulars don't like league rules and have requested and received their own barroom 8ball regular tournament. But the arguments pop up of "the way we've always played it" (barroom...

I played in a bar tournament a couple weeks ago and I was surprised that I noticed an elevated heartrate and tightness in the chest due to nervousness. I was surprised because I didn't anticipate that this would happen! BTW, I played really well. I don't think my nerves affected me much at all...

When switching to Taom v10, what is the best way to clean the old chalk off the tip before applying v10?

On the linked article, someone said, "A fair amount of shots require power, such as deep screw or splitting the pack, which will disadvantage women. There are a couple of professional male players who lack cue power, and it’s a handicap to their game because they can’t play certain shots." =...

Hmmm, maybe I was thinking about it backwards. I guess I follow you bearing in mind that you said "for a given match length." A weaker player would be more apt to luck up and win a set or few instead of one longer race-to-x. If a match is done with sets, could someone give an example of how the...

There are a bunch of interesting comments in this thread, including yours. For matching up just two players, would playing x-sets instead of one race-to-x be more equitable? What would be a reasonable structure? How many sets, and how would each set be structured? Thinking more of two good...

Race to 5, race to 7, 9, whatever... is there a number that players have arrived at that they feel crowns the better of two players on that given day? Assuming that this is just for the sake of determining the better of the two on that day, with no t.v. broadcast considerations. And is there any...

I came across this article. Good enough for pro at age 18? Must've played non-stop pool as a teen. https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2007/09/25/path-to-pool-stardom/

That makes sense now that I think about it; seems you're right, the ferrule or shaft would likely hit/graze the cue ball. This thread is the first mention I have ever read of a 'scoop shot' being defined, thanks for the explanation. But I'm just a regular Joe, never played in a league. I've seen...