Recent content by middleofnowhere

Say you're playing one pocket and player A has his game ball hanging in his hole. Player B can't just follow it in because there are still loose balls on the table that player A can pocket with ball in hand from behind the line. So player B pockets the hanging Ball but double hits the cue ball...

What happens in a game if the incoming player doesn't call the foul?

One thing I really don't like is stalling to run out the clock. That's been applied to pool now.

That sure looks like one of his cues. I used to go to the shop all the time when he was on Star island. I didn't go there much when he was doing Florida cue in the back of his brother's shop, Rich wood turning in Miami. It was kind of uncomfortable cuz he just had a little corner in the back of...

Another consideration is people who come in to play pool in that really nice table, are highly unlikely to be drinkers or spend much money at all in the place. They just tie up the table. Just more food for thought.

I don't want to shock you but most people don't care about pool. In most bars, the pool table is just an after thought.

I forgot to mention Joe Salazar. He was an out of site bar table player. And about tables, the cloth. In many cases it didn't even resemble pool table cloth.

You know, there were players that were really super on the bar tables. But many players, like my self who for a while played only on bar tables with the big ball were tough to beat. Especially by the uninitiated player no matter who they were. I had Mike Segel stuck for hours and made Richie...

I just said some googling it looks like he still has the house in Sebastian as of August 2026 and he's 85 years old. I guess he's still around.

I was wondering the same thing. I haven't seen him for a long time. He had a house in Sebastian Fl right near the beach. He was always a little sick with asthma puffing on that thing every few minutes. He was in prison for 5 years in the 90s and came out looking healthier then I ever saw him...

Ronnie Sypher (Three fingered Ronnie). The worse the conditions the better.

My father bought a hotel on fort Lauderdale Beach years ago I'm talking like the 50s. It actually had a for real billiard room two Brunswick tables nicely laid out chairs carpeting chandeliers. I guess was kind of a throwback to another time. It's not where I first started playing but I just...

The adjustments I am referring to a player does on almost every practice stroke till something tells them to commit and shoot.

Does it really matter anymore. 9 on the spot, 1 on the spot and so on. They are playing big money pool and need to be playing 10 ball.

When I said a little bit longer bridge I'm not referring to Long. Just longer than like a four or six inch bridge. You play with a bridge that short to make an adjustment you almost have to un-plant your bridge hand. I'm just saying you don't want to be extreme in either way.