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Agreed 100%. You can only get two points on one stroke so often. Of course, there are races to 50, such as the ones I fondly remember...

Obviously false. When two balls go in on one stroke, as long as one of them is the nominated ball, they both count. Hence, it is not...

Have to agree. Amsterdam Billiards in New York City is the state of the art. No poolroom offers a better social scene in the evenings...

I like that the different games emphasize different shots. One pocket has a lot of cross corner banks, rotation has a lot of multi rail...

Oh, 100 every day is just about believable, but it's still truly amazing on 4" equipment to do it every day. Many players over the...

Sounds very unlikely. I doubt there are ten players in the world capable of running 200 on 4" pockets given 1,000 attempts. I've never...

Well said, Bobby. Every scholar of 14.1 knows that Mosconi and Greenleaf were the best. I've met many over the years that thought...

Mosconi's greatness had nothing to do with his 526. He won almost every single world 14.1 championship from 1941-56. His ability to...

Ditto. All the games borrow from each other and excellence in any one discipline often translates to the other games.

... and yet we always have. Witnesses have sufficed in the past, as was the case with Mosconi. Charlie Ursitti, whom I knew well, is...

I doubt Saudi Arabia will bring the sport any more forward than having World Championships in Qatar. Maybe for a certain number of...

For now, it's a wait and see game. Wishing everybody involved with the project the best.

Yes, Fats and Jeanette are probably the only two exceptions in my lifetime., the two that managed to get noticed in wide circles beyond...

The 5 million refers to the approximate total prize fund for Matchroom events this year and it is fairly accurate.

Some may argue, the only reason people knew of Fats was because of the movie, it's not like they were watching him on TV multiple times...