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In 1999, the final year of the Professional Billiard Tour (PBT), which was probably the greatest ever American pro tour, they switched...

The Lepro tip was very popular forty years ago, but who knows?

The club I play out of is 4 inch pockets and has break boxes. I found I could pot the 1 fairly consistently when I put the cue ball...

I have zero problems with called early 10b's, imo 10b-last is beyond boring. A called early win doesn't detract from the quality of the...

the object in those formats IS to win SETS. as you said tennis does it(has for over 100yrs btw) and no one bitches. get over the # games...

I don't like that idea as it gives the organisers too much power, they could definitely influence results depending on where they pick...

Well said and also well-reasoned. Still, what constitutes a blowout will change with alternate break. I might walk away from 9-5 in a...

A sequence of kicks might be a requirement of acquiring the winning position. Valuable options abound.

Hooking yourself after a kick shot isn't careless. It is a fundamental risk of playing a kick shot, and sometimes having to kick a...

Not sure what the kick shot has to do with this discussion, but I agree with you that some silliness will come with any flavor of a...

Yup, no rule will be uniformly perfect, and I can also imagine a scenario or two in which a player might play shape onto a jump but, in...

My understanding is that can go 3-4, 4-3 and then 3-3 before reaching a shootout, so that's 20 racks + a shootout. I can take it or...

The set format also allows the match to go on for as many as 13 racks + a shootout. I do think that the finals should be best 3 out of...

Actually, I love the set format and agree that it adds a lot of excitement. No deficit is insurmountable in the race to four format...

9ball and 10ball were plenty different twenty-five years ago, but .... These days, with WNT 9ball events having tighter pockets and a...