Recent content by Straightpool_99

Why are these old matches so darned entertaining? I love it. No commentator is needed for this match, that's for sure. Some phenomenal shotmaking on display. Never got to see Ronnie A. play before, but I'm a fan.

Don't buy Chinese garbage, especially not copied designs. All of those copied cues are junk, absolute junk. I looked on Ebay and they want 210 dollars now for one of these preoaidr cues! Buy something used, but well made instead and you won't have to be irritated by the cue hitting like balsa...

Not really, no. Would he be good at it, great even? Yes, I think so. But pool and snooker are different, very few people can do both at the highest level, and certainly not simultaneously. He would not "clean up", as you say, Heyball is a specialty game, so is snooker for that matter. Ronny...

I don't really care for UFC, but Khabib tells the truth here. If you want to be the best in the world, talent and hard work isn't enough. There are lots of people with talent who works hard. You have to give it everything you've got, do the things other people can't or won't do. You have to play...

With all due respect to Mizerak, Buddy had the most ridiculously smooth stroke I've ever seen in the pool world. He made the game look so easy. It's a delivery it's nearly impossible to emulate, it looks like he's just pushing the ball. Stephen Lee was mentioned and he has that same kind of...

I've honestly never heard such whining about a GC, ever, and I've been around pool for 25 years now. I got so fed up with reading this nonsense that I went to my nearest pool hall which has GC's in order to break some balls. Quick background, haven't played for 3 years now, other than short...

I don't know if the points are real or not. Keep in mind that Predator has a habit of painting their cues. The Aspire cues feel cheap. I know some people have been positive about them, but I was decidedly unimpressed. Mini radial is rubbish. Don't buy cues with strange joints, you'll regret it...

Higgins was just too big of a star to ban. Stephen Lee was just right, not the highest echelon but a player with some name recognition to make an example out of. It all comes down to money and politics. Lee was a cheater, though, so he got what he deserved. He was also very stupid, which...

Good video. I'd just add that among better players, apart from the break, the most common scratches are probably caused by colliding into balls unintentionally, or being forced into shooting thin shots where the tangent line goes into a pocket and being unable to alter the line due to the...

This is the worst roll I've ever seen in snooker:

I like trying new cues. Back in the day I'd play for hours every day and like clockwork I'd eventually get kind of fed up with the hit of my current cue. It would make the game more interesting to try a new cue and also it was a way to test out various theories I got from playing. Did I play...

I've played almost every billiard game. They all have their own specific challenges and skillsets. Many of them transfer between games. If you are a good snooker player you'll play at least decent pool, and if you are a good pool player you will in fact play a lot better snooker than snooker...

Everything starts with alignment. If you don't have your elbow, head, cue on the line, your fundamentals will never be good.

R.I.P Mika. This is a great loss for pool. I had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times in tournaments. I remember those times fondly.