Recent content by sunnyone

I know the BigFoot 10-Ball Challenge is popular with many Derby attendees and viewers. But is it really worth 40% (4-days) of the Accu-Stats Arena table and live-streaming time? And, how much is it really in demand? It’s limited to 16 players, doesn’t count towards Master of the Table, and...

This is a quirky little stat, but it caught my eye. This year at the DCC, Fedor Gorst won five matches in a row — on the Accu-Stats TV table, and only counting that one table — by a margin of 3 - 0. He beat SVB, Sky, Sky, Scott, and … well, I don’t remember who the fifth victim was. (He also...

Fedor Gorst is an easy player to like, to root for. And, I do. Yesterday, at the DCC, was a particularly rewarding time for his fans who were streaming the event. In the Accu-Stats Arena, Fedor defeated: > SVB in Banks 3 - 0. > Sky in One-Pocket 3 - 0. > Sky in Banks 3 - 0. Then, just a...

Myrna Loy, of course. (My mom and I adore those old 'Thin Man' films.) Sunny

To a young pro from Nantucket Each pocket looked big as a bucket. The Ayatollah of One-Hola Easily won the gorgonzola 'Cause when he stroked it, he stuck it.

Didn't Earl spank SVB on a 10-footer? I seem to remember Shane saying he couldn't fade Earl's game on the big board. Often wrong, Sunny

Classic woofing from TR ... “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or when the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives...

Suggestion for the header -- insert the word 'pool' between 'clean' and 'balls'. Sunny

Tossing my derby into the Derby discussion … The DCC has become a spot of bother so far as many players and spectators are concerned. I’ve attended only once, so I don’t pretend to understand the complexities and challenges. However, I have gone to numerous business conferences, conventions...

As Damon R. once noted ... "One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in...

Make it the coolest that I’ve ever seen. How? Focus. Focus on the TV table. Live-streaming has come so far over the past few years. Quality, reliability, availability. But too often, the TV table sits empty; or hosts players some of us have little interest in watching. The streamers and...

I invested in the 50th anniversary Texas Open stream to catch the one-pocket action. But while I was channel-surfing, I came across the finals of the Scotch doubles. Sky Woodward and Billy Thorpe each had a talented female partner. But I found myself rooting for Sky’s gal, a petite gamin who...

How about including that most basic of pool-streaming services — showing the ball count for each game? The video quality is good, the commentators are blue-ribbon. (Although they could benefit from describing the action in front of them rather than talking through it.) Another question — why...

New Yorkers learn that mantra in the crib; perhaps in the womb. So, I met this cue-maker at a social event. We got to talking and he ended up discounting a never-used cue by 20%. Back story: he had custom-made it for a left-player who had fallen on hard times. I’m right-handed — hence the...

Boy, has live-streaming (pool-edition) come a long way. Concomitant with video improvements, there has been an uptick in the quality of commentary. Dr. Billy was an early articulator of the action, personalities, history, and prophetic shot-by-shot evaluations. Like him or loathe him (place me...