Recent content by Taxi

I'm 81, and the main problem is consistency. Some weeks I'll easily beat 600+ Fargo Rated players and win our local non-handicap tournament, but then the next week I'll go 2 and out while dogging shots that a small child could make. I only wish I could combine my current stroke mechanics with...

Don't know if he's been mentioned above, but the best one hand player I ever saw was the late Michael Gerace, AKA "Geese".

Along with allowable time outs for parking lot "tune ups" if a player gets three games behind.

In Washington the only balls that were spotted after a scratch were "2 before the money". So if you scratched on the 6 ball it stayed down, and you had to put the cue ball behind the head spot and shoot at the 7 ball. If the 7 ball was behind the line it got spotted. And if you made the 7 or...

Our local Saturday night tournaments begin at 7:00, and whenever I make it to the final rounds it's usually pushing 1:00 or later. At that point I'm playing better than I was in the earlier rounds, and could probably make it another hour if necessary. Adrenaline is a powerful stimulant...

My all time pool hero was Mickey McGuire, a local bookie who won our weekly 9 ball tournament on his 80th birthday, beating a top Washington area player (Freddy Boggs) in a hill-hill final. I was "only" 49 at the time, but from that point on, my ambition was to duplicate Mickey's feat, and on...

Rogan loves pool, knows the game, Completely agree. The more publicity pool can attract, the better, and Rogan both loves and knows the game. On a funny note, when you wrote that "Living in Austin, he’s only about a three-hour drive from Frisco", I started wondering just how fast you and...

In the mid-2000's, in a local Rockville MD tournament, there were two players who had a habit of getting down, standing up, getting down, standing up, and repeating this for as many as ten times each. Both of them were really good people, and one of them was a world class nine ball player who...

I'm also not thrilled with most of Rogan's political views, other than his take on the Iran debacle, but the last thing that pool needs is some sort of political test. Rogan obviously loves pool, has done a lot to promote pool, and from what I've seen he's not that bad a player. I'd love to...

My copy of BD showed up about a week late, and on the cover Keith's age was listed at 74! I wonder how many copies of this went out before it got corrected. The image on the BD website had it right.

My favorite memory of Karen is the time when she had Earl talking to himself* when she beat him in the semis at Turning Stone back in 2016. * And of course also to anyone else who was within hearing range. Here's that match on YouTube.

It's like this in baseball, where most players peak between 27-32, but some players peak in their early 20's and some players remain in peak form all the way up to their late 30's or even their 40's in a handful of cases.

I'm glad someone finally mentioned this. While I don't disagree that some aspects of snooker skills are easier to transfer to 9 ball than vice versa, what you don't see in snooker is the power draw shot that's often required in 9 ball to move the cue ball from one end of the table to the other...

Depending on how you look at it, the best "two career" examples would be minor Hollywood actor to U. S. President (Ronald Reagan) or College Basketball superstar / NBA star to three term U. S. Senator (Bill Bradley).

My ambition was to have the best used book shop of any pool bum, and to be the best pool player of any used book shop owner. It wasn't that hard to accomplish. :cool: