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Once you learn how to fold the cover efficiently and quickly, it’s really no big deal. Knowing that your table is covered up and protected at all times when not in use gives peace of mind, if you covet your table like many of us do.

As I said in an earlier post, if he calls one of the refs over to view the shot, Scott most likely is careful enough not to foul and runs out and wins the match.

The fact is that in this situation, there is absolutely no incentive for Hunter to call a referee to the table to observe the shot. If he does so, then Scott would have been careful enough not to touch the ball with his shirt, and there’s a 90+% chance that Scott makes that shot, runs out and...

Doesn’t that same option / responsibility to call in a referee apply to the seated opponent?

I haven’t found a problem removing renaissance wax buildup from a wood shaft using 90% isopropyl alcohol. I sometimes find too much wax build up makes the shaft a little sticky, so I may periodically wipe it down rigorously with alcohol dabbed on a cloth, then may or may not start over with the...

Agreed, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that would eliminate a lot of potential conflicts such as this. Hopefully going forward, this incident may result in them changing this policy for this tournament.

Everyone has a differering opinions as to morals and integrity in regards to the written rules. For example, in our weekly handicapped tournament I absolutely refuse to ever try to win a game or match by 3-fouling an opponent of the lowest ranking we have, even though it’s certainly within our...

Some things are more important than winning or losing a US Open match, and for myself, a person’s integrity is one of them. I would like to think I would not have called a foul on my opponent in that situation, but as I wasn’t, I can’t say for certainty what I would have done. There is no...

Nitty move to call that foul on your opponent, even and especially when it decided the match. On the other hand, in that situation, Frost really should have been extra careful to make sure his shirt wouldn’t touch a ball.

Super informative post! I am among a very small list of players who prefers using inside spin for positioning off 1,2 or 3 cushions, when I have that option available to me.

We only have 4 rankings for our weekly 9-ball handicapped tournament, which are all games on the wire spots, no ball spots. The max spot between the lowest and highest rank is a 2-5 race. Our reasoning is to maintain the legitimacy of the tournament by not allowing a novice player to win a...

Can’t hurt to try it, as you can always wipe it down/off with alcohol on a cloth if you don’t like it.

So how do you clean your X-1?

Of course he makes money off his labor, but there are many other cost of doing business that most people would never have a clue about unless they have owned and operated their own business. I used to think in those terms of how much $ they are making per hour until I was on the other side...

Cushions that don’t bank a ball the way you expect they should doesn’t mean the tables play badly or were set up badly. It just means they play / bank different than other tables you may be used to, which is an adjustment you and every other player will have to make. No different than adjusting...

Vacuuming versus not vacuuming was never the question I posed, and I agree with you on all those points. The question I was asking is whether there would be any difference between vacuuming with a brush attachment versus vacuuming without a brush attachment, over the long term life of the cloth...

The only true way to know whether there would be any long-term cloth speed and cloth wear difference between using a vacuum with a brush attachment versus using a vacuum without a brush attachment would be to have two identical tables in a pool room, both recovered with the same cloth at the...

I started this thread and as of last week I now feel I have the perfect setup - a Makita cordless backpack vac with a 10” soft horsehair brush attachment. It now takes me less than 2 minutes to do a complete job per table, less than 20 minutes to do all 10 of our tables, which I do every other...

Yeah, anymore it’s hard to get to anyone with professional skills to do anything for less than $20 or more, even if it takes them 5 minutes or less. Obviously, if I bring a load of house cues in for my tip man to re-tip, he’s going to give me a far better labor price per cue to install Le Pro...

If you are supplying the tip, you’ve got to figure $15 on the lower end to $30 on the higher end as an acceptable rate for a professional quality job from an experienced mechanic. Cue mechanics that do a lot of re-tips often stock a good selection of popular tips at various price points, and...