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I hate to say this but I once played a game of 8-ball where I broke and the 8 was pocketed (APA rules, so it was for the win) and neither of us saw it. We played two innings before we noticed. Story is also a testament to my making the 8 on the break so infrequently that I don’t even look for it.

No player should be left with one or two seconds to shoot. You might as well just DQ them. Maybe structure it so that once you are ”out of time” then you shift to a time limit that is really short, like ten seconds to shoot or it’s a foul.

You don’t sound like you’re being unreasonably slow which is admittedly a matter of degree but there is slower than average and there is glacier-slow. Regardless of why someone is playing slow, the effect is the same.

I don’t know much about chess clocks but my sense it each player re-starts time running by simply hitting a button. Adding time for innings completed, more time for later innings, etc. seems a recipe for delay and argument. Time clock like in chess seems like a good idea but you’ve got to keep...

I saw your post on your Aiminator. If you could send me ordering info, I’d appreciate it. Best of luck with your new product. Jay

Thanks to all of you for your input. Much appreciated.

It was kind of like Bob said. He just thought that the rail the ball was frozen to was dead. Not sure that he was confusing it with anything else so much as he was just wrong. I shouldn’t have deferred to him and just trusted my own judgment. Wasn’t worth a hassle.

So SeniorTom posted a question the other day about what constituted a foul. I was recently in a similar situation: An object ball was frozen to a rail. I lightly hit the object ball with the cue ball causing the object ball to roll a few inches out onto the table without contacting another rail...

I was in there a few months ago with a friend and we were talking about how big it was. He looked it up on some kind of municipal or government website (I’m not sure what) and it came back at over 33,000 square feet. That’s a big pool hall. They’ve got around 40 tables.

I’ve been an attorney in the criminal justice system for more than forty years. What you are describing is not overstated at all. True privacy is dead and buried in the modern world and we gave it all away one click at a time.

Go all in… house cues only!

Each an admirable goal!

Diamonds in the Highlands in Louisville closed after Covid and re-opened under a new owner as The Railyard. They more than doubled the number of tables. It now has more than 30 Diamond bar boxes and maybe half a dozen 9 footers.

Can this technique be modified or adapted to the different kind of reflection you get from a perimeter light?

For decades pool has been so intertwined with gambling, and particularly, hustling, that seedy pool halls and sharks robbing hapless suckers are now the permanent image of pool for huge numbers of people. This is one reason, among many, that pool has struggled in this country for decades...

This was a lot of fun. Thanks for the post.

What is the real issue here? Is it a worry that someone who wishes you good luck before a match in insincere? A hypocrite because he doesn’t literally mean it? A shark move? Saying ”Good luck” or similar phrases before a match is no more than a common courtesy and is a custom as old as...

You should think about downsizing them a good bit and scale them to a piece of sheet metal about the size of a movie poster with a pool table mock-up painted on it. Put magnets on the flat side of your printed ball and you could move the balls anywhere on the scaled table diagram. That could be...

I’ll throw in another couple of observations as an attorney with 40 years practice. Reading just a little between the lines (and maybe it’s said outright by the OP, I haven’t read every post), it appears that the OP is a personal friend of the Mr. Peters. In this kind of situation, having a...

I got that same light as did my brother. I second your recommendation. It’s incredible. I can’t see how the more expensive lights could be any better. Great value.