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That’s why we have the “written rules” explicitly covering frozen balls. Idk what the written rule situation was in the 80’s, that’s before my time. The physics have never changed, of course. Frozen balls act as one ball, regardless of what stroke or elevation is used (except for a soft...

The rules at that time regarding frozen or near-frozen balls were changing, and every TD and player had their own version. That's why Cardone said before the shot: "this is such a clouded area in pool, in the United States" I had the opposite happen to me. I was playing a guy in about 2010 $100...

I was part of an in-house league a put on by a legit pool room. It was a league of serious players of all abilities, playing straight pool, on 9' tables. It was handicapped. This was a room in Philly in the 90's when straight pool was still played daily there. It was round robin with maybe 10 or...

If you want to attract the better players, and have more official rules, a tournament is the way to do it. Plus, it's WAY WAY less herding cats and drama than a league. You can start your own if you don't like the existing ones in your area. That's actually what I did. Anyone can be a TD today...

If frozen, no foul, not even close to a foul. If not frozen, def a foul, no question a foul. This is from both the physics viewpoint, and "legit" WPA rules. Who knows what the rules in play were for this even though. Billy didn't even know. I highly doubt they were following WPA rules. It might...

There was one member here about 15 years ago he was making super nice drawings of cues. I think he was using a very basic program such as microsoft paint or similar. He would post a lot of them, with a new one every couple of weeks. They looked so good I think they fooled us all which were...

These are generalizations I've found to be true over the years: Good players could not care less about league fees, handicaps, format, table size, or drama. Good players like to play solo. They do NOT want to be on a pool team. Good playrs like to come and go as they please. Not be committed to...

I just checked 10 seconds ago, a bunch of 12.9's and 12.4's are available. No 11.8's. Mostly uniloc, mostly 29". Also Seyberts, JoeRackEm, and the other vendors may have stock. To answer OP's questions, I hit the Bull Carbon on a tournament they sponsored in VA in 2023. It felt very good in...

Sold out? You can get one right now, on their 4th of july sale page.

You like the Arena lights at Markley? Yuk, they are brighter than the sun and in your eyes the whole time.

@garczar I bashed a Predator product, and praised a Diamond product in this thread;)

For that price you’ve got to get a custom butt. Spending that much on a production cue would be funny. Start with the shaft you want. I assume since you’re asking about a butt specifically, you’ll be using an aftermarket shaft. If CF, none of them have joint rings so the butt joint needs an...

@cigardave the new Diamond lights are nothing like the ones from 30 years ago. They were redesigned maybe 3-4 years ago. I believe they may even be made by Litman, but unsure. They are much lower profile, lighter, and run on qty 3, 2x2 LED panels. Branded Littman lights are excellent! One room...

You get it from tournaments that use the system, and can also do challenge matches that report to it using a phone app called Salatto. It's a logarithmic scale. Every 100 point difference means a 66:33 ratio of winning a single game, which roughly works out to doubling the lesser player's score...

Good shooting all. First post updated.

@batmmann5 can you show your pockets closer and/or link them? I don't believe I've ever seen anything like them. Thanks.

First post updated. Good shooting all!

Was the Predator event using Predator triangle rack, and the Olhausen event was using a template rack? If so, I think that would explain the better breaking by the women.

wrong thread.

I think 1 rail routes are harder to control the direction than 2 rail routes. If the spin is a hair off on the 1 rail route, it makes a big angle difference. On 2 rails routes (whether forward or backwards), an error in spin does not seem to have the same effect. The ball is usually going into...