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So you are aiming the cuestick at the cueball?

Do you aim the cueball or the cuestick?

Good grief. I laughed the first time I saw particle board under a slate because I had recovered tables before. But diamonds and gold crowns with particle board is freaking insane! That is nothing to laugh about. I am stunned. I mean, how many times do they think you can recover them before...

If you ran it maybe. Or 5 minutes with Trudeau running it... Or, one 1.25 million dollar tournament scheduled for the end of 2009 with zero entry fee open to x number of players qualified through a nationwide points system starting at the beginning of 2009 including any and all added money...

Yes, but what is it? It's the same, ok. What is it for any specific reasonable cue. On a block of ice, or an imaginary pool table with no curve, how far is it possible to deflect a ball with any normal kind of cue without miscueing from the line of aim of the tip. Like in inches over a 6...

On a block of ice, what is the maximum squirt before miscue? How is that affected by speed? And what is maximum squirt on a real table? I have always told beginning players to slam a lot of balls because that was the best way to minimize curve and throw effects.

I met Bruce at a tournament in Wilmington at Breaktime and later at the US Open. Very nice guy and a terrific player. I hadn't heard of the Strickland connection. I've also been interviewed by media people and it doesn't always go as intended. Don't be certain that Bruce said everything...

Wow! Thanks! I started to rewatch that match again to look at the same thing. I have a hard time playing for stop shots on key balls with 4" pockets. It's good to know I'm in good company. Two out of ten for Irving Crane on buckets. Maybe the tight pockets will make me a better straight...

A "dollar" is a 1 ounce silver coin that will cost you over 20 federal reserve notes if you buy them from the US mint due to the privately owned federal reserve banks counterfeiting of our money supply. http://www.fame.org/HTM/Vieira_Edwin_What_is_a_Dollar_EV-002.HTM

A lot of tables play a lot better with shims. With shims or extended rails the pocket opening is deeper in the corner making the shelf more shallow so that balls hang less even though you may miss more balls. I have smaller than 4 inch pockets with near parallel facings that play very nicely...

The hard rubber pocket facing should be removed and a soft rubber facing is glued in and the hard one put back on the outside. The soft ones are only used on the outside on crappy tables. And stacking two hard facings on doesn't play right. I think in common usage "double shimmed" has one...

Ooo, a diamond pro. Nice table. That's tight right? I might need time to talk a backer into something so crazy... I might bring my twin brother to try it to if you let him, he plays with the opposite hand that I do and he's no better than me. He's a little crazy though.

Awesome!!! She never missed a ball! I would love to see her playing today.

Parica told me Lining was one of the top 4 Filipinos along with Reyes, Bustamante and himself after I was fortunate enough to beat Lining in a pro tournament. Lining wsn't at a lot of the tournaments I attended. I remembered him from a McDermott tour event a few years before where he ran 5 and...

Rack-M-Rites haven't been made in a few years. Long's Billiard Supply in Newport News had them. If you are in the US I don't know if you can get the European version, because you would be violating the original US patent held by an American player that was copied in Europe, not to mention...

I played a practice set with Jeanette years ago and she was very rude to me. She wouldn't say anything when I spoke to her and drilled me. I wasn't expecting that since we were at a PBTA tournament that she wasn't competing in. I got the chance to play her a couple more sets at later...

Teddy has has done all my cue work for a long time. I used one of his older cues for a break cue and then started playing with it full time until it was stolen. It played great. He's making me a new one now.

I like the 14, 4, 1, 8. But I'd try to keep an angle on the four to lay the cueball on the top rail near the one. Then it's easier to control the cueball off the one with a full hit and right spin. Playing to get on or near the rail for a hanging ball is a basic rule of position, imo.

I had figured it in my run, but just forgot to type it in. Kind of like not following through on a stroke... I dogged it. And it was a hanger...

Oops, typo, 2, 11, 9, 14, 4, 1, 8, 13