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I'd stay away from illegal activities while in China. Plenty of Westerners have disappeared without a trace for years. God knows what they are doing to them, but it's easy enough to imagine. Wow, so we're cruising for hookers now? You were spewing woke nonsense just a short while ago, and now...

Yes. That is my understanding Swerve is part of the game. Mostly when you use TOI, the ball is struck firmly, but swerve does come into play. On most shots the amount is so small as to be almost negligable. Rolling shots in slowly, with center ball, over long distances is rarely a winning...

Tight pockets are dreadful for the game at the amateur level. Most amateurs have a very inflated opinion of their own skill. They claim 4.75 or even 5 inch pockets are too easy for them. Unfortunately they can't string any racks even on this equipment, so it's a patently false claim. Unless you...

Even well educated men sometimes fall victim to their own greed. There is no such thing as easy money. This is a very good life lesson for all. ANY investment can go sideways, and it's usually the "sure thing" that will wipe you out. I kind of suspected this is how it went down, because this is...

I don't know what kind of job it is that you offer. Maybe none of what I'm about to write applies to it? However, physical jobs with no health insurance and 55 year old pudgy guys who led a sedentary lifestyle, don't necessarily mix. How long before his back, or joints give out from putting up...

I've learned from previous threads on Az not to pile on to these character assasinations. Usually there is another side to the story and the person(s) starting or maintaining the threads are often found to have some sort of agenda. Maybe I have a soft spot for older, struggling pros. I'm...

I've watched countless hours of Buddy Hall and Mike Sigel playing. I especially have studied Mike Sigels pattern play in straight pool. I marvel of the beautiful way Buddy Hall makes the game look so easy. I've also studied many other players, and tried countless techniques. In the end, your...

I don't think it even is necessarily so much about the physical attributes of men in pool, especially not english pool as this seems to be. English pool is even less demanding on power than American pool. A 2. ball break will usually yield good results, even when hit with not too much power. The...

Yes, all tips get harder with use. You could compress a layered tip, probably. BUT there is no real upside to it, while it may wreck the tip completely. There are 1 million hard layered tips. Many of them are cheap, as a grippy, elastic tip that lasts is much harder to make than something dead...

I'm going to go against my better judgement and explain why it's a terrible idea to press layered tips and why people are not loving your suggestion. 1. Pressing tips is normally preceded by soaking, often in hot liquid like milk or sometimes water. For a tip consisting of several layers of...

:rolleyes: This again. There is one born every minute. But I guess, as useless expensive products go, expensive chalk is not the worst. If you pick an exotic brand, you may be the only one who has it, which makes it easy to keep track of. Unfortunately you REALLY need to keep track of the...

I dabble a bit in billiards and came across shot number 3 in a book, but I could never get it to work properly. The shot either didn't get enough action and reversed, or I sometimes got too much action and hit the second ball after 1 rail. The few times I actually made the shot didn't seem to...

I can answer this question! For about a year now, I have not been able to play pool. My joints are not working right. Sometimes it's the knees, sometimes the shoulders, but mostly the hands. I've recently gotten a bit better. I can still work, but pool at a good level isn't possible right now...

I would say that most tables built in the last maybe 50 or so years have been playing in a way where the balls would conform to a kicking or banking system, derived from billiard tables. Granted, there are shitty tables that bank inconsistently because of poor design, bad quality or mostly poor...

Ah, my favourite entities, the WPA and Quatarian sheikhs...I'll make sure to watch the very moment hell freezes over.

Well I don't know if anyone has done it, but I know only this for sure: Virtual Pool has not done it in any released game! The computer player in Virtual pool uses it's own logic on how to run racks, which seems to be: 1. Being close to the object ball is always preferable to being further...

Let me save you another 8 years of toiling: There is no universal solution on how to run racks. Different players will have different specialities when it comes to shots. Some may prefer outside english, some play mostly plain ball, some play all shots. General principles, which are time tested...

I've never liked them. I love the quality and consistency of the materials themselves. But I hate the actual play. They are way fast, way short and the pockets don't play right. My favourite pool hall got them, and I gave them a few months to see if I could start liking them. I didn't. Give me...

I told myself I'd never buy one, yet I did a little over a year ago, for experimentation, and since I could easily afford it. Haven't played at all for about a year now, but not due to the carbon. I've testet pretty much every carbon shaft and IMO there are no significant advantages in...

Haven't touched my cues in over a year, due to ongoing health issues. I'm pretty sure I was better then than I am now. A few years before that I was even better. Not sure if I could reliably hit the end rail now. However, fargorate only dropped me by 22 points, so they believe in me over...