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I play on new Diamond / Gabriels 9' tables from 11 am until 7 pm for $8. Most tournaments in the room are either free entry or the paid entry entitles players to free or greatly reduced table time afterwards, and often before. Plus the coffee is free refill. :) It's a sixty mile round trip...

If you like your cue and the way it plays that's what matters I like the way mine turned out. Bob and I worked out the design together. It gets some positive comments at the pool room. I took a chance when I ordered it since I don't know anyone around here with a Dzuricky to test hit. I like...

I posted the picture in this thread. I hope you have a big monitor! :D

There is no need to be in top physical condition to play world class pool. That need exists for sprinters and cyclists at the top levels. Pool is not an activity of physical exertion. It doesn't even count as exercise. There is no reason that the physical differences affect the ability for...

I follow this advice, generally.

I've been very happy with my DZ. The workmanship is excellent, and the cue plays very well with a nice stiff hit. Good luck with your trade, Duke.

I use Tiger Products' Corona leather bridge head. Usually I put it on a house cue, but sometimes will use my break stick instead.

This is why I only use leather bridge heads. :)

True, a smaller shaft will allow you to get more life out of your tip. For example, you can expect to get 6% more life from your dime shaped Moori tip on a 12.5 mm shaft than I can get from the same dime shaped Moori on my 13 mm shaft. By the same token, given the same tip radius, I can hit the...

It is probably a contributing factor because it increased the odds of having a good shot immediately following a wet break. Remember, though, by utilizing that rule change, the player would at least one more ball to make before the eight ball. The tables awfully cluttered 5-6 balls into an...

119 grams = 4.20 oz 120. grams = 4.23 oz Both these cases would read 4.2 oz on a scale as you described. Also, 121 grams = 4.27 122 grams = 4.30 oz 123 grams = 4.34 oz These three cases would read 4.3 oz on a scale as you described. Having the measurement in grams is more meaningful than...

4.3 oz = ~120 gm

Seems pretty clear cut. If the subject is identifiable and the picture is going to be used commercially, the odds are very high that a model release is required in order to legally use the subjects likeness. If the subject doesn't sign the release, you can't use his likeness. It doesn't matter...

I can't comment on the hit, but my personal opinion is that purple heart is among the UGLIEST woods that can be used in a cue. Again, that's just my own personal opinion.

They just don't make 'em like they used to. From the auctions questions/answers: That's one heavy duty pool cue! :D :D :D

Shaft diameter and tip radius This is incorrect. I have three 13 mm shafts with Moori III M tips installed and shaped to a dime radius. All have been shaped multiple times and have plenty of shoulder remaining to allow several more reshapings. The shoulders are currently between 3 mm and 4...

A Predator Z shaft, their lowest deflection model, reduces deflection by less than 25% compared to an average shaft. A player cannot aim at the "NATURAL point of contact" with a low deflection shaft. They must still consciously or sub consciously compensate for cue ball squirt, they just have to...

It's actually rule 4.21, but the number is irrelevant. I agree that the IPT should have used established rules. I think it would have lent further credibility to the organization. However, since they didn't, they encountered a scenario that had not been previously considered by the IPT. If...

Sounds like Graph Theory is like being 1/4 mile from the interstate, but ten miles from the on ramp. I can see how graph theory could be used in billiards, but I fail to see the bad part of the news. It sounds like a good opportunity to me.

There, I fixed that for you! One of the things that turns people away from Mathematics, I think, is that the application seems limited until Trigonometry and Calculus. Only then do students begin to realize that EVERYTHING is mathematics. I'm especially surprised to see few mathematicians in...