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Any actual ref would know how to make the call on a draw miscue.

Someone did that to me playing 9-ball, it was called pocket nine, I missed a nine but it went into a different pocket. As I was walking around to pick it up from the hopper to spot it the opponent picked up the cue ball thinking that I lost the game because it went into the wrong pocket. Then...

For the same reason they can charge $800 for a painted cue made in China, and Apple can charge a grand for a phone. People will buy it because of the name and it's the easiest option based on what they hear if they don't look into things too closely. You can buy a lot of products directly from...

Absolutely legal. It's still ball in hand hand until he actually shoots the ball. You made the goof of allowing him the better position at the table.

Accidental scooping of the cue ball when done during a draw shot is not a foul. Scooping is only a foul if you intentionally try to do it to hop over a ball. In those shots intent is everything in the classification. There is a school of thought that many miscues are fouls because the side of...

At SBE, every time I've seen their booth they have had good deals on blemished cues, many of them so light that you wouldn't find the blemish until it was pointed out to you. I have also seen and owned a couple of Lucky cues and have recommended people buy them, haven't run into a warped one...

What area are you in? Somebody on here either knows someone that can help you out with learning to play properly, or is that person LOL Solid fundamentals are the number one things to work on, making a longer shot without any spin on the cue ball so you know you're hitting the right spot...

There's a lot of people on the Billiards Reddit that post their runouts, or at least attempts. Some of them are pretty good players, some of them are crap and just have no experience about the real game and think that because they're goofing around with a buddy at a pool table somebody wants to...

Man, you people sure as hell hang out in the wrong parts of town a lot. The worst thing that's ever happened to me while playing pool is that sometimes my whiskey doesn't get poured as tall as I wanted.

That is going to be a custom case in a small size if you want for anything longer than a 60 inch cue. The JB case I have looks like a hold a 31-in shaft or butt without joint protectors, but doesn't look like a 32 will fit.

Less effort to do the same thing or being able to do extra that the other shaft would max out on based on their skill. It won't help to make the ball, unless the issue is aiming with spin and deflection, but it allowed for easier/more spin generation. Most of them noticed drawing the cueball...

I never quite saw why people look for specific drills, if you want to work on shots, setup whatever shots you want and play them 100 times. I think many drills are for show off points so people can say how good they can do one. The progressive drills that you can find on the Dr Dave site are...

I like that option, if it's better where it is, leave it. I sometimes feel the same way about spotting a ball, there should be an option for the incoming player to have a ball spot before OR after their shot. Since often you may have a shot, but spotting the ball blocks it, or creates a...

Brown, not so much, the black Kamuis however are known for hardening up fairly quickly. The black Kamui soft is my favorite tip, for about 3-4 months, after that it is noticeably harder and feels more like a medium.

Good for some shots, bad for some. Anything that needs a special stroke looks to work better with a leather tip (shooting over a ball, off the rail, masse, drag spin with a lot of side). I have only tried the soft variation, maybe the others work better for those, in my 4 weeks of playing with...

That is one of the benefits of the better CF shaft, more action on the cueball. I let pretty much anyone try out my equipment, and everyone that went from a house cue and many other wood shafts, or low end CF shafts, has commented how much easier it was to get spin with the Revo. From the...

A robot may be able to give you some specific differences in hard numbers, but you can tell simply by missing with spin and seeing how and where it missed. I know with the Revo and the SMO shaft, if I adjust by more than a smidge, the ball misses. With others it has a varying amount going from...

They don't, especially the Cynergy. The Cynergy is about a mid-level for deflection, about what a 314 shaft is. SMO, Revo, Z3 are nearly equal at the top of the LD range.

CF is definitely taking over, even for older players. Seems at least half of players I see use a CF shaft. And many more are using aftermarket shafts in general. It's very hard to run into anyone playing with a stock shaft, even from a high-end maker. I was just at Raxx in NY, and the place...

Are you telling us or asking? Hard to tell which because the photo you have in your post describes the differences, which would answer your question. I have played with the SMO and liked it, very low deflection and good hit feel for a CF shaft. Basically, look at the deflection and pick which...