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I'd put Filler as the all time best European player, but that's only because Gorst is now a de facto American. 🇺🇸

Gorst may be a public figure, but to the Russian government he's also a deserter. Maybe one upside to Trump's and Putin's passionate love affair is that Fedor won't be detained on some bogus charge, but I'm still crossing my fingers.

Never mind, I see that Bob Jewett beat me to it in another thread. 🤬

Jackson Page, what next?

That's funny, because the first time I saw Cole Dickson play, at the Brass Rail in Durham, NC, he picked up a POS house stick off the wall and tortured the best local player. This was when he was 19 and looked more like 16, so maybe he got more particular as he got older.

The sharking that steams me more than anything is when it's my opponent's turn at the table and they just keep on talking to their friends or staring at their bleeping phone. Most of the time it's not even intentional, but it's still annoying as hell. When it's your shot, get up and shoot...

I've been in plenty of scuzzy pool rooms, but the one I liked playing in the least was one of the most celebrated rooms in the country: Jack 'n' Jill in Arlington, VA, AKA Beanie's. The action was great. and every road player in the world passed through, but nearly all of the tables were these...

I would've loved to have seen some of those payball ring games in the 70's when Keith and Denny Searcy were butting heads. Since they were both A-level California players back in the 70's, I'm sure there were many such occasions. I never saw anyone better than Searcy at payball, but then I've...

I wouldn't mind seeing the template moved slightly askew in order to prevent the virtually automatic 1 ball and wing ball breaks that some plays have down to a science. That said, nothing---NOTHING---is more aggravating to me than to see players fiddle and diddle with the old wooden racks for...

Couldn't agree more. One of the many things I love about Stu is that every time I see him on the streams he's always got a big smile on his face. He looks like someone who's enjoying life to the fullest, a man after my own heart.

You wouldn't be saying that if you'd seen some of the payball games BITD with Buddy, Mike, Keith, Denny Searcy, Jimmy Reid, St. Louie Louie, Cole Dixon, and scores of other straight shooters. No ducking or playing safe, just firing balls in from everywhere.

I may be in a minority here, but these banks ring games bore the shit out of me. If they're going to have a ring game, why not bring in a snooker table and make it payball? $100 on the 2 through 6, $200 on the 7, double payout on a 6 ball run. It's the greatest ring game ever invented, and...

Shuff beat Lee Van and now he's playing Gorst on the TV table, but it doesn't look like a tournament match. Is Brandon still in the 1P?

Slopping balls is part of the game, and so are lucky snookers. It's purely my personal preference that only the latter kind of offends me. And I agree with you that too many times TE becomes a duck fest, which is why I much prefer playing 2 fouls BIH, where shotmaking (meaning pocketing balls)...

I only used "the Grady rule" as a shorthand way of saying "call shot-call safe", since Grady introduced that rule in many of his tournaments. I hadn't realized there was a Grady rule in one pocket. As for the rule itself, I agree that in pro tournaments it removes the two-way shot, although...

I appreciate that TE is a much "better" version of 9 ball, because it rewards talent in more aspects of the game beyond shotmaking. And the old 2 foul rule would make TV matches excruciatingly slow. Having been raised on that older rule, it was much better suited for head to head gambling than...

I've seen the bracket for the Bigfoot, but is there a link to the brackets for the other 3 competitions? I can access all the tables, but it'd be nice to know who's playing on which tables without having to click on them one by one.

Serious question: How on Earth did this guy ever wind up with a # 2 Fargo rating?

BITD Beanie's Jack 'n' Jill's 24/7 room served as a de facto dormitory for many of the country's best road players.