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Here's photo of two balls in the corner. All corners are identical in size. Actual measurement is 4 3/8". My bad on the smaller number. Some other GC5s they had were 4.5". All with the extended rails from the factory. Thanks for all the inputs. The mechanic at the Billiard's Factory in...

I shall ask. One of game’s top pool mechanics will do the installation. What does dead pocket mean?

The one I’m purchasing has the extended rails. 4.25” corners. Several other of the gc6s also had same extended rails but were 4.5”. All in way rails were installed I guess.

Trying to understand all the detailed differences between a standard Gold Crown IV and the Tournament Edition. Only things I can find are the rail length resulting in narrower pockets and the decals. Are there any other differences? Thanks.

I’ve enjoyed going through the 99 Critical Shots book. A lot of great “secrets” in the book. The shots do come up a lot too.

Try this drill to see how straight you are cueing. Put object ball on head spot and cue ball on foot spot. Strike the OB as dead center as you can with the CB. The OB should hit rail, bounce off and hit the CB. It's hard enough to even have contact between the two balls but when you get...

Stan Shuffet's CTE is DESIGNED to make balls go in center of pocket, not just in the pocket. The others not so much.

If you look at a CB with, let's say, your right eye, you can move your head so that eye sees the center of the CB. This is the center that YOU see based on your eye position. Use a mark on the ball to mark this center. Now, while in this same exact position, without moving your head at all...

You can have a million ticks over 360 degrees. Doesn't matter. It just determines how far away they are from each other. 360 ticks is fine. It's one degree per tick. Couldn't care less what the distance is. Not the point.

No you don’t, with CTE. You do know exactly where the center of the CB must go to pocket the shot. When that is figured out (through perception practice) then your only task is to hit that one tick on the the CB that puts the ball in center pocket. I think your comment applies to ghost ball...

According to Stan there are 360 “ticks” on any ball. Each one is 1 degree. Each tick is an edge. There are 360 edges on any ball using one degree per tick as basis. Getting the right CB tick to line up with the right OB tick is a pure nightmare (for me but may not be for others…) without an...

I discovered the poor cue stroke while working with the CTE system. Wasn't really noticeable on the shorter shots you start out on. As I expanded the distance there was more error observed. Perfect perception and CTE technique (at least as perceived by me) but the cue ball wasn't hitting its...

Nope, you hear it go "plunk" in the pocket behind the curtain :-) But you can the path if, for example, the curtain is half way between OB and pocket. Watch Stan in the video a few posts above.

I'm glad you can shoot balls without looking at the pocket. You are obviously an advanced player. Us mere mortals need a system to learn. I was missing everything with ghost ball and was truly inconsistent. With Stan's CTE I have confidence, I can see the lines, I can see the center cue ball...

What connects to the pocket is the art of the correct perception. Without that you cannot connect to the pocket. But if, for example you know by looking at the shot that it‘s a 30 degree cut, then you can remove the pocket and just make the object ball travel 30 degrees off the cue ball path...

Hey Dan. There are actually 3 aiming lines to use if you include (and one should) parallax line. This is typically seen with the center of two eyes when in full stance with head poked. Also seen at ball address, but to keep the perspective you have to poke the head because the eyes have to...

The perceived center of the cue ball changes with your eye position. Stan teaches this explicitly in his CTE teaching. Line up your right eye right down the cue with the cue touching center cue ball. The one singe eye lines that up perfectly (shut out the other eye). Holding that position...

You could use a couple of paper hole reinforcers and a thin strip of plain white paper. Affix the paper strip to the table with a reinforcer on each end. Make it about as long as your normal follow-though or longer if you wish. Put the cue ball in the near reinforcer. Line up for center cue...

As the below post said, all the lines must be parallel including those going through the balls. It's all about center cue ball, and where that center actually is for each situation, which are known in CTE as perspectives. I used to be pretty good with the ghost ball method. Then took up...