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I won an 8 ball break pot once. It wasn't a lot of money but it was more than first place in the weekly tournament got. I came in second that night so did pretty well money wise. It was my first break shot with a newly purchased Rich Chudy cue. A friend came back from the loser's bracket with...

I'll see if I can find an old Waldo cue to play with! Since it is old felt, I'll bring a Norelco to smooth it out a bit.

I have only ever seen one 6ft coin op in a local tavern. Talk about small!!

Pool. Moments of brilliance surrounded by hours of terror!

But they don't listen. I sing to my cue but it don't care.

It is an H-11, I have one. Some of them just have the vertical logo worn off from regular wear. Some I have seen were not stamped all that deep. They show up on Ebay once in a while. You can check completed auctions to see if there were any listed recently and what they sold for. That is true...

Yes. Proficient Billiards. Usually a two week turnaround. Expert in repairs since that is most all that they do. They work all the time, not just when they feel like it!

Don't play at all, just be a backer.

I am 72. I think I'll get on the list just for fun and get in the way of someone.

Had a bar tournament here years ago at the Getaway Tavern that limited the first place winners to only playing once a month. It seemed to work okay. Funny though how some of us always came in second week after week! The Getaway is one of a few taverns still around from the 80s and 90s.

I have seen a couple of them in the video "reels" on Facebook. They look impractical for serious playing across several dimensions. As well as being just dumb.

Buy one shaft of each taper. Even then you may be dissatisfied. I have three shafts from Rich Chudy for the same cue all the same taper. One plays incredibly well and the other two are more similar to each other but nothing like the third one. I have no idea why it is like that. You might ask...

Gonna need a suitcase to carry all the pool gadgets you have!! Spend your money on table time.

As always it depends on the rule set you are playing by which should be discussed before starting to play. Especially if you are doing any gambling at all. 8 ball rules in taverns are all over the place with all kinds of variations so you need to sort that out. Back when it was a quarter a game...

Yup. Typical of a Hoppe styled cue.

That's pretty much it in a coin op tavern world. 8 ball break is a quick win and gets more quarters going in the table just that much faster which is good for the tavern owner.

I'll try to cover it well in the book I probably won't ever write "The Psychopathology of the Pool Player". Until then there is always the Diagnostic Statistics Manual IV. But it is like one of my psychology profs said once... "We study all this psychology stuff and often try to classify...

I am a Mike but it wasn't me.

Fireplace pokers! Or, if you have a home table and kids play on it, let them use them. No jousting with them on bicycles however!

Tell them "sorry but I owe my drug dealer too much money and I am down to my last tube of model airplane glue". Try to keep a straight face!! That oughta throw their game off!!