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Sorry, this is completely wrong. Honestly, I'm a little surprised to hear this rationalization from you. It's straight up blame-the-victim. I cannot find a legal concept or term for "shared responsibility" other than someone using those words in a sentence, like "the plaintiff shares...

RH Gilmer's name came up in another thread, and I was just wondering... was he any relation to Sam Gilmer? The young guy who just won the amateur open at Super Billiards Expo? I noticed he was repping RH Gilmer's pool room, Southern Billiards.

Good question. For any system there will always be shots that fall in between the track lines. The suggestions about using the midpoint estimation trick are good, but they need some feel and experience to make them work, since the angle out isn't parallel to the angle in. You can use spin to...

Using a nickname isn't just about "standing by your statements". It's about privacy and common sense. "People who don't use their real name are scared"... To some extent you're right. Scared that irrational nutjobs will blow up verbal debate into a personal assault. I mean an actual personal...

Yes! LOL. "oop, what do I do with my hands? Let me just... maybe if I wave them around a bit and then casually grab my hair..."

The MC does carry big bragging rights! It implies that the player was at one point top 5 in their country. Now, we know that due to politics and popularity that isn't always true. But nobody who gets selected is a fish. It's a real honor. When MD was talking to Jayson Shaw before their TAR...

That's not what "it's the indian, not the arrow" is about. That's like one indian has an arrow and the other has a sharpened stick. Obviously cues need a bare minimum of quality. Once they meet that bare minimum - It's the indian, not the arrow. Ask your question more realistically: If the...

Some guys on here still seem to feel it was just an off-day for Buddy, (I was gonna mention CJ but he beat me to it). Buddy seems like such a good guy it's hard to imagine. I would have kept quiet too, just because I hate to disappoint someone who has seen the beautiful way Buddy runs balls...

I'll be checking it out. Glad to FINALLY see someone use a neutral racker in a challenge match! It's unreal to me that so many big matches go down without this, and there's always that mini-controversy afterwards. People argue it's impractical for a big event like the US Open, but for 1v1, it's...

Zzzz. Come on JP... You're telling me you can't possible turn this into a good photograph, because of that magic rack on the table? I guess SVB and Ko Pin Yi didn't get the memo about how magic rack makes breaks more boring. The break is just 10 or 11 percent of all the shots you'll take in...

I think you can safely ignore pretty much all the replies that try to answer your question directly. How would anyone know, except the APA national office? They're not a publicly traded company so their profit and loss info is private. Nobody here has that info. A lot of these answers are...

Single best slow-down trick I ever read was in Mark Wilson's book. Make your backswing slo-o-o-o-o-o-w. Most players, even if they're working on improving their stroke, don't understand the importance of the backswing. It might seem like the forward swing is the only one that matters, but...

It's the baby-tosser, not the baby!

I don't see any harm in it. When you're hooked in 14.1, it's rarely on a hanger, and making any non-hanging jump shot is a challenging, skillful shot. If you miss, it's not like rotation games where you can often get lucky/safe. You're gonna sell out virtually every time. If someone wants to...

A little delayed but I wanted to reply to this. Here's why Mosconi's track record is relevant today - I believe there are two ways you get absurd domination: One way: a guy knows a 'trick' or has some unfair edge the others have, and the others simply lack the same tools or knowledge. For...

I liked doubling it up at first, seemed really conservative. But now that I'm looking at it, could something like this be possible? If you can avoid the 6 you can try to freeze on the 12, or bump it out of play, maybe even get behind it with lots of spin? Looks like it might only sell out 1...

I would assume it's some prank or the barker and the backer are in cahoots. Or worse, some kind of con/scam. Like I lose and the backer says "no you misunderstood the deal. You owe me $50,000." This is an interesting question but not with that silly $100,000 number. That number is so rare that...

I can pick up either one and play fine without any adjustment. Your line of aim is the same using either one. The differences are subtle. Some feel the OB's hit is "softer" or "mushier", but I think that has more to do with the sound the tip makes, than the tip actually being softer. And the...

That was my first instinct as well which means you have terrible instincts. Or a similar shot on the 2, since that angle makes it easier to stop the cue ball since the rail doesn't block the bottom of the ball as much. Freeze whitey on the... guess that red ball is the 7. Who knows, maybe the...

Just do it mathematically. You figure out how often you think your horse will win, as a percentage. If he's making actual fair games, and seeking out tough action, you pretty much are guaranteed to lose money. If his win rate is 50%, then after 20 sets (at $100 each) you paid out $1,000 and won...