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Come on out tonight, W. We'll memorialize with a beverage and a few (hundred) racks of pool. -Andrew

Yeah, if it's nearly straight and no scratch to think about, I use straight top and gentle speed. If it's dead straight and there's a chance of following the CB in the pocket, I'll hit a stop shot, no english at all, and not any harder than I need to to stop the ball. If there's more angle, I...

I was there that night, many good pool hijinx. They tried to close the room on you halfway through a $500 match and you had to call Billy at home. Bus Driver tried to get me to play for something, but gave up once I told him I couldn't bet him much because I knew who he was and knew I couldn't...

A lot easier to see it happening now that he stole that frame back to get within 1. 15-14 racing to 18 is exciting stuff! -Andrew

Ronnie's dogging it. Hard to see the required comeback happening when he's missing so many shots that should be high percentage for him. -Andrew

Also, by elevating you might be sort of tricking yourself into hitting with a lower effective tip offset. If you aim your stroke at a constant point on the surface of the CB, you'll get more backspin if you elevate the back of the cue. That's because that point you're aiming at is further away...

I think you'd jump the CB in this instance (hitting the CB while the bottom of the tip was in contact with the cloth), even if your tip diameter was large enough to make a miscue impossible. With the tip braced against the cloth, it would be unable to deflect away, kind of like a tip with...

This one would depend fairly heavily on cloth speed. The faster the cloth, the softer you can hit a draw-drag shot of a given distance and end up with stun at contact. Silicone spray might drastically increase the distance in question. -Andrew

And what happened? You missed some fun times. -Andrew

And it happens a lot, too. Much more often than slopping it into an unintended pocket. I haven't ever seen ball in hand given for this, but there are rules for 10-ball where you can make your opponent shoot again after an accidental safety. I like the rule, but some people don't because it...

I think this is the best pro-slop argument. There are those situations in 9-ball where a good commentator might point out "he should kick 2 rails behind this ball and hit it it full; a lot of good things can happen if he hits it that way." That "a lot of good things can happen" insight is...

That's the nice thing about facts. They don't depend on consensus. -Andrew

What does the "to me" in that quote mean? I see a lot of "to me" or "in my opinion" attached to statements that are not matters of opinion on this forum. Baffles me. It is an objectively measurable and provable fact that squirt doesn't depend on flex. -Andrew

Thanks. Next time I'm in Austin I might try to sneak away from the family one night and find out what kind of trouble I can get into. -Andrew

Are there real players to be found (and played) in one or both of these? Which one's better for that? I find myself in Austin from time to time, so I'm curious. -Andrew

I don't have a high speed video of it, but I believe an extreme side-spin shot can miscue with a single hit. With top the table bed keeps the ball from moving away from the cue, and with bottom the table bed keeps the cue from moving away from the ball, but with side I think the two can part...

If this is something you can enable on the web interface, I'd like to know how. Also, consider yourself quoted. -Andrew

You can't discount how huge the break is in this kind of spot. If I'm getting the breaks and the 5, I'm liable to run 3 or 4 racks in a row. If I'm getting the breaks, my opponent can never run even 2 racks in a row, even if he's God himself. When I make a mistake, the absolute most they can...

Exactly. This is what we should all be focusing on when we try to work on our "stroke"; you have to figure out and ingrain a technique that allows you to add lots of speed without losing the accuracy required to hit right at the miscue limit. A billion times easier said than done, though...

No, it doesn't. What matters is speed. But you're not going to be able to generate as much speed as possible unless you keep accelerating all the way to the ball. And if you're not trying to accelerate through it, you're probably not accelerating all the way to it. None. In fact, it always...