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This sounds like a great game and I'm definitely going to play this one. Good idea.

Which goes back to my earlier point that it has a lot do with a league operator that cares about having good pool played in their league. An indifferent league operator leads to indifferent division reps leads to ignorant captains... When I played in Hoboken, Andy Segal was our league operator...

The APA is good for introducing inexperienced players to the sport in a relaxed fashion where they can sometimes beat a better player. Over all, it's a good thing for the sport. If the APA was smaller, there would be even less pool on TV. On a personal level it got my girlfriend into the...

I'm a displaced New Yorker in Boston so the next chance I get I'm going to NY and I'm sure I'll shoot pool there. I've never been an action player, so I can't speak to that quality, but for going into a bar and shooting pool against random people there are some spots that I really enjoy. Bull...

This is great. I've recently re-adopted staying focused on angle and observing the ball to ball relationships an each and every shot and it's paying huge dividends. The last time my skills got to a plateau and I wanted to improve I reduced every shot to pushing the cue ball to a specific spot...

I don't use a second way as you describe of aiming the edge of the cueball for thinner than half ball cuts. I still aim center of cue ball and still double the distance with cuts thinner than half ball... Sure, I'm aiming at a spot on the rail or on the felt, but it's easier for me to do that...

I'm in Boston metro area just a couple miles outside of the city and I end up going 30 minutes north to Peabody and go to World Class billiards to find a decent table. The pool scene is Boston doesn't seem too happening in my short time living here so far... World Class in Peabody is nice...

I also can't visualize the ghost ball. No matter how hard I try my brain just isn't good at producing imaginary things. I can visualize a vector though (straight line). So, since I know the contact point of the object ball, I draw a straight line from the center of the cue ball to the center...

Most of my league play has been in the APA (30+ seasons) and as far as handicapping systems go, it does okay. I have a higher winning percentage against lower ranked players than higher ones. Sure, it sucks to run into a bandit SL3, but it doesn't happen all that often. The SL I hate the most...

I'm okay with the "it's an amateur league, you just have to smile and take it" approach. But stating that double hits in the APA are legal is inaccurate.

A good captain can coach their team on these hits. The SL2 and SL3 on my team knows this shot and they won't take it because they know of the illegality of it. I do just smile and take it, but I'll often go talk with the other captain about We wiped this shot out of our league in Hoboken, NJ...

Not a double hit rule? Then what is this:? "A foul may be called only if the player fouls while actually stroking at the cue ball, meaning a double hit of the cue ball" Pretty sure that means you aren't allowed to have the tip touch the cue ball twice when stroking your shot unless I'm...

How do you become an expert and getting some moron arguing with you to shut his mouth and submit to your correct interpretation of a hit? That's what we really need. :)

Yeah, I definitely feel those frustrations... My biggest gripe is with the higher ranked players who know better and play willfully ignorant to their own benefit... It seems like those captains always have SL4's on their team that can amazingly break and run in important situations too...

Is there a rule that says double hits on close shots are legal? Because if there isn't, then the double hit rule should apply regardless of distance between CB and OB... This explanation just doesn't hold weight with me...

Thanks! Looking forward to learning more about pool here with other obsessed players.

Hoboken for the majority of my seasons (more than 20) and I played in Parsippany for a few seasons as well...

I guess all we have left to do is just complain about it on internet forums. :)

If the gap between middle of shaft and table stays the same when you roll it, it's straight. If the gap changes in distance when you roll it, return it.

Can I move in?