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More than 90% of luck in pool is in position. Why don't you call all your shots and position for the entire run before you start shooting if you want to eliminate luck? Why don't you have to call the exact position for a safe? If you intend to hook me behind the 3 but instead hook me behind...

And every time a player is faced with a safe that may possibly pocket a ball (including multi-rail kick shots) he is going to call that ball to keep from being penalized if a ball falls - even though his real intention is to play safe. So he makes a 3 rail kick gets safe and looks like he...

If you are using outside english, the harder you hit the less curve you will get so you will hit the ball more full. The effect should be opposite with inside. You may find that you are, as most people are, relying on cueball curve to pocket many shots and control your cueball. Most players...

If you watch Efren he hits the cueball with no pause between his last practice stroke and the actual hit and comes closer to his true speed of stroke than any other player I have seen. It has the effect of doubling the length of his stroke and greatly enhances his timing resulting in better...

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I played on the Camel Pro Billiards Series in the late 90s. The logo was blue for ten ball because all their biggest tournaments were ten ball, and none of them were call shot. Call shot had previously been tried on CJ's PCA tour for 9-ball and imo was a tried and true failure. It complicated...

If you don't want to shoot the bank from the rail, it is maybe easier to go two rails around for the eight than to slam the cueball to get a couple inches sideways.

Ten ball has always been played just like nine ball until the recent perversion in the WPA rules. Call shot makes the game overly complicated and more boring since it skews the game toward safe play.

Ran an 85 today on my table (high run on this table woo hoo!!!) with 3 and 7/8 inch corners and 4 and 3/8 inch sides. Narrowly missed a very close very sharp cut from near the spot that hit inside the point of the side. I thought it was a dead scratch off a couple balls but it missed the...

The deflection is more in the alignment and speed than the shaft. It can be just as easy to aim at the edge of the ghostball as the middle, which is what a 1/2 ball deflection allows. I believe a 1/2 ball deflection is the easiest amount to obtain consistently over a range of speeds and...

So who was the victim?

If I aim for 1/2 ball deflection and you aim for no deflection, you will benefit from less deflection where I might benefit from more.

Nice. How does that compare to right handed?

We sometimes take turns with ball in hand, high run wins 1 point, and play races to 9 or 11 or whatever. You can give an extra point for each full rack run. I think this is a good way to practice.

You can get a simple efficiency rating by playing the ghost. In 9 ball, if you break even you are making about 9 shots for every ball you miss. Divide made balls (9) by made plus missed (9+1) for a .900 rating. Ten ball would be .909, twelve ball .923. Even 6 ball is a respectable .857...

I ran my first rack of 15 ball rotation, all 15 balls, before I was a teenager. The first shot on the 1 was a three rail kick.

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Good idea. Watch Mosconi, there is no screwing around. Point and shoot.

Has anybody tried just putting something thin like cardboard or paper under the rails to raise them a little? This would be so simple anyone could do it and could be removed just as easily.

I'm sure Obama followed the constitition and asked for congressional approval to receive his gift from a foreign government and I just missed that on the news. And I'm sure our troops will be coming home from around the world now that we are at peace.:grin-square: