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The fly story is reported in this Sports Illustrated article from 1955: Vest-pocket Master Of Six-pocket Billiards

The Danny D article mentioned in the first post is online: Easy Times The Hard Way It was posted as part of this thread: Pool is bad for your health.

If you have Word, or pretty much any kind of graphics software (lots of free ones), there are plenty of free templates. Here's a site with a few: http://www.freepostertemplates.net/ Search for, "free poster templates" to find more.

What superstitious behavior do you know of, or do you do in pool? There are certainly plenty of stories in other sports about players and their superstitions. This is interesting: From: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/10/the-case-of-the-haunted-golf-clu.html?ref=hp I recently had...

Thanks for doing this Melinda...and now we all know your top secret way to pattern rack, too! Do you have this print:

Human nature....

Make every easy shot. Make every shot easy.

First! Just a one-and-only-one bump post since it's on the fourth page.

Violating my own rules and bump posting once since it's on the fourth page, and may have been missed.

There are several interesting ideas in your post, and I am not the kind of person who will argue about someone else's personal experiences. As an athlete, though, since all the things I actively enjoy require precision, clear-mindedness, etc...I try to avoid adrenaline. There's pretty good...

Never met him. But I have hung out some with Darwin Ortiz. Wonder if they are related....

Oh My! I'm an M-theory guy--but only because one of my friends is a particle guy who works on the Higgs thingie, and it irks him. I'm more of a theoretical math dude than an applied math dude, anyway. I'm interested in extensions of Gödel's stuff, algorithmic information theory, number theory...

This is what the pros say: From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch_hitter

Sigh. Of course, in this kind of analysis, we're making some assumptions: Humans are consistant, and we actually know how much better one player is than another. You may have heard the, "Assume a spherical cow" joke....We gotta start somewhere. So, an old hustler maxim is, "You don't know...

Yep. I was trying to avoid technical terminology. For folks who don't want to drag out a calculator and work through the steps given in the link in the first post, there's an easy-to-use, online, handy-dandy calculator: http://stattrek.com/tables/binomial.aspx Here's how you'd use it to...

Yep. And I've also heard: Hold it like you'd hold a baby bird. You don't want it to get away, but you don't want to crush it, either.

Something I posted a few months back: From: The Pool Hall

I'm tickled that people have refrained from commenting in the last one. *big grin* Maybe they'll do the same in this one?

Good Heavens! I'm doing the unthinkable--starting an aiming thread--sort of. Notice the words, "are useful" are used instead of the word, "work". Now, here's the important part: Please don't make comments, no matter how tempting it is. JUST VOTE!!!

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