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Why on earth would you need a laptop to get a rough feel for the chances of you winning vs another player? I know your just trying to be humorous but that just doesn't have any comic appeal. It's not clever , its not imaginative and its not witty. I don't know a single person that plays...

I basically see two things. Bankroll management and advantage percentage. It would be stupid to bet your entire bankroll on one game when the player is only slightly worse than you. If you are almost certainly going to win - lets say 90%-100% then I would bet about 60% of bankroll. If...

I could write a dissertation on this. Playing position comes with experience and experience brings knowledge. There is a great deal of difference between writing about it and actually doing it. Every position play is about not asking too much of yourself in both of these areas.... a) Making...

"Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last." Chinese Proverb

Breathe deep and slow. Keep your mind in the present and don't mentally chat to yourself. I'm not saying don't think, you still need to survey the table and work out how to hit the shot at hand... just do it without any mental chattering. If any mental chatter should take place, it should be...

The problem is that those statistics consider only the percentage of the win via the run out. You have missed many other factors. Note - I'm just going to relate this to 9 ball. a) A lot of run outs end because of poor position instead of misses. In which case you are still in control and...

Winning is knowing where you are at, knowing where you need to be and knowing how to bridge the gap.

You said that you followed what I was saying about the backstroke and throughstroke matching up. It means either that a)your in agreement or b)that you have now mastered reading simple sentences and can now comprehend my post. Seems I gave you too much credit by assuming the former...

I'm very glad that you have reread my accurate post and now agree with me. When someone says they have taken the time to research video of players playing at their absolute best and that the frame count matches, any decent instructor worth his salt should at least take note. However, this was...

With all due respect, I have spent hours watching matches at super slow speeds so I can watch players actions and your totally clueless. I've counted the frames, have you?

Earl Strickland does exactly what I said. I don't think you read my post very carefully. By one-two rhythm, I am talking about the stroke that delivers the cue only. Not the preamble warm up strokes! One beat for the backstroke, One beat to the finish... equal duration of time. For...

A lot of players exaggerate the pause and lose the 1-2 rhythm of a great stroke. The best snooker and pool players do this. When I once slowed down the video of Ronnie's 147 super quick break... he used 8 frames from address to the top of the backstroke and 8 frames to the finish... every...

I'm sorry but your not going to like what I am going to say. Like someone has already said, they know exactly what you are doing, getting free practice time at their expense. That basically makes you a scrounger. It doesn't make you 'amazing' that you can beat the average Joe. 90% of these...

When I want to maintain my focus, I put more concious thought into my breathing. When people panic, start mentally conversing with themselves, or allow people to frustrate them...etc their breathing becomes shallow and their mind is no longer functioning optimally.

I once downloaded a video which was done by the Oyster. I did not buy it after I watched it like many other videos I have downloaded. The guy just can't play the game. He's your average hack who has spent enough time on the pool table to pot okay and knows the basic position routes and...

Not a model of perfection but it does raise a few points. Obviously children have shorter arms, which means that the hand is travelling around the elbow on a smaller circle, making the drop more apparent. When the chin is on the cue, it absolutely necessitates keeping the cue on the same...

My best guess. It could be that you are striking with the forearm past vertical and using an rigidly applied stationary elbow concept (which fine provided you don't have the chin on the cue) and as the forearm goes up the cue wants to bang you in the chin/chest. After a while the player has a...

Probably these items would be early in the agenda. 1. Consistency of stroke. Test = Long straight-in shots. 2. Put at least 1/2 your practice time practising run outs with the game that you are trying to master within a difficulty level you can achieve at least 50%... ie if your main game is 8...

Personally, I think that kicking systems are junk. There is no substitute for practice.

One pocket is boring. Straight pool, snooker and Rotation are all great games but just too difficult to score for a relaxing casual game. When most players play, they just want to relax, not keep track of scores, not respotting balls, not adding points... thats why 8-ball and 9/10- ball are so...