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thanks for watching and commenting, Dan! 1. yeah, i Tried not to bump either of those balls, i wanted to come up above them. which was unrealistic given my positional skills, so i should've figured out a different idea. fortunately, i was clumsily bumping into balls So much that i nudged the 5...

some months on, here's another video, with an updated stroke. i was surprised to see that although i felt like i was playing very slowly and deliberately, in actuality it's more like Lou Butera once i address the shot (minus the accuracy). https://vimeo.com/36434705 i spent most of the 2nd...

excel tells me Bill's median was 15, and his average was 22.3. no disrespect to Brandon, who probably knows more about stats than i do, but somehow i think the 22.3 is a more accurate measure of how tough an opponent Bill would be (it would not end well for me!). i like this test, may run it...

hey, it's Science, boys and girls: http://boingboing.net/2012/02/06/zapping-the-brain-into-exper.html

maybe including safeties is correct, but getting into a couple of extended safety battles could pull your bpi down to less than 1! would seem to me more meaningful to know non-safety bpi numbers... some classic old-time players might have a really low bpi otherwise. and even today, for...

oops, one more: (3) do you still have the 4 spaces from Allen, and if so, what would it take to get more than 2 tables?

2 questions, Charlie: (1) if you make the $1400, will you have 2 tables? (2) if you cancel, what happens to any money i donate?

well, not a variation, per se, but in the same family of brainier games as 14.1 there's always one-pocket. sometimes Everything turns on one bit of strategy, and it's often hard to tell who's winning until it's over.

i did some bridge experiments last night on a desk i have that's fortuitously the same height as the bed of a pool table, and -- to nobody's surprise, probably -- Sean and Fran are right: leaving the ring finger out of the equation makes my bridge noticeably more stable. i wasn't hitting a...

actually, dub, "if this keeps up", my name would finally be accurate. as far as posting my bridge, there's nothing special about it. if you want to check out the ring finger business we're discussing, just check out any video of Mike Sigel playing; he's pretty much the poster child for this issue.

okay, i have some very interesting results to report here. last night, i played one of the best players in the room i go to. this guy is by any measure a waaaaaay better player than i am. even though he mostly plays 9-ball and 10-ball these days, he remembers 14.1 from his early days, and he's...

Sean, that makes a whole lot of sense! thanks for posting a good complete description (and for copying it in the other forum so i didn't have to). this, in fact, suggests that i should pay some attention to my bridge...

i posted this in Ask the Instructor, but thought some of you might be interested: a few weeks ago i got Phil Capelle's latest (and in my opinion, greatest) book & DVD: Break Shot Patterns. for straight pool players, the DVD alone is like eating desert for 2 hours and 15 minutes: watching great...

a few weeks ago i got Phil Capelle's latest (and in my opinion, greatest) book & DVD: Break Shot Patterns. for straight pool players, the DVD alone is like eating desert for 2 hours and 15 minutes: watching great player after great player execute the final 4 balls of a variety of ingenious...

if you haven't watched the Pagulayan/Hohmann match (2 segments), you're missing a special treat. i know it sounds improbable, but it is one of the most interesting 14.1 matches available anywhere. and complementing the contrast of styles on the table, you get commenting from George Fels and...

could someone post a graphic or pdf of the original chart? sorry to be a squeaky wheel for the umpteenth time: some of us cannot use CueTable.

yes, krupa, the team of George Fels & JR is a brilliant combination! it sounded like they enjoyed it as well!

i really, Really like Max Eberle. he's one of the nicest people in all of pool, and a great ambassador for the game. i really, Really, REALLY wish they'd put him on a shot clock the minute he walks in the door. he'd play better too; notice the pace of his 6+ rack run vs. the rest. kudos to...

"Does anyone ever count the number of people LOST because of pool rooms being smoking? There are a lot of people who refuse to go to pool rooms because of the smoking." the owner of my favorite room tried to tell me & lydia that the smoking ban had cut his business when we met him on our first...

for the past year, Matt Tetrault and i have been the only ones playing straight pool in the room i go to. with a dozen 9' GCs and Anniversaries, that's pretty sad. but as i became known there as "the guy who always plays straight pool", and as people got to know me, some of them started showing...