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Here’s a link I had in an email for one of your videos, I don’t know if that video code helps find the channel id. Good luck and hope you find an easy fix. https://www.youtube.com/c/TorLowry

If you are near Salem, OR: https://www.thecueballsalem.com/

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The Youtube feed cuts out with Oscar up 8-4, Doung came back? What was the final score?

Oscar v. Shaw, who's the scottish announcer?

It’s too hard to attach screen images here because the 128kb file size limit or whatever, but it’s on the WPA fb page still https://www.facebook.com/share/p/TL12EJQ7VxBEHqwE/?

This is an excellent diagram.

Did you ever write an article?

I think you are familiar with Charlie Ursitti’s work on pool and billiard tournaments of the golden era. It’s the main source of data for entire generations of play. Have you compiled all your stats into a single database that you could publish?

It’s not public domain but good to know that you can check it out to read from the internet archive.

This area of math is more like the game of life (and other simple math simulations) than cue sports as you noted. I think the only overlap with real billiards is that something that seems so simple can be incredibly complex and beautiful.

41:50, the shot on the 1 in the final rack to get perfect position on the 2 was incredible from my perspective. That could have easily gone wrong.

The copyright on the book is still in force (regardless of who currently owns it). It’s a great book and I suggest people buy it instead of pirating it.

Ponzi’s autobiography includes a claim that he was the first to play pool on TV (as opposed to newsreels rebroadcast on TV). Edit: It's not 100% clear, but it looks like Ponzi was referring to a televised exhibition he did in 1942. His book has lots of photos of the event.

That’s a good explanation for the settlement—it had nothing to do with the underlying lawsuit but it was some win for Predator that avoided an expensive lawsuit. Lunch was tolerable, thanks for asking!

Predator filed a handful of patents on its LD shafts over the years with varying success. This is the patent that most directly applies to its hollow-bore design, requiring a shaft having a wall thickness of about 0.030 to 0.050in: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6110051A/ And a second...

Corner5 is how I was taught to quickly judge how a pool table is banking. It is amazing the difference between tables or even the same table over different days (due to weather and humidity, if the pool room door is open, etc).

Those diagrams were old even by the time of Phelan. I think the main benefit of the sight marks is they let you more easily estimate quarter and half distances along the rail. But of course snooker and plenty of other billiard tables don’t have them.

Pretty good final going to hill hill with Gorst running out for the win.