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I play league here in Germany... And the players range anywhere from rank beginners, to hundred ball runners in 14.1, who get pi55ed at themselves if they fail to run out a single rack in their race to 7 league 8 ball match, that they got a single shot in. The problem is that in America, pool...

To this day, I am still salty about getting a Red Label from Diamond, and not knowing better. I was playing fairly sporty at the time, but practiced HEAVILY for Derby the year I got that table.. It threw my banking off terribly, and really jacked up my stroke in general, because the rails were...

Word of caution: You better make damned sure they are not offering you a "Red Label" table, if they are selling a used table that is no longer available. The Red Label tables did not have the correct downangle on the rails, and as such, the rail compressed when a ball hits, and "lifted up" the...

If by "new", you mean the same exact discussion we had 25+ years ago on rec.sports.billiard, then yeah, sure.. Lol...

At least one of the two players is going to have a cell phone.. Have the players self-report via SMS or app or something, with that tied directly in to the tournament software, so that the next match can be scheduled immediately. I get that the redraw after every round is an interesting way to...

All of them, if they were willing to pour millions and millions of dollars into the game, without concern of profit. Think "Sinquefeld" family in chess, which stood up a top notch facility in St. Louis, and gives money to chess tournament prize funds. For those outside of the top earners, they...

I have been having some good results in my German league over the past couple of matches. I am the main 14.1 player for my team, which is crazy, as EVERYBODY in Germany plays 14.1, and not much is expected of the lone American on the team, as we don't play that much 14.1. I had two really good...

I actually got this nickname from oldtime poster "Smorgass Bored". I lived in Tampa for a while, and was not playing much, and he and I got into back and forth a bit on here from time to time when he was still alive.. And at one time he told me I don't play particularly well, and told me I "ride...

Have you actually seen the buckets they were playing on in those days? Buddy's fundamentals were not as good as modern players. The bigger pockets allowed him to get away with it. The slow cloth kept people from just running out for days, even with the bigger pockets, making the game of 9 ball...

There are amateur players who "have beat HOFers"... Multiple times. And then got skulf***ed the next 100 times they played a HOFer. People are getting annoyed because you have been told multiple times he played nowhere near the caliber needed to achieve a HOF spot based on playing ability...

Not to mention that many other players of Jimmy's era were both better gamblers, AND better tournament players than Jimmy. Jim Rempe comes to mind.

Jose deserved it, as he was quite literally the "leader of the invasion" from the Philippines, and changed the way we play 9 ball today. He came to the U.S.A., center of the pool world, and shot EVERYONE'S nuts in for years before Efren arrived. Danny Diliberto deserved it because he became...

He was NOT a good enough "player". That is indisputable. His tournament record stands nowhere close to HOF status. The monsters in the HOF (and quite a few of them who never got in) would have spotted him the 7 easily, and beat him all day long. Louie Roberts, the guy the Action Award at DCC is...

A world governing organization doesn't mean Jack Schitt if the players are playing for pennies. And if Matchroom stops paying good prize funds, the players jump ship. Simple Simon. This is nothing more or less than the WPA getting called out by a competing organization for not growing the game...

I think it is more accurate to say "Filler stuns the ball more, and his English is more effective as such". A well struck stun shot cutting the ball causes the cue ball to naturally pick up running English due to the cue ball gearing off the object ball. When you get this kind of action off the...

Well stroked stun shots result in a very predictable cue ball path, and hitting the center of the pocket. Spinning the ball results in differing thickness of hit, and therefore, pocketing the ball into one side of the pocket or another. This difference results in multiple feet of difference in...

They "roll" the ball less, and tend to have the ball sliding across the cloth further towards the object ball, and as such, tend to minimize the effect of errant left/right English during the stroke. If you roll the ball and mishit it left or right, the cue ball path bends slightly on the way to...

Don't know about all that... I played Tony in the 9 ball at DCC last year, played REAL good on him, and lost 9-5. I think he missed either 1 or 2 balls, on those 4 1/4" (4 1/8"?) pockets. I don't think I would bet against him versus Josh Roberts at all. Actually, I probably bet on Tony in that game.

Jim Rempe would have absolutely been over 800.

Well, in an effort to put a positive spin on it.. At least Team USA won enough games to make it theoretically possible they could win a match, with 9 games across 4 matches.