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Well one pocket is the greatest pool game barring none. You can play it well when your 16 yrs old and well at 76 yrs old. That's hard to do playing the other pool games. Just watch John Henderson and Frank the Barber from California play the game. So those of you who think it's too slow or...

Enjoy your life my friends because you never know when the man upstairs has different plans for you.

The Swanee is a quality event but it is a regional event which is part of the West Coast Swing. The other West Coast events include the Hard Times event prior to the Bar Table Championships in Reno. The money for the Swanee appears to have little if any added to this years event. Is this a sign...

Tony is a force playing one pocket BUT Alex is just too strong running balls from all over the place. Alex is our best player right now and I don't think Tony can handle the offense Alex will lay down on him. Alex has all the shots and is just a superior ball striker and position player and ball...

Dennis can win but it will take everything he has and his break, which isn't in the top 10, will have to be better. Now if Busty was breaking for him, I would give him a decent chance to beat KO.

Recently their talent is just flat out better than ours. I wish Dennis Hatch was playing well and on the team because he has some tremendous wins over some of their players and he brings a fighters mentality to the game. Most of our guys are not rah rah type of players. I hope I'm wrong but I...

You have to learn to deal with slow play. Especially if you play tournaments and are in action. Trying to get players to play at YOUR pace is not going to happen. Occasionally in a tournament you can attempt to speed up the pace of your opponent but directors are reluctant to impose those...

All that is good. Now we just need to talk Terry Bell into sponsoring a pro event during the Nationals in Vegas. Lots of luck with that......

The best action back in the 60's was in Los Angeles. Jay Helfert and I used to play regularly for $20 per game one pocket. That was our opening bet. And, we were the cheapies in the room. I remember being kicked off a table because there was a bigger money game in the works. Nowadays $5 pool is...

I grew up playing pool in the middle 60's and you couldn't drive five minutes anywhere in California without hitting a pool room. We have no room anywhere in Los Angeles or Hollywood when there were 20 or so years ago. I own a room up the coast in Ventura and the only reason its open is that I...

I have a bucket of old ivory balls that I have been collecting for years. I guess I'll just throw them away. Now that we have started the ban on ivory, maybe we need to morph into not using any wood that might be endangered someday. Just ask Gibson Guitar Co. about that. They almost lost their...

If accurate, I wish Barry well. He certainly has brought controversy to the event for the last 40 years not withstanding this years event. Everyone blasted him, probably he deserved some of it, but it was his baby and he ran with it with passion for a long period. I HOPE someone takes the U.S...

This is a really funny post for me. I own a pool room and I have my staff clean the balls every other day and especially the day after league play and tournament play. I ran a tournament on a thursday where I got on my staff for not cleaning the balls. So they cleaned them up and the very first...

I have heard Morro had a stroke recently. Does anyone know how he is doing? He suffered a massive heart attack in Japan years ago and seemed completely recovered. I hope he is doing well?

It depends on who is playing and for what amount. If a player hustled one of my customers and is NOT a regular then you might have to think about it long and hard. Boys will be boys. Some players don't like to be informed when they are out of line. Mostly I stay away from my players games and...

I am looking to purchase used centennials for my pool room to replace older balls that are damaged. I am listed here as Baby Huey so please contact me if you have any for sale.

I'm sure we'll beat this subject to death before and after the Mosconi Cup. I like the selections that Mark picked for this years cup. But, are they the best five we have? We'll see. I think that Dennis Hatch should be on the team. I believe that he has the best game after Shane in the USA. But...

I have been playing one pocket for 50 plus years and this is not the first time I have heard this situation come up. First off forget the guy who claims he made two or three balls. You should know if he did or didn't. That's on you. And him putting them on the table prior to spotting his owed...

I don't pretend to know the number of players on the "waiting list" but another remedy is to enter all the waiting list players and form "mini brackets" randomly throughout the initial draw. Mark Griffin alluded to the 256 board at the Swannee and the mini brackets are a different version of the...

You have to protect yourself at all times. Just play the game by the rules and let your shooting do the talking. I have seen to many violations over the years that were called and not called when they should have been. Shannon made the shot and he should have let the cue ball stop before...