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Please excuse my off topic rant. 😉 The bracket board kept behind the bar had in small print at the top. 1st 70% 2nd 20% 3rd 10%. Then a hand drawn bracket for up to 12 players. The field was 9 at 10 bucks each. Since in anchient times my experience was that the house added money which was often...

I encountered a rules situation in a small local tournament yesterday. It was a new tournament for me so I enquired to the rules before starting play. The answer was BCA . Well with no tournament director and a clueless bartender presiding, the rules had been mangled. At one point there was a...

Looks like its sorted out, well sota. I have an old fart analogy memory. My time studying at the White Spot Wednesday night 9 ball academy showed players with skills that just couldn't compete. 🤷‍♂️ The new guys came in with great skill but lacked the ability to kill. 🤷‍♂️ It's a frame of...

Ah 6 am and the tequila sun rise. Oh wow the tequila did me a couple times. The picture doesn't quite get the brilliance of the red in the sun. 🤷‍♂️ A good way to start the day. The Cold Start is the strength I seek to excel at. My experience as a short track $5 pool tournament expert...

The cold start. Ooops wrong topic belongs in my Preach practice thread. 🤷‍♂️

The camera work for the Snooker coverage giving occasional looks at the eye pattern is a fun educational pass time. The precision that the greatest can produce is amazing. Snooker players coming to pool is a rare titty. I do know of a pool champion with Snooker background. Brady Golan from...

The incoming line of the cueball that closely matches the ball to pocket line gives the longest landing strip for whitey. So a centerball hit might be crossing the line at 90 degrees. Getting just the speed vs speed and spin to a larger target. 🤔 Please excuse a memory alert or OCSer story. 😉...

Playing The vertical center axis makes my calculations simple addition and subtraction. When I move to the sides the equation becomes more complicated. The speed/spin calculations are possible and even fun.......when they work. Exhibition shots are good for Ough and Aw. The boring center ball...

Experiments in looking at the cueball was started January 2013 and contains over 1,000 posts.. If I remember correctly Jason Shaw was the latest to say he looked at the cueball when striking it. His straight pool high run speaks to the effectiveness of the method. Lots of background noise and a...

The Left vs Right is a very good way to sort out the self to self communication. The teaching of the weaker hand strengthen both. 🤷‍♂️ "Try it, you'll like it" is a favorite memory. I said it in the sales pitch before launching the barrel she entered. OMG!!!!@@ I thought I had seriously...

Gotta love geometry Points Lines Angles Then speed and spin variables. Start with addition. Center ball, perfect for a warmer uper.

The fitness program starts with The Chase. Using a drill from Dr Dave. Colin's drill, I think. Headscratch. For me a perfectly suitable way to examine and Ass Says with the inner dialog. 🤷‍♂️ Step 1 Get my mind right.

Ah good morning. League day. APA , I shudder to say. 😉 Shot 1 Day 1 Is te most important shot. Shot choice depends. What condition? Fight or Flight.? "The taste of blood excites me!" Is a favorite quote. Here comes the sun. It's alright.

Well upon stumbled re entry. Gotta have The coms right. The self to self. Over.

I did get the question to Efren in a podcast. The which ball last question got Object ball. Well perhaps I worded the question wrong. Shrug 🤷‍♂️ wink 😉 At impact would be better.

Late to follow but seeing "the stroke" probably have over passed Efren's pump handle stroke. What a thing of beauty. The way the fingers applied the final touch to the cueball. Then the cueball talked. Watching the tip interaction with whitey allows the best read on conditions. What condition...

Thanks for the flashback. Efren's cue was very interesting in '85, when he first played the Reno Sands tournament. Very similar to the $20 Walmart cue that Drunk Act Kelly played with in Tacoma area. Kelly was a senior player with billiards skills that allowed him to rob B players. (Not Ed...

The typing lessons in high school didn't allow music in the headset for typing 101. 🤷‍♂️ So my dexterity was enhanced through the typing lessons and practice. Trying to keep up with the girls was a real challenge. 🤷‍♂️ Did I mention, the Ring finger is the trigger finger? 😉 And look at...

My best practices come in solitude. The inner dialog is given the stage. Shrug The Pinball Wizard.

The My ching Oh the Day. 😉 If someone is giving you a line of shit......plant a garden. 🤷‍♂️ tomato would be my choice. A tomato plucked from the officers cold box was my first....well first that I liked. Love 😍 them now. 🤷‍♂️ One week of wilderness survival at +10,000 feet. I was first to...