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If he attempts the shot pictured, he'll miss the nine ball altogether. The cartoon ought to show his glasses lying on the rail.

Books can be an important tool to learn the fundamentals. I learned the fundamentals of golf by reading a book by Ben Hogan. Then, after a few years of practice, I got to be a pretty good golfer. I learned pool without any books whatsoever, and after many years of practice, I got to be a pretty...

Very interesting trivia of 'The Hustler'. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054997/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv

'Wee Geordie, 1955. Not a true story, nor a great movie, but entertaining, and very inspirational for young kids.

Ocean's 11

I know a Vietnam tunnel rat that only carried a knife in his boot.

I got this information from the 'Trivia' section of the IMDb movie site: Piper Laurie plays a character named Sarah Packard. In the opening scene, Eddie and Charlie pull up to the service station in a Packard, a make which had been discontinued a few years before the picture was produced...

Normally, I don't engage in conversations with people that don't listen to what I'm telling them (it's extremely rude), but in this case, I'm going to make an exception. After this, I'll no longer converse with you. First, you stated ' You hit the shot, so you had complete control over where the...

Something that we have no control over. 1. I hit an approach shot and my beautiful shot is stopped by a bunker rake that a someone threw down on the fairway approaching the green instead of back into the bunker. I have no idea the rake is there because I'm too far away to see it. I know that my...

What if a 'lucky' outcome has nothing to do with 'our prior actions'?

I've often been told that I'm a man of great perspicacity.

Thank you.

Baloney.

Well, at least you were playing an honest man.

Your thought process while playing can, indeed, affect your success or failure at the table. It shouldn't matter what the other player does. If he gets lucky, so be it. A great player ignores what's happening around him and stays 'in the moment'.

Only if it's intentional. The randomness is the unintentional collisions of the balls and rails.

I don't consider an opponent in pool a 'threat'. Here's the definition of luck again from The Britannica Dictionary, just in case you missed it the first time.... Luck... Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary 1 : the things that happen to a person because of chance : the accidental way...

So you're saying that if my opponent misses a shot and the cue ball hits 2 rails and 3 balls and settles in a position that gives me absolutely no shot, it's not bad luck for me? Really?

You asked 'Who the hell is going to drive the cue into the slate? I was answering your question.