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Wow, SVB's post history is very interesting! He was just "some guy" who a few people knew about when he first started posting here in 2005. In one of the posts he mentions matching up with Dennis 20 years in the future. Prescient.

I used to do this a lot when I lived in an apartment that had a table in the rec area. I'd go to the pool room during my lunch hour (or two) and work on stuff. Then I'd have a few things running through my head the rest of the day about certain shots or mechanics. Later that night, I'd head...

It was still open when I first moved to Charlotte in late 2016. I wanted to check it out and play on their 10’er, but by the time I made plans to drive up there, it had closed. I believe the guy who opened it was actually warned by people on here about its viability.

I recently went to the pool room every day for a week for about two hours per visit. During that time, I shot nothing but vertical axis, medium distance straight-ins. I thought I had good mechanics and a good pre-shot routine going into the "experiment," but shooting a few thousand of these in a...

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Nah. I like bar box 8 ball and it's also my best game. I don't particularly enjoy big table 9 ball, but I WANT to enjoy it more. Chalk it up to a "skill issue." Under 600 Fargo or so, it's a difficult and often ugly game. Especially on fairly tight 9' tables. I like bar box 8 ball because I...

I've found that proper alignment makes center ball visually obvious. When I'm not properly aligned, it's more difficult to tell if my tip is at exact center or not. Discovering that was a huge revelation for me. I always thought that center ball was some nebulous concept and that most people...

He believes the opposite of the OP's premise. I'll edit my post to make that clearer.

Shoot 100 medium-distance straight-in shots. The percentage of straight-in shots you miss is the bare minimum number of cut shots you miss because of bad mechanics, not bad aim. FWIW, Mark Wilson has the exact opposite belief on this issue. He thinks aiming isn't the cause of most misses and...

I actually think that being a "natural" at pool (which usually just means standing correctly and making a decent bridge right off the bat) can often make people LESS interested in the game because it seems simple to them. The Fillers and Shaws of the world are probably the guys who started out...

I've often thought this as well. I think there's a small subsection of players who have never found pocketing balls difficult. And it's because they were properly aligned or very close to it the first few times they played pool. For some it happened sort of accidentally and they naturally fell...

I've had my DCB for about 5 years or so. I think it has the most value for instructors helping students or people who already have decent mechanics and can self-diagnose and fix the problems it points out. If you're a clueless beginner without an instructor who can interpret your results, or if...

"Chin lock" as Jerry describes it in that video is the one tip that, when adopted into my game, had the biggest and most immediate impact on my accuracy and consistency since my college roommate showed me how to make a proper open bridge as a total beginner. It also completely stopped me from...

This Brunswick promotional video from 1963 might hold some clues: It actually looks like they're mostly playing 8 ball here, but it could be straight pool and they're just hitting a normal break shot. I've always been fascinated by the guy's break at 1:30. He hits what looks like a 10 mph...

No guarantee it would have changed the outcome, but the cue ball's path here was a few millimeters away from forcing Fedor to kick/jump.

Fedor with a strong HoF resume at the age of (just turned) 24. Just incredible.

Sam Lambert

Kaci being a 3x World Champion at age 25 would be pretty ridiculous.

Extrapolate it in either direction, then. If he wins the lag and his break is working, Joshua Filler would be much more likely to run out a set on someone on 5" pockets than on 3.9". Or at least to give them only a few chances at the table for the entire set because he's going to run out like...

I think the idea is that super tight pockets sort of randomize the results a bit. The 820+ Fargo guys still have a better chance to go deep than the 775-800ish guys, but they become a little more susceptible to bad rolls and are unable to string racks together as easily or often. Most of the...