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    Instructor or pro player?

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    Some 3C to watch during this Covid 19 mess

    Rui Edgar Franco - 3c - 29 https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=rui+edgar+franco&docid=608044429600687199&mid=651F82FBD06BA2B52EB0651F82FBD06BA2B52EB0&view=detail&FORM=VIRE
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    50 position shots

    Sorry I meant shot #3
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    50 position shots

    Has any body tried shot 2 - and can just bump the red up a bit while driving the yellow into the bottom corner ?
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    The mccreery champion of champions 2020

    If Caudron is not invited because of where he is playing now - the organization that he plays in should get up some $$$ and challenge the McCreery group to get up some $$$ and then have a matchup to see who is the Champ -something like what was done yrs ago PPA vs BCA for world...
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    Caroms - Use of finger or Cue?

    Frank b. Adams AKA "Yank" Adams was an expert at manipulating the billiards balls with his fingers - he performed amazing trick shots and in 1878 - defeated William Sexton World Billiard Champion in a 3 day competion of straight Rail . Adams used his fingers while Sexton used a...
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    classic carom training

    Daly's Billiard book (pages 10 - 12 credits the running nurse developing from a stationary nurse - 2 forms of the stationary nurse used by A. P. Rudolphe, and Joseph Dion and eventually from that came the idea of a "running nurse" developed by Jacob Shaeffer and William Sexton...
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    classic carom training

    Serie Americain - where are the Americains ?? - They are now all pool players
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    I know this probably does no belong here but you can score a cannon (billiard)

    Great Video - game predates snooker - and overlaps pool and billiards as you must have working knowledge of caroms / potting etc.
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    New USBA Champion

    Interesting ----- USA 3 cushion championship and not even a mention on front page of AZ.
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    Abel Calderon

    Yes your right about Monir rm - did not know that the area it was in was also part of Rego Park.
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    Abel Calderon

    George Mikula was very good 14.1 player ( over 300 hi run I think )but was also very good at 3-c - ,in 70's there was a NYC 3c open and he won it) He played out of a rm in NYC "Julians" but rarely if ever played anywhere else. http://www.billiardsdigest.com/showinstruction.php?id=94
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    Abel Calderon

    I was about to ask you if you were in it, btw was Eddie Robbins , Alan Gilbert, Shorty, Ashby or Mikula ( don't know if he was alive then) in it ?? - Bob
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    Abel Calderon

    After Flushing Calderon opened a club in Astoria , and after that he opened I think it was Maspeth not sure played there once or twice , he had a lot of problems , and at times the rm got flooded in some areas, and problems with heat on tables, There was a rm (downstairs) in Rego Park...
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    An Exact Aim Point For English

    Eddie - Congrats - sounds like you have found something that WORKS FOR YOU and I am not going to argue with you - you have something that works - A lot of people are searching for something like that perhaps they find it perhaps they don't -- regardless if you get any...
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    New shaft from OB

    I agree with what you said but he ended with a good pt - about paying $500 + for a good shaft
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    Why Antalya World Cup won't be live on Kozoom

    Why don't they use a yellow ball ?
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    Lassiter vs Breit 1967

    Always appreciate historical info - interesting how newspapers used to give coverage
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    Abel Calderon

    Vintage NY Times - tournament in Abel's room. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/29/nyregion/about-new-york-a-genteel-war-billiards-stars-engage-in-battle.html
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