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  1. Mike_Mason

    Can't stand to watch "bangers" play anymore?

    Joe, who do you like on table 12??... I remember some of the most fun...and most exciting...games was when Joe S. and I would bet on a match between a couple of hackers...man, woman, or child...who had no clue what they were doing...or that we were betting on them...and we had to go by their...
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    What does it take to "Play Hard" that I don't have.

    Common ground??... Jeff You make good points here. And in the end imo we probably agree on most points. I’m not saying that the Captain…or anyone else…should show up for a competition and just lay down and let everyone walk all over him. The point I’m making is that we should accept...
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    What does it take to "Play Hard" that I don't have.

    I think your question was also your answer... Captain I think you hit the nail on the head in your first sentence - 'it looks like I don't care if I win or not.' Maybe you don't...but I think you might be like a lot of us who care about winning...but maybe just not enough to make it an...
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    Break Practice Device

    What am I...just too cheap to buy new cloth??? Okay...so I practice my break on my home table with this thing...and you know what happens... Before too long a deep valley is worn out on the cloth between where I place the cue ball and the contact ball/point... Okay so I can move to the other...
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    Ivory BALLS

    Ivory... I've never seen or heard of ivory pool balls...but I have played with ivory billiard balls...a number of different sets...It was a neat thing to do because of the rarity of it all...felt lined cases etc...but I'll take the new technology any day...balls were not only 'dead' but...
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    Can you run three balls?

    To save your life??... It's one thing to run three balls...but another thing altogether to run three balls to save your life lol...
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    what size table do you have at home?

    Did I say incandescent light???...there are four fluorescent bulbs...
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    what size table do you have at home?

    I love my table... My avatar shows a 9' Brunswick Gold Crown...I think it's a GCI because of the ash trays in the corner pockets...It's been painted black...the underneath skirting out in the garage is off white...more tan than beige... The light is 8' incandescent...I bought the...
  9. Mike_Mason

    Okay...one more thing...

    The 8-ball was on the rail...
  10. Mike_Mason

    Test table II...ball position for Cookie Monster was more like this...

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  11. Mike_Mason

    Wei table test

    Here goes...here is the situation where I thought I had Steve Cook where I wanted him...he came up with bad position on the 8-ball at hill-hill...ball position seems right...actually 9-ball is closer to the rail near the center spot... he might bank the 8 but would be busy bringing the cue ball...
  12. Mike_Mason

    Harold Worst- The Best?

    The Great St. Jean I was too young to have seen Andrew St. Jean play, who was from my hometown of Lowell, MA....but I heard stories... I once asked Willie Mosconi, who was giving an exhibition there, if he knew him, and Willie said that St. Jean might have been the best if not for his...
  13. Mike_Mason

    research paper, i need your help

    Wonderboys Youth My short novel, WONDERBOYS, was serialized twice here at azbilliards.com. It might not be scientific enough for research, but you did ask for things autobiographical, and this story is based on much of my life and of my friends. It is a story of boys who become men during...
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    Anybody in the Gainesville Area?

    Time flies... Dave Doesn't seem too long ago...but it was. Was down your way a few weeks ago...went to the King Tut exhibit at Ft. Lauderdale...check it out... Maybe will see you at a Florida Tour event this season...I do feel like checking in after so long...say my hello's and meet new...
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    Caption Contest

    "[B]IF[B]" that's you...sheesh...
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    Caption Contest

    Melissa says... "Of course I don't believe in aliens. But Jenn, is that's you taking this picture, then who???...s-s-s-s-s-cuse me...I think I need a d-d-d-drink!!"
  17. Mike_Mason

    OK.... Straight Pool has me at my wits end

    It's not an easy game...you have to think... Scott...here's one my observations...I remember playing straight pool for breakfast, lunch and dinner way back when. When you are in staight pool mode...and in constant competition...you develop a level of concentration that imo is missing from...
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    Anybody in the Gainesville Area?

    ooops...looks like a double hit here...well as Johnny Marco used to say...'I didn't double hit...I just shoved it a little'...
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    Anybody in the Gainesville Area?

    Dave...is that you?? I've been reading your posts...and wondering...I know this man...I'm sure of it...didn't catch it by your last name spelliing...but when prolecat called you Dave...and when you mention Panama Joe's up in Gainesville...now I remember you...I'm not a stranger to you, am...
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    Anybody in the Gainesville Area?

    Dave...is that you?? I've been reading your posts...and wondering...I know this man...I'm sure of it...didn't catch it by your last name spelliing...but when prolecat called you Dave...and when you mention Panama Joe's up in Gainesville...now I remember you...I'm not a stranger to you, am...
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