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Personally, I don't care about the maths of this. I care about pool matches being decided by other factors than pool. Coin tosses, javelin throws, 100m sprints... I watch pool to see some pool being played, not spot shots, trick shots or anything of that nature. If I wanted to see the same...

There probably is an i bet it's got about 100 times the view of the most popular pool channel. Proving my point, that catering to the lowest common denominator has its downsides.

Then why bother with the pool at all? Just have a spot shot tournament. Or a 20 second montage of animals farting.

It's ok if people enjoy spot shots, but I'll NEVER watch that. I'm very surprised that professionals haven't complained that CSI are making a mockery of the game they dedicated their lives to. Then again I don't like barboxes either so I'm not CSIs target audience. CSI seems to have found their...

SJM is right. You pocket the 7, stopping the cueball or nearly so..Then you shoot into the 13, pushing the 11 out and into the rail, another ball out on the left side of the pack, and leaving the cueball frozen to the 13. That to me, is the only surefire and good safety option. Not a whole lot...

Cuesticks have changed? Yeah, maybe. There have always been "fashions" and fads in pool. When I started in 2000, everyone had whippy Meuccis. THen they switched to Predator 314, then Z, then back to 314, then extensions and then carbon. IDK about the highest level, because I've never been...

I don't care so much about the measured speed, because I do not trust it to be accurate. But if you watch some clips of Bustamante, giving his absolute all on a break, you'll see the cueball getting kicked straight back while spinning forward, almost to the top rail, before the topspin curves it...

Maybe..But DVD's degrade, so do plastic covers etc. Another sad fact of life is that stuff that is specifically made to be collectible almost never is. Collect whatever you want, man, everyone values different things. If you want to have data last, magnetic media might be a better choice than...

You might not believe it, but I have nothing against gambling or matching up, so long as it is done discretely if the pool hall needs it to be. I’ve done it plenty of times myself and have not ben victimized by the hustlers myself, though as you can imagine I’ve seen quite a bit of it. It’s the...

I've written about hustling before. I think it sucks, and I'll elaborate on why. Many pool halls have a card game going, sometimes it 's kind of an open secret, if that kind of thing is illegal. This is usually where the hustlers hang out, playing cards. You'll rarely find the hustler at the...

Hustling culture may be interesting, and I've always had a fascination for it in the written form or on tv.. However, it's not quite as positive to experience first hand, nor is it anything I'd want to aspire to. People talking about fleecing people they call "friends", pretending to have some...

A nit is, from what I'm been able to understand by being on here for years, someone who can't be hustled. I think there are worse things to be.

Have you watched competitive straight pool recently? I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but this is what straight pool has become. Most pool players don't play straight pool much, so it's 9-ball-straightpool for the lot of them. Piss poor patterns, strange breakshots, but unbelievable...

While I sort of agree with some of what you are saying, this IS straight pool. It's just not very instructional. There may be some nuggets here and there, but you have to really dig for them. I sat through an entire run by John Schmidt, which was over 400 balls. While it was entertaining, with...

It's weird how a "sneaky" can look so "high end". Love cues that "ping".

You should've charged 500 for that cue! You could call it the Grand Prix or better yet, "Cashout cue"! With the cashout, everyone's a winner (especially you). You could buy a Lucasi jump cue, and resell it at 400. Call it the "Bailout cue". J&J makes a hell of a jump/break cue at about 80-100...

Oak? I'm only guessing that because of the fact that you said you could spell it with the previous guesses. It looks nothing like oak. Looks like either teak or some sort of light coloured rosewood?

Kind of harsh, but I'm leaning towards believing it. Look, anyone can get into trouble and be disliked once. But to have multiple people over the span of decades shun any interaction with you, is a bit more rare. What do you even have to do to get banned from a poolhall, these days? We had a guy...

Notice that the hole for the joint pin isn't even chamfered! And that the shaftwood is of the lowest quality imaginable (almost). I have seen worse in my 40 dollar McDermott Lucky cue, that fell apart the first day (internal glue joints failed), but apart from that, I don't think I've seem much...

LOL at every shill and crony in this thread, defending someone for outright scamming people, by lying and misrepresenting his goods. Second, I love how people are defending the so called "value" of these cues. We all saw the pictures. Granted, they will probably perform ok as a cue, but so...