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There are a handful of flaky moves that can happen with Calcuttas. I have seen them ask players if they want half, if the player is even present. I have seen them not ask. I have seen bidders refuse to sell the player half. I have seen players get sudden spasms when this happens. Lots of...

I have a friend that often lets the tip touch the table when he is lining up shots. He isn't marking but it sure looks like it! I have seen people try marking various ways. When they use chalk cubes I just reach out with my stick and knock it ten feet or so. People are often marking wrong so...

You made me really laugh out loud but Mike was quite reasonably scared shitless. Buddy was a fine example of your unconscious trying to correct the mistakes your conscious was making, or so it appeared. The casinos lost more than the sting was on the flip of a card or the toss of the dice...

Yes, the bet payout was over forty thousand, I think forty-two but I might be wrong. That was split six or eight ways. If I remember rightly Earl for one wouldn't get involved in the dump. I think one more person claimed not to be involved too but I don't have a clue who. The first place purse...

Somebody with more knowledge will probably give the straight skinny. The purse was $50,000 to win and I don't remember if it was winner take all or how it was structured. Mike was the longest shot on the board as I recall. Rumor has it that the bets were pretty small. I heard that the players...

Rumor has it that the bet payout was less than fifty thousand. If I were Buddy I would have insisted on the difference in first and second place off the top before splitting winnings. That would have made it nowhere near worth the bother not that it was anyway. The players crapped all over...

I'll bet the family farm you are wrong. There wasn't a two year old alive that could have beaten Buddy! Hu

I was considering whether to race cars or motorcycles back around 1970 or so. I was at the dirt track when a van pulls up. Out steps a kid five years old, Scooter Stafford, national champion. I realized I was ten or twelve years too late to start racing motorcycles and went with cars, the way I...

I have played with someone legally blind, he beat me! Talking about dying and such, this song was fresh out and a favorite of my brother's right before he was killed in an accident. About six months later a baby boy was born to his one time girlfriend. Maybe his, maybe not. Certainly looks...

Their peak performance might fade a little but I remember playing two forty-eight hour matches and a handful that went thirty-six hours or more. I was always on the natch, don't know about the other players. A friend played three days straight but when I got there you could have knocked him over...

Buddy in his prime looked like he was putting on an exhibition. The other guy was just watching Buddy attacking the table. I watched him gamble on nine foot Brunswicks. I made a few short trips on the road, usually alone. It was always at least a small thrill walking through the door of a...

One of the rules concerning Calcuttas in my state is that only the bettors are entitled to even a penny of the pool. Some places tried to pay a TD out of the pool and received strong warnings, maybe other punishments. Hu

Buddy is used to adapting so he would adapt very quickly to today's conditions. Today's players are not so flexible. We have all became hothouse players and that definitely includes me. I want Diamond or Brunswick, the occasional Valley. In good condition with quality balls. I'm not interested...

Around here you have to pay minimum bid to buy yourself if nobody else bids on you. Nobody is obligated to buy half of themselves. If they do buy half it is before a ball is hit. Some well known people don't buy half until they see they are going deep then try to buy half. Generally they are...

Keith, ever bashful, stepped into a room full of champions at a big event. "I'll give anyone in here the eight!" Without even catching a breath he said, "Not you Buddy." Like SJM, I think the monsters would be monsters whatever era they played in. Evolution hasn't done anything to make people...

Calcuttas are on a state by state basis. They are clearly defined in Louisiana, and closely regulated. The state can completely ban them if they choose. The feds can come in like white on rice if you do anything that can appear to be interstate gambling. They generally warn once and it is a...

When you do the math plugging in reasonable times for racking and running balls you will find you probably run a million balls in less than five years. You could very easily have hit three million balls or more. When Danny Medina and I were playing on a seven foot coin op table I noticed the...

Unless it is the last ball, there is no sense in making one ball. I'm never going to pocket a ball if it doesn't give me a runout or a chance to play a lockup safety Efren couldn't get out of. Most folks past banger level understand that pocketing a ball without any way forward is a benefit...

This is cool in one respect, scary in another. AI video even if clearly described as AI to begin with often loses the AI recognition as it gets reposted. With this video with the same AI prompts entered for many of the enactments it should be pretty obvious to anyone it is AI. One time alone it...

Funny how you keep arguing when you agree with me. I shoot center pocket unless there is good reason not to. Of course most of the time there is good reason not to. The object ball is two inches from the pocket. The choice is to shoot center pocket and use a lot of spin to get the cue ball where...