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They were doing perfectly fine until Congress mandated that they prefund retiree health care benefits 75 years into the future. So they're currently saving money for a retiree who hasn't been born yet.

VNEA rules say (I added the bold) This lines up with other call pocket rules and what I and some others have said. When the shot is obvious you don't need to call it and how the object ball gets to the pocket is irrelevant. The rules-writers state that a bank shot is "not considered obvious" so...

What specific ruleset are you using? Generally, the shot is good. You're straight on the 8-ball and the pocket you're trying to put it in is obvious. The path the 8 takes to get to that pocket is irrelevant. Calling banks and combinations is not declaring the path the ball is going to take. It's...

I'm just a wanna-be 14.1 player (no one in my area plays and the closest pool room is 1hr away anyway.) After a decade of having my table shoe-horned into my basement with obstructions, my wife encouraged me to renovate the garage into a pool room. Now I have nothing stopping me from working on...

I took a couple years off from playing league. I still played/practiced at home, I just got tired of sitting around a tired sports bar on uncomfortable chairs waiting for my match. I came back to it in the Fall to find almost completely new people. Nothing bad about that, except I knew and liked...

This isn't so much a dream pool room as an idea that has pool tables and would probably stay in business... I live in a college town. I'd take the closed bowling alley and take out at least half the lanes. I'd put in 6-8 barboxes, 4-6 9' tables in a separate room. Dart boards, shuffleboard...

In "The Hustler and the Champ", R.A. Dyer claims Willie was thinking of Greenleaf's 277 (pages 160-161). It's 'a minor point, really. johnnysd was talking about the unlikelihood of Schmidt running exactly 100 balls more than Mosconi and here we're talking about Mosconi and Crane running the...

It definitely wasn't the only time. He ran 309, thinking it was a new record only to find out that Irving Crane had already posted a 309. I'm no expert, but I've read enough books about Mosconi to firmly believe that if someone had come out and run 575, he would have turned around and run 600...

sorry, I misunderstood your question. The natural result of doing too many things at the same time. The short answer is that the rack isn't completely undisturbed. You can see the bottom row is a little messed up (seven is out of line) and I think the balls were looser than it looks in the...

I just put my left/bridge hand near the 9-ball. It was a long bridge and I could really only hit the top of the cue ball, but it was do-able without touching the rack.

well, I didn't leave the balls in place while I waited for an answer. I tried sending the 6 back down table while leaving the cue ball up table. I ended up leaving an easy shot on the 6. Taking into account my own ability I think the "thin the 11 and put the cueball on the long rail" option...

for what it's worth, I put the 1 and 5 at the corners for the opening break. I've never thought to do it after that (except maybe after 3 consecutive fouls)

I don't think it was wired at all. I can't remember how I got the 13 loose but the rest of the stack is practically undisturbed. Assuming it _was_ wired, how would you shoot it? straight into the 11?

I didn't think of that. It would have been a lot better than the 6-ball. Thanks!

Ran 18 today. My high run is only 20 which I did originally a few years ago then again this past Christmas. I also have a couple 17's this month so I'm feeling close to finally breaking that 20 mark.

Hello, I've been using my time since I started working from (and barely leaving) my house to work on my game and try to improve my 14.1 especially. After things get back to normal, I want to find a regular 14.1 game with someone/somewhere even if it means trucking 90 minutes to Syracuse once a...

Excuse my ignorance (and I've been out of touch with the pool world for a while)... you said that winning amateurs are fully sponsored and that includes flights, hotels, uniforms & tour card. What's a tour card for? Is there a bigger "tour" than there used to be?

This is a pretty common policy at major industry conferences as well. They may not charge full price but there is usually a significant "badge replacement" fee if you lose it. If you just left it in your room, well... go back and get it.

In addition to APA, Ithaca also has a NAPA league. I play in the NAPA league and we have a good group of people who want to see everyone improve. There are no "23 rules" in NAPA so you can have a really strong team if you want. You can play on 7 or 9 foot tables. Online scorekeeping app...

Unfortunately, there are a lot of kids who show up on the first day of kindergarten and don't know anything except how to play video games. Their parents expect the school to teach their kid everything and so don't teach them basics like colors, shapes, numbers, etc. Of course when school...