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Rules 4.10 Breaking Foul A breaking foul is penalized by the loss of two points as mentioned under 4.3 Opening Break Shot, as well as a possible re-break. If both a standard foul and a breaking foul happen on one shot, it is considered a breaking foul. A scratch is a standard foul.

Focus It’s not clear what you mean by “got destroyed”. Your opponent ran 4 racks on you? You missed 3 hangars? Was every shot a good process, or were you distracted by outcome thinking? In my experience the more you think about winning and losing, the less you focus and the worse you do.

Consistent Process Do you have a consistent shooting process?

SPF Pool School Minnesota, Iowa and Chicago are in that area. Hope you can make it.

Free Pool Lesson Tomorrow from 4-5:00 at Slate, 54 West 21st Street is another one hour free lesson. All levels welcome. Please tell your friends. Thank you Larry. I appreciate it and am glad I could help your game.

Thank you for the kind words. We will be doing this again next Monday at 4:00 pm. All are welcome

I’m giving a free one hour Pool School at Slate, 54 West 21st Street on Monday September 9 and September 16 at 4:00 pm. All are welcome.

We are having another two day Pool School at Fat Albert’s Billiards in Somerdale, NJ just south of Philadelphia on September 21 and 22. Great room and a chance to improve. Call 1-800-723-8078 or sign up online at Cuemaster-poolschool.com.

Scott Lee Congratulations Scott! Thank you for what you do every day for pool and helping me. You are a perfect example of what a great instructor and player should do. Thank you for being the example and role model we should strive to be like.

I have just published a book on Amazon Kindle titled “Pool Ramblings”. It is an edited collection of articles that covers stroke, speed control, patterns, some systems and the mental game.

Clusters I think the first thing to do is see where the 8 ball is, and the look at the c,usters from each pocket looking for dead balls, caroms, throw shots and combinations. It is amazing to me how many players never look at the clusters/stack looking for shots (most of them!). Then it is a...

Slight Follow The way I shoot these shots is to aim for a stop shot. Get the speed in your arm for a dead center stop shot and then raise the butt of the cue up a little (how much depends on your stroke and the conditions), and shoot the shot. The added weight of the raised stick and/or the...

Big Table 65+ Will telescopes be allowed?

We are having a two day pool school at Champion’s in Frederick, MD Saturday and Sunday July 6 and 7. Details at www.cuemaster-poolschool.com. Class size will be kept to 3 students to one instructor. This is a great opportunity to get your game behind the cueball together. Looking forward to...

Hit a wall Well, where do you live? I would recommend a lesson from an experienced instructor that can work with you on stroke fundamentals. I’ll be glad to recommend someone for you.

Kids 5 cents nine ball with 4 cent nickels.

When we were kids How about climbing up on the table to shoot if you couldn’t reach the shot!

Pocket Reducers And it is a lot closer to real game conditions.

Pocket Reducers I just play a lot of combinations with different angles and distances. You have to consider throw on both balls, need a precision hit and it doesn’t cost anything. I also make sure to play position on the middle ball which adds a further complexity to the problem.

Updated Email Better email right now is mfinkelstein3@icloud.com