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dont look for reasons to win a match, i.e. something your opponent does. win the match by winning each game at the table, not by watching what your opponent is doing when he is not shooting. that's why playing cash games at an unfamilar location by yourself ow with a buddy is so important in a...

5 yrs, give or take ...

pool was always the forbidden fruit. I didn't actually pickup a cue stick until i was sixteen, a small dinky gameroom, with my older brother. my dad frowned at my pool fixation and actually kept me from any serious playing until i moved out. his word was enough to keep me at bay. his reasoning...

impressive!!! you the man!

why even play? i hear excuses when it's ok to chop but most are against it. it's nobodies business? wrong it's everyones business. one of the biggest subjects on this forum is how to improve pool's image. well for starters we the players should hold ourselves to the same high standards as we...

i always pronouncerd it "mewcci"

i don't think amos is in character or any of the other reasons mentioned. i personally think the entire scene along with the question about his weight are a cautionary pool tale of you never know how good someone is by their walk, talk or any other 'clue." i believe amos illustrates this...

the local guy who services the pool tables made me a walking stick (cane) from an old eight ball and a house cue when he heard i had given up pool because my legs are shot. at first i thought it was a joke, but it turned out to be very functional. it was the best cane i have ever used.

jack and coke, the breakfast of champs. it worked for me in 2002.

I was always told by the old timers: nothing gets you out of a slump like beating someone. There are no shortcuts. Sorry.

the end of rack boys and girls hurt poolroom owners in their quest to make money on pool. Yhay's my opinion. I have talked with pool room owners across the country for YEARS, at BCA conventions, at pool tournaments, and through the internet; consensus is that pool almost NEVER makes money...

WSOP took off because a guy that only played weekend games won the biggest and most prestigous poker tourny in the world. A guy that only plays pool on the weekends will never win the Derby or any large tourny. The analogy doesn't work.

you need some cheese don't ya ....

most of the time this is a good axiom, but ... i utilize banks over cuts when playing 2-way shots when a cut shot would not give the needed control of the cue ball. As your game becomes fine tuned these instances will become self-evident.

when i played all the time ( between 300-365 days a yr) I would buy a good sneaky pete and I would play with it, break with it, use very fine sand paper (dollar bills) on my shaft, leave it in my car and so forth. I would replace the cue every 3-4 yrs with another such stick and either sell it...

tougher to do now days, but it is still doable. i had to utilize playing in weekly tourneys to widen the customer base. wages have been stuck since the 1980's so the "fish" aren't as plump as they used to be nor will they just swallow the hook. The 1980's were great but since then ... the...

maybe i use bigger eggs. feel is very difficult to quantify and just because people buy something doesnt equate to anything. agree to disagree

depends on the local rules and such. where i grew up getting away with not spotting balls was considered part of the game. the concentration needed to play 1 hole even included keeping up with what was going on at the table. it took me a little while to acclimate myself to the rules observed...

I would advise against converting a house cue into a jointed stick, because what you are describing the clean pure hit and feel of a one piece and there is only one way to replicate that feel is to keep the cue in one piece. My mentor and old time road player played with a house cue until the...

if u are trying to prevent a perceived problem of over spin and want to utilize your equipment to correct this perceived problem then you might try a thicker shaft (above 13 mm). When I was younger I used cues that had a diameter shaft of 12.75 and lower. My game at that time had plenty of...