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the break is a fickle mistress; as soon as you think you have it figured out she runs away and more often than not it's back to the drawing board. my personal break works well when i'm winning and when i'm not wining, i tend to experiment. usually i break from the first diamond to the left of...

good post and great insight.

i agree. the way i learned to play the game in my home pool room was as you stated.

never. i keep a williard on my key chain for when i am playing with a house cue that need's some attention. otherwise i keep my cue in tip-top shape and if something catastrophic happens to the tip or ferrulle; then i put her up, the cue of course, until i can provide the necessary attention...

let it go isn't very good advice since you have kids, so look at it like you gave a gift to a friend and for whatever reason the friendship went south would you ask for the cue back? i dont believe you would, but if you would then go ahead and stir the crap storm. in the end it is really up to...

the one thing a cue maker, two plece or more, cannot replicate or produce a better product than is the solid hit and feel of a well made one piece. i remember older road men would travel around with their favorite house cue. it sounds like you have a good feel, so trust it. i do agree with most...

shoot hard and draw your ball! is the title of my memior's.

not much else needs to be said.

we get it. it's not your cup of tea. one pocket was my first game and it was discouraging and heartbreaking at times, but after all these years (30) i wouldn't have changed anything. of course i learned to play the rotation games, 8 ball, and bank, but my first love was one pocket and it helped...

as a previous post stated "... complain and disagree ... about anything pool related ...", just me spitballing but this is not the way i would like to see AZ heading. it is part of AZ but complaining and disagreeing shouldn't be what AZ is all about. i personally enjoy the back and forth but i...

first, if i got that much cash and i'm running around pool rooms and bars; well i would have to have a gun. as don henley so poetically stated "... you got to carry weapons cause you always carry cash ..." or something like that. this should't be a problem since you will be in the usa and you...

i learned in a pretty fast pool room so giving or taking weight was how the game was played. in many respects matching up was as an important aspect of each player's true game. since those early days it seems this ego thing has gotten way out of hand. to me, winning is of much greater value than...

from my personal experience, the leap came from not so much practicing as emersing myself in playing stiff competition everyday for 3-4 months. another key was not knowing the speed of my competition. some were better than me and many were about the same speed and a few were of lesser speed, but...

you need the bumper because without it you would hurt the butt of your cue when you tap your cue on the floor as the univerally recognized form of applause in the pool world. i played with a cue that did not have a bumper and i played pretty well without one, but i recognized early on that i...

i played there from 2002-2004. cool pool room with a great set of characters. this was my fist non-smoking pool room, and to my surprise i liked it. i had to leave in 2004 when Charlie stayed just off the Atlantic coast for 6 days. i became a refugee for a couple of months after that. i had good...

no shame in being both a player, when you feel comfortable, and being a railbird, too. unless you are a world beater, we are all railbirds from time to time.

if there is a boogeyman in pool it is the long straight in shot. like a previous post said in essence there is no excuse for missing the long straight in shot so our brain gets in the way and an easily solveable problem becomes a tough egg to crack. my advice is practice these long straight in...

play with them, then shape to your taste and then play some more. and then replace them if you desire. after all they are your shafts.

how about loser racks and that;s it. no whining and/or making excuses; just play and if you win well good for you, and if you don't well at least you are picking up a skill; racking that is.

if ordinary folk utilized these business practices we would find ourselves in the hoosegow for fraud. sad ...