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The facts and timelimes say you are correct. Even Nick thrived after Sigel retired or was on the retirement slide. Efren says in his Panozzo interview on youtube - Earl became the best, but because there was no more Sigel.

These two are two of the players that I point to as to why I even play this game. Nick was my favorite player growing. So when he his astonishing year in 1989, I was stoked! Who would I pick? The records speak for themselves. Nick was not in the conversation from 1981-1987 or so. Yes, he...

In tournament play, Efren wasn’t even in the conversation. I’m Filipino, and I followed his game . He wasn't in the conversation.

I took my Balabushka out to the bar when I first got it, and I did the bar pool thing.

Interesting tidbit. I believe the younger brother, George, told me that tried he actually tried his hand out on his dad’s lathe after the older passed… once. That’s when he realized he had no aptitude for cuemaking .

Who? Can’t be Ray. Can’t be Johnny.

Already posted the answer. Mike said he played with a Gina for just a couple of months as he couldn’t get used to it.

I dont believe the second part is true. Mike beat Nick quite regularly before he started the retirement slide in the early 90’s. I dont know that anyone has winning record against Sigel.

He said he did play with a Ginacue for 2-3 months. Couldnt get used to it. Personally, I played small tournament with a Gina. Easily one of the best cues I’ve felt in my hands.

I sent a note to Sigel to see if there’s clarification. I suppose anything is possible, but he was playing with a specific Joss as far as i ever saw him, and then he started building cues. And yes, he actually built cues.

More importantly, pool was not doing it financially. Sigel first started talking about retiring in the late 80’s because there was no money in pool. The year he was the first to win $100K USD in tournament winnings in one year, the 100th ranked PGA professional also made that much.

See the article on 8-ball Rules by Bob Jewett http://www.sfbilliards.com/articles/2002.pdf . Here's an excerpt from the 1945 rules:

Old rule (as far as World Standardized Rules go). Bob Jewett had a great article in BD about the ever-changing rules of 8-ball. It's why we see the 1 and 15 in the side pocket rule in 8-ball. That used to be the rule at some point, so "old timers" still play that way in certain social clubs...

I’ve said this for years, but of course nobody believed me.

This reminds me of some Olhausens I played on. I couldnt make a ball if I hit the center of the pocket facing coming down the rail. But i saw other people hitting *outside* of where my ball was hitting, and they were pocketing balls. So I switched to hitting more to the outside, and balls...

Ralph Souquet and I believe Thorsten claim runs nearly of nearly 30 of 8-ball on 9' tables. I think Ralph told me 27. But yes, practicing. I watched Sigel do a 6-pack at the first IPT on a 9' Diamond when he was warming up (eventually losing to Efren by a lot) like it was a child's toy...

To add to this, my own personal experience... I won an amateur state 8-ball championship on perfect cloth and cushion conditions, but relatively tight pocket (4 1/2", when that really wasnt so common). The runout game felt relatively easy, and I felt like a pro (not that I was shooting like a...

LOL!!!! Thanks. I probably looked at it a dozen times just to make sure I was completely wrong. Ugh.

Something's wrong with the dates. They're off by 2. Jan 27th is a Monday. The site says play starts on Friday the 17th.

But the number of people who play pool in Europe is far less. That said, the majority of pool players in the USA only play on small tables.