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There is usually just one referee per match, but often a second person does the racking. That second person (or the ref) might also be responsible for cleaning the cue ball. To mark the cue ball they may just wet their fingertip and put a spot of damp where the ball is marked to replace it...

Right here. You've got the answer above by Garczar. They play cue ball fouls only. Yet are still very careful about touching or moving another ball.

If you watch closely there is a definite difference between 750 and 850 players. A big one! Both can make balls but the 850 controls the cue ball better and rarely gets out of line. The 850 player typically jumps balls better and more accurately, and plays tighter safeties. And lastly they will...

I like to say Ten Ball is about 20% harder than 9-Ball, due to that one extra ball. I don't have the stats on that, other than what I've observed over the years. Most of the big money games in the Philippines are now Ten Ball. They've embraced the game.

Tim Padgett didn't make a lot of cues before his untimely death, but those he did make were all prizes! I'd add Ed Prewitt to any list.

FYI even when playing winner breaks there are many racks that require strategic play, often after the break. It’s not all break and runs! I would underline SJM’s last paragraph above.

One of my first real cues was an Adam’s, learned a lot while playing with that cue, it had a nice solid hit.

Slow cloth is why

Jerry Breisath!

I’ve always recommended watching good players in person. Try to find one that has a style you like and try to copy him/her.

“Pool is a game of stances and bridges.” Lou Butera

Perfect! Earl is the only player I ever said that about. I said he makes a 9' table look like a bar box.

I must know you. Fats typically was a $2 player. He hustled me at JC for $2 a game Six Ball and beat me out of ten bucks. The next year I was much better. He remembered me and we played again. I won three games and he quit. He was the second funniest guy there after Minnesota.

Joe was the real deal. You wouldn't have been the first guy he shot. Some outlaws beat up his son once and Joe went looking for them. He was carrying both his 357 pistols. They got lucky and got away. One time at the Dayton tourney some guy brandished a gun on one of the players. Don't know why...

Chris Raftis from Dayton was the best one handed 9-Ball player I ever saw and Little Sergio might have been second. Never saw Agussate play. Miami specialized in one handed One Pocket and Eight Ball. I played him (my two hands to his one) 9-Ball at Danny Jones poolroom in Columbus, $5 a game. I...

He won $26,000 that one day and night. There was a steady stream of great players who came in and out of that game. None of them could slow Denny down or match his skills, The following year he did it again and that brought an end to that Payball game.

I will only add this personal note. I was never a top player (seven ball under them in 9-Ball, five ball from the champions) but I was still dangerous when I was in stroke. But that’s not what is important here. To this day the best feeling I’ve ever had in my life was the feeling of being in...

My good friend in the PI. Loved him

I only wish Miami and Ronnie crossed swords at one handed One Pocket. Can’t imagine ANYONE beating Ronnie at that game and I knew Miami.

Ref’d that match and their second the next year as well. Both were classic matches! The best cueing I ever saw was Denny Searcy in the Dayton Payball game. He dominated all the best players in the world on a tough twelve foot snooker table. He slow rolled balls down the rail that softly fell...