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Most of our neighbours on our street in Canada are transplanted Brits. Mandatory room decour are Manchester United and Chelsea banners...upsets friends from Liverpool and Bristol and throws them off their game. 😽 There)s a bar but don’t dare bring a drink within 5 feet of the table or get...

I play with about 150 players. The only player most could name is Minnesota Fats. Equipment? Master Chalk because it’s on the rail. Eastpoint...cues sold at Walmart likely known more than the rest together. How have like guys Earl have been ‘influential’. In what way? Pro players may...

Great photo. My first impression is that a decent percent of those players had spent time in Boy Scouts learning to iron a shirt or in Military boot camp polishing shoes. Those influences have diminished in society,

I use the same snooker cue for both American Pool and Snooker. if you aren’t getting into Snooker, then use your American Pool cue. Otherwise you will miscue a lot. Also, the purpose of the 9mm or so tip is is less for accuracy than controlled spin on the cueball. You won’t be able to do...

Too much tolerance for disgusting behaviour in American Pool. He should be kicked out. Same excuses as ‘It’s just Earl’ The irony is next week there will be another thread with navel gazing about why Pool flounders around as a pro sport. Hint: it needs ‘professional’ behaviour.

I’ve used the same cue and type of tip for 14 years. Should last me another decade. With the exception of a few overseas postings and work contracts, 4 cues over the last 52 years. I collect cues and might try one for 15 minutes on my table now and then but just for ‘fooling around’. My...

I’ve played Snooker for 5 decades. I have a 12’ table. I’ve also played Chinese 8 ball on Joy and Star tables. These are 9’. I personally can’t tell any significant playing difference between a Snooker and Chinese 8 ball table...or, at least,any more than between two makes of American Pool...

I don’t think so. Everyone has known someone who seemed to be destined for fame but doesn’t reach it.As a kid in Montreal I played hockey with two teammates who went on to play in the NHL. They were very good players, definitely more talent than I had, but they weren’t the best players in the...

Great thread, re comments. As in the sciences we can only measure what is measureable. Thus the 3 variables. Other variables are no less legitimate but escape being put on any curve relative to each other. ‘Difficulty’ is not easy to compare if expanded outside of a few variables. A...

I can watch 25 thousand billiard videos for free on Youtube...even more on Facebook. Yesterday For free I watched Mark Selby in the final of the Snooker Shoot Out....a ten minute match in which if he loses he only picks up £20K, or wins and then gets £50k plus 150K bonus ( about a quarter...

Efren Reyes followed by ....Efren Reyes.

It’s a good question. One reason is that Draw shots aren’t the only shot in billiards. Not Every one has the same style and thus same needs in a cue and in a tip. Coming from primarily a Snooker background I put English on 90% of shots and often have Tasmanian Devil levels of RPM on some shots...

There are dozens of videos on draw ( screw) shots. This one is top notch. Watching Judd Trump‘s table length screw at the end is reminiscent of Alex Higgins incredible screw backs in the 1980s.

I have about 25 sets. I get them at the local thrift store along with cues, etc. Usually $10 a set regardless of brand, condition. I don’t Play with a given set of Snooker or American pool balls. I change out every so often. This helps simulate conditions with unfamiliar balls when playing...

That would be me. Although I mostly play Snooker, Pool is still a challenge when we visit the UK. I play American 8 ball with my Snooker cue but found it harder to step down to 2 inch balls. I have an 8mm tip on a shaft I can put on my Snooker cue and have a set of 2 inch balls. Now and...

Most sports only have a logic within themselves. Sinking balls into a pot has no purpose on it’s on. The purpose is to make it a challenge within a set of parameters. In baseball the ultimate goal isn’t to hit a Homerun with any object. The goal is to hit the ball within regulations of what...

It depends a lot where you are located. We have 9’, 10’ and 12’ ( snooker) tables in our pool halls...and the occasional 8’ table. 7’ tables are found in bars. The technical skills are largely the same. Strategy and safety game varies according to table size but this just comes with...

Nah, I don’t navel gaze. My navel is still there. Pick up the stick and hit the Ball into the hole. Billiards has more gurus than Hunduism. Then again there’s only 65 thousand posts on the aiming Forum...So must be some magic. ‘A pro told me that...‘. Tomorrow another sage will be quoted.

I agree. one caveat. There aren’t many true ‘misses‘ on a Snooker table. Often not one in a game. The Principal goal on many shots is to play the white ‘safe’ and sinking the object ball Is just a bonus. You might see this a half dozen shots in a row. American pool players often try their hand...

I always go to Youtube. I just search via the tournament and name of Players such as ‘Snooker Masters 2021 Higgins Yan‘. Somebody in Asia will usually have a session posted as soon as It’s finished. I prefer to watch via Youtube. With the time zone difference, I can pick and choose...