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Exaactamundo! Only one way to help pool is to help your local pool hall. Grab your buddies and go play, drink the beer and eat the food. If you play league move your team out of the bar and into the pool hall. Realistically, getting young people to play wont work, too many other things to do...

Rocketry! The Rocket wins 9-0. So listening to the commentators and they say it hot with all the people there, and one says yeah it's always 90 degrees at Hard Times! What kind of pool hall doesn't run their air con? Legendary pool hall? I had thoughts of sliding in there someday but not...

Carlo 6-0 against Shane. Hardtimes.

Bonus Ball vs Cup Cake Wars! Good grief, with all the reality show crap out there you would think BB could out perform some of them. As someone said BB sort of grows on you. Non poolplayers will never appreciate it. I like the back and forth coaching between players. Don't understand how they...

Geezerville! Nice meeting you Randy. The last guy you played was the last guy I played. Charlie Lesarge? from Okmulgee. Played pretty sporty with me and even better against you. I went hill hill with him but fell short. I too am shocked about no Diamonds in Dallas. Thought Texas had...

One handed. Cool! One handed is good practice now and then. Makes you concentrate. You are now ready for CHAIR POOL!! Sit in a regular chair, not a bar stool. Sit normal, not just your butt on the edge. Much like a guy in a wheel chair. More fun with more beer of course. Years ago in OKC we...

Diamonds Diamonds are great tables. Most of my experience is with bbs, but I have always said how will they play in forty years? GCs have stood the test of time. Unfortunately I may be one hundred or pushing up daisies by then. I will say they are the most consistent table in the bar box...

Tunica Thanks for sharing. I went last year and had a great time. Had lunch with Buddy Hall and Herman the German, pretty cool. Didn't play in the big events but got to see my friend Spanky (Greg Hogue) play JA. Doctor apps kept me away this year but will go next year. Fun to watch Chip and...

Kickin! Very important part of many games. Systems are great. Look em up. Gets you in the ballpark. Play golf on a snooker table even if you don't like it. Just a few months and your kicking game WILL escalate. See it, feel it. Speed will also come. Almost all multiple rail kicks will need...

Earl shoots teammate in foot! Shoots his teammate in foot more than once. Doubt Kiamaco will be buying a bucket of beer for his teammates tonight. Nice to see Chip and Joey playing in BB. Jeremy showed how to lead and inspire his team. And of course Earl was Earl. A little embarrassing for BB...

Mini Cooper! Notorious for tranny problems. Maybe just in the automatics, not sure. My brother swears by the Ford Taurus, and he drives hard and puts em up wet. Subarus are supposed to be great on bad roads, gravel and dirt. AWD is standard on Subarus.

Guffy. John Guffy is alive and well. Almost more famous for his sneaky petes as his better cues. His SP are a very regional thing as no one gets rid of them. Worked at Mathis Brothers for 17 years and now still selling furniture at Bob Mills furniture. He was showing up at AAA Billiards to...

Home table I also chose a eight ft. GC. Nine just don't fit. It's hard to practice in a pool hall, someone always wants to play. Now I do drills which is huge. Don't have to play for hours to get my time at the table. Nice to stop, eat, answer the phone, spank the monkey or take my mandatory...

Safety. Sounds like you may be in the don't like category! LOL. Hard to imagine someone who LIKES safeties being played against them. Or do you mean some like to PLAY them. Makes more sense. So I would have to make a shot or actually make a ball before playing a safe. And that would be per...

Saturday!!!! We work all our lives living for weekends off so we can do our thing, whatever that may be. Now that your done with that work thing you can enjoy life even more. EVERYDAY IS SATURDAY!! Play pool, fish, hunt and don't forget those naps! Enjoy your retirement.

OB ferrule. Call OB and tell them your story. They stand behind their product. I would guess not much money, and it will be done right. My tip guy left the pad off and the next time I played the wood ferrule crumbled like a dried out choclate chip cookie! They made it more than right. I think...

Shaft. I like a maple shaft from a tree in the woods. Then I let Murry Tucker turn that thing down to a specific taper that suits my aggressive style of run out pool. Point the skinny end in the general direction of any hole and let her rip! Sometimes I shoot balls to the left, but sometimes...

Pool tables at work! We had two eight footers starting about 1985. HANDMADE by A.J. Gill billiards in OKC. Ralston Purina wanted tables that were tough, they got it. Not good looking but heavy and tight pockets. Down to one to accommodate a ping pong table when I retired in 2005. Many days I...

Spanky.

Hand span! The hand span, moving cue the width of your hand layed on table is a great spot. One per game or two per set, or any way you can get. Takes away some of opp defense. Hook yourself or get on wrong side and use your hand span. Gets you off the rail. Many possibilities. Could be...