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Pool is such a fluid game it is hard to see how you can really handicap it beyond just an arbitrary guess. It doesn't really produces solid numbers to base a handicap on.

It does the opposite and it becomes a spot. If two players play, one of the two is most likely the better player. Whoever gets to the hill first, probably the better player, with the score say 10 to 6 race to 11. The weaker player now behind has about zero chance to come back and win. He...

I am pretty sure there is no rule that if you win the game you have to break, I think it is your choice. If you think the break is a disadvantage give up the break. I was at a tournament and Pat Fleming was playing Nick Varner. Pat had decided the table broke so bad he gave Nick the break every...

Playing pool is a very contrived activity. To start with you need a pool table. Not always an easy thing to find. If a few kids want to play ball all they do is go play. If you want to play tennis all you need is a racket, a ball and a wall to hit it against. You can even play at golf in your...

If you are referring to the loser breaks, he is not being punished. In fact the first player to the hill except for the first game, is now being spotted all the breaks the rest of the match.

Have you ever actually played loser breaks? It is far and away the worst way to play. I once played in a tournament that had that as the rule and half way through the first day they changed it to winner breaks once they saw what it actually does.

I am sorry to say you reminded me of a story. A player had a heart attack in the pool room and was robbed before they came to take him away. To be honest, he was a scum bag who would have done the same thing.

It would be hard to top XXXXXX when putting on a tournament in Miami spreading around counterfeit money. I came back and removed the name, while true better not to use names

Probably everybody who plays. They day it isn't fun anymore I would quit.

They were not fakes, they say made in Pakistan on them. They were just the popular Buck style with that brass that people used to like. They were very nice. I used to get like $8.00 to $15.00 for them usually. I might ask maybe $20 and they of course would low ball me. After one or two counter...

Look at that late night knife show. They sell knives like 50 knives for $90.00 Knives have just become just cheap so anymore. I used to get the Buck clones from Pakistan. They cost me like $.90 and look like a $40.00 knife. I could sell them with my eyes closed. I must have sold a few thousand...

Why do you play on league? It doesn't sound like it is your thing. I played on a league once for like 4 weeks and that was enough.

It seems like it is s slippery slope once the quality goes down. What it the excuse, "Yes, we make good knives and crap for the crap market". I have a Fox knife made in China that is marked Italy. It is of course a knock off. It cost $12.00 and free shipping direct from China. I also have a...

Aren't many of those knives made in places like China? I have quite a few knives mostly made overseas but I like them regardless.

There is no silence just noise. Conversations you don't want to hear and sudden sounds that can make you jump. Music masks all this. I have to laugh at the ones who hate music in the pool room. The alternative it way worse. They would be running around the room asking people to be quiet.

Years ago I read an interview with Jack Nicklaus. He made a comment that I never forgot. He said he never hit a shot where he was not trying. When he played golf he was always trying his best. I don't recall what the question was this was into response to but sounds like a pretty good personal...

I think what you feel is a more balanced feel. In other words you don't feel like you are supporting the weight of the cue in you grip hand it is distributed. I feel the same thing but when I am down on the ball when I stroke the cue, maybe because I am pushing more of the weight, feels like a...

I used to play in a room in Miami called Abe's Billiard Congress. In the winter top players were there every night. Anybody may be playing, Ronnie Allen, Miz, Danny D, a zillion road players and so on. Like you said when they got on the tables the place would shut down. This was a 25 table...

Heck, I wanted to see how he gets out of it but it ended.

I said "Not serious players when they are playing.". You are at the pool room or bar and you are there to play pool, not socialize. You can be an average player and be a serious player. It is not a measurement of your speed.