Search results

I mean Jesus... It seems like Team America is basically helpless with the safety game, unless things are dead obvious. Billy doesn't come anywhere close to safe, leaving Alcaide a completely open table, with the cue ball nowhere close to another ball, and nice, comfortable bridging. He had to...

What's cringe is how comfortable you guys are, commenting on how she dresses. The thing is.. This is 2024, and women should be able to dress in a way that makes "them" feel comfortable, without having to constantly deal with sexist comments about it.

I forget who exactly on Team USA butchered the shot, (I "think" it was Sky in this match..) but if they couldn't lag behind the 6 off that 1 ball and leave Europe completely and utterly frozen behind the 6, I have absolutely no confidence in Team USA to execute even the simplest safes, let alone...

Keep in mind.. They are playing under bright lights, and slick, new cloth... Not sure the balls will react the same as on a home table..

Realistically, Billy and Tyler got away with murder in that match. They missed multiple safe opportunities, and it wasn't really close. America players need to take advantage of absolutely every chance, and that includes executing safes at a distance.

Agreed.

Ayuh. Because being emotionless automatons at the table has worked so well in *literally all the other televised events that have failed consistently to make a profit, since the days of Mosconi/Fats*......

Interesting thing about his statement.... It was actually rampant speculation in the American stock market that caused the stock market crash, which got Germany's loans called in overnight, which led to a massive depression in Germany... Which actually gave the Nazis the economic conditions they...

Well, gee. it seems like someone in American pool actually finally looked at how they do things in other countries (this is the basic format for almost EVERY weekend tournament in Germany, so far as I know, and likely in other areas of Europe..). Turns out.. People like coming to tournaments...

I play league here in Germany... And the players range anywhere from rank beginners, to hundred ball runners in 14.1, who get pi55ed at themselves if they fail to run out a single rack in their race to 7 league 8 ball match, that they got a single shot in. The problem is that in America, pool...

To this day, I am still salty about getting a Red Label from Diamond, and not knowing better. I was playing fairly sporty at the time, but practiced HEAVILY for Derby the year I got that table.. It threw my banking off terribly, and really jacked up my stroke in general, because the rails were...

Word of caution: You better make damned sure they are not offering you a "Red Label" table, if they are selling a used table that is no longer available. The Red Label tables did not have the correct downangle on the rails, and as such, the rail compressed when a ball hits, and "lifted up" the...

If by "new", you mean the same exact discussion we had 25+ years ago on rec.sports.billiard, then yeah, sure.. Lol...

At least one of the two players is going to have a cell phone.. Have the players self-report via SMS or app or something, with that tied directly in to the tournament software, so that the next match can be scheduled immediately. I get that the redraw after every round is an interesting way to...

All of them, if they were willing to pour millions and millions of dollars into the game, without concern of profit. Think "Sinquefeld" family in chess, which stood up a top notch facility in St. Louis, and gives money to chess tournament prize funds. For those outside of the top earners, they...

I have been having some good results in my German league over the past couple of matches. I am the main 14.1 player for my team, which is crazy, as EVERYBODY in Germany plays 14.1, and not much is expected of the lone American on the team, as we don't play that much 14.1. I had two really good...

I actually got this nickname from oldtime poster "Smorgass Bored". I lived in Tampa for a while, and was not playing much, and he and I got into back and forth a bit on here from time to time when he was still alive.. And at one time he told me I don't play particularly well, and told me I "ride...

Have you actually seen the buckets they were playing on in those days? Buddy's fundamentals were not as good as modern players. The bigger pockets allowed him to get away with it. The slow cloth kept people from just running out for days, even with the bigger pockets, making the game of 9 ball...

There are amateur players who "have beat HOFers"... Multiple times. And then got skulf***ed the next 100 times they played a HOFer. People are getting annoyed because you have been told multiple times he played nowhere near the caliber needed to achieve a HOF spot based on playing ability...

Not to mention that many other players of Jimmy's era were both better gamblers, AND better tournament players than Jimmy. Jim Rempe comes to mind.