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Yes he is! I'd love to see footage of some of his latest high-average matches from the past few tournaments if anybody has any! There's got to be some floating around the net somewhere... Too bad he won't be coming to New York for the Sang Lee event this year (again). I guess being the only...

Carom Cafe (unlike most of NY) has free parking, and there will be a valet throughout the tournament. I've been going to NY for tournaments since 1994 or so, and earlier this year was the first time I even bothered to rent a car during my stay. Main street is a short walk (or bus ride) away...

Wow, check out that stroke! Left and right handed, too. You can certainly tell he started playing at an early age :) Robert

Since this whole discussion is about writing rules based on results of high-speed film analysis, this kind of wording has similar problems. "One motion along one direction" is impossible because of cue deflection. In addition, every stroke involves "slowing and then acceleration". The cue...

From what I understand, we all owe a great debt to having billiard tables in prison! Captain Mingaud, as the legend goes, was a political prisoner in France in the early 1800s and got the crazy idea of putting a piece of leather on the end of his cue. He supposedly stayed beyond his official...

This thread (and uwate's comment in particular) reminds me of a quote from the end of the 1955 Sports Illustrated interview that was posted here recently: "People remember who wins. They don't care about the guy who finishes second. Nice guys don't win. I hate to lose and I hate a good loser."...

If you are breaking in 9-ball from a particular spot all the time instead of reading the rack to decide where to break from and at what speed, then you definitely need to check out Joe Tucker's "Racking Secrets" DVDs! You will never look at a rack of 9-ball the same way again :) Robert

First of all, kudos for using a Rempe CB. Most players never really analyze where they are actually contacting the CB and come up with all kinds of reasons for why they aren't achieving their intended behavior (a good draw, for example). Chalk marks are great feedback and will help you improve...

Enjoyed the green theory. One small hitch: the movie title is taken from the Walter Tevis novel, which unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective) had nothing to do with a character named Vincent or hustling or pretty much anything that appeared in the movie. Kind of like the...

Thanks for voting and leaving the positive comments, guys! Miguel's view count and rating is steadily growing. I know it's getting passed around because I've received this message via email a few times already myself from people who didn't know I wrote it :) I agree, the shot at 1:07 is...

2008 US national 3-cushion champion Miguel Torres has an amazing artistic billiards entry in Tiger Woods' "Next Phenom" contest: Click here to watch Miguel on YouTube He needs to get his view count up with lots of high ratings in a very short time, so please support billiards by passing this...

2008 US national 3-cushion champion Miguel Torres has an amazing artistic billiards entry in Tiger Woods' "Next Phenom" contest: Click here to watch Miguel on YouTube He needs to get his view count up with lots of high ratings in a very short time, so please support billiards by passing this...

At those incidence angles (the so called "natural" angles), the exact amount of spin is not important unless the cloth is extremely new or the balls are extremely clean (i.e. low-friction conditions). One reason is because of some inherent self-correction effects due to hitting multiple...

That's about twice what it costs per hour to play in South Florida for two people! Did they serve alcohol/food where you were, or did it seem like they made a higher percentage of their money from table time than what might be common in the US? Robert

Actually, I would say that that is *exactly* the answer I want to hear. :) I already know my own intuitions about billiards. What fascinates me is how other thoughtful people make sense of this beautifully abstract game differently than I do. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! My intent in...

Exactly. I find it interesting how different players interpret the same shots from their perspectives. So what happens when you put the balls the same distances from the 1st and 2nd rail on both shots, like this? Does the terminology suddenly change? Robert

What would you say lengthening means in terms of the 2nd cushion? Wouldn't less spin at the short (2nd) rail cause the ball to go longer in terms of its 3rd-rail contact point instead of shorter? I would say that "short" tables play longer than "long" tables when you are relatively...

I agree, and when the white is bigger I will play it. Especially if the table is fast enough to let me play it Sayginer-style as a 2-way shot (5 or 8 rails). :) However in this particular case, the white is fairly small since it's almost frozen,and there are two kisses to worry about: hitting...

That's interesting, Jim. I would label the shots in #3 opposite to what you have marked (and what many players would agree with). I explain why in this series of three diagrams: Click for a different interpretation of shot #3 Each diagram in the set shows two shots: the original shot Jim...

No, I think it's a 1-way because of it snapping too short as you mentioned. You have to pick one or the other, and this choice allows you to hit the short rail pretty much anywhere to score, as long as you pass the red on the way in. I think missing the corner spin-out (long rail 2nd) would...