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Tap, tap, tap. I remember when I would watch Reyes, and Buddy Hall or Steve Mizerak, would draw his position route on the telestrator using the natural angle, which would actually be a longer route than what Reyes would wind up doing, usually using Inside English to come straight up and down...

Yep. China skews the stats of anything and everything when a Chinese player is involved. We don't count "sideshows," remember? Yao Ming drawing 200 million viewers in multiple games, which is a higher view count than any soccer match that isn't a World Cup Final. Lol. Moving the goal posts...

Willie's advice is correct for 14.1 and also snooker games where the creation of angles isn't necessary 99% of the time since you have multiple balls you can play position for. But if you plan on reaching above a B level in the rotation games, you need to learn English as much as you do...

You are the master of inconsistency. That match ticked all the boxes of what you desire to see in pool: - Fast play - Risky, no safety shot-taking (from Fats) - Larger than life personalities - Slick presentation (which it was by 1970s standards) But now you don't "like it" because it drew...

Wrong again. Trick shots were featured, but Fats and Mosconi played sets of 9 ball, straight, and one pocket. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtnmfb9Dnkg

You miss the point again. Popularity=/=quality, was my main point, which is the retarded line of logic you keep taking to support your argument. Pool vs. snooker have no inherent "worth" over one another, and it would be idiotic to suggest such. Anyhow, here's my "killshot." In 1978, that...

Again, snooker is only popular in the UK. That is it. It wouldn't draw sufficient enough ratings in any other country aside from when Ding plays, and like I said, the Chinese would watch a fellow citizen paint a house. Means nothing. Pool was popular as a spectator sport for nearly 100 years...

I don't think there's anything wrong with pool's game design. 9 and 10 ball are essentially perfect television cue sport games that are fast paced, explosive, and provide a lot of dramatic moments. Straight pool can potentially be great TV viewing if they structured the scoring differently, like...

Is Katy Perry more popular than Miles Davis because of her looks or is it because she makes better music? Is Twilight more popular than Dickens (only read because schools force kids) because that kind of easily read pap will always be more accessible or is because it's better literature? And...

Provide television ratings. I don't give a shit about China since they will watch anything that involves a Chinese player. Basketball games featuring Yao Ming have pulled higher ratings in China alone than the average television ratings for a Champions League Final. What can we conclude from...

It's funny how Ron, the great champion of modernity, exalts past snooker ratings as proof of anything. They stayed up to midnight to watch a snooker final because there was nothing else on the 10 or so channels most people had back then. Bowling used to draw 20-30 million viewers in its...

Never suggested such, I was just highlighting your bias for all things snaggletooth. Snooker is popular (in the UK alone, so no, "enlightened nation(s)" do not watch the game) because since England is relatively shitty at any game or sport that requires athletic ability, you flock to watching...

Anyhow, nothing "killed" pool in the U.S. Sports are a trend, like anything else, they rise, they fall, and it usually takes a perfect storm of events to get something to trend "upward" again. I'll bring up snooker again. It was irrelevant before Higgins, and snooker players lived leaner than...

You seem to be oblivious to snooker's long history and your exalting of it over pool/other billiards games speaks to your bias of all things English being inherently better than anything else. Snooker was completely irrelevant for three quarters of the 20th century until Higgins saved it. The...

Is pool really "dying," though? Yes, core participation numbers have dropped in half (20 million players playing 13 or more times per week to 11 million players) from 2007 to 2012, but I think that had a lot to do with the recession and the rise of online gaming, the latter being a much cheaper...

Basically, I'd just like a "nice pool room" quality GC (if that makes sense), setup like those at any good pool hall. I'd go with standard 4.5" pockets (whichever cut is currently the standard, go with that) and Simonis 860. For set up, whatever Ernesto (if he can do it) quotes me. :)

Finally, after 20 some years, getting around to converting the garage to a game room. I currently have a 9 foot Brunswick Heirloom from the 80's. Nice table, with 1.25" 3 piece slate, but I'd really like to own a Gold Crown (budget doesn't allow for the latest and greatest Diamond). Problem is...

I was talking more about the American pool scene with regard to talent pool, although many players, Europeans and Asians included, still believe the best overall competition is here stateside. Appleton, Hohmann, Mika, Shaw, etc all reside in the States. I don't yet consider Taiwan a cuesport...

Was reading an older thread that was talking about how there's not enough risk taking and creative shotmaking (because of the fact that missing one ball can mean losing the match) in professional pool these days. Even CJ dislikes the conservative play in rotation games and wants to see a return...

I honestly think pool playing "training" has devolved, at least in the U.S., over the past 20-30 years all the way back to Greenleaf's era. You can only get so good learning from an instructor and playing short race organized tournaments. The players of the past simply put an exponential amount...