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So Russ, did you clip this photo from my website and upload it to Flickr or was that someone else? If so, shame on you. I like to share my photos but I am not so fond of people taking them and then uploading them somewhere else. The thing is, you don't need to steal my photos like that -- if...

Congratulations! What rooms do you play out of? Also, there was a player by the name of Ray Rocha (if I recall correctly), I thought originally from MA, who owned a room in Salem NH for a while back in the 90's. Any relation?? I lost track of Ray after he sold out of the poolroom.... There was...

Mazin's has both a large TV room with a couple of big tables in it, and another smaller room where they sometimes set up buffet food. There is plenty of room there! They don't have a restaurant/bar, but they have plenty of room for a "private" party! You all just might need to provide your own...

Guests are 100% welcome at Amazin Billiards in Malden -- no worries! 40 Faulkner St. Malden for your GPS. With many of the other player-oriented rooms around Boston having closed, Mazin's room attracts a lot of veteran players from a wide area for its 8 full sized pool tables, and for billiard...

I was only there Saturday of this three day event. There were at least four former US champions in the field. It was won by Sonny Cho. http://www.poolinaction.com/Billiards/Amazin-Billiards-September Rather nice cue he wields, too! If you have not been to Amazin Billiards you owe yourself a...

The late great One Pocket player, Cecil Tugwell switched sides after an injury to his right hand. He never went back and got good enough lefty to beat Efren in the finals of a tournament -- not many guys can say that when it comes to One Pocket. http://www.onepocket.org/CecilTugwellMemorial.htm

At DCC and CSI and OnePocket.org by the One Pocket rules, if you pocket a ball in your opponent's pocket and jump another object ball off the table, it is a foul, but the ball counts for the opponent, unless the cue ball also jumps the table or pocket scratches. Simple answer and that's the...

It looks to me like you have misspoken here Bob and are liable to confuse some people. As I read the OnePocket.org rules in your scenario (quoted in red), because the cue ball jumped the table the opponent's object ball would also come up. The ONLY times the opponent's object ball comes up on a...

That's just not what happened though. There were 64 players in the tournament and only a couple of matches involving the same couple of players were an issue. In particular it was the last couple of one pocket TV matches. And other than a mild warning nothing was done by the TD to enforce...

There is no need to change the overall rules for one pocket -- they are fine as they are. However tournament directors do need some tools to enforce no slow play as needed. That did not happen in Vegas -- they let Corey drag a couple of matches way down. It is not like the whole tournament had...

PS -- I thought the 10-ball field was about as tough a truly international field that could be assembled. I guess Alex and a couple others missed signing up in time, but I counted Canadian, English, German, China, Japan, the Philipines and a bunch of other countries I cannot remember -- at least...

I was out there for most of the One Pocket (missed the final match because they pushed it back an extra day :( ), which included the first couple days of the 10-ball plus I wandered over to the Artistic Pool competition now and then. I put the best of my photos in two galleries: US Open One...

Man, that is a great photo to see with three legends of CA pool!! That is a ton of pool history right there!!

I am sorry to say I heard from a family member that long time Bay area pool player James 'Salt' Duval died yesterday. I only met him at Derby City, and he came to several of our HOF dinners there. We hit it off because he really enjoyed the history of the game and the players of old. We talked...

This is pretty much the drill I came up with back when I was first trying to learn straight pool back in the early 70's. I came up with it myself, by the way, but I do realize I am not the only one because Capelle has something like this in at least one of his books (which were not out back in...

That's Curly -- try MDDHosting

Another thing is that I don't think he ever swears -- at least as far as I have ever heard -- and I am not talking about in the booth either. He's just old school like that and doesn't at all.

Hi all -- and thanks for the kind words. I am the man behind OnePocket.org, and the One Pocket HOF dinner. It's a 100% non profit site that I created to help promote the game of One Pocket and engage people interested in One Pocket online, no matter where they live in the world. I am the one...

Yeah, there were definitely some strong emotions there. Curly had a tough time keeping it together when Jarrod spoke at the start of the tournament. Rich Britt, who won, is a very good friend of Jarrod's and like Jarrod, is from Stoneham MA. Here he is with Jarrod early during Jarrod's extended...

She won the cue raffle -- sorry I didn't catch her name. Jarrod also speaks really well -- if you haven't watched some of his news appearances you should. He really speaks "from the heart" which makes it powerful. This is Marc Dionne's write up from his Facebook page: