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Thanks. That's the way Billiard Buddy does it.

Is there a convention for calculating average balls per inning? The Billiard Buddy scoring app for iPhones and iPads computes the inning average. It counts as an inning one which consists of a single safety shot, so if you have a lot of safety play in your game your inning average won't look...

I'll go 100. Please send paypal info.

John, it was you, circa 2000 in a rec.sport.billiard discussion of Hal Houle. I wish I could say it was my great memory but it's not. I used google because the word combination guaranteed a unique find - how many internet pages have combined the words "necromancy" and "splitting the...

Congratulations, John!

Wish I could be there - always great tournaments!

Players of all skill levels are welcomed. I love playing in these non-handicapped tournaments even though I don't stand a chance of winning. It's double elimination so you're guaranteed at least two games, and it's fun for me to see if I can win one or two before being knocked out. A fun day...

Lou - As one of the lucky Chicago boys, I agree with everything you're saying. Hope you can make it to the tournament.

These are always great tournaments. Fun to play in, or just to watch while enjoying their great burgers or homemade sloppy joes.

Call me dumb, I deserve it, but I ran my Centennials through my non-commercial dishwasher and ruined them. Colors faded terribly. It's been a long time, but I'm sure I must have used the dishwasher detergent - Cascade probably.

I'll save you one call. Jerimy has done the tables at Red Shoes the past two years.

Glen, years ago at the Illinois Billiard Club they installed Artemis cushions on their Anniversary tables. The cushions then played very slow, which was attributed their having installed the wrong "too tall" profile - they installed Artemis K66 instead of the Artemis Intercontinentals. Based...

I can't vouch for the dead man locker story but I can fill this in a little. The lockers came from Beverly Bowl at 94th and Ashland in Chicago. It was where I played as a kid (despite the Chicago ordinance that you had to be 18 to enter a billiard room). Beverly had 20 bowling lanes and 9...

IMDB credits the role of scorekeeper to one Alexander Rose, who also wrote a novel upon which the 1962 Dean Martin movie Who's Got The Action? was based. Are Alexander Rose and Cosmo the same guy?

Great job, John! Taking nothing away from Efren, but he makes it look hard, you make it look easy. It's great to see the nicest guy in pool and the best straight pool player on the planet finally in the winner's circle.

Here in Chicago, everybody knows you pronounce Schon "shahn" (say it fast) and Goethe "GO-thee" (with a hard "th" sound, like in through instead of the). If we ever hear anyone saying the name of Goethe Street like gerta, we know we're dealing with someone who stayed in school too long and is...

60 days must have elapsed since the original money order was issued so you were eligible for an immediate replacement. I guess their system was able to determine that the original wasn't cashed or you wouldn't have received it. I'm not sure about this but I read something online about having...

It's a great book. First off, it's really well written. Alf writes well enough to be a professional writer. That's saying a lot for a guy who spent much of his life in pool rooms, a whole lot. A real pleasant surprise. For example, it's never confusing. I've read a lot of pool books -...

The Aramith ball cleaner is fine if you're doing them by hand. But if you bought a machine to avoid doing them by hand, the Aramith will gum up the works like RKC says. With Brillianize or Novus #1 you just put the balls in the machine, spritz a little on each ball and let 'er spin. When...

It should be a great tournament at Chicago's finest room.