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Is there a giant list of tournaments anywhere online? Usually once I find out about something, it's in the past, months ahead, or way out of my area.

Yeah, this is the part that's counter-intuitive to me. If it's frozen to a rail, then that rail doesn't count as a hit, because it's leaving the rail and not entering contact with it. It actually has to hit another rail to not count as a foul. Why then, does a ball frozen to the cue ball count...

I think my newness to the sport is limiting my descriptions as I don't know the best terminology or the best way to describe things. I apologize for the confusion, as I'm certain it's my fault. I'm talking about when in rotation games, the cueball is frozen to the lowest numbered object ball or...

These all sound awesome. I'll be waiting for them all to come out. The foul one is especially interesting. There is sometimes confusion about what counts as a hit when balls are touching things. What if the cueball is touching another ball? Especially in rotation and it's the lowest ball, does...

I'm really digging this new "Everything you need to know series". I'm curious as to what's in the pipeline. I'm really excited about anything. Hoping for possibly, 1) an aiming one, because as a new person there are so many conflicting and passionate views on that topic that it's hard to...

I believe it was Marcus Aurelius that said that there will be times in your life where your word is the only thing you have to give. It should be worth something. How valuable one's integrity is to an individual, and what it's worth to them is a personal choice. There are times when we need to...

Going rail first vs ball first when walking a ball up a rail is a very tiny difference, but boy does it mess with my position. Until recently I couldn't figure out why sometimes my English worked off the rail and sometimes it wouldn't. I could put the same exact spin on the ball and it would end...

This looks strikingly similar to the American Heritage Billiards style of table. Even the leg options are almost identical. I wonder if they buy from American, alter the tables, and then resell for a markup. That said, American Billiards tables are not bad tables. EDIT: Adding link...

I had a conversation yesterday and there was some good back and forth discussion on this topic. We didn't really come up to an answer, but had a great discussion. It stemmed from the following situation... I was playing a league night match and I was shooting well. I started out way ahead and...

Jeff, I apologize for the geekiness; the name is super obscure and over the top nerdy. Basically, it's a computer science reference to the observer effect in quantum mechanics. A heisenbug is a bug that either disappears or alters its behavior when there's an attempt to study it. It made me...

Ha. This was my first post on azbilliards, and it turned into an amazing adventure. The three day intensive with the Tin Man (Demetrius Jelatis) was really fun. I'm planning to write a full review of him in the instructor section of this forum soon. I wasn't really expecting much other than a...

What are everyone's thoughts on multi-day intensives? Do they really kick up your game as much as I am hearing? Also, in the same line of questioning, if so.... does anyone know of any multi-day intensive trainings coming up, preferably on the west coast or Midwest?