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played 4 years during college, took the next 40 years off, then started playing again 5 years ago. it's a good thing i took the 40 year pool vacation, or i wouldn't have achieved anything!

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I fixed the link. Here it is: http://www.michaelmccafferty.com/PAT-PlayingAbilityTest.xls

That famous line is often attributed to Senator Everett Dirksen, but his people say it ain't so. See http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_emd_billionhere.htm for more on this.

"Superstroke" Bruce Christopher mentions in his book ("Superstroke": My Winning Secrets) that he would run cold water over his hands to keep them from sweating and needing powder.

I was doing further research on my new cloth project... It was mentioned in another thread that the normal blue chalk shows up as black as it settles on the Simonis tournament blue cloth. So I called Simonis to see if they had a recommended chalk color that showed up the least on tournament...

So, I figured, why not just call Simonis? I'm learning at a rapid rate due to the great replies you guys have been taking your valuable time to help me with... I hadn't even thought about 760, which is faster than 860, so I went to the Simonis website to fill in some blanks for me, and that...

I appreciate your thoughts about how the blue will look on video, because I will be continuing to record practice and competition videos for YouTube and Google Video sites and for the DVD project. If blue is better for the eyes, then it would seem to be better for video! Thanks.

Very interesting about the humidity... I live very close to the ocean and humidity is a big challenge. Are you saying that 760 is faster in a humid environment because of manufacturing differences? Do tell more!! Maybe I should consider 760... do they have it in blue?

I thought the same thing! I played for the first time on some blue cloth this past weekend at Shoreline Billiards in Mountain View, CA. I really liked how fast it was playing. Sweet.

I need to recover my Gold Crown IV and was thinking maybe I would go with the light blue you see on so many tables nowadays, rather than the traditional green. It seems that the blue would not show the blue chalk marks and the burn marks (from breaking and masse' shots) as much as the green...

9' Gold Crown IV, Simonis 860, with custom made rack holder and custom shelves for library of pool DVDs, books, etc. Photo taken on Jan 1, 2008.

Dan... Yes, you can borrow my Delta-13 rack, but it was a birthday present and is custom engraved with "Mikie's Fun House" and the 5-star logo. How about we get Samm Diep to set one free from the factory? She is the marketing director and player rep for Delta-13 (and a real nice person and a...

Excellent post, Shawn. Thank you for taking the time to demonstrate the power of positive action. Namaste'

Pool left me when college ended and I had to start working at a job. That was in 1964, and I worked until 1992, but then got into flying, Frisbee, Ferraris and yoga and then got back into pool in 2004. So that was 40 years of no pool! Since 2004 I've been into pool in a big way, but I doubt...

Fats. I can't believe nobody said Fats, yet. I'd want to play him partly for the pool, mostly for the stories! ;o)

Gambling, for me, always fell into one of two categories: 1. I KNOW I'm going to win. For example, hustling a lower-skilled player. I used to do this in college. It wasn't really gambling, it was Stealing. 2. I DON'T KNOW if I'm going to win. For example, playing some unknown pool...

"BARTEK" is the username who spammed me with "PornTube" but the link does not go there, so it seems to be some trojan horse site. BEWARE!!

I guess you could say it's just "feel". If you bank thousands of balls, you develop a feel for all the ways to hit the ball that will NOT go, and the very few ways that the ball WILL go. The video clip was one of my practice sessions where my "feel" was on, or else, like Efren says, "I got...

Here's my system for using lights for banking: I turn the lights on, and then bank the balls into the pocket. Case closed. Check this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFmR-0wGjZI It worked 9 out of 10 shots.:smile: