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I did try to do that: I went see the guy to get my money back and walk out of the tournament. The guy flatly refused, saying "you've entered the tournament, if you don't like it, forfeit. Nobody here says anything about the table, it's just you, so deal with it." No matter how hard I tried, he...

To the best of my understanding, during a normal shot (i.e. not the break, not the last ball), as long as (1) you hit one of your balls, (2) any ball hits a rail after you hit your ball, and (3) you don't scratch or pocket the 8, the shot isn't a foul. Whatever happens during the shot is of no...

I went play a local tournament today. The place wasn't a poolhall so much as a bar with two tables that were completely spent (to stay polite). The better one had a cloth with holes like if mites had had a field day, stains that looked very much like dried blood, was coming off at the pocket...

I must say, I'm not even sure why you thought it might be illegal to shoot the 15 in the first place. Is it because the cueball is spotted manually, therefore you thought you might have to shoot out of the kitchen? Because if that's the cause of your question, to the best of my knowledge, the...

Hmm, an iphone is beaucoup bucks. My cell phone is a Nokia 3100 :)

Not very likely. I have a rule of never playing over what I previously set out to potentially lose, be it poker or pool. When I go to a casino, I come in with a small wad of cash and a deadline, and I come out either empty handed or on time. Same goes for pool. I figure if I lose it all, my...

You're right guys, he may be trying to get me over time. I've never seen it done myself, but I'm sure it's possible, especially since I look like a regular at that poolhall, so not likely to disappear with his initial investment. My paranoid self is on the lookout though. As for the little...

I never use my real name on the internet. Here's why: About 10 years ago, I unwittingly helped a company fold and lose hundreds of millions. Without going into details, a bunch of computer enthusiasts and I wrote a piece of free software that helped destroy their entire business model. It was...

The question that springs to my mind is, how the hell did you even decide it was a good idea to cover a guy whom you describe as a deadbeat, involved in drugs, who walks around with enough cash to cover himself anyway? Sounds like you got off easy with a $115 writeoff...

Funny thing happened to me last night at the pool hall: I walked in to say hello and get a coffee after my work day, no more. The place was almost empty, save for a guy talking too much at the bar. After 15 minutes as I got up to go, the guy said "a little game of pool friend?". I unconvincingly...

All I see here is yet another internet pissing contest. You guys worry about your reputation while the rest of us have fun playing...

My pool cue is a Meucci 97-5 that I won from a guy who didn't have anymore money to bet on a game in 1999. It's in fairly decent condition for a 12 year old el-cheapo cue, and the spare shaft is still unused. It's not worth much dollar-wise, but it has an enormous sentimental value to me for a...

Same here, with one small twist: my jump/break cue has seen better days, so I don't care too much about things happening to it. So every now and then, when I played a money game against a clueless jackass who didn't have a cue of his own, I used to offer my jump cue, complete with its rock-hard...

You know, this sounds very much like a get-off-my-lawn comment. The generation before you, the one who used to get their kicks at straight pool, used to say "9-ball is the dumbing down of pool". Now you say Texas Express 9-ball is the dumbing down of pool (pre-Texas Express 9-ball pool for you)...

That is one thing I like about the Justa Bridge. I play most of my shot with a fairly tight closed bridge (hand bridge that is), with a glove. The Justa Bridge feels quite similar. I don't care much for the excessive glide and the atrocious wood-on-something-that-dings-wood noise provided by...

9-ball, which was pretty much made for TV, is a particularly stupid billiard game to me. However it saved the sport from becoming an old people's activity and slipping into oblivion. If people start being interested in speed pool, I'm all for it. Once they are hooked to any form of billiard...

You got me all figured out here :) I love gadgets, and I ordered the Justa Bridge because it looked like a cool gadget. I like it, and its flexibility grows on me, but I could well do without it. Heck, I don't even use the bridge all that much... But I'm not sure I could do without the coolness...

For what it's worth, I rate my own game by playing a slightly modified game of straight pool to 150 against Lefty. Lefty is me playing left-handed. Lefty is weaker than me, so he plays more defensively and exploits the sides of the table I don't like to play in for his safeties. I, on the other...

Hello everybody, I finally received my Justa Bridge from Pool Dawg (great doing business with them by the way). I ordered one without really knowing if it's good or not, or if it would work with my jump cue. There is precious little information about it on the net apart from Larry Keller's own...

Craziest thing: two guys were playing at the table next to ours. Suddenly, one of them screamed and blood spewed out of his bridge hand. Turns out, there was a bunch of small but nasty glass splinters embedded in the felt, and the remnant of a broken beer glass hidden in one of the pockets. They...