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The plastic triangles in my club are of the thin, easily bendable kind, and they've seen better days. They seem permanently warped, to the point that the two balls behind the apex can be 5mm apart. So whenever possible, I rack the balls by hand, but then I have another problem: half of the...

Hi everybody, I don't know who he is. All I know is that he's from a club in the north of the country. That much I know because he spoke Dutch and I don't (that's Belgium for you...). I need to ask the guy who knows him, who told me he was an honor league player, because I'd like to play him...

Played some guy from the honor league tonight at our local pool hall. The game went like this: - He wins the lag, I sit down - He looks at the rack for a minute (racks are never really tight in our club because they only provide crummy plastic triangles), calls 6 in the corner, breaks the...

I realize no serious player would use something as outrageous as self-propelled or laser cue, I was just wondering whether someone who had the gall to turn up at a big-time tournament with one would be accepted for lack of rules. However, "shall show no substantial departure from the traditional...

Hello everybody, Out of curiosity, I googled for cue regulations, and I was surprised to find very few requirements. Essentially I found a few regs at http://www.cueguru.com/cue_regulations/, but most other sites I visited don't have much else. So, with so few requirements, would a cue made of...

I use three "tricks" to stay in stroke as long as possible: - Earplugs: even in quiet rooms, ambient noises tend to break the spell when you finally catch that magic moment when you play almost perfectly and effortlessly. As an added bonus, if your opponent uses rotten tricks like coughing when...

What sort of force does he use to get a lot of draw? drawing from across the table isn't all that tough is you hammer the cueball low and hard. My definition of a powerful draw (or follow or english) is a maximum amount of effect for as little object ball speed as possible after the cueball...

Re slip strokes: I use a very loose grip for most shot, so much so that I use a rubber sleeve on all my cues to avoid letting go of it. I almost do slip strokes, but not quite. On long hard shots and shots with very high english, I tighten a bit to gain accuracy and control deflection better...

Sorry, I didn't explain properly: my opponent didn't purposedly freeze the cueball onto the object ball, the cueball simply ended there after a successful safety shot. So his shot was valid. However, mine wasn't, you're correct. I forgot about the push shot rule. I set up the shot again today...

Hello everybody, I played a game yesterday against a guy from the club, and the following shot came up: one object ball was frozen onto the long rail, very close to the side pocket, and my opponent called a safety and froze the cue ball onto that object ball, so that the line between the two...

Either I subconsciously "skewed" my aim differently according to the type of shot I shoot to compensate for my crooked arm, which I doubt because I checked my aim with the help of my friend, or I concentrate too much on my new stance and forget to look ahead. Either way, I'll see if time and...

Hello everybody, My name is Pierre from Belgium. I'm new on the forum. I've played various forms of billiard for 20 years (mainly carom and straight pool) and I'm about to turn my way of playing upside down, so before doing this all the way, I'd like your enlightened opinion. Here's my...