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When I start to feel the pressure I fall back on my mechanics. I realized a long time ago that the pressure fouls up the mechanics so when the pressure shot is on I concentrate on getting the mechanics right. PSR, stroke and finish. I never think about making the ball, it just goes in...

Over confidence and delusion I am not a "basher of America" but a phenomenon that has spread across America in the last twenty years is the think positive plague. It has led Americans to a place of such over confidence that we think we can do anything. Rebuilding nations comes to mind...

Insurance On most home policies any collection of anything must be insured separately. Values of the items in the collection can be established and agreed upon at that time. One playing cue, one break cue and one jump cue could probably be successfully defended as not a collection but...

Is there a standard approach for working balls that are clustered together in the middle of the table? Starting from the outside and working in or starting on the inside (in order to open the cluster up a bit) and working out. This probably occurs more in bar box 8 ball than any other game...

Replace the chalk with another bridge head and I think it would be legal. IMO. Joe

Thanks Bob I would hate to have to make a call dependent on which direction the nine ball settled. A lot of movement by the nine would be easy to call, but just a twitch could leave someone very unhappy. I think I would address this before the shot was taken. Hoping to get everyone on the...

Pocket, Exactly. The rules say "toward" a frozen ball. In your illustration the two. The rules do not address another frozen ball or a situation where the nine moves as a result of the cue ball or the two ball being moved. So you could shoot through the nine as long as it was toward the two...

Thanks Russell. Its KO Let'em have their fon. I dunt car. Joe

So if the "settles" after the cue ball is shot regardless of direction, it is a legal shot? Is that how you read it?

Yes pocket, you are correct.

An illegal object ball is one you are not allowed to hit with the object ball. LOL or I guess it could be one that measures ! 1/4" instead of 2 1/4". Never run into that.

If the cue ball is frozen to an illegal object ball and moves as the frozen shot is taken is that a foul? Does it matter which direction the the frozen ball moved? Thanks Joe

I hope you are enjoying that butterfly cue I sold you about a year ago! It's enjoyable to have things that remind us of our younger days. Mr. Fanelli made great cues. I have a never played Mark Bear you may be interested in. If you ever visited his website it is the cue that was...

With corrective contact lenses you don't feel them at all once they have settled onto your eye. I don't know about the cosmetic ones, but a solid white "evil eye" would cool. Maybe white could be made with the modern more comfortable material. You can always claim to have your eye on the...

Management had three hours to give the op a heads up about the league play. They sort of dropped the ball. Losing the table isn't the end of the world. The op doesn't get to dictate to management who plays on what table when. I agree with Macguy, probably better for op to go someplace...

I made my dog swim from Puerto Rico. I'm still waiting for him!

A player. Someone who works on technical, mechanical, and strategic parts of pool and has the respect of others that play well. Joe

Proud of Bandit and proud of Omega. They both did the right thing. Maybe the Moose Lodge should think about doing something as well. Like shoving the team out the door. Joe

I don't know why, I guess it has to do with teaching myself as I was growing up but I prefer and find inside to be much easier. I have always struggled with outside and still work on it. I'm hoping this PP stuff will help. Go figure. Joe

Shoot'em up. Maniac, It's funny how things seem to play out. I too have been wanting to light some primers after many years off. I have called critters in the US and in Mexico and can't even begin to count how many I rolled. Like ShootingArts I shot competitively for most of my life HP...