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    9 Ball Format

    That's what I play with the boys, a weekly Sat. ring game dollar one the five two on the nine, make the nine early it spots back up.
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    What killed the slip stroke?

    What killed the slip stroke.... Instruction.
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    9 Ball Format

    This is why it's called 9 ball. You don't have to Explain it. Most players never beat the good players and they tire of it after a few yrs. 6 ball, top players always win in a race to 7. The SR9B rules are the same as the pros.... 9 on the spot. In poker, non professional poker players will...
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    9 Ball Format

    Dave poker created TX Holdm. Robert Turner, Bike Card Club in Ca with over 30 yrs of mgmt said. It's the Only Poker Game non poker players will play, with the pros. For my money in my prime, I wouldn't like playing Sigel six ball, or three ball or any other game, but this rack structure...
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    9 Ball Format

    Six ball has always been called ''short rack in pool. In snooker, they have named and done a ''short rack'' 10 ball pro event. Saying it this way, you don't have to Explain the rules. Explaining new rules to players never seems to work.
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    9 Ball Format

    What I found is this. If you rack em tight, with the 9 ''on'' the spot. The wing balls just bank back up table to the head string area, not easy to make a ball is what I've experienced.
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    9 Ball Format

    $10.60 cents per player overhead, & that includes table time. If there's less players, everyone gets less.
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    Honduran Rosewood Burl Collection

    (y) (y) (y) (y)
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    9 Ball Format

    What do you think? End of 1st round....1/2 the rooms tables open up. Finals at sunset. All players in, start each round at the exact same time.
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    History Dbl Elimination

    I thought Frank McGowan did in his earlier yrs.
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    Short Rack 9 Ball

    Acrobat file would not open BUT Just did a copy of it zar, via phone back to computer. With this format I don't care who I draw, feels like poker. When I get knocked out, 1/2 the rooms tables are now Open.
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    Short Rack 9 Ball

    Finals dinner time. End of the 1st round.... 8 tables are now open for play. Final 4 play for the entire pot. Each round all players still in begin at the same time.
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    Is Now the right time to open a pool hall

    Where yah at now with matters?
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    Was pool better 50 years ago?

    When pool was not taught, unique play styles were created, and the diversity of a players form was very prominent. Corn Bread Red Slip Stroke.... who's teachin' that :). Gambling/traveling was the norm, seeing many different players pa$$ thru was the norm. Seeing Steve Gumphrys for the first...
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    Lil Al Romero

    Having moved to So. Cal Long Beach in summer of 76 I heard about em. A yr or so later we crossed paths. One thing jumped out at me! He always wore collared short sleeved shirts with his ''tails'' hanging out. Well tell the tail. He'd practiced so much on the GC, the metal edges cut...
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    History Dbl Elimination

    Was wondering what century did this become our norm? Before the depression era?
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    Pallet of new cues for sale at 20 cues per box for $100 ($5/cue) --- Comments?

    They would make an interesting collage assembled, cut up and inserted into wooden triangles for decoration.
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    Lil Al Romero

    Which SIU? Carbondale?
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    FREE Action Stream.......starts tonite

    Noooooooooo...... not a pool player. :)))
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    FREE Action Stream.......starts tonite

    Diaz.... the table duster :):)
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