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  1. Poolplaya9

    Does anyone know Wayne Yates from Mechanicville, VA

    If I am reading it right, Jay's post on facebook makes it sound like the cue was not actually quite "perfect, like new" but had some of what Jay considered to be very minor "scuffs" on it that didn't detract from the cue being like new in his opinion. The buyer apparently felt differently about...
  2. Poolplaya9

    Here's something you don't see every day, what's the ruling on it?

    Without giving much thought to it, my snap thought it that it seems like play just continues since both balls are considered in play. The players will eventually need to either try to make one of the balls, hit one or both of them in an attempt to unjam them so they can be played later, or play...
  3. Poolplaya9

    90+ degree cut shot

    I haven't done the math or measured the angle, but it doesn't look to be 100 degrees to me. With the half a pocket of extra pocket that is there to cheat and lessen the angle that is needed to pocket the ball is taken into consideration, I think it is actually closer to being an 89 degree cut...
  4. Poolplaya9

    90+ degree cut shot

    I'm good with that. But, if you wanted to set it up as in Bob's diagram but offset the one ball and cue ball to have that edge to edge line going straight up the middle of the table, you would then need to move the one ball a bit further up table where the center of it was just barely past the...
  5. Poolplaya9

    90+ degree cut shot

    You would think you would know how fairly simple shots like these work on a pool table by now then. If you could do the shot you would have been trying real hard to negotiate something to get a bet down with Bob at the time but you didn't. Also, at that time, and even still now, you were, for...
  6. Poolplaya9

    The Color of Money Masse Shot recreated

    The passing lane shot looks like it should take some skill but it is actually pretty easy to do once you know what you should do. Where does it usually go wrong for you? Is the difficulty in getting the cue ball around and in front of the object ball, and if so is it because it doesn't swing...
  7. Poolplaya9

    90+ degree cut shot

    You were already offered a bet in post #57, and you didn't take the bet because you can't actually do what you are claiming. You can't do the shot for pride, you can't do the shot for bragging rights, you can't do the shot to save face, you can't do the shot to prove all the doubters wrong, you...
  8. Poolplaya9

    90+ degree cut shot

    That's a nice thin cut, but that shot is slightly less than 90° and nobody disagrees that shots that are less than 90° can be cut in with any english. On all of your shots that are actually over 90°, on every single one of them you are spinning from the rail first and then into the object ball...
  9. Poolplaya9

    Does anyone know Wayne Yates from Mechanicville, VA

    Those scratches go around the cue in a relatively thin ring of scratches in two different places. My first thought when I saw that was "that cue was being rotated in place about its axis while it was being banged against something. One possible explanation could be that a person was rotating...
  10. Poolplaya9

    90+ degree cut shot

    With a level cue, and with the object ball being away from the rail so that the cue ball cannot hit the rail prior to its last contact with the object ball? Nope, neither he nor anyone else has backed up those claims because unless you go rail first (or unless you do something else outside the...
  11. Poolplaya9

    Vegas

    If you are into or curious about firearms, or various military weaponry, then Las Vegas is one of the best places to be able to have first hand experiences with a wide variety of them. There are a whole bunch of places in or just outside of Vegas where between them you can shoot just about any...
  12. Poolplaya9

    New podcast ep with master instructor Anthony Beeler

    He sounds almost exactly like Bill Clinton to me.
  13. Poolplaya9

    RIP Justin Ramos aka 'justnum'......................

    His picture was included in post #4 as seen below. https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/rip-justin-ramos-aka-justnum.572964/#post-8058615
  14. Poolplaya9

    Soft hitting custom cue maker cues?

    I use them on occasion like everybody else, but the terms "soft" and "hard" are extremely misleading as descriptors for the hit of pool cues. Aside from them being subjective things that we all experience very differently, those terms are also commonly used by people to describe two completely...
  15. Poolplaya9

    Please help with thoughts about unknown / Unmarked Pool Cue?

    You are again missing the point. Maybe I have incorrectly estimated the count for how often it has been, but however often this has been, has been too often for many people so my friendly suggestion would be to slow it down. I know this because this amount of often was too often for many...
  16. Poolplaya9

    Please help with thoughts about unknown / Unmarked Pool Cue?

    Whatever the reason for so many of the "tell me all about this cue that is for sale" requests so close together, doing that is like making the forum you own personal assistant, and that wears on people, and even more so with your previous years of history of doing it here in the past. I've...
  17. Poolplaya9

    Please help with thoughts about unknown / Unmarked Pool Cue?

    Justin, people around here are more than glad to assist others with knowledge, and there is lots to be learned around here. But when you ask for advice on every single cue you see for sale somewhere, so you can see if it might be a good enough deal that you can flip it and squeeze ten bucks out...
  18. Poolplaya9

    Pool Halls State by State

    Lots of people have tried to do this, both with threads, and with websites and apps. It has proved difficult for all the obvious reasons. How should you define "pool hall"? It is hard to find all pool halls, even with Google searches and with other people's input. Even for the ones you do...
  19. Poolplaya9

    Balance point and deflection

    Same thing here again it seems. I think my wording of "if the compensation changes (which I thought everyone knows happens when a backhand english user changes bridge length) then the amount of squirt you end up getting" comes with the automatic implication of "in relation to/deviation from the...
  20. Poolplaya9

    When are MISCUE and SCOOP Shots Fouls?

    I think you covered it pretty well in your post below, and as you stated the reasons are compelling. Compelling enough that I am not personally seeing why you are still in favor of all miscues being fouls, although I certainly understand still having a bad taste in your mouth about the way...
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