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My super great grandfather was given a plot of land NE of Nottingham England for going to Richard the LionHeart's Crusade. It remained in the family until the late 1890s. Another super great grandfather arrive on the Mayflower.

Make pro 9-ball faster:: 4 simple rules:: 1) non-breaker rack rack as tight or as loose as he/she wants. 2) No roll outs. Make a ball on the break and its still your turn. 3) Must hit lowest ball first or BIH to opponent. 4) 4 minute chess timer for each player. No game can last longer than 8...

You make the outside round with a hole in the exact rotational center.

This is to be expected: 733 vs 400 = 90.9% to 9.1% 733 vs 068 = 99% 1 - 90.9% = 0.091 0.091×0.091 = 0.0083 or just less than and round up to 1%

Laminated tips are to be shaped by stroking (with sand paper) from the center of the tip to the edge ONLY. If you stroke from edge to center it is EASY to rupture the glue bond between layers. If you stroke meridionally across the edge, you can rupture the glue bonds, too.

It seems that we are "dropping like flies" in the present. God-speed to everyone.

It was designed so the the audience could anticipate in the physics transpiring on the table. That the player can read its markings easier is a side effect.

One thing you can say for him--His mind was not closed to new ideas ?!? no matter how bazar.

Following a couple of leagues for a couple of years:: 8 on the snap occurs so infrequently it is associated more with "how the table feels" than "how the players feel": With 10 teams and 5 tables:: You may get 1 per season, or 4 on a single night.

Ah, yes, the only tax you can avoid !!

My guess is that freezing chalk will cause it to absorb moisture from the air and become damp. Damp chalk plays terrible. Although you can heat it in a microwave oven for 30 seconds to make it degas the absorbed water--just don't touch it until it cools back down (more than 5 minutes).

Golf has a squeaky clean image. Golf cleaned itself up. Pool has a squeaky dirty image. Pool can't.

In order to get the head-ball tight onto the second 2 balls if you move the head-ball "by ANY means" so that it touches the other 2, it will have moved other balls in the rack by tiny amounts. This is simple collision physics. Only when you move the head-ball while the rack is still holding the...

Nice Yes, But:: You should replace you tip when: a) you don't like it b) when it is worn out (too thin to be shaped) Until you play with it for a while you cannot determine (a).

Do (would) you feel good about yourself if you won a guys eating money ? Some people are good with that--we call them invaders. Some people are not--we call them Christian.

At my local pool hall/Bar, I win something like 85%-90% of all games I play*. At 85% can it be considered gambling ?? (*) it is not that I am that good, it is just that they are that bad (most don't even know how bad they are.)

After 3 years of probability and statistics in college, I don't gamble--maybe for a beer.

Makes it hard to ever start gambling. ...

Agreed, get a cue short enough to use when CB is closest to the obstacle without banging on the walls. However short that ends up being.

Their whole career is a gamble (betting their livelihood on the company of the moment.) {{Just not the notion of gambling that this site uses.}}