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My GF and I play in our local APA league, and play in both an 8 ball, and a 9 ball division. We're the ones that give out the patches to whoever gets them for those two divisions. They really are a big deal for people when they first start playing, and for when someone beats a higher level...

Very nicely done!

A co-worker I had went through this process a few years ago. He's a Filipino, spoke English fine, had been living here for years, and I actually didn't know that he was currently not a citizen, but it came up one day when he asked a question that was in his study materials. Once we knew he was...

What color was it? Was it yerrow?

Very cool old table there, I'll bet that could tell some stories. Those look like good prices for Penguin rails, the on-line suppliers that I've seen charge that for stock rails. Please post up pics as you progress with your project.

Met this Chinese guy the other day, pretty cool dude, and we got to talking. I asked him what he did for work, and he said he was a pirate. Caught me off guard with that, so I asked if it was the kind that plunders ships at sea. He said no, the kind that frys airpranes.

How about something like this:

For me, the beavers have turned an area of well over 10 acres into a swamp. This was really good hunting land prior to the beavers flooding it, and now it's covered with water. I get your point though, there is a whole different variety of wildlife that is present due to it being flooded. I...

Ditto. I have a problem with beavers on one part of our property, and I got the "nuisance beaver permit" to get rid of them. One of the guys on my 8-ball team keeps telling me about a friend of his that is "real good at trapping them". I keep telling him that I want to do this myself, and that...

This is directly from the APA rule book. I don't know about other rulebooks, and the BCA rules posted previously seem to be opposite to this last sentence in the APA rule, but in APA, a piece of chalk that does not touch the cloth is not a foul.

These pics were from a trip I made to Shreveport in 2018. I spent one Saturday fishing the Red River just below Lock #5, and this fish hit a gold colored Johnson Silver Minnow spoon. Biggest freshwater fish I ever caught. When I hooked it, I initially thought I had log or a branch, but it kept...

The Dynasphere Bronze set is less than $120 from Seyberts, and probably a few other places too. You can add an Aramith magnetic cue for about another $30, so the whole set would run right about $150, and work just fine in a barbox.. These are top level balls in normal, and customary colors, and...

I was out at the Westgate in Las Vegas for the APA Championships. Not only were the pool jerseys (or whatever you call them) rampant, but the vendors were selling them constantly. Here's an interesting observation, the two guys that played for the top tier final in 9 ball didn't wear any...

I happened to catch a match in the pro division between Earl and Bucky Souvanthong. Watched it live last night, and it's on YouTube now. Entertaining to watch, in that they missed some shots, hooked themselves with position a few times, but still played a few racks like the pros they are.

I'm not sure how the other governing bodies address this, but in APA, which is probably the base level for league pool, the number of timeouts is limited. Skill level 3 and under will get two timeouts per rack, and everyone else gets one. APA also prohibits use of a smart watch or earbuds at...

One night a few of the older guys in my weekly pistol league go to talking about their meds. Older guys, 70s and older, and they all said that when they first started taking the beta blockers, their scores got better. They say that those little tremors just went away for a while. I'm guessing...

A few years ago, the Turning Stone tournament used carpet under the tables. I think it also helped a little with deadening sound in that giant room too. I watched almost every top name guy/girl playing doing this before putting their shaft back in their case. For most, it looked almost like...

Enjoyed that, thanks for posting it again.

The other half of this situation, the part where he changed his mind and played a different shot, that is also completely legal. You're allowed to reposition the cue as many times as you want before you take your shot when having ball-in-hand. Now if he bumped your ball while placing the cue...