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If you golf, Iceland is the golfingest country on earth per capita. Seriously. Some beautiful courses for fairly reasonable prices. Like Bandon Dunes but on the moon.

It is simply the practicalities of seeing. You can't see the whole table down on a shot, so visualizing the three rail shape isn't possible. You do see pro golfers making practice swings 90 degrees to the shooting line. You see this with wedge shots frequently, especially if someone is...

The people saying this is very different than golf are 180 degrees wrong. If you watch a good golfer make practice strokes on the putting green, something very important is different during the practice stroke to the actual one, and that is where the eyes are looking. One of the hard parts of...

If you ever find yourself in the nation's capital, look me up. We can play in some of the rooms around here. Hip-hop and Go-Go turned up to 11 pretty much everywhere. You'll hate it! *Also, an old guy.

The opposite. I hate playing in silence. I've played in bars so long I need the noise, juke box etc. to get in stroke.

As a pretty average player these days, playing in league with many pretty average players, I think a lot of folks would be happy playing 7 ball. Playing the 7 ball ghost is my go to practice drill. If APA and other leagues for normal folks swapped their odd scoring of 9 ball for normal rules 7...

This thread makes me miss old DC. A room that was really hard to see close was Obelisk Billiards Club in Newport News VA. Located in a crappy strip mall in a, then, pretty rough part of a rough city, it was a clean room with a dress code. They had 15 nine footers and maybe 7 sevens, and at...

This strikes me as mostly right. Giving bangers games on the wire in 9 ball is a bit like that old 8 ball hustle where you let your opponent remove balls from the table after the break. It doesn't really help. Giving players the 8, 7, or 6 out makes sense if you want to make a competitive...

"You got Liberace-ed. Your playing partner is well inside of you."

I tend to agree that the information is much easier to access these days. I grew up with a table at home, and playing at a pretty serious room in Newport News VA. The learning back in the 90s was slow and expensive. Now, with Dr. Dave, Tor, Lil' Chris, et al. you can learn to see the table...

If you play bangers in the bars, there is a complicating factor. If everyone is drinking, winning the drinking contest can be very productive. I usually run a 3 drink minimum for league. It evens things out and partially fixes my risk aversion. After three, I try to take it easy and stick to...

Go play in the tournaments. The way to learn to win is to make sure you are losing to the right kind of player. You'll learn more about what you need to work on playing better players. Playing bangers, you'll never find out where you are weak, and no matter how long you play, they'll never...

There's lots of room over there; could start a washed up pool guy commune.

It is a great part of the world. We discovered the Eastern Shore cruising by sailboat, sailing out of a town near Annapolis. St. Michaels, Oxford, and Easton are all close by and accessible to each other by boat. The sailing is world class, the fishing and crabbing can be amazing, the duck...

Thank you!

Sounds like an excellent room! Thanks for the information.

My spouse and I are thinking about moving from DC to Cambridge Md. and I think I've seen there is a new room in Cambridge attached to the bowling alley. We're planning to visit from June 25th through the 28th, and I am looking forward to checking out the room. Anyone here live over on the...

So, I've finished the first version of the application. It is available now in the Android store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alcachofra.the_tank_billiards_tour The idea is that there is one device for each table, and a one for the tournament organizer. You can have...

This summer, I've started playing in an in-house APA 9-ball league. I was very skeptical of the format, the scoring, etc. of APA, so had never played .before. I must say, I've been pleasantly surprised. After a little bit of getting used to, I think the scoring and handicap systems are...

This is one of the clearest descriptions of the appeal of pool I've ever read. I could not have said it any better. The honesty of those balls on the table has seduced me over and over.