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Not that I'd recommend it, but if your friend wants to visit DC for touristy things, I'd be happy show him around the pool rooms a bit, maybe play a little to help on the journey. It sounds like a great trip. Some friend's of my brother-in-law from Norway did a road trip from Los Angeles to...

So, the app is ready for initial testing. You can find it for Android here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alcachofra.the_tank_billiards_tour&hl=en&gl=US It is a free application with no ads. I'm not trying to get rich, just trying to help the game. There are two modes...

I still play in the DC area and your 9-ball/1p observations are still true, though the best 1p folks are out in Prince George's County now days. I grew up playing in Newport News Va, similar dynamic with 1p, and 9 ball. Where I live in DC, 9 ball, or 8 ball are the only real option. Maybe we...

Those are a classic iron set. I also play a set of forged Adams irons. I wish they'd bring them back. The faces on mine are getting tired, and I'd love another set.

Sailing. Golf.

Nothing really to add, but to wish John well. I was fortunate to be in the area of Easy Street for the US Open at Pebble in 2019. Stopped in and took this not very clear picture and stayed for a beer. Great room. Really nice folks there on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Still hard to believe, 626!

It has been working really well too. I just finished watching a semi-final match on ESPN, and later I'm off to the pub to play in a well-attended league. /s

It would make me nervous! I would need beta blockers just to watch a match, it is so tense.

Have you uploaded any videos of you playing the ghost challenges? I'd love to see how you play on your table.

NB: Now watching some chap called WalMart in cargo shorts play Scooter for crazy money on a loose Valley bar box. They don't need a shot clock. It is kind of a riot.

What in the name of Mary and Jesus is "bad pocketing?" If the ball goes down it is pocketed, if it doesn't it doesn't. What is interesting about a game with no banks, no kicks, no caroms, and rarely a follow shot? It has all the excitement of watching someone perform vascular surgery. Sure...

Nah mate, somehow that escaped me. I couldn't hear the little buzzer thing going off all the time because I'm effing deaf. Couldn't hear Joshua asking for the extension on the straight-in nine ball either. The match is great. These guys can really play. But, there is a bloodless quality...

Just watching the Filler v Sum final from a few days ago. Is this really the future? Taking the extension on a straight in 9 ball, because, for pros, even straight in could go wrong. The pressure is oddly interesting, but the pace is slow and it just seems so tight. To the great credit of...

If the future is tiny fields for small purses, this seems like the answer. I understand why elite pros want the tightest possible tables. It makes sure the best player wins. Same reason the best pro golfers like long, tough layouts. If there were tens of thousands of extremely high quality...

I think there are two ways the games are importantly similar. 1. They are both games where most of the fans are also players. 2. They are both games where fans/players are invested in comparing themselves to the pros. No one watches a NFL game and then goes outside and sets up the 3rd and...

Those were fun days. They actually still have one of the giant holes installed on the practice green at my local course. They never made it to the course as far as I know. That idea, playing up, ready golf, and a bunch of other ideas have failed to catch on. The hackers still insist on...

I think this is a mistake. Golf has been resisting limiting the pro golf ball distance for many many years. The logic is that spectators' appreciation for the game is connected to being able compare their own games, apples to apples, to the pros. Attempts to bifurcate the game end up with...

I don't really have strong feelings among the various options, but I think it would help the game in the US to have a standard and stick to it. It seems during the ESPN era of the late 90s and early aughts, those Olhausen tables played pretty loose, but it didn't ruin the professional game...

I'm in the process of developing a system for running tournaments where participants get a fixed bankroll and can then go make games to move up or down on the leaderboard. It has a "rake" of sorts built in: the administrator can increase the minimum bet, remove points from players who dodge...

So, the app is in development and should be ready for testing in the next month or two. If there are any room owners who would be interested in trying a practice-room-style tournament, I'd be grateful to trade access to the scoring system for feedback from players. I'm in the DC area, so...