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Not so. I never EVER show what I think of someone's way of playing, and I usually keep quiet when I play. I never showed him any disrespect, far from it. But what I was trying to explain in my original post is that it was the way he appeared to play up to now. You don't know who he is, I made...

That is a good idea, I will do that. Thanks!

Okay, just to clear things up: - The owner, his wife, the barman, most of the regulars and I are good buddies. His wife is the sweetest little lady you've ever met. Believe me, she wasn't in on anything. I've known these people for months, sometimes you just have to drop the paranoia. - I...

He drank beer, I didn't. I only drink coffee or tea when I play :)

Nope, served by the barman. Unless the barman was in cahoots with him, which I HIGHLY doubt because the guy is pissed off with him because he won't give him a raise.

I know he isn't, we both play 1st division in the league :) He usually sucks, but I know now it's an act. Why he choses to hold his speed all the time is beyond me. He's known my speed for a long time. He also knows I only play 9-ball with him and another guy, because they refuses to play...

He was drunk: I saw him down 10 bottles of Desperado in half an hour. Given how often he was going for a leak, I know it wasn't faked. And yes, he knew what he was doing, and it definitely wasn't the first time. The thing that gets me is his usual attitude when he isn't drunk. In the light of...

The poolhall owner... He played the longest game ever on me, and I'm down 500 :( I've known the guy for months. He plays 9-ball only (when he plays, which isn't too often), and he plays like crap. I mean he shoots straight, but whenever something's complicated, like getting out of a safety, he...

A billiard friend of mine used to carry a 1 ft tall mallard duck plushy strapped to his case. The damnable thing had a sound box in its innards that, when pressing the duck's sides, quacked rather loudly. When he played, he set the duck on the side coffee table, in front of the billiard table...

I regularly clean the ferrule with a rubber eraser. It works very well, but at some point there's some blue spots that just won't go away. That's when I rub the steel wool. I hate blue ferrules. As for shafts, they hardly get dirty, as I play with a glove. But every once, they need a little TLC...

Some years ago, a young and pretty lady took a membership card at the pool club I was playing at. She had gotten hooked on pool 2 or 3 months before and I saw her come every day at the pool hall for a couple of weeks. She was playing like a beginner, and had a bad case of chicken wing when she...

Wow, I dare not imagine how much you used to carry before :)

It's very fine, soft steel wool, the kind that burns when you set fire to it. I use it to clean ferrules, and once every year or 2 years, I run it on really dirty shafts.

My biggest fault game-wise is that I play too slowly, and favor safeties too much. This got me into trouble in the past, with players getting pissed off at me because of the snail pace of the game, and getting annoyed at having to come back at the table for yet another hard shot out of a safety...

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who carries half of his house in his case :) Why do you carry a tape measurer? I can figure out more or less why people carry most of their stuff, but the tape measurer eludes me. What's a white hole reinforcing donut? Also, some of you carry a roll of...

Try this: cue elevated slightly so the cue ball clears the ferrule on the way back, open bridge with bridge hand out of the way of the cue ball (bridge with your thumb), grip so that you lighten the front of the cue, aim the very top of the ball, and hit soft-medium, frankly and with...

Having bought a bulky Justa Bridge recently, I decided to finally replace my old cramped cue case by a new one with roomy side pockets. When I emptied the old one, I was amazed by all the junk I collected over the years that I carry around. I meant to remove the stuff I never use, but it turns...

Funny how people read information that isn't there :) PastPrime didn't say anything about his cue coming unscrewed "all of the sudden". Maybe the problem has always been there and he's tired of it? or maybe he bought the cue very recently and it has a defect?

Your cue should not come undone if the two faces at the end of the butt and the bottom of the shaft face each other flat and parallel, so the contact area is as wide as possible. If they don't, the joint will never be tight however hard you screw it. Assuming your cue didn't sustain damage to...

I have a bad back due to years being overweight. I since lost the weight to increase the MTBF of my knee prosthesis, but the back still hurts from time to time. Here's my advice when you play: bend at the knees, not at the back, especially when you're tall. Also, spread your legs some. I'm 6'...