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They do it on purpose. The entire country is upside down, so the cloth ends up right side up :)

Okay think I figured it out. It turns out the perpendicularity between the frozen balls and the desired path to the pocket is harder to estimate than I thought. I brought a large construction set square to the poolhall yesterday and carefully set the balls at various locations on the table...

For me, it's easy to differenciate between my break cue and my main player: the former is black with a white tip, the latter is white with a black tip :) As for picking up other people's cues, I notice rightaway because I use a rubber grip sleeve on all my cues and almost nobody else does.

I was pleased to find Gene's DVD in my mailbox today. Thanks Gene! Now then, I will review the DVD and the Perfect Aim method it contains. To do this as impartially as possible, I intend to do the following: I will go to the pool hall with my laptop and the DVD. I will play 10 racks of...

No need to go high tech (not to mention that GPS chips don't work well, or at all, inside buildings and car trunks). I work in a company that manufactures high-end luxury rifles. We mark each gun's major metal parts with a unique stamp bearing our company's crest and name, as well as the serial...

They would have to play with a cue designed with a camera inside in the first place, with a proper weight and balance, and that shoots pictures with a low-profile fisheye lens all around the cue, so that the player doesn't have to mind the cue's rotation. My own setup was WAY too heavy and...

Well, maybe they're a bit farther, I have a hard time translating a real table's layout from memory with the cuetable thingy. I thought of that, but the effect of transferred spin only seems relevant when the ball is farther from the pocket. Like you, I don't miss when I set the balls myself...

This type of shot happens all the time. I'd like to understand its exact mechanics to exploit it better because right now it's not working very well for me. For instance, in the following configuration, I want to pocket the 1 by caroming it off the 6. The 1 and the 6 are frozen or very close...

I was 14 when I stepped into this poolhall in Toulouse, France with a school friend. We played a little pool, but I found myself irrestibly drawn to the 2 carom tables at the back of the room. Not so my friend, so he left and I stayed to push balls around on the carom table. I just loved the...

My main pool cue is a cheap Meucci 97-5. It's still in good condition and I still have one of the two shafts completely unused. I've been told I could get $250-300 out of it. But I will never sell it because: - It plays just right. It's got that mellow, flexible wood feel in the shaft that I...

Come to think of it, it'd be cool if televised pool matches included "from-the-cue" shots. There are already all manners of on-board cameras in other spots (motor races, kayaking, poker, ...), so I think the first pool player to play with a cue designed with a wireless camera inside from the...

No-one at the poolhall tonight. I was bored, so I strapped my camera onto my Meucci and banged some balls: The camera made the cue super-heavy and, being on top of the cue, it kept trying to keel over, so the shots aren't exactly Mosconi-grade. Still, it's funny to see what the cue sees. I...

Paypal (pre-eBay purchase) stole $300 from me in 2001. They closed my account, no reasons given, no answers to emails, etc... Since then, as far as I'm concerned, they can rot in hell. The truth is, although they do their best to deny it, they're a bank, but they're not FDIC-insured. They do...

If you want proof, go to any pool hall, pick any table and do a series of jumps from the same spot. After 10 minutes, the area of the cloth where you've made your jump shots will be dotted with white marks. That's assuming the owner of the place doesn't throw you before. In our pool hall, we...

One good hard masse shot and you'd know the true meaning of follow through ;) Seriously though, there's one thing I haven't seen in their video: can you draw or follow on the playing surface? And if you can, how long till the surface shows burn marks? I have nothing against modernity, and I...

He won't play anything but 9-ball, for obvious reasons since he can't win anything else. His reason for not playing anything but 9-ball is that it bores him, that he likes quick games. I call BS of course: he plays 9-ball because he can win on luck. We played on a 9' table with wide pockets...

Back when I was a teenager and I started to learn billiards, I wanted to buy my first cue. I asked my teacher what cue I should get for the money I had, and he said "one that's straight, made of wood and with a well-glued tip". He was right.

Oh yeah, I do that, that's not the problem. When I play, I wear earplugs, I don't look at my opponent, I adopt a poker face from start to finish, and if I miss a ball, I sit down and move on in my head. No problem at all. Nevertheless, after the game, when he's out of sight, I can't stop...

50 euros :) Not likely, he was his own barman. The other thing that I don't understand with him is, he drinks a lot (1 beer every race to 3, which means one every 10 minutes or something). At some point he had 10 bottles on the table, in various states of emptiness, that all ended up empty...

Not that often, but once is enough. After that, he shoots and either pockets the 9 somehow, or messes up the entire table and leave the cueball behind a ball or some other unintended safe.