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    Pool play that irritates you!

    I hate it when I just sit, while the other guy keeps shooting, and shooting, and shooting, and then I rack the balls, he breaks, and I sit, and he keeps shooting, and shooting, and shooting............
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    Expensive Cue Shooter

    I usually played with my best $$$$$$ cues, if I was going someplace "unknown:" or new, I took a cheap $100 Brunswick stick. Also, if going alone with no one to watch over my gear.
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    Was it a mistake to get a unilock playing cue? It keeps making a rattling noise whenever there is vibration.

    My dad, who died at 95 in 1988, was a lifelong proponent of "nose lube". Saw him grease, oil, polish all sorts of things over the years.
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    The Snap Magazine

    is this the same publication as "On the Snap"???
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    20 Photos of Pool Halls and Billiard Rooms From a Bygone Era

    the table in picture 10 looks like it weighs 3 tons!!! probably 3 inch slate.
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    Muscle up « and » play pool!

    clearly you don't need muscle mass to play pool. but being in generally good health/shape can't hurt. When I started playing again after a 25 year layoff, and about a 50-75 pound weight gain, the first thing I noticed was my gut and how to adjust my arm stroke around it. In college I was...
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    Trump and King Charles playing snooker??

    Anybody see the royal dinner festivities tonight?? they have an official procession into the dinner room led by 2 guys dressed to the 9s, carrying for lack of a better term.....pool cues!!! Obviously not what they were, but for all intents and purposes....they sure looked like off the wall...
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    John Schmidt's Life Story Out on Legends of the Cue

    I know several top level pool players who are excellent golfers also. Must be something about whacking a ball with a stick.
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    Plain model cues,$1000-$1500 retail price,who is best custom cuemaker?

    Heinrich Phoonmann, rare German artisan, only made about 34 cues in his lifetime
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    Plain model cues,$1000-$1500 retail price,who is best custom cuemaker?

    this is like asking for the most beautiful woman in the world. or the top 5 or top 10.
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    Tips For This Shot

    you didn't mention it was rotation, and who plays 4 ball rotation? I looked for the 9, didn't see it, so assumed it was 8 ball and you were shooting the solids.
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    HELP!! Can you identify this brand? Extension for my Schon Cue.

    I've got a Schon and have looked at mid-cue extenders, but the reviews on them are not good, cue doesn't stay straight, other wonky problems.
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    Tips For This Shot

    don't make it a tough shot, just draw back a little and shoot the 5 in the side and then the 2.
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    Ever do this?

    I play with a nice Schon with an original Predator 314 shaft, so when I screw up, we all know it's not the equipment.
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    An event I’d watch…

    Just give the trophy to Efren, save yourself a bunch of time and money.
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    Value Assist Needed For 1st Edition Predator Cue

    did this have the first gen 314 pie piece shaft??
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    8' Olhausen

    wish my garage was cleaned out!!
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    As anyone tried Yesglasses Masters

    I've had 2 pairs of sports glasses made for me over the years, in the mid 70s for shooting skeet and the mid 90s for shooting pool. very similar, in fact if I could have located the skeet pair they would have work fine for pool, with maybe a Rx change. Basically they sit higher on your face to...
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    Tube style case question.

    Joe sold a TON of those 2x4 oval cases in the day. They were everywhere in the 90s.
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    Things to consider for those forum members buying their first pool cue

    what kind of pistols??? I dabble in guns too. My gun safe is also my cue safe, actually the cues are worth more than the guns!!!
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