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Only on a small-known website. Link is: www.azbilliards.com

lol, I knew there was a reason I came to these forums.

Um.... I lost friends at pool, but never get any better. Does that count?

Quite a statement, although I'm sure it's well founded. Two pro-caliber players with full-time jobs are George Breedlove and Ernesto Dominguez. Would you say you're the favorite against them?

Wait... you have your answer and you want more responses?? How many more ways can you explain alternate break?

I support mine, although I don't buy food there. All they have are frozen cheeseburgers and bad pizza. However, I spent 5+ nights a week there. They can count on between 20-35 hours a week of table time from me, plus a bottle of water per night. I'd say that's enough support. In fact, they...

13-pages! Whoda thunk?

Makes sense. Per my aforementioned article: "Diaconis himself has trained his thumb to flip a coin and make it come up heads 10 out of 10 times." Not so bad, eh? But what happens if my opponent has the coin and makes me call? I'm doomed. It's like a nightmare. It'll just keep getting worse...

Jaden's assertion comes from the basis that he stated earlier (before his misaligned blackjack analogy). He stated: "Also statistically, in the long hall if you flip the coin 10,000 times there will be a 99.9 percent chance that there will be between 4950-5050 heads or tails. so if after 7000...

I don't know if you're more stupid to not call tails (finally!), or if I'd be more stupid to suggest calling tails, which would only certainly mean that your next coin flip would land up heads. We're cursed. ....where's that Chuck Norris coin!?

Interesting excerpt from an online article I found, "Lifelong debunker takes on arbiter of neutral choices": (full article at: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2004/june9/diaconis-69.html) "Of flipping coins and falling cats It wasn't long before the unmanageable analysis of a bouncing...

I checked PMs. No notice of Chuck. Really--don't tease me like this. I won't be able to sleep.

One other possibility... ...what if coin flips aren't 50/50? I'm not rehashing my last post, in case you're wondering. In all seriosity, I saw this episode of the Twilight Zone where a man bought a newspaper and tossed a coin in a box to pay for it (this is back in the day, when people did...

OK, this may be my last post with actual thought: The coin flip as it's understood (i.e. in theory) may be different to it's experience (i.e. in person). This may actually negate both Jaden and Punter's posts: what if some coins are more likely to hit heads (or tails) more than tails (or...

You're serious!? I totally google'ed Chuck Norris coins but found nothing.

Holy cow I hope you're serious. I mean, $5 for a CHUCK NORRIS COIN!?!? After I google to see if anyone else sells such a thing (and if it's cheaper after shipping) I'm going to PayPal you right away. PM me your PayPal email to send it to. This too good to pass up! Noel Bensurto, watch out...

I'm not so sure the blackjack analogy works with the coin flip. Even with an 8-deck shoe on +15, the odds are generated on the past and not the future; i.e., what cards have been played. In a coin flip situation, past events have no influence on the next flip. It's not as if the coin only has...

I can see it now: "Bet you $100 I can correctly call 8 flips in a row!"

Yeah, I'm fully aware about the possibilities regardless of previous outcomes. It's a bit like how the casinos made a killing at roulette when they started having electronic displays showing the past dozen or so numbers/colors. When, for example, red was hit 5+ times in a row people would...

I played 7 sets tonight with a friend. To start the first set, he was about to flip when I had that sinking feeling. You see, for some reason I have lost the overwhelming majority of coin flips over the past 6-8 weeks. My friend looks at my face and asks why I look like I already lost the...