Search results

True I’ve just never seen a tip mushroom like that, to where it’s almost folded backwards. Maybe they’re softer than what I’ve been using. I really want to try out a cue like that for some reason.

I bought an old Brunswick oversized 8’ home table with 5” pockets when I decided to learn to play pool. I wanted to get good enough not to embarrass myself before playing strangers in a pool hall. I played about a year at home and when I got on a 9’ gold crown I played just as good or better...

how many people are actually in this thread? ...vs how many cool pool handles are in this thread

It’s not about getting rich, it’s just about making your way in this world doing what you like, or at least avoiding what you don’t like ; ) I was a road man myself for a few years at different times in my life. It was easy when I was a teenager, as I didn’t go to school and my dad's basement...

Well if you can just throw an oversized tip on your cue piece and start playing then I don’t see a need a’tall for a tip guy. I don’t have a lathe or the space. No one does tips close to me that I’ve found so far. Maybe the answer is a snooker cue or something around like 12mm and I can just...

I’ve never been able to look at the cue ball at contact. I never would’ve considered such a thing until reading about it here. Although I have looked at the CB the whole time when I’m totally tree topped and risking a foul etc but I’m not even in my normal stance in that situation. Bumping the...

It looks like it works better like that. I’ve tried to let my tip mushroom into a snooker style but it never happens lol. I’m pretty sure they have an oversized tip, compared to ferrule size, and they just let it get bent back around the edges. They wouldn’t rock it like that if it was a...

This is true in my business, and I hate it lol. Golf doesn’t interest me at all for some reason. Everyone I know that’s a serious pool player tells me I would love it. I’ve played one time for a work thing and I was horrendous but I did have a little fun. I hit the golf ball about 70% of the...

the OP is more referring to a culture of betting on pool than the classical “hustling” you think of in pool. I agree and wish it was more common. I am not a big money player and every time I try to lay down (because I feel bad winning every single game against someone playing for fun) it...

I’d need to be at the table to to tell for sure but it looks like you can kick behind the 3 with a little check side and make the two in the side P. If you miss it you will get decent separation and the 7 might help block. It also might block you from the 3 if you make the 2 with a full-ish hit...

After the 714, the guy deon? that was live streaming said “ahhh new world record” etc etc. Bobby then pulled him aside and started talking about cranfield and 768 and then deon came back and said something like “well a new record” I don’t remember the details very well anymore but I had this...

In the book “running the table” about Danny basavich, there’s a part where they’re running through all the games people played at Chicago billiards. They mention a game called “two pocket”. I’ve asked about this game on here before and did not find anyone who knew for sure what it was. Does...

Was the table sold? I know the guy from streetlights was trying to sell the table, but that it hadn’t been dismantled or anything. I don’t think it was being “gotten rid of” as evidence. I got the feeling that those involved don’t care either way how people feel about the table used lol. As...

Is there commentary by Jayson and/or anyone else added in?

Damn I wish I had seent this earlier. I just ordered a couple techno duds to see what they’re all about. My favorite tip so far has been the water Buffalo. Supposedly extra hard but they were beautiful for me. I started thinking it was maybe just the one piece tip feel that I liked (I’ve only...

I’m going to play some next level pool today. I can feel it. You ever just feel like you’re in stroke before you even hit the table? I’ve been under the weather as they do say, and so haven’t played for a week. I finally took advantage of the Aramith Tournament ball set on wayfair - they came...

Haha. I would still be using them. I never let the hole form to any decent depth. If it starts to, or if the shape gets too weird with channels, I take the chalk to the sidewalk and rub it flat, cut a line around the sticker, and rip it off. I end up with a piece of masters that’s like 1/2”...

sweet. I like it man I watched a few matches last midnight

Ohhh yes. It is oversized...it’s an oversized 8’ #1. Or a Half Oversized 8’. If it was issued by the army it’d be called Pool Table, 8’, partially oversized. I like that Diamond gave us this third option. I’m a big fan of Muddy Waters too. I wonder if it was just easier/cheaper to make some...

Awesome interview. Bobby seems like a cool guy and I love old pool stories. I listened this morning while making and eating breakfast. I wanted to see him play and found one short clip from yalebilliards and the sharkstream. Are you involved in that KC? I saw a few links posted from you when I...