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I don't care what size we decide upon, but it does seem it would be better for everyone, and especially pool room owners, if we had a single standard of what a competition pool table looks like. Otherwise identical tables running anywhere from 4 to 4.75 is really annoying if you travel around...

I will never understand the desire to minimize surprise winners in a fan/participant sport like pool. Golf, tennis, pickleball, poker, all have an element of appeal that is along the lines of, "maybe if I didn't have a day job, I could do that." Having someone other than a top pro make a run...

I'm annoyed at Sperry. Their top tier has been going down hill for years. I have an order in for Rancourts. Hopefully a new hand made domestic boat shoe.

I just happened upon some highlights on YouTube and am happy to see others have found this. I think it is great for the game and wish them success. Would love to see some more amateur or league spinoffs and maybe a similar 9 ball format. I don't love bar box pool, but am growing to accept...

Couldn't agree more about Ultimate Pool as a model. They figured out how to speed up 8 Ball to make it fun to watch. Alternate breaks, shot clock, reasonable length sets, match clock, tie breaker, stuff that makes it sport-like. I think part of the popularity is its familiarity to sports...

It remains amazing to see, in 2024, when every other sport on earth is trying to speed things up to match shortened attention spans, that we are talking about slowing the game down. We invented Texas Express rules to encourage more runnouts, and now people are moaning about too many runouts...

Pocket billiards is a man vs. man game, not a man vs. nature game. The competitors play at the same time, on the same equipment. It is nothing like golf or car racing. There is no reason equipment shouldn't be standard. Snooker uses a pocket template to ensure that the field of play is the...

Usually there are other wagers in sport than w/l. Likewise what sjm said.

This obliquely raises a related point. Standardization would probably go a long way to encourage more sports books to take another look at pool. Betting on snooker in the UK is a big deal. But, if you have variable at the whim of organizers or mechanics, that is a source of exploitable...

The upside is that when they get their way, and the room operator switches, we can time league matches using Stonehenge.

Khaki chino shorts, cotton sweater, boat shoes, vintage baseball hat, nice watch. Unless I'm paid to be somewhere, I'm not wearing slacks and hard shoes.

Look at the Tiny 2.0. It is a pretty awesome PTZ 4k camera.

I totally agree, playing the game well is barely even a conscious exercise. It is also amazing that our felt ocean is also, in many respects, a mystery even to mathematicians. Pool versus, say Chess, is a game of constrained infinity. No two games will ever be exactly the same. For me...

Exactly I said. They explain clearly their assumptions. You realize they know that spin and friction are real, right? They assumed them out because they aren't using advanced geometry to play better billiards, they are using billiards to think about and solve problems in advanced geometry.

I think they explain very well what their assumptions are. Donald in Mathmagic Land discusses spin, so I don't think they missed it.

Happened upon an interesting article about the surprising difficulty of billiards math. Thought some of you might enjoy it. Be warned, serious math content. https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-mysterious-math-of-billiards-tables-20240215/

Q Masters has been improving. I heard they've gone non-smoking, definitely switched the bar boxes to Diamonds, and may have swapped the 9 ft Brunswicks for Diamonds also. Nice to see the family investing in the place.

Another vote for Tiger Everest. My first one came on an OB shaft. I thought I'd change it, but I really like it.

I don't stop there, I use lithium grease on my practice cue to enforce focus on good fundamentals. I play on a solid steel table without pockets to build accuracy and use ball bearings instead of pool balls. When I get on the local 4" Diamonds with regular sized balls it's like throwing stones...