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Taom V10 or green Triangle for the pressed tip on my playing cue. Green Master for the laminated tip on my break cue.

I know Mark Selby was using his main snooker cue (a Stamford custom) for his Ultimate Pool matches, and he seemed to be getting on very well with it. I also found a thread on TSF for snooker specced cues being used for English pool that mentions Gareth's changeover.

I used to use my snooker cue for English pool when I played in college. Eventually settled on a custom Jason Owen. I doubt I'd ever go back to using a snooker cue, but I'd gladly use one if I had no other option.

English pool cues tend to have slightly thinner tips, around 8mm-9mm for the 1 7/8" cue ball compared to a 9.5mm-10mm snooker cue tip for the 2 1/16" cue ball. They can also be lighter and a little shorter, about an inch or two, but it totally depends on the preferred specs of the user. A...

That rule does my head in, but not as much as "no back-table while in the D".

It's English pool, which a lot more popular than American eight-ball here in Ireland and the UK. Cue ball is 1 7/8"; object balls are 2". Rules differ between the two disciplines, though. You'll only find the striped 8 ball in the Aramith Pro Cup set. The regular ranges all have the standard...

I don't watch any American pool, but for English pool, it would have to be Jordan Shepherd, Mick Hill and Chris Melling, in my opinion.

I had my Peradon custom fitted with a medium Elk Pro. Great feeling tip. Might have preferred the soft one, in hindsight, but it keeps its shape and holds chalk well.

7mm-8mm is English pool spec. You'd never usually find a tip that small on a snooker cue.

I have three SuperTips on the way. I couldn't get on with my super soft ADR147 with the Taom I was using, so I've left the tip on my secondary playing cue and moved onto a Century G3 for my upcoming main cue. Once I've tried the G3, I'll move onto the SuperTips. I've heard his older editions of...

My English pool break cue ferrule looks exactly like this. If it's the same material, it's black fibre.

I'm an English pool player myself. At a glance, it's also much easier to see shot selections and routes, especially in your peripheral vision. I don't get that chance playing American eight-ball, and I often have to study the whole table to map out my selection.

All of the cues I own for English pool are one-pieces, break cue included. For snooker, all the cues I have are 3/4. Aesthetically, too, one-pieces look the best. Plus the joint on centre-split cues always catches on my facial hair.

I might pick a few cubes up to compare it to my green Triangle and green Master chalk. I'm finding that Master is a little too pasty for my liking and stains the cue ball more than Triangle, but Triangle is still messier than the Taom 2.0 I've been using. Heard it holds nicely on laminated tips...

I've always used medium pressed tips on the majority of the cues I've owned. Recently bought a few ADR147 laminated tips for the first time for my English pool cue, but I found that I'm having a lot of miscues with my Taom 2.0, so I've gone back to my trusty green Triangle chalk. I have a new...

Olive green or powder blue. Unpopular opinion, but I've never liked the deeper blue colour on the American tables. Between the blue or the grey, I'd choose the latter.

Are English pool tables permitted under "random ghost"? I don't play much of the American game at all and I might give it a shot if I have time to head out and access a table.

I'll do my best to quickly summarise the main differences between world rules and blackball rules below. Here's a video discussing international rules. SHOTS CARRYING: Shots carry in WEPF world rules by the incoming player after a foul. So should the incoming player pot a ball on their first...

I'd be surprised if many pub players actually played International Rules to begin with. Even in my local casual pool meetups, they've all been a bastardised mix of official and unofficial rulesets. I come from a world rules background, which is what I started off with, and later progressing...

Press release below: https://www.wepf.org/pressnew.php?art=36 World rules will no longer be an official competitive ruleset from 2023 onwards. Could partly be in favour to draw in an audience familiar with a more Americanised ruleset. I, personally, would have liked to see them adopt WPA...