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Agree with you here. There is nothing in the rules of straight pool that precludes smashing the break shot.

I didn't realise this. If this is the case, and the way it's agreed, then the idea of re-starting a high run mid rack after a miss still makes no sense.

"High run attempts" start with the player breaking 15 racked balls as far as I understand things. I could be wrong and Schmidt, Shaw and the Guinness book of records might have agreed that you can set the balls however you like, but I doubt it.

Nobody is disputing your highest run. You are talking about match play. The case in point here is a "high run attempt" or "world record attempt".

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Agree, it must start with a break shot with 15 object balls racked. Otherwise you can play warm up shots, and you could start again whenever you miss.

Why? That just makes the game look silly. We are talking about a "world record attempt", not a bunch of people who have found a pool table and start knocking balls about.

Indeed. Any seasoned pro billiards player should be cruising throught the first few rounds. After that it should become very difficult.

Not impressed at all with the snooker players so far. To be fair to them though it's possibly a result of being over-fundamentalised. I'd like to see them chill a little and just play their natural game - tighten up if they go deep.

If you bet "each way" you are making two bets at the same time. Half of your stake goes on the player winning, the other half on him placing (in this case 1st or 2nd, in horse racing it will be 1st-2nd, 3rd or 4th depending on the size of the field). You win less for placing than finishing 1st -...

Agree. The 2-9 combo looks like a reasonable percentage shot for me, higher percentage for a good player and much higher for a player of Shane's calibre. It's all too easy to criticise players when they miss a shot but care less about whether they have played a sub-optimal shot when they make it...

Yes but this social conservatism is double edged - they are also far less likely to escalate issues, particularly those to do with private or low key behaviour. Asians tend to skirt around problems whereas westerners tend to crash into them head first. Both approaches are pretty lousy and mean...

I'm not so sure. I think marketing the modern game is pretty much the same regardless of the territory. The hustling tradition of pool in the USA will always be a part of the game in all parts of the world - just because two guys from different Asian countries speak to each other in their best...

He died in 1996, several years before the global pool boom.

Drop pockets for me. Ball return good for coin-ops but coin-ops are the work of Satan.

Yes I think there are many similarities in terms of stroke for sure. I think this could be also be said for many other sports, just that the stick, ball and hole similarity makes it more noticeable with billiards and golf.

Not an overreaction, it's my opinion and always has been when these comparisons are made. Golf is far more than being about putting ball in a hole and the non-hole features of a course have a far bigger impact than the size of the hole. Hence I think these comparisons are "ridiculous" and not...

Golf courses are differentiated by their wideness/narrowness, flatness/undulations, roughness/smoothness, trees/not trees, and many other things that I won't ramble on about. Pool tables are flat, with 6 holes in uniform positions. Your analogy is ridiculous. Why golf as a comparison anyway?

I see it this way too. There is lots of added value.

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