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Fantastic! Thank you, @Pin and @kling&allen, for sharing. I've been referencing the PDFs of Charles Ursitti's work that were uploaded to Scribd by Deno J. Andrews while doing research for my upcoming book The Oklahoma Roots of One Pocket. The Scribd platform makes it cumbersome to search or...

Maybe things are different on the women's tour, but I have a hard time imagining Jean Balukas (or Alison Fischer) wanting a hug after a loss either.

Earl showed excellent sportsmanship. He immediately offered his hand for a handshake and went further in commending his opponent, saying "You're better than me." Earl is a hard competitor as are all the top pros and that was as gracious as anyone could be expected to be after a defeat. The...

I seem to recall hearing that they played at some point but don't remember the source, so don't quote me on that. I used to watch Matlock play 3-Cushion every night at Shooters in Olathe. Kept track of the innings one night and both he and his sparring partner averaged a point an inning for...

The horizontal is aligning the cue stick with your personal "vision center" which is related to but more ptecise than simply aligning the cue under your dominant eye. Check out these clips of Joe Davis, the first great Snooker champion who was cross-dominant meaning left-eye dominant and...

I went there an hour before closing time on a Sunday night, I believe. Not many customers and very quiet. The owner was friendly and came over to speak to me while practicing. But there is a camera outside that you have to pass through to get into the room, so what you've heard probably isn't...

@garczar, I went to the room in Tulsa that you're talking about and had a different experience even though I'm not Hispanic. The owner watched me practice and seemed pleased that I could play the game and didn't even charge me for table time. Best playing table there was actually an old Gandy...

Reading Hoppe's book caused a lot of confusion for me as a teenager trying to learn good fundamentals. The pictures of him with bridge hand off the table and sidearm stroke created a lot of cognitive dissonance since I already knew that no one else recommended those practices. To be fair...

Classy move, @rossaroni. I believe there's some recent news better related privately.

Personally I don't think there's going to be a need to set an upper limit on membership. I think you'll find that your private club turns out to be a lot like the fitness club model where they have large membership rolls but never approach maximum utilization of the equipment because most...

Brendan Sullivan and John Pirkey are partners in The Players Club. Brendan is CEO and Pirkey the CTO. Pirkey's background is in software development and he came up with the great custom setup they have for the livestream and keeps it running smoothly. It's definitely a labor of love by a couple...

Don't know if @Tin Man or anybody else is paying much attention this old thread anymore, but I'll throw out a couple business ideas for free since I'm unlikely to ever follow through on them ... There was a laundromat called Soap & Suds when I was in college that offered a small game room in...

The same principle applies for private clubs as for every pool room in the country: Pool alone isn't enough to stay in business, there's got to be "something else" that actually pays the bills. Table time barely makes a dent in rent and payroll no matter what hourly rate is charged, even...

Yeah, Magnolia Red's cover is blown for sure but it's safe to say it doesn't matter anymore. I like to think we're preserving his memory through these stories. Tush Hog--what a great old turn of phrase you don't hear much these days. For those who don't know, a "tush hog" was a brawler, someone...

@Texdance, you're a wonderful storyteller. As an author working on a book of these old time pool stories, I appreciate the knack you have for telling them. I'll share a link to the article once it's released on OnePocket.org. You've provided some excellent background on Magnolia Red that's been...

My mistake. Maybe "Senior Olympics" is a colloquial usage I picked up. What about the Special Olympics? These National Senior Games have no bearing on me at all personally but I'm still mad as hell! Excluding pool makes no sense at all. Pool is one of the best and most popular sports for...

https://nsga.com/sports/ Bowling, Table Tennis, Shuffleboard, Pickleball (?), CORNHOLE ... but no Billiards! Screw the Senior Olympics.

Senior Olympics includes an event for Pool which makes sense as many senior centers have pool tables. Not real familiar with the organization of Senior Olympics but I believe there are state-level competitions where winners qualify for the nationals. I knew an 89-year old man named Floyd...

Here's a question for @Texdance or @thenuke ... Was Magnolia Red's real name J. R. or J. F. Richardson? My source gives his middle name as "Frank" and also refers to him as J. Frank Richardson. No mention of what his first name might have been. I just assumed that J. R. was a typo and his...

I had a wonderful talk with Denny Glenn, the guy with the best cue collection in the world, on the phone recently. He and Clem Metz grew up together in the Cincinnati area and were lifelong friends. Denny was very generous with his time and the story of how he acquired one of Hayden Lingo's...