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Found the following interview in this old thread and thought it worth reproducing verbatim since the original link is now archived. I'll have to split the complete interview across more than one post due to its length. Uk8ball.com interviews Steve Davis at the nineball worlds Posted on...

That was my thinking as well when it came up in a game I was playing (which was head-to-head, for money and hill-hill to boot) but I could see I would get no where arguing about adjacent rails and such so just gave in and allowed my opponent to take the shot, which he made. It's really not that...

This (Kicking) only applies to ring games, never head-to-head matches, where safeties aren't permitted and/or selling out to the next guy can be both costly and hazardous to your health. This is evident with either a little reflection or some harsh real life experience, whichever you prefer...

It's fairly common to allow 3-rail (or greater) kicks in a ring game where intentional safeties are prohibited because otherwise there aren't many good ways to clear out the hangers blocking a pocket. In some ring games I've played in, the kick was allowed but didn't count for scoring (i.e...

It gave me a bit of a pause when my opponent called this shot because technically the object ball never touched a rail other than the same one as the called pocket, but I couldn't come up with a good reason for disallowing it at the time. Certainly not a lucky shot in this case as he pulled it...

Carom, kiss and combo banks and kicks aren't legal in banks and as garczar pointed out, it's always been that way, even when full rack banks was played rather than the more common 9-ball banks today. That said, all these shots are legal in one pocket which can make them valuable skills to...

No kicks, caroms or combos in bank pool. All shots have to be "clean" with the cue ball driving a single object ball into a rail(s) and called pocket without any other contact allowed other than incidentally with an adjacent rail on the way into the pocket. The second shot you mention actually...

I know you're just joshing--at least I think you are :sneaky:--but here's a HelferRate contender worth checking out ... Spot shot madness by 12 year old Russian kid From the video description ... Liza Grankina - PLAYPOOL billiard school student. Spring 2019 training camp, March 25-29 - 5...

According to this article published in the Brainerd (Minnesota) Daily Dispatch on September 29, 1977, Jim Rempe's recent titles included winning the Q Masters Invitational in Norfolk, Virginia. So it's possible that Rempe won the 1977 event rather than Sigel, but the article doesn't really...

What do the different columns mean in the BCAPL statistics generated by Mike Page's FargoRate LMS? BRs is obviously "break-and-runs" and I'm guessing WZs is "win-zips" for games where all your opponent's balls are left on the table, but the others aren't obvious to me. TRs could be "table...

Big Dog's in Des Moines is a real treasure. As Jeff pointed out, $10 to play all day on immaculate blue label Diamonds. They even have a 10' Bigfoot as well as a heated Søren Søgaard 3-cushion table. Jeff's right about the service, though. There's no dedicated employee working the pool counter...

Good work, Mike. It's always been possible to generate an informal top player list by state through the app using the Sort and Filter functionality. It's not real obvious but has been the most useful feature for me. Tap on the "two people" icon at the bottom of the screen, then tap on the big...

Did you also record the results for each 5-rack set? If Varner was shooting for a total of 31, how many times did he actually "beat the ghost"? You also mentioned that he scratched on the break about half the time. Were they intentional scratches? That was actually a smart strategy under the...

Did Nick Varner take ball in hand or play from where the cue ball lay when you recorded these stats?

Like New Complete 2-Book Set of One Pocket Books by Eddie Robin with Signatures

I purchased the set of Eddie Robin books described here on OnePocket.org from Bob Jewett back in July and am looking to sell them now. They are in the same condition as when I received them and as Bob said they are like new. I will accept an offer for the same as what I paid: $600. This is the...

Sorry about not crediting you as the source for the PDF version of Prof. Moore's paper, Bob. I must have downloaded it from your site at some point. I used to do a lot of research using historical documents in the public domain at sites like HathiTrust, InternetArchive and different university...

The research paper is entitled "Mechanics of Billiards and Analysis of Willie Hoppes Stroke" by A. D. Moore, Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and was published on January 17, 1942. I'm uploading the paper as an attachment to this post. At a quick...

There was a high speed camera sequence taken of Willie Hoppe in the late 1940s or so that was published in a popular magazine like Look or Life. I’ve got a PDF of a contemporary science paper done using this photo sequence to analyze Hoppe’s stroke that is extremely thorough and a bit over my...

Thanks for sharing the Adams Helmstetter catalog from May 1992. I bought the GB-2 model at the list price of $500 in that timeframe. Being just a teenager, that cue became my most valued possession. I don’t recall now how I came by the funds, but for me it was quite an extravagant purchase...