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One rail, as I understand your description. I don't consider slight contact on a rail as a ball is heading toward a corner pocket to be a 'rail' when calling a bank. Otherwise, one could claim a 'bank' every time the OB hit any part of the pocket facing, or grazed the point of a pocket on...

The boobs are gone, long live the boobs... I dumped the busty lady in my former avatar, she just wouldn't quit holding up the line at the grocery store. Today my avatar is Utley J Puckett in suit and tie, well-groomed and taking a shot seriously sometime in the Sixties or earlier. I...

Betting on anyone except SVB to come in third or better in a field of 16 champions and potential champions was a low-percentage bet, assuming the brackets formed up randomly. I don't know how anyone calculated their Calcutta bet, but if they did not include any percentage calculations, if they...

Years ago there was a small group of somewhat rich guys who pumped dollars into the pool gambling community from their personal wealth or regular business income. The money came from outside pool, moved from player to player, and eventually ended up paying daily expenses like cafes, motels, gas...

Paris, TX had a defunct billiard supply a few years back. The former owner had bought and renovated the house behind his and tried to turn it into a residential-area billiard supply with a yellow pages ad that said 'by appointment only'. The shelves were stocked, sort of, but some of the...

If anyone thinks Darren Appleton's self-reported $150k/year is a great income, I'm guessing they have never paid taxes and never supported a family and saved for retirement on that income. Maybe I am wrong, maybe you guys earned that, and somehow managed to have a lot left over after living...

still hoping for some information hello, any mechanics on this forum interested in replying? I hope to find a source for slate 33x53x1" to fit my Brunswick Monticello table frame, in particular a new or used center slate. I'm sure the table has some value left in it, if I can find a new or...

I love the Tor Lowry videos, no matter the table size. When I got mine, the total price was about twenty bucks for the set, really cheap for such good instruction. Recently a version III has become available, apparently at no charge but maybe the upgrade came to me free as a prior customer...

Appleton does not owe any Calcutta gamblers any money, any way you look at it. He should apologize to his fans for the unprofessional act of oversleeping a match, of course, but that's about the limit. Being human, he made a human mistake, and that's the end of it. He does not owe any Calcutta...

I would like to see a button which automatically gives a two-day lay-off to anyone who quotes a full-length post, with photos and all that, for no apparent reason. I am talking about the guys and gals who repeat a long quote in full, so that everyone trying to read the forum has to scroll down...

Anyone know where I can beg, borrow or buy some slates for an 8" Brunswick Monticello home pool table? I've been told these slates are over sized at 33" x 53" x 1". I need the center slate because it is broken all the way across a long diagonal, and the break is not clean, it is on a sharp...

I have been harping for years that nobody makes chalk in a color that is anywhere near to matching Simonis Tournament Blue cloth. If not trademarked, I would suggest: "Tournament Blue" or the resonant "Tourny Blue", correctly spelled "Tourney Blue", or "Tour Blue", or the similar "Pro Blue"...

Tarrant County Junior College near Fort Worth in 1971 had a rec room with either 4 or 6 of the 9-foot Brunswicks, the commercial style of that era. I had to take the bus from work to class - it was a 30-mile haul - and I got there a couple of hours early every class day. Free pool, but not much...

To me, the only effective pool teachers are those who have turned away from the "what feels good" and "it's different for everybody" type of teaching that I grew up with. Those old teaching methods did not work for me. Although I never gave the game full-time attention, I still never even got...

That looks like a Viking Demo Cue Rainbow Sampler dealer cue. They were offered to dealers to show Viking's various options of woods, wraps, and plastics available on their 'custom' production cues. It does make for an impressive cue, depending on your definition of 'impressive'. There was...

The shafts discussed bring forth so many subjective opinions. No one even agrees on what would constitute a baseline scientific test procedure to compare different LD shafts and to compare those LD shafts to different solid maple shafts. And then we could get the snooker pros involved, since...

As long as the pros can play faster than one game every 45 minutes, I don't care about table size. I just viewed Orcollo beat Duell in 2014 1=pkt, like watching paint dry except every so often there would be a laser straight shot. The room was full of players but very. very few spectators...

First posted 11/18/2013, this thread drew 82 replies. The OP admitted the events were related to him as second hand information, related to him so he could opine on it. He also said the Level 3 player won the replay game, but there the story ends until recently. In the revived March 2015...

Did the winner win? Did the loser lose? I am curious also. I am sure by now both parties know the 'lose on any 8 ball scratch' rule. Good sportsmanship says, if the 3 eventually 'won' the illegal replay, then she should step down in favor of the true legal winner. At any point in time, the...