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Take your business elsewhere, why push a rock uphill? I suggest Nielsen's Billiards www.joerackem.com but any name retailer might work. Be aware there are sites which are just sites which forward orders to a central warehouse, with no store, warehouse, or integrity behind their sales. I can...

Mark Wilson, in his book Play Great Pool, describes 'pro-level follow'. The objective is to hit high on the CB without scratching. Use of drills with marking the spot where the cue tip contacts the CB will probably show either you are hitting much lower than you thought, or your contact point...

If I had a copy of Mark Wilson's Play Great Pool when I was sixteen I might have developed into a real pool player instead of an on-and-off-again banger. Even now, age 64, his book has helped me quite a bit, especially in areas like stroke and concentration. Second and third favorites are tied...

What makes a great collection of cues? Maybe knowing what constitutes 'an unbelievable collection' will help understand why certain cues go unsold for so long here on AZB.

Great job on your pool hall. Congrats and best wishes. A friend put a second story above a building she bought - remodeled it into a combo flower/gift shop and then got a lucrative contract as a US Post Office Substation, dedicating one section downstairs, and making enough income off that...

No, it was only $10,485,760, twenty losses, not 21. The cook wrote a check for his loss. Like, man, who carries ten mil in cash?. The janitor, name of Honest Abe, vouched for the check. He thought the cook owed ten dollars and forty eight cents. The winner payed the time, AND SINCE IT WAS...

Now that's one of the best comments I've ever seen in a thread about sandbagging. If a person never plays above their average level they are just not trying to improve... a few games played much better than their normal need not be sandbagging, maybe they just recently 'got it' in some area of...

It never ceases to amaze me how little cue sellers know about customer service... If the seller continues to keep quiet and refuses to take appropriate action, then he deserves whatever he gets out of this. If Superior has not tried to help the guy who bought a cue through the Superior...

Gene - I am glad to hear you are doing so well and progressing in your recovery. Great news. I just got new glasses modded for pool play. The frames are nothing special, just sized so that when down on the cue I can look through the upper portion of the lense. Matter of fact, I bought those...

Perhaps I mis-read the OP, I was sure he indicated he was hunting for a new apartment, and a pool table to fit in it. I suggested he widen his search to include houses and/or duplexes. They each have advantages over apartment living, and some disadvantages. I am reminded of one of my prior...

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Why not rent a house or a one-storey duplex? You'll get rid of the annoying overhead foot stomps, and reduce the many nosy and noisy neighbors. As for room size, there are pool table room size charts everywhere, I am thinking Diamond has one on their site. Don't skimp, or you will be using...

Even worse than punctuation and lack of hitting the return key with some regularity is the absolutely worthless quoting of thousands of words of verbiage that everyone has already read or had the chance to read... like you just did. Penalty: one week in the Modern Social Media Box. Whatever...

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Well, at the risk of being unpopular, which never worried me a bit, I come out in support of SJD. Too bad he was banned during the thread about unfair banning, or was that planned, inquiring paranoids ask. I like the guy's posts for the most part. I don't think recounting his pool playing...

Count me as a Morra fan, he plays great. Count me also as NOT a fan of the double elimination - single final format. It should either be all single elimination, or all double elimination. Whoever came up with the idea of winning all through the winners side only to lose one game and come in...

This has turned out great. I am proud to have been involved in a small way. It turns out the bulk of AZB members will chip in a few bucks for a good cause without a second thought, and without insisting on perfection in all the details. I hereby nominate Brian aka Kickin' Chicken as...

Interesting cultural difference: The diamonds/sights are known in one place as 'cheater marks' and are left off regulation tables. Pocket billiard play does not suffer for the lack of cheater marks, at any level of mastery. In another region they are called 'sights' and are integral to all...

Three definite opinions about DP cues so far, none of which really support paying $1800 for one, even if it is a custom one-off with lots of inlays. The respondents claim value ranges from $40 (or for all intents and purposes, worthless) to $1000 (nice custom, just not top shelf) and the usual...

I don't know if even-handed banning would attract more Gold memberships, but I do see a lot of ad hominem attacks here, often arriving out of the blue. The OP makes a post, and fifteen thoughtful and interesting replies later, some other guy chimes in with an off-topic and sarcastic or...