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Easily the JB $10,000 one pocket challenge with Lou

Moori? Elkmaster? Triangle? Is it glazed over? Which chalk? How much chalk? How well did you chalk it? What’s the humidity in the room? Which brand ball? Polished or rubbed down with rubbing alcohol? I love nerding out on stuff like this. The question has tons of variables that may or may...

Thank you for that. On Friday I drove the hour to CBC and shot for a few hours. At 4:30 it was already pretty packed with regulars. The GCIV I’ve been shooting on for 10 years still looks perfect. It looks like the cloth was changed last week, but then again it always looks that way. It’s...

I was talking about the original MBC that was a few blocks from the big chicken.

On the flip side, Chattanooga Billiards Club(s) are really nice joints that have been in business for a long time. I believe Varner has or had a role in it

A thief can take on any form and I try to not judge, but the bar staff there certainly fit the prototypical profile.

When it was first built, I was shooting on the 9’er. He came over, greeted me warmly and asked how I liked it. Never having met a pro before, it really made an impression. I didn’t really see him much after that.

MBC had the makings to be THE room of GA, and probably a must visit for road players. I came to GA in 2009 to do my residency training. Even being dog tired from having 4 days off a month, I’d drive over an hour each way for ‘church.’ It was in a strip mall and the place was the size of a...

Little Nicky Varner?

Alternate break in 1 pocket. Yes, necessary and it’s tradition. Alternate break in rotation games is horrible.

I can go for that. I don’t hate the jump cue and a well executed shot it is a thing of beauty. I feel like it is overused

There is nothing wrong with the rack. If you get a tight and consistent rack with truly random ball placement in 8/9/10/whatever, then there is nothing wrong with the break. I wish people would just leave it alone. Being able to string racks together is GOOD FOR POOL!! It’s one of the only...

Got that right. I grew up in Raleigh in the 90s. Off the top of my head I can think of 7 good rooms in a 15 mile radius. Greensboro, Charlotte, Hickory, Concord, Winston… pretty much every city and small town has at least 1 room with big tables.

Since good pool rooms became Covid casualties

Respectfully disagree. When the pressure is on, the lion roars and all scatter. Rarely will the TRUE champion falter under such circumstances and if he does, than that's just too damn bad.

The equipment has made the 2 different generations not really comparable. Slower cloth and cushions, inconsistent balls and racks and shaft technology have all made for this. Would a player from the 90s ever in 1 million years take a touchy table length cut, cue ball is 3” off the rail, high...

GC IV is the best table ever made. I've played on 1-6, Had several Anniversaries and played all of the Diamonds. Ok there. I said it. And I don't take it back. Nostalgia from growing up in the 90s? Maybe, but I absolutely love hitting a ball on that table.

I appreciate the discourse. You're dug in, as am I. It's actually how things are supposed to be interestingly enough. It's called fire, knowledge and competition. It'll just make us better to argue points. Have a good one.

"those fun/poser/jock people" So pretty much how all of us were when we started playing the game?

Competition, Heart, and Knowledge makes players improve and evolve, not conditions. The innate feeling of 'you won't beat me, ever.' Or you robbed me 2 years ago, but you're not going to like any of it today. It's heart. With equipment and conditions being equal, it's all about those 3...