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I understand Simonis cloth is in short supply currently. I wonder if there will be a problem getting enough new 860 to recover all the tournament tables (?).

I always took the opposite point of view, and never hesitated to show the ‘fish’ anything they asked, thinking, the better they got, the more confidence (and money) they would gain by beating the smaller fish, and eventually be convinced they were finally good enough to beat me, thus bringing me...

Can’t explain it, but copying that technique has seemed beneficial for me. Not so much a lowered contact point on the CB, as much as a slight ‘dipping‘ motion of the cue. Might have something to do with initially ‘sliding’, as opposed to ‘rolling’ the CB, thus making the exact contact point...

Maybe try ‘dry-lube’ straw spray?

I also noticed the balls were snooker-size. I also noticed the balls were smaller/snooker-size, though still, those rounded pockets would likely give typical U.S. ’barbox’ bangers fits.

BTW: Interesting related observation: Watching an old English TV mystery just now, actors playing pool in a pub, 7’ (or 8‘?) table with no diamond rail markers, rounded-corner/snooker-style pockets/cushions, and 15 un-numbered balls, 7 yellow, 7 red, one black. Typical UK barbox?

To me, ‘Bar Box’ (derogatory term) is any coin-op table shorter than 9’. Though typically a 7’ Valley, I have played on some 6-footers, and the 8’ examples all had the oversized CB. Anything 9’ or longer (trad. pro size) using regulation balls should merely be labeled ‘coin-op’.

True, but I’ve noticed that when circumstances dictate a closed bridge, I need to re-adjust my CB target point to obtain the same pocketing accuracy. Go figure.

I live in a rural area surrounded by corn & soybean fields (interspersed with grazing cattle & hay meadows). When I moved here 40 yrs. ago, you could hand-drive a pipe into the ground to get water. Now, since all the adjoining farms have mobile irrigation systems, my well goes nearly dry in a...

Reminiscent of a small/storefront novelty/tobacco shop I blundered into on the NW side (around 1970?) that had a nine foot table. Someone else was driving (took me car-shopping) and I was new to the neighborhood. After I bought my own car, I went hunting for that storefront again but could...

Multifaceted philosophical issues: Prehistoric humans hunted the mastodons (to extinction?) largely for meat. The ivory tusks then were a ‘byproduct’. African/asian natives that killed water buffalos likely wouldn’t have wasted the hides anyway (not realizing they made the best poolcue tips)...

More mental masturbation: While admittedly requiring a lot of re-racking effort, it might be worthwhile to work out the percentages. Does hitting the rack in a specific spot reliably send an interfering OB toward the pocket? A close-to-the-rack, very sharp cut hit hard enough to reach the...

Upon reflection, likely a rare scenario: A slug-rack that didn’t spread, your opponent (with BIH in the kitchen) maybe has no makable shot, but regardless, you are still already ‘on one’. If you are ‘stuck’ instead with that same layout, you might still get downtable without fouling, putting...

No. No limit to how many times you can force your opponent to shoot again. But, while a great ring-game rule that prevent two hustlers in cahoots from hooking interceding suckers with ‘accidental’ safties, it occurs to be one way to leave your partner an unmissable shot though (likely too...

Not to mention that a sharp cut ball very close to the pack sometimes gets beat to the pocket by an interfering OB.

MLB pitchers could avoid muscle/tendon damage if they started using a T-shirt gun to deliver the ball. Maybe outfielders could catch better with a butterfly net? Likely the basketball hoop should really be bigger, or lower? Etc., etc. Am I the only one that wants to play the exact same game (or...

I’m with you. Jump cues SHOULD be banned, in ring games especially. Jumping over the edge of a ball with your playing cue is something else though.

Which is why the incoming shooter should always have the option, thus forcing those great ’kick’ attempts. Nothing more galling in a ‘no safety‘ ring game, than having the player that hooked you successfully kick/hit, slop something in, and then run out.

Breakball distance from rack & CB ball condition also relevant. Getting stuck to the pack can be nearly as bad as scratching. A dozen things to consider before deciding how to proceed.

Possibly, the military has changed since the mid-60s, but back then when I was an enlisted man, I could have been easily convinced that an official part of officer training was intentionally turning naturally nice guys into pricks.