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My understanding is that there are two main accepted ways to "Play the Ghost". One, the "pro" version is to break and play from the break. This would mean that one would need a full, true break and run more than 50% of the games to win. Two, the more common "amateur" version, where one breaks...

Alright. So the Mosconi Cup was the staple for 30 years of world billiard competition, it took the place of the Ryder Cup and/or the Olympics in pool. Then the Asian based players said "Hey! We are better than you Americans and Europeans, the Mosconi Cup is meaningless without us on the world...

I have recently arrived at a conclusion of pool, a truth, and I invite anyone to try to refute me. You beginners, listen to me, and you will sound a lot smarter for years whenever you are playing pool, around pool, or talking about pool. There are two fundamentals of pool. The first, and most...

I'm currently training with GOLFTEC for my golf game. They have a standard curriculum for what makes a good golf swing. https://www.golftec.com/ The lessons at GOLFTEC use video equipment and monitors. The teacher can then show me in real time my hand position in relation to the ball, and he...

Hello, You experienced players out there, here is a scenario and question. Professional players break and run a lot, say the top 20 9 ball players break and run 20% of the time, with the 9 on the spot. But they often play on near-perfect tables with near-perfect and consistent racks that are...

I don't use social media, and I just ran across this video for the first time: How better can pool be promoted than this video? Thank you George Thorogood. So what does more for pool? "The Color of Money" or the "Bad to the Bone" video? Note that Mosconi is in the video, the man in the grey...

Here is Anthropic Claude's answer for who would play better in high level competition between 9 ball players and snooker players. Do you have a reason to disagree? Also, is this effect another example of the usual "its easier to go from a 9 footer to a bar table than from a bar table to a 9...