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Hello, everyone! I used to be very active here, but it’s been several years since I’ve posted. Some of you may remember me by the “Run This” stop-shot puzzles I would post for members to solve. Over the years I’ve gone by Bluepepper, then CueAndMe, and now I’m Angle Detective — the name of an...

Angle Detective Video Game Released Today (PC Version) Hello again, everyone. I can finally reveal this secret I've been keeping for a year. It's the Angle Detective video training game for pool and snooker. Currently it is only for Windows PC, but Android is coming soon and then iOS. Perhaps...

11-19-19 Big Update in Post #52 After 11 years, it’s finally here! I call it The Angle Detective System. It is a collection of many methods, each of which can be a powerful on its own to help your game. I decided to make it donation-based so that everyone can learn it without any catch. There...

I had a crazy idea 11 years ago and pursued it for a short while, but for many reasons I got distracted from it. About 3 years ago I finally picked it up again, and for nearly the past 3 years I've been developing, testing and refining it. It has truly been the main focus of my life for all that...

I wanted to inform anyone using hole reinforcement labels that I just noticed a slight discoloration on my table’s Simonis 860HR where I had placed the Avery #6734 reinforcement labels as well as Avery multicolored hole reinforcement labels. If anyone knows of a hole reinforcement label product...

It took me a couple of months to put this together. I wanted to find out what throw ranges to incorporate into my printable practice tools, so I recorded this experiment. I finally finished editing it tonight and got it up on YouTube. I actually learned a few things, and I think you'll be...

Hey, everyone. I've been working long and hard on a system that I'll be sharing in a few months that helped my game, but along the way, the necessity to have precision tools for testing the system led me to design what I'm posting about here. But these 6 tools are not only for testing. They're...

I mainly post in the 14.1 forum, but I think this information would be useful for any game that ever deals with clusters. I came up with a couple of techniques for finding all possible direct tangent paths off of object balls to go into clusters. This is the first time I ever tried to animate...

This tip is for side of the rack break shots. It's probably best to sight the 90 degree tangent off of a break ball to find what portion of what ball in the rack the cueball will strike. This way you know how to strike the cueball to keep it under control. But if you don't want to take the...

Deleted the original layout. I'll be out of town and too busy to update this one, so if anyone wants to take over please do so.

I thought we'd get started on puzzles 2 and 3 while we're waiting to wrap up puzzle 1. Here is the puzzle 2 layout post break shot. What's the plan? How far ahead can you see? What balls are significant to you, and what roles do they play? What are your priorities at this stage?

Hey, everyone. I had an idea for another puzzle series. I love the idea of instructional videos where the player comments from the table before shooting. I only know of two---Mike Sigel's 100-ball run instructional and AZB's Poolmanis YouTube run. Soon on my YouTube channel I plan to record...

And would you play it against Thorsten Hohmann? Jeanette Lee's got... well... guts! And skills. I didn't even think it went, but she actually overcut it!

I recently heard commentary on a 14.1 match where someone mentioned an old time player who was one of the greatest 14.1 players but bet on himself to lose and was banned from future tournaments. I don't recall the name. Anyone know who this was?

I think these images will be useful to those of us who don't have a really sharp visual of what can be done with the cue ball after collision with the object ball. I figured that each fractional aim has to have a range of post-collision cue ball paths from softest follow to most severe draw, so...

Trying to get better at position play, I decided to create a visual to see the straightest cue ball paths I could achieve for soft follow shots with fractional aims. Here are photos of the "Y" that results for cuts to the left corner pocket. The left edge of the bottom yardstick is the path of...

Hey everyone. I just started recording my straight pool practice tonight. I never recorded myself playing straight pool. Rather than the usual way of practicing straight pool, I don't like stopping to re-rack after missing a shot. Instead, I like to throw the missed ball in a pocket, or take a...

I got a 9' Brunswick Gold Crown table about 9 months ago. It's one of the toughest tables I've ever played on, and it's all I've been playing on. It's in a humid basement. The balls are always hard to open up. The corner pockets are 4.25", and the sides are 5". I think the pocket cut and hard...

I just tested a wall-mounted cheap webcam connected by USB to my laptop, and it's recording my table fine, but I'd prefer a less bulky setup, so I am considering mounting a cheap tablet like this Amazon Fire. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GEVWOG6/ref=twister_B01M71HRMY?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 If...

I figured this deserved another thread rather than remaining a tangent topic in another. I claimed in another thread that when I tested the extremes of the fractional aims around half-ball (5/8, 1/2, 3/8) that, when considering various speeds and spins, each of the three aims has a large range...