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    Boessling pool tables

    Does anyone have knowledge of the overall quality of the tables sold by Boessling in San Marcos, Tx? Are they made here or imported and just assembled here? Thanks
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    CTE/ProOne Robotics

    In another thread, Mike Page suggested a definition of "exact" that involved programming a robot to find correct pivot points using CTE/ProOne. I started a new thread for this because I don't consider CTE/ProOne a pivot system in the sense intended by the "Proofs of the EXACTNESS of Pivot...
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    Pool playing robot video

    Here's a "real" robot playing pool. It looks rather like a giant R2D2, walks around the table (rolls, really), has arms and uses a real pool cue and bridge (an open bridge rather than a closed one). I don't know if it can chalk its own cue, but doubt it. The other pool-playing "robots" I've seen...
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    Cowboy

    Does anybody actually play Cowboy? For that matter, was it ever played very much? I played it some in Hawaii in the '60s at the bowling alley in Kailua and a few other Windward Side bars. At Marine Barracks Atsugi, also in the '60s, we played a variant that I thought made it a considerably...
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    Russian Pyramid and shot precision

    There was a recent thread with a picture of Anastasia Luppova, which caused me to look her up on YouTube. There are a bunch of videos, some instructional, some rather amazing trick shots, and some from competition when she seems to have been in her early 'teens (and somewhat chubby). I wasn't...
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    Want template for tapping balls

    Does anyone know where I can buy one of the templates used for "tapping" the rack area of a table? Presumably some of the European billiard supply houses have them. I tried Dynamic Billiard but they don't list them. For those unfamiliar with "tapping" a table, see this thread...
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