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I have a vintage brain, and the da@n thing can't remember a name. No surprise. Pool match commentator, recent, has a thick British-Isles accent, used to be a player, recently started his own YouTube channel. (Not Neils Feijen. Not Alex Lely.) Can anybody help my brain? I'm angry at it, but...

I've been trying 14.1 for the past two days and not doing very well. How did you learn 14.1? Did you rack and then shoot till you miss? Or did you keep going despite misses? It seems like all I do is rack the balls! I've racked about 60 times and my high "run" is 14 so far. I keep getting...

(Reposted the OP at #19. I had removed it because of the thread hijack.)

Wow, I spend some time away and don't look at the Men's rankings for a while, and what happens? When I saw Mika's name at #2 at first I thought I had found a Web page from 2011. What did Mika do that got him ranked so high again? Always a player I liked, very pleased for him, but I haven't...

This might be well known, in which case apologies in advance. I just discovered it myself and enjoyed it. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/03/the-magician/303747/ It's an article about Efren Reyes called "The Magician" by Pat Jordan, from the March 2005 issue of The Atlantic...

Firstly, thanks to everyone who helped me in the other thread. So far so good! The mechanic arrives on the 11th to put the table together for me. The same father-son team has worked on it before so they're already familiar with this very table. They replaced the cushions and the cloth four years...

Very interested in advice on this. Local mechanic wants $900 to move a GCIII 2.5 miles up the road. Current owner and me, the buyer, are thinking of taking it apart and moving it ourselves so I can just pay the mechanic the $375 he charges for setup. Is there anything we should know when taking...

I'm finally putting in an outbuilding for a pool table, and just wondering if anyone has experience with, or opinions about, Golden West, formerly of L.A. and now located in Portland OR. I have a chance of buying one. Thanks!

Hi y'all, I have an acquaintance who is the executor for his uncle's estate. In the basement is an 1970s Fischer Empire VIII pool table in near-perfect condition--*slight* pitting on some of the chrome but easier to feel it than see it. Really beautiful. Trouble is, it is down a flight of...

Wondering if anybody knows where Diamond's website went. Every time I've tried to find it recently I just get error pages and redirects. Just curious. Thanks for any info.

Is Diamond Billiards out of business? Every time I've tried to find their web page recently, I just get error pages and redirects. Thanks for any help.

My new cue. Fourth cue, first Jacoby. There’s a lot more going on in this than you can see in this one picture. Made of black walnut, spalted maple, and striped ebony, with malachite and leopard-skin jasper inlays. http://www.jacobycustomcues.com/print.php?ID=1730 The aesthetic seems sort of...

I just received Mark Wilson's new book "Play Great Pool" 48 hours ago. When I started in to Chapter 3 "Stance and Setup" I thought, that's silly, I don't need to change my stance. Then there it was right on page 15: "Stance is usually the first change to make in the game of a student...

Hi--I'm a beginner, just took up the game in 2013. So I'm watching the 2007 Mosconi Cup on YouTube, Johnny Archer against Tony Drago. At about 38 minutes in, give or take, Archer makes a full-force break, sinks a ball, and has to sit down--Drago then quickly runs out Archer's table. Apparently...

Hi there, Per my instructor, every night I do a drill that sometimes continues to the next day. The drill is, throw any four balls out on the table, mark them, take cue ball in hand, and sink them in order, repeating any difficult shots until I work out how to get the position right. The rule...

? I know it's kinda hard to expect other people to care about what cloth I have on my pool table. But you know that state you get into when you have to make a buying decision and you just can't get comfortable with what choice is right? A friend of mine calls it "spinning out." I guess a more...

Just had my third lesson with Jerry Briesath a few days ago in Madison, WI. I posted here about my first lesson. So I have this Olhausen table with nasty corner pockets. They're double-shimmed with some sort of material that's harder than cushion material. (Dealer saw a sucker coming and stuck...

Need your advice--how would you play this? Any order, just want to play position to clear the four balls. I just took up the game in April. Every day I clear a few tables (well, sometimes more than a few) and then mark a shot I missed or one where I don't know how to play position for, and then...

I'm a beginner (started playing again in April of this years--before that, I played as an untutored teenager, 35 years ago), and I naturally don't post much here...I lurk. So they won't let me post links. But I wrote a review of my first pool lesson with Jerry Briesath in Madison at my own...