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Brass Tap is a legit pool room that has numerous tournaments, big and small. Rail bolts can loosen up over time, but someone usually notices and reports a table with a dead rail or rails to the owner / manager. Any experienced room owner / manager who is a player will periodically check every...

Not that easy if shooting in rotation 1-6, as you have to leave an angle on every shot, but if you leave too much angle, the shots get too hard. Of course it depends on what size table it is and how tight the pockets are on the table. In rotation, I’m guessing on our 7 foot Diamond I might be...

Ernesto is indeed an 800+ table mechanic as well as still a formidable player in his 70s. Oscar however is a professional pool player and a successful room owner. Many years ago as a teen he and his brother helped their Dad out for a few years. He will be the first to admit the work was way...

I agree that if OD did discover loose rail bolts the day before their match, he should have had the courtesy to inform his opponent of his desire to tighten them. At that point, a decision could then be agreed on whether or not they could be tightened, and if so, it should be done by someone...

Quite unlikely that a newish Diamond table at Brass Tap would have loose not to mention missing rail bolts? Sounds to me it’s likely someone doctored the table before Oscar discovered it. Even if he tightened the loose bolts but didn’t replace the missing ones (as confirmed on his fb page)...

Could be a humidity issue wherever you store the chalk?

It depends completely on what the dimensions of the room are, how much room you want between each table, how much space for seating do you want to have, etc.

Placing coins under them is an easy fix. Also taking a razor blade and trimming the rubber/plastic chalk holder about an eighth of an inch will work also. On some premium chalks like Taom the paper around them already has a couple scored off lines about 1/8 inch apart, which allows you to peel...

I wouldn’t call fixing dead spots on the cushions by tightening loose rail bolts and replacing missing rail bolts as cheating. It’s not like he snuck in and did it in the middle of the night. It’s not hard for a professional level player to quickly see and hear the sound of dead spots on the...

Yes, the best feeling/sounding carbon fiber shaft on the market.

As it wasn’t Oscar’s poolroom, I’d be surprised if he had the proper tools with him and worked on tightening the rail bolts without the advanced consent of the owner/manager. If there were some missing rail bolts as he claimed there were, I would be even more surprised if he happened to have...

I’m a little confused - for a huge $ match like that, wouldn’t all the $ have to be posted up by both sides? How could someone get away without paying? If not, that’s just ignorance and negligent to assume gamblers and their backers can be trusted to pay up when losing, especially if you’ve...

Yeah, if some rail bolts were loose and Guama knew it, it was indeed a gaff table. The rail bolts should always be torqued tight so the rails play like they are supposed to play. If this is true, Oscar had every right to check the table out before the match and make sure the rail bolts were...

How a pro plays this shot and how most of us would / should play it are two completely different things. With the cue ball that close to the cushion at that angle, making it in the side pocket and stroking it with enough speed and spin to get around three cushions is not easy, at least it would...

A good option, a little outside spin cutting the 1 relatively thin on the left side should send the 1 below the 5 and possibly bury the cue ball behind the 6 or 4. At the very least it’s going to leave a long tough shot.

Mezz cues finish is second to none. If it was sold to you as a new never used cue and has fine scratches, that is most certainly a dealer issue and I’d send it back.

If you are not comfortable with using high outside to come around 2-3 cushions for either shape on the 2 or running in to the 2 and seeing what you get, then decide if you want to play the safe on the 1 ball or make the 1 leaving you near the end cushion then playing the safe on the 2. In my...

Obviously I agree, so does that mean to forget about trying to hit center ball and accept that I should hit most shots with some degree of left or right, or to keep practicing my stroke on hitting center ball? At age 69, I’m currently having issues dealing with a 10 year old shoulder...

Yeah, but sometimes it’s a touch of outside!

I know center CB is advised when you don’t need spin for positioning, but I’ve found that particularly under pressure and late in the rack, even when CB position is not needed, it’s more comfortable for me to apply some inside or outside, as I’ve done my entire life as a pool player. I’ve found...