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The threads on breaking and another on Matchroom's ways and other promoters' tournies, etc., it occurred to me that there needs to be a distinction in pool between being a recreational game vs. being an entertaining game from watching it. When playing the game for recreation, it seems the rules...

Our league team won a free trip to Vegas for the ACS (edit) tourney in May at the Trop. Problem is, no rooms at the Trop for the weekend so we have to get another hotel in the middle of the tourney. One of our guys found a downtown room for Sat, but geez. Another is going to the airport Sat...

6 STEPS OF THE POOL SHOT: Step 1: FIRE UP Step 2: CHOOSE Step 3: AIM Step 4: SET-UP Step 5: SHOOT Step 6: FINISH THE CONCEPT: Breaking the shot into 6 steps provides a simple framework of it. Then the shot is built and corrected upon that. A new player might simply focus on doing...

I happened upon this site: https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=billiards and searched for billiards and came up with some new, to me, books. Enjoy, Jeff Livingston

Will Black-Balled share whatever it is he's smoking with the rest of us? Jeff Livingston

I've seen these things around a bit lately. A friend has one and he let me try it, but I didn't see what it does or why it is popular and why players pay good money for one, but here's one of 'em I've seen around: http://www.muellers.com/Cocobolo-Tip-Scuffer,7942.html?b=d*369 What is the...

I happened to be playing some bar pool a while back using a bar cue that had a nice tip but was heavy at the tip end and thick, etc., as most bar cues seem to be. I had a table-length shot and needed to draw the cueball back to where it started. I fired away and, surprisingly to me, the c/b...

I've read and heard all the arguments from all the different players about how to make the rack and break fair and allow the good players to run out and the bad players to not, etc. etc. But nothing so far has fixed all the problems of skewing the rack, reading it and changing strategy, soft...

I hear of "the problem with pool is..." arguments quite often here on azb. Two of those problems mentioned are: 1. Young people would rather do devices than hit balls with sticks. 2. Commercial real estate prices make opening a pool hall prohibitive. Here are 2 articles that refute both of...

I'm guessing that everything you know about pool, gambling, golf, horses, music, and gin rummey, Paul knew 10 times more than you. He absorbed himself in these things. When I first met him, he was considered the second best pool player in Iowa, with Don McCoy being first, so..not bad. Every...

With all the troubles I've read about lately when players have a table redone, and with the troubles I had, too, I have to wonder: Where is THE book on table repair and maintenance? I'd personally like a good reference book for the next time my table is worked on. It'd be nice if it was...

As the cueball disappeared from view once again, I stood there thinking: Well, at least losing the ball down a pocket is better than losing one down a gutter. Jeff Livingston

I have an idea that cue makers might use. I've done a small prototype of it, but didn't get deep into making it perfect. I'd like to have a way to count the number of times my cue has stuck the cueball. So, I put a pedometer on the butt of my cue and it does work sort of to keep track. Why...

You've probably seen the paintings but here someone put the whole pool room on video. If this has been posted already, ooops. If not, enjoy the very short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBOL5yakREA Jeff Livingston

CATO institute's Doug Bandow writes about a new proposal for controlling the ivory market. A few excerpts: fyi for cue owners and makers (and elephant lovers), Jeff Livingston

I've never been to the motor city, but lately have had an interest in the new things popping up there because the govt has run out of money and thus power to enforce the old ways of doing business there. A woman who lives there has a good website detailing some of the goings on there that have...

This question came up in another thread and I thought it deserved a thread of its own... If you won the lottery (say, $100 million net payout or as much as you can dream about), would you Create a top-down pro circuit with good prize funds, etc or Buy a pool table for every school in...

On another thread, I suggested practicing shooting with your eyes closed in order to shoot better with your eyes opened. I didn't get any reply to that. I just saw this 2 minute gun aiming video where the trainer demonstrates a similar thing when learning to find one's natural aim when using a...

I was at Mueller's the other day buying some tips. I saw one that I thought was a Kamui (sp). When I got to the checkout, I realized it was really a Karomi. I asked the guy if it was any good. He didn't know. It was marked at $11.95. I was going to put it back on the rack, but thought...

Look at the setup of this table...yuk! The rails are way off. Nice to have a table at work, though. If a company has room for one, I'd think a table at work would be better for the bottom line as it allows some physical movement after sitting in front of a computer all day. This could...