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Luther 'Wimpy' Lassiter. He'd go in a week long straight pool tourn. and maybe miss 2 or 3 balls.

Make them pay at least $100 to get in and find a new handicap. If a tourn is open...then it's open. Around the Wash., D.C. area we got many pros showing up and without handicap, didn't always win. They paid as much as $200 to get in.

Who is left to play ? Time for the players to organize. If sanctioning bodies can do this...so can they.

I agree,..Besides, I read Jeanette Lee at her peak made $500,000 one year. Big deal. It's tough to make any money as a pool pro, trust me, I know.

I have been playing since the 1960s and have never heard of that rule.

I am out west and ready to go to Maine, Bangor Maine.

He sold Cadillacs and a nearby diner would have a burger and fries...and run 100. Saw him play Lassiter in Alex. Va at a 24/7, 35 table, club called Jack & Jill's. [never locked the doors for about 30 years] A place owned by Bill Winnie Bennie, Staten straight pool contender and a one pocket...

When I and others have engaged, backers are past tense. If one has a backer, all of the cash is up, if not...no game.

I read this as a search for action...good money games. Having watched 1 pocket for $5,000 a game, I get the idea.

I had a no-name tip [$5 total] put on my $$12.95 no-name stick in 1969 at Jack & Jills, Bill Staten's [Winnie Beenies] place in Arl., Va. and would almost kill to have them both back. Seems only these layered tips are the ones that mushroom.

I have always felt and practiced my stroke similar to the stroke of the bow arm playing the violin. Loose in wrist, the grip and the stroke itself, gentle but firm only when needed.

I had a new tip put on my $12.95 breakdown cue my first and until it was stolen, in 1969 at a place called Jack & Jill's in Arl., Va., it had never mushroomed. I have been thinking that layered tips mushroom and my non-layered tip was the reason why mine didn't.

Two things, 9 ball is more difficult because it is rotation and only one ball creates a good hit. All of the 10 ball I have seen is called pocket and no combos but only lately in a few tourns. Now in fact, many tourn,. have gone to called 9 ball. 8 ball is the growth in league play because it...

I thought The Color of Money was a stab at a remake. Some say all it did was get gilrs/women into the poolrooms.

BCA has a pro 9 ball tour. on 'bar boxes' in Vegas at the Rio.

Of course like all such questions pertaining to the last two balls on the table, it depends on how one gets on the 7. A slight angle to the left, an easy stop stop makes the cue ball drift up for straight in the corner on the 8 and another stop shot leaves almost straight in for 9 in the side...

Going back far enough and I do, in his prime, none of the guys would beat Luther 'Wimpy' Lassiter. He won 6 world 9 ball titles, 5 14.1 world titles and numerous 1 pocket titles often double banking balls, something I never see any do now. How about Harold Worst ? An adult prodigy under Willie...

And the 526 ball run was never official as it was not in a tourn. and nobody was counting until a reporter came in and started. He did so at over 200 balls. It was all a guess and then used it as a promotion.

Irving Crane sold Cadillacs in Rochester, NY and almost every day for lunch, he'd go to a very nearby pool hall have a burger and run at least 100.

Rotation games are always the most difficult because there is only one good hit. That is also why victory in rotation games between two pros is almost always kicks and safes.