Search results

I just want to thank you all for your input. The event at first looked like it was going to be a real dud with only four teams, but my patience was rewarded when enough people finally trickled in to create an eight team tourney, one of which included the bar owner Jenn. She ended up being on the...

That's one small step away from WWIII.

I'm leaning toward a field of 16 mixed Scotch doubles teams, one male one female, double elimination. This alone will prevent too much sandbagging compared to singles. Then again this is a pretty tight group, so I don't really anticipate any nasty shenanigans. Also most of the people who are...

While I agree that 9 ball would make games go quicker among seasoned players, I'm not so sure about novices who can spend lots of time between shots just trying to grok the rules. It seems like a wash what with most bar players being most familiar with "bar rules" 8 ball. But still, maybe... (we...

Aside from pool one of my other passions is surfing. I am a member of a surf club and we compete in contests against other clubs all up and down the west coast. In conjunction with a yearly surf contest our club hosts in early October I am planning a first annual pool tournament in honor of a...

About ten years ago I was banging some balls around in a beach bar with a friend when a very cute and equally petit little Philippina gal approached and asked us if we wanted to see a demonstration of the "Shifty Bridge" in action. She proceeded to slide one of these over her shaft and start...

Gotta love it when it impresses the ladies!

OK that was cool. Hard to tell from the low res video but it looks like a 9-10 combo in 10 ball? But then you rack for 9 ball... :unsure:

Not a single shot, but two very similar shots in the same game. Game ~76 of a race to 50 with my roomie during spring of 2020: https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/two-kick-combos-in-one-game.515813/ The second shot required left English to get behind the 8 enough for the proper angle.

Very cool video. It must just be the video quality but it sure looks like Worst fouled the cue ball with his stick on the first break.

I tend to get pretty low on most shots whenever possible. Once I have decided on the matter of speed, draw/top/left/right on the cue ball for the desired leave, I go through several mental/visual cues, which include: 1. I stand over the shot with the OB lined up with the point at the back of...

As for that pocket, yeah it's really wide at the mouth, but try putting the balls together at the back of the pocket and it looks a bit tighter, maybe 4-1/2". I play in a league on 7' Diamonds and the corner pockets are really tapered (keystone shape), which makes a lot of balls rattle out if...

I have one somewhere but it's not my best effort. I can get pretty consistent results with it (maybe one miscue out of 50 attempts) on any table where the rail felt is nappy and stands up from the rail a bit. If the rail is higher than the felt then it becomes a real crapshoot and not something...

I much prefer a slightly heavier cue with a 13mm nickle domed tip for breaking one handed. My personal is an old Imperial two piece. I line the cue ball up dead center on the first diamond, back away from the table a bit, and step into the shot with a level stroke and some slight downward force...

Depends on whether or not you subscribe to germ theory... Quick, name another species that worries about this crap to the point of injecting each other with toxins to stay healthy? I'm waiting...

I was leaning against the wall in The Alibi one night over by table 2 when someone broke on table 1 and sent the cue ball flying right at me. I stuck my foot out and caught the ball in mid air on top of my shoe, and in one continuous motion flicked it back across the room onto table 1 without...

Nice catch... that's a trade secret haha!

I use Hammerin' Hank whenever I break one handed. I am skinny as a motherfu#&er but when I take a step into a one handed break like Rod Carew and explode the rack into a cloud of dust it puts the fear of God into my opponent. Ask the dude whom I broke five balls one handed including a snap a...

Well it's funny that you would use the phrase "had the cue ball on a string"... not to say I'm in that league at all, but when things are going well and object balls are dropping like flies, it does feel like the old paddle ball game where the cue/paddle ball is on an elastic string, and the cue...

Three kick shots and a one handed break I just can't narrow this down to one shot, so here are my top 3: 3. It's a Saturday night and I am playing just for fun at the Break Room in San Diego and holding the table against some 5s and 6s on their middle table nearest the bar, one of whom is...