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  1. phil228

    "Best of" vs. "Race to" in Snooker

    Coming from a pool background, where everyone is playing in a "Race to" mode, I'm quite fascinated by the fact that Snooker still uses this "Best of" approach, rather popular in the American playoff formats (NHL, NBA, etc.) Is there a particular reason why Snooker matches are then played in...
  2. phil228

    Beta testers wanted for Snooker app (BilliardManager)

    Dear AZB snooker community! I hope you're all doing well and are looking forward to the upcoming weekend! I'd like to use this stage today to inform you about hopefully interesting news: We at BilliardManager have been working for several months on adapting our increasingly popular app for use...
  3. phil228

    BilliardManager - Your billiard journey companion for iOS and Android

    Hey AZB-members! Almost a year ago, my "billiard-app-development-journey" started with the very first version of "Practice 14.1", providing players around the globe with an easy to use tool to track and analyze their practice sessions and matches of 14.1 straight pool. Since then, I was able...
  4. phil228

    Break & Runouts in One-Pocket & Bank-Pool

    Hey all I recently got myself into trying and playing these rather "unpopular" disciplines and already learned a lot from them for the more common pool disciplines. Not knowing too much about them form an intermediate-pro level, it got me thinking whether or not one can regularly manage to...
  5. phil228

    Practice 14.1 - Now also supporting 8-Ball / 9-Ball / 10-Ball matches!

    Hey pool players some of you might have seen and followed along the initial thread about the Practice 14.1 app in the 14.1 section. (Thread found here) Now, as the app is evolving and got an interesting update addressing other pool disciplines apart from straight pool, I wanted to start...
  6. phil228

    BilliardManager - Your pool tracking app for iOS and Android

    Hey straight pool'ers, It’s finally done! 🎉 After months of research, design, development and testing with numerous straight pool enthusiasts, it is time to proudly unveil my latest billiards app project 🥳 It's called "Practice 14.1", an innovative app to track your straight pool performance...
  7. phil228

    TableFinder - Find great places to play pool, snooker and carom billiards

    Following my recent sign up here at AZB forum I'd like to introduce you to one of my hobby projects called "TableFinder": An app for iOS/Apple devices that allows you to find places to play billiards worldwide. Since I've played billiards actively for over 10 years, I experienced this problem...
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