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Fedor vs. Gerson for the finals, or at least the first final. The over/under depends on whether Gerson wins and forces a final final. (11:27 start)

And the Dave and Buster's is right next door to the Cheesecake Factory! The mall across the street does have a bunch of interesting restaurants, including a steak place if you want to splurge.

I saw Cue Ball Kelly do the 8 in 3 throws. If the balls break right, the 8 is close to dead. I don't know if Kelly was "creative" with the rack or not.

And Fedor wins. I got to see the last half of the match. I put the over/under at 1AM

Witnessed: 420 by John Schmidt during his high-run attempts. Suffered: 100-and-out by Thorsten Hohmann in one of Peter Burrows' tournaments. There's a YouTube video. About 25 minutes. I think Orcullo may have done 100 on me as well.

I think the top executives of Brunswick probably did the right thing for Brunswick. Things might have gone differently if they had sold off the billiard/bowling stuff four decades earlier, or maybe five. That part of the company had little chance to get resources when it was under 10% of sales...

You mean like this? And, how many tries did the guy ask for?

Lots of wraps can become slippery in the wrong conditions. That forces you to grip harder on power shots. I have never had that problem with a wrapless cue.

That's for a ball that is teetering by itself on the brink of a pocket. I suppose two balls could settle into a jawed position after a few seconds but I think it's unlikely.

John Morra vs. SVB shortly:

By an amazing coincidence, my brother lives about five miles from Skinny Bob's. I'm visiting and hope to be by for the last rounds tomorrow, family stuff allowing. How is the spectating situation?

Diamond pockets that are 4 1/2 inches allow two balls to be touching the pocket facing and frozen and on the playing surface (flat part of the slate). If you shoot directly at either ball hard, it will be forced into the facing and around the other ball. I'm not sure what happens to the...

I wasn't shooting the "bet shot". I was shooting a shot that can be made. I don't think the shot is possible with a level cue and inside. My first try with outside is 90 degrees. My last try, at 6:00, is over 90 degrees. I actually learned something about aiming with these shots, which took...

This video was posted a while ago. It's me shooting a ninety-degree cut. I get to 90 degrees a couple of times with clean balls, but the object ball only goes a diamond or so. At the end, I do the dirty-ball gaff. It works a lot better. View it on YouTube so you can read the description.

And here's another. I wonder how many he has...

It must have been at the end of the game without red balls on the table. In that case, if one player is behind by more than the number left on the table (13, pink and black) he will be trying for a snooker so the leader fouls and gives up points. At the same time the leader will be trying to...

The ref and the TD would get together and figure out what they feel is an appropriate solution. The general idea is that the player should not suffer from lousy equipment. However, I've seen a tournament table where the ball return would spring balls back onto the table if struck hard, and I...

In the latter rounds of banks and one pocket, they can start matches from the next event, so they can keep the tables busy. I'm sure it takes some juggling, but when you have about 200 matches in the first round of one pocket, there have to be some pairs that are not still in the tail end of banks.

This. Put nice tips on them and make sure all the finish is off the shaft. By nice, I mean LePro.

This is the average over the whole of all tournament playing time up to when it started winding down at nights and on the final Saturday and there were not enough matches to fill the tables. During that active tournament time, on average about 1 in 3 tables had no match being played on it. If...