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Rogan loves pool, knows the game, Completely agree. The more publicity pool can attract, the better, and Rogan both loves and knows the game. On a funny note, when you wrote that "Living in Austin, he’s only about a three-hour drive from Frisco", I started wondering just how fast you and...

In the mid-2000's, in a local Rockville MD tournament, there were two players who had a habit of getting down, standing up, getting down, standing up, and repeating this for as many as ten times each. Both of them were really good people, and one of them was a world class nine ball player who...

I'm also not thrilled with most of Rogan's political views, other than his take on the Iran debacle, but the last thing that pool needs is some sort of political test. Rogan obviously loves pool, has done a lot to promote pool, and from what I've seen he's not that bad a player. I'd love to...

My copy of BD showed up about a week late, and on the cover Keith's age was listed at 74! I wonder how many copies of this went out before it got corrected. The image on the BD website had it right.

My favorite memory of Karen is the time when she had Earl talking to himself* when she beat him in the semis at Turning Stone back in 2016. * And of course also to anyone else who was within hearing range. Here's that match on YouTube.

It's like this in baseball, where most players peak between 27-32, but some players peak in their early 20's and some players remain in peak form all the way up to their late 30's or even their 40's in a handful of cases.

I'm glad someone finally mentioned this. While I don't disagree that some aspects of snooker skills are easier to transfer to 9 ball than vice versa, what you don't see in snooker is the power draw shot that's often required in 9 ball to move the cue ball from one end of the table to the other...

Depending on how you look at it, the best "two career" examples would be minor Hollywood actor to U. S. President (Ronald Reagan) or College Basketball superstar / NBA star to three term U. S. Senator (Bill Bradley).

My ambition was to have the best used book shop of any pool bum, and to be the best pool player of any used book shop owner. It wasn't that hard to accomplish. :cool:

Buddy Hall won his second U.S. Open title at 53. Never lost a match.

Hear, hear. As T-Rex would say...

In the first pool room I ever played in, in Cambridge, Maryland, the best player was there nearly every day from opening time to closing time, whether or not he could find anyone to gamble with. Once I heard someone ask him if he ever did anything else for fun, and his reply was "Some people...

This is the first time I can remember live streaming on five tables.

The side pocket. What else? And I don't remember that he ever put chalk on the object ball, though he may have FAIK.

Long ago the late Nick Vlahos made 90 degree cuts with the cue ball placed one ball to the right of the head spot and the object ball in the center of the table. Saw him do it many times, and this was when he was about 15 years old.

The only straight pool match I ever enjoyed watching was an Accu-Stats DVD of Nick Vlahos handing Earl's head to him in a 1990's Maine event, and then in the post-match interview telling the commentator (Incardona IIRC) that while Earl is a great shooter, "he just doesn't understand the game."...

I don't watch chess myself, but they stream everything these days and it'd be easy to find. When I want to doze off instantly I watch straight pool. It was even more snoozeworthy when players actually called each shot out loud, as if you couldn't have figured it out by watching.

I hate to break it to you, but a lot more people watch World Chess Championships than will ever watch any pool championship. A simple googling will confirm this.

If you don't like "lucky safes", then there's a simple solution: Go back to the classic 2 foul / push outs allowed on any shot rule that used to be in place before Texas Express came along. Buddy Hall used to prefer that version of 9 ball because it gave the advantage to the shot maker, and it...

I just finished watching the video, and I'm glad I watched it without knowing how it was going to come out. Jay's right, it wasn't the best played match, but once Morra got to 6-6 it was a dogfight the rest of the way. Shane overran position several times, and in game 16 Morra had a brain fart...