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Located one of these and placed an order. Thanks--AS

They look like this: http://proficientbilliards.com/cart/customer/product.php?productid=16442 Thanks, AS

Here's a link: http://proficientbilliards.com/cart/catalog/Helmstetter_9716_cue-p-16442.html Thanks for checking. --AS

I'm looking for a Helmstetter 97-16, new or used. Thanks--AS

'Lo, Bill. I don't play well enough to have "significant" victories, but I remember the first time I responded to competitive pressure by playing better instead of choking. I still take that memory out and look at it now and then! I remember the first time I finished in the money in a local...

I wonder whether room operators could make any money by increasing their use of fixed video recording equipment. If I were playing in the weekly nickel and dime tournament at my local room and got to the finals for the first time, I might pay a few bucks for a CD of my final-round match as...

Richard: You give a proper and dignified answer to an improper question, and this earns respect.--AS

Dealt with them twice in the last year. Their service was excellent. I'll deal with them again.--AS

Hello, Steve: I might do neither. What do I care whether I actually reach this goal? Maybe I'd do better to quit the run at n-1, rack the balls, and keep practicing--focusing on the realities of the moment and not on a completely artificial objective. I think it's a bad mistake to let trivial...

Mike Mason: Admiring your avatar--nice looking room.--AS

enzo: I think you’ve misunderstood the problem. The object isn’t to get more power; the object is to do more work. If power equals work divided by time, then work equals power times time--so you do more work if you push longer. Consider the problem of launching the Space Shuttle into orbit: you...

"How would you play this?" is by George Fels. Slanidrac16 might like Larry Schwartz' book, which is entitled (approximately) "The 8-Ball Handbook for Winners." It contains a number of runout puzzles and lots of good advice about 8-ball strategy and tactics.--AS

I choked one that way last weekend! I've been away from competition for a while, and the choke made me realize that I've let my preshot mental routine get disorganized. I missed my shot before I executed the stroke, if you know what I mean; maybe you did the same thing.--AS

Capelle makes some interesting observations.

'Lo, Jay. North Mississippi, huh? I lived in Oxford in the Fifties. I'd suggest keeping your shoulder, elbow, forearm, and cue in the same vertical plane (you can check this at home with a mirror). I don't think you should start stroking with your forearm inside our outside of that plane to...

You might want to check out the rules changes of 1-1-06. The changes are very limited and additional changes won't be made before 1-1-08. To see a summary of the changes, go to http://www.bca-pool.com/cgi/site/framegate.cgi?url=http://www.bca-pool.com/play/tournaments/rules/rls_gen.shtml&cat=p...

Good solution. I thought of playing the 2 first, then the 1 into the upper right-hand corner, then the bank 4, then the bypass-shot 5. Your solution is better, I think--if you play the bypass shot first and miss it, your opponent still has a little work to do. Norway! I like Norway--visited...

Hi, Jude. I don't know the APA rules. Any sense in playing the 8 into the 14 softly, pocketing the 14 and blocking the pocket with the 8? Thanks for the puzzle.--AS

I heard that a couple of respectable players got locked into a 5-hour 1-Pocket match in the early rounds, on an "upstairs" table, and that the match was finally won by the guy who kept his opponent frozen to the pack. Does anybody remember seeing such a match at this year's DCC? I'd be...

What kinds of tips do banks specialists typically prefer? Thanks. --AS