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What I have often seen is green's fees and Surprise!! The added money and greens fees add up to exactly the same thing. Very often people specify an added money amount that is connected to the number of entries. Obvious a venue doesn't want to add thousands and nobody show but when the greens...

I find pretty much any form of competition entertaining; not quite the same thing as fun! After a dirt track race wearing my dinosaur open faced helmet I would reach in each cheek with a finger and pull out about a tablespoon of dirt! I had been open mouthed laughing most of the time on the...

Very nice! The short answer is that few people know how to photograph images of something with a lot of glare. I like the indirect sunlight you mentioned or using a white bedsheet or towel in front of the light to soften it. Unfortunately it takes real skills to photograph a cue well and most...

I think the real issue at your home is the red cloth. Even the Pelican is looking down his nose at it!(grin) To everyone, the difference between typical dirty house balls at a pool hall and new balls is night and day. Far more than I would have believed without seeing for myself. I will never...

I have never given it any thought but cleaning on shirts or in pockets leads me to wonder could there be some accidental tampering? Softener sheets definitely leave a residue behind as do some soaps. I don't know about all the other things that might be used in regular laundry or a cleaners when...

I think I will buy an unlimited package after Tuesday. I don't know which one. I don't expect to improve my game but I am still interested in his viewpoint. It will take awhile I suspect because I think all of the high run shooters fall into running the balls as efficiently as possible. I'll be...

Thanks for a speedy reply. I'll see what you offer unlimited viewing for. To be honest, I wouldn't do more than hit the high spots in three days and I'm a bit skeptical of the video as a learning tool with a three day rental. Good luck! I'll be watching this thread both to see what you offer...

I'm confused. Are you selling or renting this video? Does a person have three days to download it or have you blocked downloads and they have three days to watch the run and no way to study the commentary after three days? I haven't kept up with dealings so I am legitimately confused. I came...

The main advantage is when one player knows the ball is doctored, the other doesn't. When both recognize the cue ball is playing differently both adapt, no advantage. I bought a fairly early measles ball. Compared to the well worn red circle cue balls we used in tournament play it rolled long...

A lot of people have cheated with the whole world watching, it isn't really that hard. Main thing is to act nacherally! I watched a player slug rack himself for the entire one pocket event at DCC one year. A well known player so countless people saw it, I never heard it mentioned. Rack the balls...

I have been pretty lucky with shipping in recent years. I had something enroute when I started commenting in this thread. My package is now a week overdue and counting. Bastards must be either watching my accounts or monitoring AZB! Paranoid might be over the top but a little noid is just...

Yeah, I have seen video where Willie said both. The earlier video said he missed, later video he said he just got tired. Best I recall the shot he missed was pretty easy so probably a bit of both. Willie was clicking off about four balls a minute for getting close to three hours best I recall...

Yeah, I like to see somebody really able to do something. Ti could do a lot, but he also relied on trickery a lot and was a top card mechanic. He was a monster with paper cards, plastic took a lot of his edge away. I remember betting on stupid stuff when we were kids. "I can jump higher than...

I never get in those kind of bets but changing philosophies had more to do with the end of Titanic Thompson and people like him than their own behavior. Generally speaking, people don't pay off a bet when they are outsmarted. If people had to admit they lost a bet they used to pay off even if...

Great story! Can we get you to squeeze out a few more about you or your dad? Speaking of challenge matches, after Katrina Mike Massey and Spitball Charlie did a couple exhibitions to help victims. They also did challenge games, eightball on an eight foot table. Mike would break and run out one...

"Can't believe I missed that shot" includes the people that smash sticks or act out too. They are trying to convince others, maybe themselves too, that they are better than they are. I used to holler and yell, shake sticks angrily, all deliberate fake copying the people that did stupid things...

I have beaten someone with a broom many times but in all fairness they were using one too! A reply to somebody else's post, chalk does work on a broom handle, the smaller diameter the broom handle the better. Out comes the Buck, a little scraping and a crosshatch cut to hold chalk. Hu

I had a time sensitive package that needed to come from our little neighbor on the left, Texas, to me in Louisiana. It shipped, to california! Made it all the way back to Texas, somebody "corrected" the zip code, back to california! It made it to me on the second or third bounce, by then stress...

The catch is that to build a perfect cue every time would require synthetic materials instead of organic and machinery that would cost in the millions. Then you would have a production cue even if it was limited production, not really a custom in my opinion. a cue builder uses their skills to...

Well there are dates and there are discretionary finds. I like that term and wish I had thought to describe my pool winnings that way when I was married! Hu