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Just a note from Tramp Cupid: HAPPY VALENTINES DAY to all the lovely ladies here at AZB. You're the greatest. :thumbup:

Has anyone noticed how new members just all of a sudden show up without any introduction what-so-ever? There's a thread currently going around about how an 'old school' style cue should look, and there are lot's of good replies coming in. Clean out of nowhere comes an opinion from a guy, and...

I have officially retired from playing team One Pocket with the guys. Why? Because it has wrecked my game. It seems that when pool players are only playing for shits and grins then all you ever wind up with is shits and grins. Allow me to explain. Our (team) One Pocket matches tend to be played...

A good friend of ours here in the kingdom of pool we call the Queen City of the Ozarks, passed away this past Monday. The cause of death was Cancer. He was 68 years old. Jack was not only an A level One Pocket player, but played all other games exceptionally well. He could be a bit irascible at...

During out last episode the evil villain Disque-co had vanished, and taken the exhumed corpse of Minnesota Fats with him, leaving Dick Phoenix clueless as to how he was going to locate them, and what he might do if he did. We find our hapless hero sitting at the bar in the Ninth Street...

Merry Christmas, to all my good friends here at AZB. May the good Lord bless and keep you, and his countenance shine upon you. My heartfelt wish is that each of you see peace, and prosperity, in this coming new year. Your pal, Tramp. :thumbup2:

Sad news here in Springtown. Shooters has gone out of business. Shooters was a small room of eight full-size tables, four, or so, bar boxes, and a Snooker table. As with many small businesses the reason was probably profit, or the lack thereof, that caused them to close their doors. That leaves...

I'd like to go into this next Winter with a new cue. I put a ding in my old Martin, the other day, and have decided to put it up before anything bad happens to it. Other than my '05 Martin I have used Schon's almost exclusively, and they've always been topped off with a Predator shaft. This...

Now, I know that to you guys who have 15, 20, even 30 thousand posts, my 6 grand is no big deal. But it is to me. So how about we celebrate with a joke? This pool player was driving home from the pool hall late one night when he fell asleep at the wheel an ran off the road. He was rushed to the...

There was a thread earlier about a photo-shopped Diamond with only two pockets. The OP called it a One Pocket table. After extinguishing the fire in OP's pants, a discussion regarding the game of Corners, a game very much similar to One Pocket, came up. Here is an article from OnePocket.org...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yep6gusOqAE What a great day. Doin' nothin'. Just jabberin' with my friends. Can't play pool today. My left eyelid slammed shut, and my good eye is a seein' double. Sonfoa*****! Would someone please go get me a beer! Yep. Good day. Good day. A very good......where in the...

According to an article in the Springfield News Leader, local One Pocket player and man about town, Tramp Steamer, was seen playing pool last Friday at Billiards of Springfield (I beg your pardon, Billiards Sports Bar and Grill). Our reporter Tom Flatulent, provides the following. Tom: "Mr...

I'll wager many of you will not disagree with my thread title, but the truth is I really am. A little over a week ago I was diagnosed as having Myasthenia Gravis, or MG. MG is a neuro-musculure disease that affects the brain/muscle signal resulting in weakening of the voluntary muscles...

I believe that One Pocket is a perfect metaphor for life. You begin by developing the skills necessary to become successful, and then..... Perhaps some of you might take it from there. :)

About thirty minutes ago I received a call from one of the young ladies at Billiards Sports Bar and Grill (nee: Billiards of Springfield), and learned that it's owner, Phil Spudich, had died yesterday. Little else is known at this time, but it appears to be a heart attack.. Phil has owned...

Mitch Cravens passed away at the age of thirty-two. I don't believe he was a member here, but he was a very good pool player, and well known throughout the Springfield, and St. Louis metropolitan areas. Mitch was eighteen years old, when he first started playing. He was a good student of the...

Sold!! Thanks for looking. For sale. Tramp Steamers Schon STL-5. Price: $400.00 plus $10.00 shipping. Eight months old with a Schon/Predator 314-2 shaft and LePro tip. Cue and shaft have no nicks, dings, scratches, or gouges. Shaft is clean with no chalk stain. Beautiful cue that plays great...

A shout out to Tanner Nickels, who last night celebrated his twentieth birthday. Young Tanner is a student (soon to be sophomore) at Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri, where he is a rising star on Coach Mark Wilson's Pocket Billiards team. Lindenwood always fields a strong roster of...

Well, here it is folks. Post number five-thousand. It seems like only yesterday that I was mouthing off for the fist time. Something about One Pocket, no doubt. First off, a big thank you goes out to Mom and Dad, for not using protection all those many years ago, even though they went ahead and...

Well, sports fans, I've given my Kamui (soft) tip about two months of One Pocket play and I've got to tell you, I don't like it. It has a dead feel to it. It's kind of like you were bunting in baseball. Also, when running balls from around the stack I feel like I need to hit whitey a bit harder...