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    Is the Break Shot Overrated?

    Try spotting someone all the breaks......
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    626 run pocket size

    kind of sad.........
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    NY Times article on John Schmidt's 626

    If physical evidence (original uninterrupted video) is not made public...this is how you destroy the game of pool forever.....Having a huge media giant like NYT print a story that turns out to be unsubstantiated or found to be false, ends all credibility for the game of pocket billiards. Player...
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    Straight ool makes me dog balls

    find your best pace of play and focus on pocketing speed.
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    Breakshot...What would you do ? and what i did !!

    Shoot the shot for the point and play safety to the top of the rack. Takes a lot of discipline to win in straight pool.
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    BALABUSHKA CUE - On EBAY- " BELL-TAPERED SHAFTS ??????

    Bell tip shaft Best player to use the "bell tip" shaft regularly was Cicero Murphy back in the 60's. No sure if he played with a Balabushka...maybe.
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    How do you go from sitting to making a tough shot?

    Consider your options If you can't confidently shoot the shot and get shape on the next shot consider playing safe. Never shoot a low % hard shot if you will have nothing after....(a shot or safety). Play a safe if it is the easier % shot. A safety battle will break his momentum and slow him...
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    Best Hustling Lines / Moves When You Enter a Poolroom

    Gamesmanship Some of these attempts at deception seem foolish and amateurish with likely poor results. People who are willing to gamble for significant sums of money will not be fooled so easily. If you succeed it will likely be a cheap score and pretty much done for the sake of entertainment...
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    Money Match to 1.000 points Lely-Reintjes

    Live Link Thanks for the link.....great game so far.
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    Gambling 101

    Next best thing..... "The next best thing to winning is loosing..... the worst is no action at all." You don't really gamble for money....money is how you keep score. It's a bad jones.
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    Name a pool hall you wish was still open today

    Spot n Cue on Lincoln Rd, Spinelli's at Albemarle and Flatbush, Action Billiards on Church Ave, Colligate Billiards on Nostrand Ave, Triangle on Ocean Avenue, Brighton Billiards in Brighton Beach All in Brooklyn NY
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    Gambling...not sure I like it, even when I win.

    The next best thing to winning is loosing...the worst possible thing is no action at all. Requiem of a gambler
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    Official 14.1 High Runs

    Hi Just like to say Sam Kong ran 202 in a qualifier for the World Championship back in the late 70s. It was at High Run Billiards on Queens Blvd in NY. Not sure of the year but Sam got knocked out by Erving Crane during the first round of the tournament...I think it was at the Commador Hotel or...
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    How Would You Play this One?

    this is the shot......
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    How Would You Play this One?

    Don't know how to do the pictograph thing. off the object ball left (middle right english) to the left short rail (1), top long rail (2), bottom long rail (3), short right rail (4). Ball will reverse on the 3rd and 4th rails.
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    Want to buy tables

    I have ables for sale in Georgia Hi Saw your post and was wondering if you are still looking. I have 13 9' pool tables and a carom 5x10. Selling very way below value. I have lights, balls, cues, racks, pool ralated wall hangings, etc.....everything you need to open a room. They are in storage...
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    tables wanted

    14 tables for sale Hi I have 4 gold crown IVs, 9 Cosmos granite bed all steel base w/t ball return and a Cosmo heated 5x10 Carom table. The pool tables are all 9x4 1/2 with simonis on the rails. Tournament quality tables. All accessories, balls, lights, cues, racks etc will go with them. These...
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    13- 9' tables 1- 10' carom table for sale cheap

    Looking for best offer 4- gold crown IVs, drop pockets 9- Cosmo with ball return, Steel legs and base. 1- Cosmo 2" heated slate carom table All in very good condition with all accessories for each. Came from a pool room in NY Currently in storage in Buford Georgia. Will entertain all...
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    Looking For Gold Crown Tables

    I have 4 gold crown IVs, 9 Cosmo with ball returns, I 5x10 Cosmo heated Carom table. GC and Cosmo are 9' tables. Also have balls, lights, cues and other misc equipment for all the tables, I'm in Buford GA 30548. Tables are disassemled in storage. You can reach me at 917-560-1850...will send...
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