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  1. HawaiianEye

    Was pool better 50 years ago?

    The way it was usually played in our old pool hall was that every player drew a set number of pills (usually 2 or 3) depending upon the number of players). Then they played a ring game of 15-ball rotation. If a shooter made a ball with another person's pill number, the person with that pill...
  2. HawaiianEye

    Funny pic/gif thread...

    Accurate.
  3. HawaiianEye

    Was pool better 50 years ago?

    Old school pool halls were fun back in the day. Lots of characters with lots of things going on: dominoes in the front, money pinball machines on the side, snooker tables with people playing golf, people playing 9-ball ring games and Kelly pool, old timers playing one pocket, people telling...
  4. HawaiianEye

    Was pool better 50 years ago?

    I saw him at Keesler AFB in Biloxi in 1973. He drove a big dark green Cadillac and he had plastic signs held on with magnets on both front doors of his car. The signs said, "Jack White. World's Greatest Trickshot Artist".
  5. HawaiianEye

    Was pool better 50 years ago?

    I worked in a real "old school" pool hall from the time I was a kid until after I got out of high school. I spent HOURS in the pool hall six days a week for years. I played all of those games, but Kelly pool may have been my least favorite. I gambled at all games and played anybody and everybody.
  6. HawaiianEye

    Was pool better 50 years ago?

    I didn't even like Kelly Pool when it was popular.
  7. HawaiianEye

    Cues for home guests - house cues or your own?

    A Filipino rack boy did the same thing when he picked up my Richard Black cue in the Philippines. He tapped a ball with the side of my ivory ferrule and broke it. I had Richard Helmstetter put a new ivory ferrule on it when I visited the ADAM factory in Japan.
  8. HawaiianEye

    Was pool better 50 years ago?

    Ann was Richard Anthony Mayes. For further discussion this topic would be better suited for the NPR forum.
  9. HawaiianEye

    Was pool better 50 years ago?

    Alex, Earl, Keith, Ronnie Allen, Mike Sigel...there were more than a few.
  10. HawaiianEye

    Coos Cues

    I am sure it is the Merry Widow.
  11. HawaiianEye

    Was pool better 50 years ago?

    "Great play" is when the match is "enjoyable" to watch, not necessarily a match where two robots perform flawlessly in a sterile environment. I prefer the more "raw" play where players with "personality" play "fast and loose" and there is "interaction" between the players besides the handshake...
  12. HawaiianEye

    Custom and High End Cues on the Decline?

    Unless you buy a cue that costs $5000, or more, Richard isn't even touching it. Someone else builds it for him.
  13. HawaiianEye

    FREE Action Stream.......starts tonite

    That match was a shitshow and brutal to watch. There is no way in hell that guy plays better than Oscar, but Oscar let the "conditions" dictate the outcome of the match. If he can't fade this guy, there is no way people on here should be screaming that he should play in the Mosconi Cup.
  14. HawaiianEye

    FREE Action Stream.......starts tonite

    Who won and what were the scores of the sets?
  15. HawaiianEye

    Funny pic/gif thread...

  16. HawaiianEye

    Question about tip shape...

    Because I said so.:)
  17. HawaiianEye

    Question about tip shape...

    As they should be. :)
  18. HawaiianEye

    FREE Action Stream.......starts tonite

    This is becoming a snoozefest. I had rather watch some fast and loose bangers.
  19. HawaiianEye

    FREE Action Stream.......starts tonite

    Oscar is playing tentative. He needs to loosen up.
  20. HawaiianEye

    Cues for home guests - house cues or your own?

    FWIW, I wouldn't let Willie Mosconi play with my cue. I have seen him slap balls around with the sides of his shafts on his own custom cues, so you know damn well he would do the same with somebody else's cue.
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