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For me, confidence is a key ingredient in playing my best. Without confidence I am tentative and my stroke doesn't work right. The way I build confidence is effective practice.

I tried alcohol and other cleaners with meh, results. Then I tried this stuff and it really did well for me. YMMV

This is my circa 1965 Titlist conversion. Kudos to Chris at CamposCues, an AZBer, and right here in Omaha, for giving her a much needed facelift. 18.3 oz 58.5" nice long taper.

I picked up my pool cue again after many years and bought a table for practice. I am trying to improve my game and am succeeding but I have a long way to go. I have a re-occuring problem that I can't seem to get rid of, and that I haven't seen discussed here. Maybe too elementary for you guys...

I thoroughly enjoy playing with my Dale Perry cue with a DP-R shaft. Usually a whole flock of new ones going for $100-$150 on ebay. I have read some controversy about them in this forum but little or none of it was about quality or value for the money. I also have a nice vintage custom converted...

This pretty well describes the situation in Omaha as well, or at least as I perceive it. I played when I was younger and there were plenty of pool rooms that didn't even serve liquor and did serve a younger crowd. I suppose the video games and computers have reduced pool's popularity with youth...

I chose to keep the nicotine and get rid of the tobacco, tar, and smoke. It is pretty clear to me that nicotine alone is far less dangerous to my health than cigarettes with all their carcinogens. I use this and a couple other versions of e-cigs. Among the advantages are cost savings...

I probably shouldn't respond to this but I will because if I am doing it wrong, I am here to learn. I use and like soft tips on my playing cue. I tend to shoot as softly as possible. When I started playing in a league I noticed I rarely made a ball on the break and that I was a bit hesitant to...

A fun read, thanks!!

The same minute my team captain instituted that policy would be my last minute on his team. From your description, I doubt I would play in that league at all, let alone on that team. It is a bit difficult here to find and get on a team so that might mean I wasn't playing for a while until I...

TL:DR (Not a rant but not very interesting) Interesting topic for me. I only recently started playing again after many years and am playing in a league for the first time in my life. So the "new", if they are new, rules confounded me and I am not sure I even understand them all yet. The...

Just curious after seeing you post a few caustic remarks about APA and APA players? APA players are numerous, they buy cues, tables, and other pool related equipment. They follow professional tournaments and in general, through sheer numbers, support the hell out of pool, pool rooms, and bars...

:) Still looks like that but :eek: did you have to include that bottom picture?

Ya, I hated hearing this, even though I am a smoker. I like Big John's place and the outlook for them beating City Hall is not good. Maybe they think they have legal grounds to over turn the law, but I don't like their chances.

Interesting... I stopped playing pool when I was about 30... family and career demands, golf, and life just took me out of the pool rooms. Semi retired now 40 years later at age seventy, I went through my closet this summer, found my cue, and joined an APA league. I was a decent (not great)...

New to the forum but have been here long enough, perhaps, to understand why some long time cue collectors, traders, enthusiasts may resent DP for changing his business model and possibly causing their cues to "devalue" idk for sure but I think that is the deal. But disregarding my noobie status...

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I am interested in the 5280 case, if it is leather, for $60 shipped

There is much truth in this thread. Several have mentioned key components of focus. The one element I have found I need is the confidence I can execute the shot/plan. When I have doubts in my mind, my mind wanders to those doubts and I lose my concentration on the positive. I don't pretend this...