It may have been me that started that rumor
My bad, I'm obviously mistaken. Basement Dweller had misreported on this, as noted in Post #301. Bob Jewett corrected him another post, which I missed. Thanks for the correction.
Interesting take. I've never given this any thought.
It is not either confidential info or rocket science.
I've played a lot of pool and I'm pretty good at racking. If I had to rack with loose cotton gloves on, I'd have a hard time racking the balls well. I need just a bit of friction between my hands and the balls to get the proper feedback and to ensure I'm getting the balls tight. You lose that with gloves on.To avoid any rumors on the rules, one has simply to read them
Gloves/no gloves theory is funny. Once you have proper equipment gloves do never interfere with you providing a tight rack. And as far as I know Aero triangle (love it or hate it, though I'm yet to see a person who did not throw a rock at them) gives as tight a rack as one could wish for.
That's the game I played in my youth and, no, I didn't like it as much as Texas Express. The single biggest reason is that I don't feel you should be permitted to push out when you've hooked yourself. In my view, one should pay full penalty for position misplayed. For the same reason, I don't like the jump cue, but if it's use were limited to the first shot of an inning, then I'm fine with it.
Call shot call safe litigates much of the game's imagination out by disqualifying the two way shot. In general, I don't like call shot games, and I feel call shot contributed greatly to the end of the straight pool era, even though straight pool without it is ridiculous. There need not be a clear distinction between offense and defense, and Texas Express rotation games allow for playing them together in many situations. These are the kind of shots that get me most excited when I watch top level pool. In snooker, the greatest cueing test of all, there's no call shot, so why should rotation pool require it? In snooker, playing offense and defense together is standard fare.
I can’t believe I’m the only person that liked this post. Real, actual, accurate, information. It’s a thing.
We all like and appreciate AtLarge's contributions even if we don't click "like" on all of his posts.
Absolutely, dude is a Godsend, for this place.
That's more of a slow roll rather than a slow play
Maybe because that should be the standard.
There might be some confusion because CSI/BCAPL/USAPL has changed to BIH anywhere after a scratch on the break.
Hand racking requires getting your palms involved. I have dry smooth hands but plate glass says different. Knuckle racking seems logical but that's an automatic slug subject to rack compression and both rack and ball tolerances. I have no answers. I try to roll the balls into each other bare handed; fingerprints and all...
I did not say Eight Ball was an easy game! What I did say was that Eight Ball on a big table with these rules (especially Open Table after the break when you make a ball) is an easier game than Ten Ball. I stand by that statement.
And I also liked Tim Deruyter very much. Informative, knowledgable, right on point every time!
