Wednesday, 9 April 2008
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| Photos from Blatt Billiards 85th Anniversary Show at the National Arts Club Cuetable 06:53:38 |
| | Dear All:
I have just spent a wonderful nights in the Blatt Billiards 85th
Anniversary Show at the National Arts Club. Thanks to Ron, Victor and Paul
for putting together this huge collection of billiard treasures together.
It really is like walking into a live billiard encyclopedia. For those who
live near New York area, I highly encourage you to come and knock yourself
out in this great educational experience. The admission is free to the
public.
Here are some photos from tonight (please pardon my blurry pictures due to
the low light condition ):
http://pl.cuetable.com/showthread.php?p=1566#post1566
Cheers
Wei
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| Almost Bob Keller 02:03:14 |
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OK, I had a little time before going to see the movie "21" tonight so I
thought I'd put in an hour practice session. I don't know if it was just
the talk that motivated me or the fact that I actually put at least two
suggestions into practice (I suspect the latter), but on my very first
attempt I ran 93. That's my best run in 3 months ....... no make that 10
years!
Here's the run-ender, I was killed by Lou's Triangle of Death!
http://CueTable.com/P/?@4CNlF4EFae4FEdK4GAUA3JMDh3LHQb4NCHe3PEiw@
I got perfect on the 5. I can either roll foward off the 5, get the 12/3
and come back to the 6, which then opens up the 7/14 and all is well. Or I
can pop the 5 in and nudge the 14 over a little - now I can shoot the 7
right away and the 6/14 will then go in EITHER corner pocket. I'm shooting
good, feeling good and so choose the second option. Unfortunately I don't
nudge the 14 far enough and my only shot is a severe back-cut on the 6,
which I missed.
Giddy with delight I quit the session after the first attempt. 
Here's what I did different. First I picked up a magnetic chalk holder
(they didn't have the pouch). I was suprised at how it helps keep your
concentration on the table. Can't say enough. I will be getting a pouch,
though, because the magnetic thingy can get bumped off too easily while the
pouch holds the chalk securely until you need it, no matter how much moving
around you do between shots.
Secondly, as soon as feasible during the rack I chose **at least** one key
ball for the key ball, in addition to the break and key balls themselves.
This resulted in my shooting the balls off in a little bit more methodical
pattern. I suspect I had been shooting off my best key-key balls before,
which was making the end pattern to the break ball more difficult. I knew
it was helping immediately because I was clicking off the early balls in the
rack with more thought and intent, and because several of the racks ended
with five to six ball stop shot patterns (just like I witnessed Thorstan
Hohman doing repeatedly). Ya gotta figure it out from early in the rack NOT
when there are only 7 balls left.
Can't wait for my next session to see if the magic is still there.
Thanks all!
Bob Keller
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Tuesday, 8 April 2008
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| Fire At Pool Hall Ruled Suspicious B . White 23:46:15 |
| | Fire At Pool Hall Ruled Suspicious
POSTED: 2:44 pm EDT April 8, 2008
UPDATED: 3:17 pm EDT April 8, 2008
TITUSVILLE, Fla. -- Officials have ruled a fire at a Titusville pool hall
suspicious.
A Titusville Police Department officer called the fire department at 4:46 a.m.
Tuesday when he was patrolling the area and noticed heavy smoke coming out of a
broken window at Action Billiards, located at 2416 S. Washington Ave.
Division chief and public information officer Scott Gaenicke told Local 6 News
partner Florida Today that firefighters found barred windows at the rear of the
structure and heavy smoke driven by high winds.
The fire was under control in about 20 minutes.
The state fire marshal is investigating the blaze.
http://www.local6.com/news/15826342/detail.html
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| Re: Purpose of Safeties Ed McCune 11:35:38 |
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allanpsand - interpreter, handbook of the billiard gods wrote:
This is an excerpt from my book, "Handbook of the Billiard Gods, Safety Toolbox". This subject covers why Safeties are a required skill set of table billiards. The Purpose of Safeties A Safety tool is used when there is no direct pattern to a win, at least within your current skills and capabilities. The situation forces you to allow your opponent to come to the table. Do you want to offer him an easy win? Or, would you rather give him nothing?
Actually, for 8 ball at least, it is often impossible to give nothing.
In fact giving nothing often just leads to getting a big nothing back
against players who kick well. Sometimes you end up worse than you started.
Sometimes, against a certain caliber of player, it is best to give them
something....but something ..just barely out of reach of their current
abilities. They usually can't resist going for it and usually
fail...leaving a wide open table.
A girl I play sometimes is a master at this. She uses guys egos (while
playing a girl) and leaves difficult but tempting runnouts. I've lost
many a game to her trying to be a hero.
Of course this only works against strong but not quite there players.
Too good and they run out and too poor and they don't try.
Ed
mccune@standardab.ca
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| in search of 100 Bob Keller 11:34:17 |
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OK, it's been a little over 8 weeks that I've been practicing and trying to
get a big straight pool run.
I've won all ten matches this session in our straight pool league, but the
stats and my practice reveal that I'm still ending way too many innings on
missed shots. Most of my misses are not the break shot. High run in leage
is 52. In eight weeks of practice (twice a week) I've got only two runs in
the 70's, two in the 60's, 3 in the 50's, a bunch of 40's and a LEGION of
10's, 20's, 30's.
Like 9-ball, I'm finding that when I can slow down and check all of the
angles and exactly where I want to play position I often play better. But
too much of this I feel interrupts my rythmn and makes shot-making harder.
I feel this practice has made my fundamentals much more solid, I'm stroking
the ball better, but I'm no longer improving in the number of muli-rack
runs. I still have too many 1/2 to 1-1/2 rack runs, and only one or two 40+
runs out of 20 attempts per practice session.
Looking for advice......drills to improve consistency......I don't know
what............
Lou?
Anyone?
Bob Keller
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| Re: Light Height Dan White 06:53:16 |
| | Wow, my lights are low! The edge of the shade is 26" from the playing
surface. They are big shades 16" across, so 3 of them seem to cover the
table adequately. I'm 6'1" and the shade blocks the very end of the playing
surface when I stand at the head of the table. They are a bit low, but the
ceiling in the basement is low along with the ductwork in the way. I guess
I know now why it looks like I'm wearing a big green hat when I shoot a
break shot from the center of the table. lol
dwhite
"Dan White" <dwhite300@verizon.net> wrote in message
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"John Black" <jblack@texas.net> wrote in message news:MPG.22613d70ad3ed12e9899f7@free.teranews.com... Will do, thanks. Do you know how high your light is? I'll try to measure it tomorrow. Our lights are circa 1970, big plastic green shades, so that might have an effect on the height. Anyway I'm curious myself to see the height. dwhite
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Friday, 4 April 2008
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| Diamond Drill Bob Keller 20:24:10 |
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Karen Corr's WPBA profile says that her favorite practice is the "diamond
drill". Anybody have an idea what she may be referring to?
Bob Keller
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| Toughest Shot Lfigueroa 02:41:33 |
| | For a long time I would have said follow shots where my toughest shots.
But lately, I would have to change that to rail shots. IOW shots that
you have to bridge for on the rail. And not just any rail bridge --
the one where you have to lay the cue on the rail -- that one.
Hate em. So what's yours? And why do you think it is so?
Lou Figueroa
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Thursday, 3 April 2008
Monday, 31 March 2008
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| Can you do this draw drill? John Black 04:24:52 |
| | A friend of mine challenged me with a drill he found on youtube.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QPHYQYLo07w
The description says its Bob Jewett but I can't see his face. The drill
is simply this: Put a ball on the spot and put the cue ball behind it
almost straight into the far short rail. Now draw the cue ball back to
the near short rail without the object ball going all the way to the far
short rail and then back to touch the near short rail. You have to hit
the cue ball *very* low to make this work, which is what this drill
teaches you to do.
I tried it on my table last night and was able to do it only about 1 in
20. I'm sure my technique needs improvement but also, I have an 8 foot
table and it looks like he is using a 9 foot table which gives him an
extra 2 feet round trip distance for the cue ball to stop in (although
his distance to draw back to the rail is a little larger).
John Black
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| Re: Be sure to videotape your playing occasionally Patrick Johnson 04:11:36 |
| | On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:23:59 -0700 (PDT), carlton-redford@usa.net
wrote:
Bob Keller's interesting recent thread on ways to maximize his 14.1 runs triggered a memory of something a Straight Pool buddy and I did about 15 years ago when we were deep into a similar campaign. We rented two video cameras and tripods from a local VHS movie rental place, chipping in $25.00 each for the weekend period. We set them up at two opposite strategic vantage points near my home table, and played ten 100 pointers over Saturday and Sunday, generating plenty of videos. We were conscious of the cameras for only the first few racks, then our playing was quite representative of our natural mode. What an eye-opener it was to review the tapes! We saw things that you simply cannot either be aware of, or properly assess while you're deep into playing the game. Little quirks relating to setup, shot selection, stroke variances, pace, missed opportunities and dozens of other illuminations in other areas that had a very beneficial effect on taking our playing to a higher level. For folks without a home table or access to a neighbor's table, I'm sure any pool room would be glad to let you set up such taping sessions during any of those dead or slow hours that all rooms experience. You won't regret any time or money invested into this very objective and revelatory insight into both the positive and negative features of your present performance at the tables. Commendable strengths and highly correctable weaknesses leap out readily and beautifully clear. -- Carlton
[sound of chalk tapping against shaft...]
pj
chgo
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Sunday, 30 March 2008
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| Re: EFREN Reyes, DJANGO Bustamante & RUBILEN Amit in ONE BIG MOVIE! Tdodge 09:02:01 |
| | "AnitoKid" <anitokid@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:d0a203e7-7e12-4f47-a2e3-f4977828372f@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
Efren Bata Reyes, Francisco Django Bustamante, and Rubilen Amit will do a motion picture with one of the top female 9-ball players in the world! And I kid you not!
cool, and I'll see it for sure, *but*..I dunno about getting pool players to
be actors.
About as easy as getting an actor to be a pool player.
Ya can't beat a man (or woman) at their job.
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Saturday, 29 March 2008
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| Re: flipping pool table cloth Pantsonfire 20:16:52 |
| | On Mar 26 2008 9:15 PM, Hustlin' Hank wrote:
I had to tear my table apart so that the carpet installers could do their job. I am in the process of getting it back together. Since the cloth wasn't worn hardly at all (only a small wear line from the break to the 1 ball), can I jsut turn it over? Both sides look the same. It is NOT s Simonis but I don't know what kind it is. Yes, I am cheap! Since I hardly shoot much anymore, I can't see spending any money on new cloth. What is your opinion? I had a similar situation when I moved. I had drawn a break line and when
I got to my new house, I realized there was no way I could re-install the
cloth and get that break straight across and the right place. So I
flipped over my cloth, which looked newer and cleaner on the the bottom
side, and put it in and drew a new break line. No problems doing that.
The only possible thing I can think of is if the cloth grain is different
and the roll of the ball might be slower (or faster) than the other side.
That might be stretching it though (pun intended).
Mike
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| How do you chalk up? Bradley Robertson 02:45:48 |
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Here's a convenient link at Mueller's for the $2.75 magnetic chalk holder (plus shipping unfortunately). You'll love the rhythm benefits:
After looking at this chalk holder it made me wonder about chalking
technique. I am a "painter" and this unit, with only a round hole, will
only work for a "pepper grinder".
Brad
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| Cue Case Stand Charlie O'Donnell 00:34:42 |
| | I've been trying to find an add-on cue case stand online but am coming up
empty. Does anyone make such an accessory ??? Where can I find one ???
Charlie O
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008
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| What would you do here? Final game @ Predator 9-Ball Tour 4th Stop - Tony Robles vs Shin Park Cuetable 04:40:16 |
| | You just made two balls on the break. Unfortunately, you can see a hair of
the 2 ball. What would be a smart move here?
http://CueTable.com/P/?@2BHAR2CSpq1DTgr4EYSW1FNTO1GAqq3IAMJ4PCeq@
Cheers
Wei
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008
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| End game safety reply Bob Keller 22:27:57 |
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This end game safety came up in the thin cuts thread
http://CueTable.com/P/?@2HayL1PaQx2cayL2cbHO2cDQi1kaQx2kYSy2kaQk4kaqv4kFtj@
and John Black asked a very good question, "Is there a good reply to that
one?"
Leaving CB and OB near the center of opposite short rails is the best end
game safety, and consequently the worst place to find yourself. But, there
are a few options.
First, if the OB is off the rail far enough to get the CB in behind, but not
more than 2 ball diameters from the rail, something like this kick can work.
It's touchy and has several variations so practice up before trying it
during a match:
http://CueTable.com/P/?@2HCSR4PFMa2cCSR2cavx4cCSJ4kFMa2kAfj2kBEe@
If the OB is not frozen you could knuckle down and make your best effort at
a long rail bank, depending on the angle a miss on the professional side
might at least leave something tough:
http://CueTable.com/P/?@2HDAX4PFMa2cDAX2cDhi3cVEk3cags4kFMa2kBtR2kBdQ1kAOk1kbQH1kWWy@
If the OB is between the center diamond and the pocket this extravagent
safety is actually high percentage:
http://CueTable.com/P/?@2HHQj4PFMY2cHQj2cayD4cPQj4cbhc2carF2cOrk4kFMY2kFUX2kEGk1kbXq3kaya3kOjk@
Don't be put off by all of the lines, it's just a standard four-rail bank
shot that you hit short for the safety. It's easy to hit the shot short and
you just need the right speed to get the OB to float off the 4th rail. It's
hard to hit it too hard because the OB will be slowing and slowed even
further because it strikes the fourth rail with reverse english. Be careful
to not hit the CB too high or it will stay on the OB end of the table or
even scratch in the side. Practice first!
This next one could lose you some customers if you pull it off well. If the
OB is frozen or very nearly so, shoot the CB straight at the center and
double-kiss the CB back down table. Again set it up and practice it, you
may even find this shot easier than the others. But the OB's gotta be froze
or nearly so.
http://CueTable.com/P/?@1HAnj4PFMY4kFMY1kBUT4kAvg@
Those are my ideas - any others?
Bob Keller
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| Thin Cuts Ed McCune 17:10:15 |
| | A teammate ended up with an eight ball something like this.
http://CueTable.com/P/?@2HPTs1PMQw@
He made it using centerball (but wondered out loud how to avoid the
scratch in the side) and brought the CB back past the side pocket.
After another teammate (a VERY strong player) commented that he should
use outside English on these shots as the throw helps put the ball in
and the spin eliminates the scratch.
I disagreed for only one reason. I have difficulty hitting thin enough
using outside spin and find that I am more accurate with inside spin on
thin cuts. The squirt enables me to hut thin enough. Only if inside spin
will cause a scratch or for other positional reasons will I use anything
else.
I have another teammate who habitually puts outside spin on certain
slightly tough long cuts like this.
http://CueTable.com/P/?@1HSVw1PSIC1cSVw3cXpQ3ccQx1kSIC1kTdK@
He says he can visualize the aiming point better. I agree and do this
also...unless again positional play dictates differently.
I know how some think of using spin in these ways...Ron and Pat disagree
I believe, but I wonder how others think of this? I say do whatever it
takes to make it work.
Ed
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Monday, 24 March 2008
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| My 14.1 Match Up in NJ with Lou Figueroa Dan White 16:28:25 |
| | Oh yeah...it NEVER HAPPENED!
I even resorted to bribing Lou and his wife with a free meal, but no luck!
Maybe next year...
boo hoo,
dwhite
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Sunday, 23 March 2008
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| Re: Pechauer Cue JakartaDean 20:33:15 |
| | Hustlin' Hank wrote:
On Mar 9, 1:04 pm, Ron Shepard <ron-shep...@NOSPAM.comcast.net> wrote: <e8a04028-6126-4c59-bac7-339a4f54c...@d62g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>, "Hustlin' Hank" <ninebal...@aol.com> wrote: I know this sounds like spam, but it isn't, I just want to give credit Say Hank, it sounds like you got a good deal. How much did you pay for that cue?  You're a funny man Ron. Seriously, how many cue makers give a lifetime warranty against warpage? To me, that is extreme and wonder how they could do that. Either they feel no one will keep their cue long enough or feel most aren't bought from authorized dealers, or........? Anyway, I know I abused mine and it didn't warp. Hank <~~~still confused
I've got two Pechauers, the first one I bought 6 or 7 years ago. I keep
that one in a locker in a bar, where the air conditioning is on for 12
hours a day or so, the rest of the time it's hot and humid (ambient here
is around 31 degrees (90 for you Farenheit folks) and 90% relative
humidity. I emailed Jerry after I bought it, asking for advice on
storage, etc. and he suggested that the humidity might not warp it, but
I should be careful about a lot of changes in temp/humidity. I clearly
didn't follow that advice. I also bought about a dozen five years ago
to resell on a somewhat failed business plan. They're all gone now, a
few sold and a few given away to close friends. They're stored in
cases, in plastic bags, God-only-knows where.
They're all still perfectly straight.
Dean <-- also a happy customer
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