Detroit Larry

The rules for #mini8 are identical to #8ball. The only difference comes in how you rack. Instead of seven stripes and seven solids, you only rack four of each in a diamond shape with the 8-ball in the middle. The numbers on the solids and stripes doesn't matter but the

So you have two balls left before the eight. You have a perfect angle on the first ball to get down-table to your last stripe. You take your time, stroke well, and float the cue ball down the table perfectly! Uh oh, too perfect... You're now staring at a straight

This is a pretty easy shot to get good at with a little practice and it's extremely useful in many situations. The object is to use a little top on an easy shot and have the cue ball land on the rail. In this case, you want to land on

Recently I've been trying out some different streaming options for the two pool tournaments that I direct each week. My APA League Operator just went to Vegas for the Southwest Challenge and wanted to stream some of the matches back home to the local players. I gave him some advice

I just got back from Reno where I competed in the US Bar Table Championships for the first time. It was a great tournament with some pretty stiff competition. Due to my work schedule I was only able to play in the eight ball bracket which was the biggest event

Recently I've been using my iPhone 4S to take video footage of the last few matches of the #10ball pool tournaments that I've been running every Friday at San Francisco's Happy Lounge.  The jukebox provides a great angle.  All I have to do is lean my phone up against a

I just did an IMDB plot search for "billiards" and found a few shows and movies that I'd like to watch some day.  I've copy/pasted the links and descriptions here... A 1973 episode of Gunsmoke called Cowtown Hustler where "an old drifter, named Joshua Pinch, passes through and hustles

Picking up where I last left off ages ago, I'd like to talk about the "Hi-Tech Tournaments" that I promised to start running.  My pet project for a while now has been working on a website called NomadPool.com where pool players can sign up for their own free account

It's time for PoolSynergy again!   This month's topic is about our ideal tournament and is being hosted by Mike Fieldhammer, the Billiard Coach.  I highly suggest you cruise on over to Mike's post to see all of the other perspectives on what makes for an exceptional tournament. So, I'm a

This month's PoolSynergy topic is about your favorite game.  This is a good question that I haven't really thought about lately since I mainly play in bar leagues now and thus am relegated to mostly 8ball and 9ball.  After reading this post, be sure to check out the rest of

From time to time you will find yourself in such a bad position that the best thing you can do is to just pick the cue ball up and hand it to your opponent.  For example when you are hooked with a very low chance of making a good hit,

How many times do you hear someone tell their friend or teammate to "slow down" or "take your time" when they're about to take a shot in an important situation?  It happens a lot, because it's good advice.  I was in a bad slump a while back and I pulled

So I finally bit the bullet and bought a new pool table.  It gets delivered and setup tomorrow and will look just like this one, same colors and all... I went with the olive felt because it's not the bright green you see in the bars but it's still a

Welcome to my pool blog!  I've been wanting to blog about pool for a while now but finally got motivated to buy a domain and install wordpress thanks to the PoolSynergy syndication that I recently ran across. PoolSynergy is a monthly collection of the best writing on pool.  Each month