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The DCC has become a spot of bother so far as many players and spectators are concerned. I’ve attended only once, so I don’t pretend to understand the complexities and challenges. However, I have gone to numerous business conferences, conventions, and expos where attendees range from a few...

Make it the coolest that I’ve ever seen. How? Focus. Focus on the TV table. Live-streaming has come so far over the past few years. Quality, reliability, availability. But too often, the TV table sits empty; or hosts players some of us have little interest in watching; The streamers and...

I invested in the 50th anniversary Texas Open stream to catch the one-pocket action. But while I was channel-surfing, I came across the finals of the Scotch doubles. Sky Woodward and Billy Thorpe each had a talented female partner. But I found myself rooting for Sky’s gal, a petite gamin who...

How about including that most basic of pool-streaming services — showing the ball count for each game? The video quality is good, the commentators are blue-ribbon. (Although they could benefit from describing the action in front of them rather than talking through it.) Another question — why...

New Yorkers learn that mantra in the crib; perhaps in the womb. So, I met this cue-maker at a social event. We got to talking and he ended up discounting a never-used cue by 20%. Back story: he had custom-made it for a left-player who had fallen on hard times. I’m right-handed — hence the...

Boy, has live-streaming (pool-edition) come a long way. Concomitant with video improvements, there has been an uptick in the quality of commentary. Dr. Billy was an early articulator of the action, personalities, history, and prophetic shot-by-shot evaluations. Like him or loathe him (place me...

Okay, my first DCC. Coming from a non-professional tournament-observer’s perspective … the event was simply astounding. For the first time, I got to see Efren, Gorst, Filler, T-Rex, SVB, Shaw, Alex, and so many others — in-person, in-action. Even though my visit was truncated at both ends...

When Efren began his graceful glide into retirement, my favorite one-pocket player to watch became T-Rex. Now, Alex has a more outgoing personality, and many believe he’s a better player; perhaps the best. But for sheer shot-delight … give me Tony. Dennis has amazing skills, but his...

You’ll probably want to expedite your order: https://www.bugatti.com/lifestyle/ixo-pool-table/ Sunny

He’s making a list. He’s checking it twice. LV has a line of pool tables that look pretty sporty: https://us.louisvuitton.com/eng-us/magazine/articles/billiards-2020#the-selection Sunny

So Alex is spotting T-Rex 9-to-8 in a one-pocket match — a four-day race to 36 games. With what appears to be a consequential amount of spondulicks in the middle. My guess — with zero empirical evidence to back it up — is that a 10-to-9 race would tilt the odds a little in the favor of the...

For your next yacht ... Sunny

Chess grandmaster Savielly Tartakower once said, “The winner is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.” Wonder if that would apply to one-pocket? Sunny

Two one-pocket matches continue to wow me. 1) Efren v. Shannon in Galveston. 2) T-Rex v. Robo in Fremont. I had to rewind several of Efren’s shots to figure out how in the world he escaped from some of the horrendous traps Shannon put him in. I decided Efren looked for the one place on the...

Congrats to those of you who scored ringside seats around the TV table. And, since you’re often shown on screen, let’s Ms. Manners your behavior. > Food. Don’t, just don’t. Unless you’re a runway model nibbling a celery stick … > Drink. Fancy a beer? Fine, I might too. But, please, one at a...

With apologies to all the World War II Brits who mocked the Nazi hierarchy with a parodic song. Their little ditty was often sung to the tune of the “Colonel Bogey March”: Hitler has only got one ball Göring has two but very small Himmler is rather similar But poor old Goebbels has no balls...

Dear Gentle Readers, Waiting for one-pocket, I poked my head in a few times to watch the Bigfoot competition. As usual the analysts’ observations were entertaining. > You can learn a lot about your chair playing this guy. > Don’t go past a position to get to another position. > I never...

Dear Gentle Readers, “They’re not shooting the shots they’re supposed to. To make the commentators look good.” Tableau: Mr. Henderson, in the booth with Mr. Barber, at the estimable POV one-pocket rodeo at California Billiards. John Schmidt and Amar Kang were shooting some creative, and wildly...

Dear Gentle Readers, I hadn't seen this played before. Some one-pocket shots. https://www.facebook.com/ZeroXBilliards/videos/1930215893663230/ Sunny

Dear Gentle Readers, Two recent one-pocket matches. Both involving Dennis Orcollo and both riveting in different ways. DO hammered the Freezer and later Tony Chohan schooled Dennis on the first day of their four-day fais do-do. Tony hung on to win. What struck me, though, wasn’t the...