Category: Save Billiards
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Thirty-One Tips: 27. Tell Tournament Directors Your Opinion
To help improve pool tournaments, politely express your opinions to those in charge. This tip is a little bit local, but the idea could be useful anywhere that players would like to see bigger and better tournaments. I’ve put on pool tournaments in the past. There is no doubt promoting, organizing, and running a pool…
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Thirty-One Tips: 18. Take Care of the Equipment
Someday, I’ll publish an article on the ultimate table and ball cleaning and care guide. Until then, do your best to help keep things clean. Put your chalk blue side up, only strike the cue ball with your tip, and use common sense to preserve good playing conditions. It’s true that pros can adjust to…
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Thirty-One Tips: 14. Care About the Industry
Last month, I wrote an article on how the Billiard Industry has changed over the last 20 years. I got a couple of comments in person about my mullet, and one published comment about Shanelle Lorraine. (I slipped a photo in this gallery just for you.) I’m two weeks into my “Blog-A-Day” marathon, and am…
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The BCA Trade Show: 27 Years Old and Nearly Extinct
A comparison of my first BCA Trade Show in 1990 and the 2010 BCA Trade Show. By Mike Fieldhammer, Billiard Coach, LLC. Player, Instructor and Retailer. I really got the billiard bug in college. What a stroke of good fortune that the small private college I attended had four regulation 9-foot pool tables – two…