The Golden Fleece Billiards Club No smoking. No alcohol. No bulshit. Just pool. “Addiction to billiards is as great an impediment to productivity as cocaine is to ambition” Rhutra Nocab The gamblers seemed indifferent to the comity and comfort of The Golden Fleece. Maybe its simply because, like fighters, for example, focused as they are … Continue reading
Category Archives: Billiards
The Mosconi Cup Dilemma
I would like to offer some thoughts as to why the United States is not winning Mosconi Cups. There are many reasons of course and for one person to pretend to have all the answers would be presumptuous. Of course we can win again but how? Actually, we might never win again. Does the game … Continue reading
Scott Frost at Paradise Billiards
Recently I was at a birthday party for a friend’s wife at a cozy tavern along the shore of Lake Washington just north of Seattle. The joint has three very nice Gold Crown IV’s and eventually several of us were playing inebriate eight ball. Our gang was mostly physicists, lawyers and musicians so you can … Continue reading
Corey Deuel at the Doctor’s
Three weeks ago, Dr. Cue Billiards in Seattle, announced that Corey Deuel would be coming on Monday, 22 January to “give private lessons to a customer.” The announcement continued, “Corey will have time to give a few other private lessons.” A few of us began getting in the queue although times and cost remained unknown. … Continue reading
Some Comments Regarding Three Billiard Books Or: What The Billiard Magazines Refuse to Tell Us
There’s no book so bad that something good may not be found in it. Cervantes I seem to find myself in places where a decent game of pool is virtually impossible so I have to resort to other strategies to maintain my interest and minor skill set in this highly addictive sport. Last year I … Continue reading