I absolutely LOVE playing pool! Going to a calm bar and having a drink and playing a game of pool is one of my favorite things to do.
I agree! I know it as billiards though.
Yes, billiards. I'm from Delaware and we call it pool around here. Either way, I'm down to play!
My local pub has a great new billiard table.
There are different sizes of pool tables. I enjoy playing on the 7-foot, or what I like to call the "bar table" because most bars have the smaller tables to fit.
Yank Adams
Frank B. Adams (December 19, 1847 – after January 1923), commonly known as Yank Adams, was a professional carom billiards player who specialized in finger billiards, in which a player directly manipulates the balls with his or her hands, instead of using an implement such as a cue stick, often by twisting the ball between one's thumb and middle finger. Adams, who was sometimes billed as the "Digital Billiard Wonder", has been called the "greatest of all digit billiards players",
player in this country, bar none. I'm so good I can't even get a game unless I give it away first."
Allen was known as a "one pocket specialist."
Billiards Congress of America Hall of Famer Eddie Kelly said, "Ronnie Allen was the best one pocket player I ever played."
At a well-known annual pool event held in Johnston City, Illinois, it was in 1972 that Ronnie Allen grabbed the microphone before a standing-room-only crowd and