Welcome to Table Talk Issue 9

It’s been a great summer, and a relatively mild winter. X-mas and New Years were fantastic! I’ve been absent from posting simply because, well, I was drawing a blank on a good idea for a new discussion. Thankfully, one of my readers helped me out with a great email question! I’d like to share his question with the rest of you, as well as my somewhat lengthy answer. It is in regard to how to learn to break an 8 ball rack successfully when you are playing pool on a coin operated table. Coin operated pool tables pose problems for the break shot that standard eight and nine foot pool tables do not. Lets get into the meat of this, shall we?

My reader, Roger, sends me this:

I started playing when I was 10 years old and got serious when I was 16 and was able to shoot at a pool hall. So my game
was straight pool 14-1. My highest run was 116 balls, now I am 50 and have been shooting pool leagues in the bar scene with a smaller table and a bigger cue ball. I lost my draw shot because of cue size and lack a decent 8 ball break. I could rule the league if I could improve my break shot. If I break from side the cue goes flying off table, if I break straight on I only get a ball in 25% of the time. I use a custom made palmer cue stick from 1973, 22 oz, can you suggest how I can get my game back with a decent 8 ball break. SOS 

I answered him thusly (I apologize for the odd formatting, but I copy/pasted this from my email, and I’d have to delete every carriage-return in order to square it away):
Hi Roger,
Happy New Year, and thank you for visiting Joboworld! I hope you’ve found
some value and entertainment within my site. It sounds like you have quite a
bit of talent and experience under your belt, Roger. I myself grew up
playing 8 ball, and was only introduced to straight pool much later. I found
it an awesome a...
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