Satisfied Day

I got too the pool hall yesterday and the place was packed with players,even the bar had a few!I got lucky and found one player playing by himself,Wild Bill is his name,and he plays pretty good.Were pretty close to even,I think his CB is slightly better than mine,but not by much.If I do have an edge it's the break,his break is pretty good,but he comes up dry a lot.My break has been pretty good now that I have the proper tip installed again.I had a Talisman B/Jump tip which is a very hard leather,but does not perform as well as Phenolic plastic or G10 fiberglass.

My break/jump cue is a sought after X Breaker,they are hard to find nobody wants to let them go,and the guy who made them died!The X Breaker comes with a G10 tip standard and was the first to use that material as a tip.The X Breaker got a ton of exposure when Charlie "Hillbilly" Bryant was clocked with a radar gun on his break shot at 37mph! That's a monster break shot,I wish I could get my break up there.I feel I have a pretty big break,I get some compliments or statements to that effect on occasion.I spend a fair amount of time working on my break,and it has shown!

OK so Wild Bill and I hook up,we only got to play two sets race too 9.It was pretty UN-eventfull,not much to talk about we were not gambling just sparing.I won the first set and he won the second.I came away from the table pretty satisfied with my game,at least happy enough that I was looking to see if I could steel a set or 2 from Big Al.I would have to wait for that game though,as Big Al was already playing someone.

This is going to be short,Big Al destroyed me 7-1.

So that was that.Another great day at Diamond Jim's!