Just my opinion...

Nine-ball is rotation pool, the balls are pocketed in numbered order.  The only ball that means anything, that wins it, is the 9.  Now, the player can shoot eight trick shots in a row, blow the 9, and lose.  On the other hand, the player can get the 9 in on the break, if the balls spread right, and win.  Which is to say, that luck plays a part in nine-ball.  But for some players, luck itself is an art.

Uncredited voiceover by Martin Scorsese for the movie “The Color Of Money“

Just finished watching the Darrin Appleton vs. Dennis Hatch Action Challenge match live on TAR.  By the way, Hatch is an absolute monster.  He won a race to 100 in 10-ball 100 to 83.  While chatting online with one of my pool player buddies I was reminded I wanted to do a post on the terminology used in the pool player community.  Tonight I started that page as an ongoing project.  It’s short now but it will grow as I add to it.  Eventually, growing to the definitive and exhaustive resource for all the pool player lingo not strictly spelled with just 4 letters.

It will always be available as a primary link at the bottom of this page (see the tab at the bottom that says “Pool Player”).  But since this is an announcement post I guess I better provide a link to it here.

You probably don’t want to take everything you read on that page as the gospel.  Given that I’m going to let pool players make additions and edits to it…  A certain degree of lying inaccuracy should be expected.