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  1. BillPorter

    Happy Birthday Bill Porter!

    Thanks! The pics are free to download.
  2. BillPorter

    Happy Birthday Bill Porter!

    Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the photos.
  3. BillPorter

    Happy Birthday Bill Porter!

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  4. BillPorter

    Happy Birthday Bill Porter!

    Thanks! Glad you liked the pics.
  5. BillPorter

    Happy Birthday Bill Porter!

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  6. BillPorter

    Happy Birthday Bill Porter!

    Hi Steve. Hope all is going well for you. We still get requests for old pool photos for use in books and the occasional documentary film. Recently got a request for photos to be used in a documentary about the Texas Open and Texas pool.
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    Happy Birthday Bill Porter!

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  8. BillPorter

    Happy Birthday Bill Porter!

    Thanks, Billy.
  9. BillPorter

    Happy Birthday Bill Porter!

    Thanks! It was my 82th.
  10. BillPorter

    Happy Birthday Bill Porter!

    Thanks! I'm still playing One Pocket but not often and not well.😄
  11. BillPorter

    Own a piece of pool history

    I am posting this for the cue's owner, Alf Taylor. Eddie Taylor is recognized as the best bank pool player ever. 37 straight banks. Danny Janes made this Joss for him, for his Hall of Fame induction in 95. Eddie was my best friend and road mate. Ebony, silver, ivory and Lapis Lazule. Butt...
  12. BillPorter

    8 to 6 on a 9' table vs. on a 7' table

    I play a guy who gives me 8 to 6. We have about broken even after playing many sessions this way. We always play on a 9' Diamond table. Today they were recovering the 9' tables at the pool hall and my opponent asked if I wanted to play on one of the 7' tables. Since he plays on 7' tables a lot...
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    Photos from pool tournaments in the 1980s

    I'm sure that many long-time members of this forum are familiar with my photo hosting Website containing several hundred images of pool tournaments in the 1980s. The site (Smugmug.com) was recently "remodeled" and I had to spend a few days getting the images reorganized. I like the new design of...
  14. BillPorter

    A YouTube video from Alf Taylor

    Alf Taylor asked me to post this link for him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVD2CS2DBsg :)
  15. BillPorter

    Alf Taylor's book gets some kind words from George Fels

    In the November, 2012 issue of Billiards Digest, the noted pool writer George Fels reviewed several DVDs and books. Fels mentioned that there had been “a spate of self-published, first-person accounts of players’ hustling days.” After mentioning a couple of such books, Mr. Fels goes on to say...
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    Praise for Alf's book from Astronaut Woody Spring

    A couple of weeks back Alf was waiting on a customer in his Moroccan rug store and learned that the customer was Woody Spring. Woody was a test pilot, astronaut, and highly decorated military man. Alf gave him a copy of his book and just today Alf sent me Woody's reaction to the read. Here's the...
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    Get an autographed copy of the Alf Taylor book and a photo with the author!

    Alf and Dick McMorran left this morning for Las Vegas and will be at the Riviera Hotel & Casino during the U.S. Open One Pocket Tournament. Alf will be sitting at a table in the vendors area and would love to talk with any of you AZ people who stop by. This would be a good chance for you to get...
  18. BillPorter

    Alf Taylor's book is now available for online ordering

    Alf's book, The Other Side of the Road: A Pool Hustler's Tale, can now be ordered on his Website: http://alftaylor.com/ If you enjoy/collect books about the colorful characters who inhabited the pool world back in the 1960s and 1970s, this one is a must read. The front and back covers appear below.
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    How to handicap a one-pocket tournament?

    When I suggested a handicapped one-pockety tournament to the owner of the pool hall where I play, he said he'd be glad to do it if we could come up with a decent way of doing the handicapping. Anyone got any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any serious attempt to help out here. BTW, I know...
  20. BillPorter

    The very last of my old pool photos just went into a Smugmug gallery

    Back in 1980 I tried, for the first time, to take some pics at a pool tournament. I found the envelop with the photos, snapshots really, and it was labeled "1980 Pool Tournament." Not much to go on there! There were only 13 images, but at least the negatives were in there, so this morning I...
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