Twin Cities Billiards Your cue to billiards in the Upper Midwest

This billiards site was started in 1999 out of our love for the game, and it has evolved into a valuable resource for people who love to play pool.

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Minnesota

Twin Cities Billiards has listing of the places to plat billiards in the TC metro area as well as articles by The Monk. Stop by and learn stuff about pool.

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This site has really gone downhill, never update anything

brother in law

Decorah, IA

Jimmy,
I remember back in 1986 you played in a 9 ball tournament in Decorah at a bar I owned. My brother mentioned you had a pool hall in Minneapolis. Hope to stop by sometime and shoot a few racks. My brother in law lives in St. Paul, so we come up to visit a few times a year.

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thunder bay, ontario

Looking for Nothern Lights Shootout in Rugby results....

looking for an old friend

Copperas Cove, Tx

I was looking for an old friend, Wade Corgard, he used to be stationed at Ft. Hood Tx ,and typed his name into google. Well your site came up with a pic of him on the winning team for 2004. The team name is I Don't Think So. I would really like to get back in touch with him, if it is possible, could someone out there get my email address to him? my name is Karrie Scott and the email address is karrieb75@gmail.com thanks alot!

PAT - Playing Abililty Test

Free download of the revolutionary PAT-System (Pool Billiard Workout books)

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About PAT
PAT stands for playing ability test. What exactly does that mean? The answer can be found in another form of sports – martial arts. In martial arts the combatants measure their abilities in special tests. Successful combatants are allowed to wear a certain coloured belt, showing his technical level to all others.
The PAT system works in a similar way. If you are successful in the playing ability test, the billiard player may wear a certain coloured emblem.

Playing ability test
There are 4 different tests for different technical levels, ranging from amateurs to top players in the world elite. Each PAT is made up of 10 single exercises which document and evaluate special billiard skills. For example stroke quality, aiming and position play. Each exercise results in a numerical value correlating to the result as a percentage (0 to 100 points or percent). Because you can achieve more than 100 points in each exercise you don’t have to achieve 100 points in each exercise to get 1000 points for a complete test. You might have 80 points in exercise one and 130 in exercise two. This makes it possible to get more than 1000 points in your result.
The emblem system Emblems rewarding achievement stand out as shining examples and can be very motivating – as we know from school sports or martial arts.
The World Pool Association (WPA – officially recognised by the IOC) has therefore developed a special colour emblem system.

PAT world ranking list
Playing ability tests can be officially conducted by licensed PAT instructors. The test results are published (if the player wants) in the official world wide ranking list on the PAT company website.
The online publication of a world ranking list allows every sportsman and woman to view the results achieved by fellow players. Thanks to PAT a world-wide comparison is possible, based on different selection criteria (continental, national, ladies only, men only, youth only, etc.) One world – One test!
A world-wide net of PAT instructors is needed. Join the PAT community!

PAT and motivation
The motivating effect of rewarding achievement has already been mentioned, but there are other reasons to test your playing ability. Everyone wants to know the answer to the question: 'How good am I really?'
The strive for perfection is one of the driving forces in technical sports such as billiard.
The motivation to do a PAT will always be intrinsic and not extrinsic. It's not just about the prize money. You do it because you love to play. You want to make progress. And you want to measure yourself against others. You are aiming for perfection.
Every sports psychologist will confirm that intrinsically motivated sportsmen perform better than extrinsically motivated.

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Europe

We're looking for a good size distributor to work with in the MN area....Anybody got any ideas?

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home sweet (too dang cold) home.... MN

Toni- crazy girl!

Even though you go to peoples houses and kick their butt on their own table... you deserve an honorable mention!! Looks great (maybe if you could glue on some embellishments, wrap some string around it, tack on some fun "do dah's" we could scrap with it!

You are a blast!

Miss all you guys from fargo and mpls, watch out, lol,

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Phoenix Arizona

Great site - Great league system! See everybody at the Nationals in Vegas!

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Denver, Colorado

Good luck with everything, Toni! I wish you the best!!!

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I love you toni johnson! we went to nebraska n back and to like all other fifty states for no reason... lol.. good times.. dude whats ur gig... or when derek rapped... that was awesome... or the donut. good times. i love you your great and the website looks amazing. i love the picture u have of us good loookin kids.. miss you!!!

Hi. Very nice site ;). Thank you.

europe

good guestbook :). hello .from europe!. this .is free guestbook ?..

This is a very nice website that you have. It is very easy to follow, and it seems you keep the information updated. Great job and I really like the site.

Looking for tournament updates

Denver, Colorado

Very nice website! It is very informative, I wish the area I am from had something like this, but we don't.

Hello, it's Mean Gene again. I haven't posted anything in a while. I was over in the Philippines showing those people how we play pool. Since my last posting, i have not heard from any of you big time gamblers in Minnesota. I'm gonna walk into Shooters or Billiard Street with a couple grand and play anyone who is up for the challenge. I got to go on the road hustling people who think their good at pool. Peace and beware of Mean Gene.

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I like the looks of the site here and that it caters to the billiards enthusiast. Thank you.

got flyer for tourney in Jan.2005

Clear Lake Iowa

I was very excited to find out about this site. I am an avid pool player and do not get the opportunity to find out about good tourneys until now. Thanks.