By Kat Day
R
ichard Kranicki is a pool player, screen writer, designer of the Protrusion Cue and pool instructor. Kranicki was also a writer for a billiards magazine. It was not the clacking of the balls or the bright colors that attracted Kranicki to pool. Kranicki states, “I walked into a poolroom at the age of 14 with my friends and fell in love with the game and the pool room’s wooden floors. I Just liked how I was sinking the balls...how they disappeared off the table.” Kranicki goes on to say, “While watching a
world class tournament in Philadelphia in 1986, I learned that the world class players were not just banging balls around. I talked to a Magazine writer and learned that world class players had methods that they used. So, I signed up for lessons then and traveled to New York every week for several months! That was a 200-mile round trip every Saturday!” In a previous interview with Joe Young, Kranicki goes on to say that after learning with Jerry Briesath and being put on the right track he went on to train with Don “The 28
