2026 Billard Beckmann Men’s Open

What advantages to you see? I understand not wanting to change things that effect match play (shot clock, racking etc) but I don’t see why having a table ref can be a bad thing.
The problem is that refs and players make mistakes. Most players play the large majority of their games without a ref and without deep knowledge of the rules. Add a ref, and you change the flow of the game and suddenly add rules that the players never apply in unreffed games. I can remember questionable calls in the last few years that had viewers screaming at their screens. And good calls that champion players decried as bogus.

In an ideal world, the players would follow all of the rules all of the time and the refs would never make a mistake.

I suspect the "least friction" path was chosen.

leather wrap labor time?

Nice job twisting what I said DAVE, the guy I mentioned is retired, like doing Tips & Wraps, and charge price based upon his business plan. He is sort of like hobbyist retired guy, doing a service for local pool players. Not worried about paying rent, or feed family, he is finally fixed. Nice place to be.

Don't worry Dave he is not taking any or your Cue Sales, as he don't make Cues. But he does deal in USED CUES, again charging a more than fair price for them.

Love the use of word "support" is that like some sort of charitable shake down like the Untied Way use to do each year telling employee their "FAIR" share to give United Way Annually Fund Raising Business Fund Raising. BTW I never gave United Way, or A.I.D there competitors a penny out of my check. Their well dress slick funraisers fundraisers were ac turn off. I have my own causes I like better.

IMHO a good production Cue maker survives on quality product, for fair price, and last stands behind their product. Then you got the Custom Guys, some have years waits, and people stand on line to give deposits, that is a nice place to be. Five or Ten years of Cues on order.
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Again this is the "Ask the Cuemaker" forum infiltrated by a person that knows nothing about building or repairing cues. Please keep your comments in the Main forum or other parts of the AZB web. Nobody cares about your made up opinion in this section.
Leave it to the professionals please.

$1.5M first place prize for Chinese tournament next week

Ko is remarkable, if he can go toe to toe with Chu Bingjie then he is essentially at or damn near close to that upper tier

same thing with Wu reinventing himself on these tables

these tourneys have been tough to follow, i have been skeptical that the draws are somewhat tailored to which alot of the non chinese ( and pool players and fan favorites) get easy paths to the latter stages , could be wrong

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