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Big pin ivory joint hit

Chopdoc
Ascue said:
After reading this thread and separating the chaff from the wheat I decided to get a big pin ivory flat face Scruggs. My 5/16 stainless joint Scruggs is a great player but the 3/8 10 ivory feels like butta. It may be imperceptible to some but not to me. It is prolly one of the plainest cues ever from Scruggs. Ebony 4 point with unstained birdseye. Right around 18 oz. No diamonds, no nuttin and it shoots. I no longer have to argue with Kenny Tran about overpriced cues. Ive got my player and Tran is iggy. I know the thread is old but thx for the info on joints.
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Pictures. I have an ebony/maple thread going in the gallery.
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French Lick Resort

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DrCue'sProtege said:
That's very true. I don't recall over the last 27 years of hearing of too many players in this immediate area. I know of a few but that's about it. Of course Greg Sullivan and Diamond Billiards are only about an hour away. And as I've always said, with nobody in the area competition has always been my weak link. Never really had anybody to play.

And French Lick hosted that Mizerak Senior US Open because there was a Brunswick factory down there.

r/DCP
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The only player in that vicinity of the state that I know of was Don Gladish from Winslow, outside of Evansville him and Larry Scott from Princeton would've been the 2 best players in SW Indiana 25 years ago. Don beat Chuck Raulston in the Arthritis tourney way back and Chuck snapped his cue in half because he thought he got lucky which is funny!! It's bizarre that there aren't any more known players from Dubois County or West of there across the state! Nick knows Don and Larry well they are all around the same age if they are still around!
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Billiard Industry needs

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mikepage said:
Yes. But the more interesting case is almost islands. A Presque-isle is an "almost island," a peninsula with a thin neck. And it becomes interesting not only what happens to the few players who leave but also the larger number who stay.
Here is a quiz.
In the scenario below,

(1) What happens to Bill's rating?
(2) What happens to the ratings of the other 29 NowhereVillians
(3) (optional extra points) How would your answers to (1) and (2) change if you were talking about an Elo rating approach, like FIDE, Glicko, or the various pool implementations

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So a couple of things first. I have noticed that my fargo moves when I have not played, which tells me there is some feedback based on my opponents future ratings change [performance]. Small but still present. My answer is based on what I think it should do.

So my final answer is D. This is what should happen in my opinion. No way either C or A are the answer. B shouldn't happen either.

As for ELO, I have a USCF rating but have no specific knowledge of how it works. Very crude understanding at best.
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3 things you would change about pool

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MitchAlsup said:
Rich people DO like POOL,
what they don't like is the seedy locations it is played at;
AND they can afford their own room(s).
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Agreed up to a point. I know a lot of rich people who think pool is low class and wouldn’t walk into any pool room anywhere. Also I meant being willing to watch pro pool with sponsors who pay up big bucks and support upscale rooms all over the country like they do private golf courses.
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