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If the object ball is frozen to the rail, would the maximum cut angle for pocketing be 90 degrees using inside english and hitting the cushion first?

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sjm said:

The answer would seem to be that Matchroom has decided to spend its "invitaitonal" money elsewhere.

WCOP and WPM, neither of which appear on the current WNT schedule, have seemingly been replaced by the Reyes Cup and the Legends event. The Reyes Cup, for two years, has been near unwatchable as petty politics have ensured that Team Asia faces little resistance (Filler excluded in 2024 and 2025, SVB excluded in 2025). The Legends, which features the weakest pool of the year in WNT play, is even more unwatchable. The PLP, once a gathering of the elite, has been watered down to the point that just six of the sixteen entrants are in the Top 50 based on Fargo. While I miss the WPM and the WCOP, I take no issue with Matchroom's decisions on how to spend its money. Let's not overlook that Matchroom is also choosing to spend its money on producing new major events, as they did at the Florida Open and Philippines Open in 2025.

The bottom line here is that Matchroom continues to spend to grow our sport and is to be admired for it.

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Bob Jewett said:

The actual cut angle for the shot I made in the "Take Five" video was 93 to 94 degrees.

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kingwang said:

How do the physics of this shot work?

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Burns said:

I have one, too. Several guys at my local pool hall have them. A couple purchased from Temu, me and the others from Amazon or other sites. The Temu ones are counterfeit, believe it or not. The joint loosens easily and the decals flake off. They still play well, but the Amazon ones are much nicer.

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Bob Jewett said:

Your friend's shot looks like a direct cut shot, maybe with the cue ball a little off the table when it hits the object ball. He hit it really hard.

The position I was playing from: The OB is on the spot. The cue ball is centered in the corner pocket about 6 inches from the brink. I shoot with max outside and a little below center to spin the ball in. You can tell how hard I hit the ball by the cue ball coming back after it hits long-short-long. The actual cut angle for the shot I made in the "Take Five" video was 93 to 94 degrees.

I think this shot is a "half-hour shot" -- however many tries you can do in half an hour is about even money.

For those who don't do FB for religious reasons, here is the shot on YouTube:

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AtLarge said:

Looks like the 14th and 15th participants have been named now (K. Kaci and Melling), but not yet the 16th. Maybe that will be a youngster on the way up.

Of the named 15, 8 are in FargoRate's top 50 and all the rest in the top 100. So this year's field is probably stronger than the 2023 field, which included Alghamdi, Strickland, Seoa, and Chou.

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ShootingArts said:

I think we can rule out Quaker State non detergent, that stuff left carbon behind by the ton and the engine was comparatively clean. Of course most of that carbon was in the top end. Wasn't Quaker State Supreme, that stuff would have probably caught on fire. It wasn't a synthetic oil, that didn't exist for sale to the general public. If they did I never heard of it. Castrol still sold bean oil, no mistaking that smell, wasn't bean oil.

The engine didn't seem particularly hot.





I expected this engine to be locked up when he came back. Started fine and looked like some sort of mechanical display to show how and engine works. One thing I just remembered, this engine had dip cup rods. No pressurized crankshaft oiling system but each rod scoops up it's oil directly from the sump. I guess this explains why an oiling system didn't clog and freeze the engine. Memory fails on those engines. Did the dipped oil have a path up the rod to oil the mains?

Here is a story for you. An older man working for me told this story and swore it was true. He did mechanic work, maybe had a shop. He also had an epileptic daughter.

He had just bolted an entire fresh 327 engine from the parts house in his '55 Chevy. Just finished putting water in it when his wife came outside screaming. Got his daughter into the car and twenty miles to the hospital pretty much wide open! When he got to the hospital they knew his daughter and his wife had called so it didn't take but five or ten minutes to check her into this small town hospital. When he got back to his car it was sitting there with the engine turning backwards like a hot engine will do sometimes. He didn't have anything to lose so he kicked in the starter and managed to get the engine running forwards and drove it back home!

He slept a few hours and after a cup of coffee he went out to the car. Now the engine was locked solid! Fortunately there was a guarantee so he got another one free.

Yeats later Tom and the parts house owner were in the bar together. The parts house owner knew there wasn't something quite jake about that engine return so he asked Tom about it. Tom said "You know my daughter is epileptic. She had a fit and I had to rush her to the hospital. I had just put water in the engine but I didn't have time to put oil in it. Twenty miles to the hospital, twenty miles back, no oil!"

The parts house owner cursed him out but was only half sincere. He knew he might have tried the same thing in that kind of emergency.

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