Kjackxon said:

I’ve gotten pretty good with deadening rebounds off the rails by striking the cue ball thick. It goes the same when you need to extend out a weird bank angle.
I was playing the same guy later, when he thought that pinning the 8 ball next to his would stop me. I called him over to look as I pointed out that the 8 ball was slightly in front of his ball. I needed to back cut the 8 ball below me, and use his ball to kill the angle.
Center cut for the win. I know what parallel shifting can do when you understand position play.
I’m not saying I’m great just getting better.
And yes I did the Efren on him - “I was lucky “

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Early 70s, I got a glance at a practicing billiards player named Don Leake. He got running spin with minimal english - just off the center line. This was magic to me. Anyway, working with that zone, I learned you can zippity do dah the ball with minimum english if you have a stunable full hit. There are situations where your cue ball will creep off the stun and then take off when it reaches the cushion - thrills. Comes in handy in close quarters.

iusedtoberich said:

Was Oscar the player in the old days that played with something super thin, something about 10mm?

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Oscar and his dad both did.

Cartune said:

I should have known this (and remembered to ask) when Stephen refurbished it last year LOL

I will email him and post back. Thanks Chop

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As far as I know, they won't refinish anything but a Joss.

skip100 said:

“Slow slog to the finish line” describes most of Oscar’s matches, unless the viewer is lucky enough to see him getting blown out.

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Anthony was definitely not helping

This is putting the cart before the horse. There is no such thing as what the players should earn, and the level of expenses borne by them are ultimately unimportant. The players can only earn to the extent that they produce revenue for event producers, who are spread pretty thin.

Expenses are estimable before one enters a tournament, as are prize money payout structures. The choice by a player to participate in a pool tournament constitutes an investment of time and money. Anyone who feels that it is a poor investment need not participate.

Of course, we'd all like to see the players make more money, but it's not on the event producers that they don't. If the event producers do not turn a profit, they will walk from the game. Making ends meet is no easy task for an event producer. Unless the game continues to grow, all but the top 25 or so players will be hard pressed to earn a substantial living.

That said, how many events are there on the world pool calendar having a first prize of $25,000 or more. I'd bet it's close to 30 and probably more. Pool offers a lot of high paydays now and the worthy can make quite a big income.

Chopdoc said:

Best thing is to ask Joss.

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I should have known this (and remembered to ask) when Stephen refurbished it last year LOL

I will email him and post back. Thanks Chop

Bishop said:

I’d have to see in person and put a dial indicator on it but that doesn’t look to be terribly warped.

Up to you on what you want to invest but it seems like that would be fine to refinish.

Whoever does the refinish can certainly advise you before proceeding.

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Thanks a lot. I understand.

Flakeandrun said:

I am lucky to have an abundance of high quality chalk I never paid for. Very little difference between them all in my opinion. Marginal differences at best. Lots of stuff is just rebranded or repackaged (reminds me of the current film photography market). Mezz, Taom, Pagulayan, ghost, HR, TP, the innumerate ocean of Chinese brands. Feel like I have tried everything. Like the colour, like the size and shape, like how it feels when applying. So when he gave this to me, just kept using it. In my case and no need to change. All subjective silliness really.

Gloves on the other hand...

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I play Becue cues which are CF, even the butt, ditched the glove about 6 months ago, using TAOM V10, I haven't gone through 2 rounds of chalk in 4 years, I use a Dr V's magnetic chalk holder, if you own one or seen one you know you ain't losing your chalk with that holder, it is ridiculously strong, in the end it's one of the cheapest pieces of pool equipment you can buy, use what works for you, I say that for all pool equipment, just because insert pro player name here uses it doesn't mean it's right for you, I never liked hard tips,in my quest to find my tip I tried a TAOM Fusion tip, I expected a medium tip but it was a hard tip to me, I made it a point to ALWAYS leave a new tip on for at least 2 months whether I liked it or not to give the tip a chance, how would you know how a tip plays unless you give it a chance? Long story short I grew to like harder tips, tried the Bulletproof Recoil Hard tip and have been using them for about the last year and a half and have no plans on using any other tip.

straightline said:

Back when I was the resident woopin' boy, guy used to put 4 on me like that. Couple pokes at centerish ball and then wham, the english. lol...

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I’ve gotten pretty good with deadening rebounds off the rails by striking the cue ball thick. It goes the same when you need to extend out a weird bank angle.
I was playing the same guy later, when he thought that pinning the 8 ball next to his would stop me. I called him over to look as I pointed out that the 8 ball was slightly in front of his ball. I needed to back cut the 8 ball below me, and use his ball to kill the angle.
Center cut for the win. I know what parallel shifting can do when you understand position play.
I’m not saying I’m great just getting better.
And yes I did the Efren on him - “I was lucky “

bump....ignite shaft still available