vintagecollectibles831 said:

This guy was following all of the WNT Rules, and the Ref, and his opponent was still giving him a hard time, the entire match, and the Ref eventually calling a foul on him, when he did nothing wrong, and did everything as the rules restricted of him.

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Because he’s a douche that was soft breaking and had been warned earlier. then when he got a foul called on him he actually didn’t soft break he just hit it bad . I don’t know why it’s hard to just have a break speed app near by. The first time is a warning and then the break speed gets monitored and a foul called if you go below it. seems simple.

As far as the op’s question a traditional 9 ball break with the magic rack isn’t a skill set. I’m just a good amateur and I can drop the wing ball just about every time. I don’t use a magic rack at home because I don’t think it gives me an honest assessment of my game.

hotelyorba said:

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Not funny per se, just s.th. you'll remember seeing from the corner of your eye, stopping you in your tracks. And losing the rack.

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This just proves that everyone needs to work on their Fondlemelons, I mean Fundamentals

kingwang said:

This is somewhat true. There isn't enough revenue generated right now, but that's not an inherent part of pool. That's something that can be changed with investment and development and the pool world simply has not had enough of that.

In 1999, the minimum WNBA salary was ~$50k in today's dollars. This year, with the new collective bargaining agreement, it's $270k.
In 1970, the US Open for tennis had a prize pool of under $1M in today's dollars. In 1999, it was $15.2M in today's dollars. This year, it'll be $90M.
In 2016, the Capcom Cup (tournament for Street Fighter, the video game) had a prize pool of $486k in today's dollars. In 2026, it had a prize pool of $1.28M.

In 1999, the World 9-ball Championship had a prize pool of ~$500k in today's dollars. In 2016, it was ~$276k in today's dollars. Last year, it had a prize pool of $1M.

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And the WNBA loses money every year, as do the individual teams.

How long will it continue? For the life of me, I can't understand why it still exists as it is...

Badpenguin said:

Most of what matchroom is doing doesn't make any sense, from any perspective. They are constantly shooting themselves in the foot. It will be a miracle if they are still operating in 5 years.

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I'd be curious to know what you mean about the stuff that doesn't make sense.

Matchroom has made some large mistakes, but the strategy seems sound. Create big and small events around the world. Let players compete for money and points and get ranked. And have a lucrative playoff of sorts at the end of the "tour." Mosconi, Reyes, renewed World Pool Masters.

Now MR has gotten pool back on ESPN, albeit Internet streaming, and its created a tour for juniors.

Good enough? I don't know. It may be the case MR is not operating in five years, certainly not with Frazer at the helm. But they still have valuable assets in the Mosconi, WPC and US Open.

David in FL said:

Exactly right.

It's the same reason WNBA players earn next to nothing. There simply isn't any revenue generated by the games/tournaments themselves to drive larger salaries/purses.

To be blunt, nobody other than a very, very few fans care to pay to watch girls play basketball, or just about anybody play pool. Neither will TV pick up the slack because without significant viewership, advertisers aren't attracted.

It's just an economic fact of life...

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This is somewhat true. There isn't enough revenue generated right now, but that's not an inherent part of pool. That's something that can be changed with investment and development and the pool world simply has not had enough of that.

In 1999, the minimum WNBA salary was ~$50k in today's dollars. This year, with the new collective bargaining agreement, it's $270k.
In 1970, the US Open for tennis had a prize pool of under $1M in today's dollars. In 1999, it was $15.2M in today's dollars. This year, it'll be $90M.
In 2016, the Capcom Cup (tournament for Street Fighter, the video game) had a prize pool of $486k in today's dollars. In 2026, it had a prize pool of $1.28M.

In 1999, the World 9-ball Championship had a prize pool of ~$500k in today's dollars. In 2016, it was ~$276k in today's dollars. Last year, it had a prize pool of $1M.

Rusty in Montana said:

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amen

Why not with ball in hand, scratch and give the shot back with BIH?

Badpenguin said:

My first bike was a Yamaha MOTO, with the tube forks and shocks. Man I loved that bike, but it weighed 5,000 pounds! I hated the bike because my older brother got a motorcycle, proceeded to break his leg while riding it, so my parents got me this shock bike instead, they never bought another motorcycle for either of us. Traded that beast for a Rampar R10 and I must have put 50,000 miles on that thing. The long cranks were awesome. It was really heavy also but that thing could take some abuse. Wish I had somehow kept both of them.

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I rode a little bit of offroad motorcycle just playing. My brother had left a 350 Harley behind when he joined the army. One day I was jumping a half height levee after watching Evel Knievel in a movie. Thought it was pretty cool using the near side of the levee as a ramp and the far side as a landing ramp. Just past the far side of the levee was a big dip, maybe twenty feet wide or more. No problem putting the back wheel down first on the "down ramp". I kept getting a little braver and a little faster. The side of the levee was pretty close to the angle of the jump so it only took a small miscalculation to be a major fubar.

Bound to happen, I jumped over the far side of the levee and landed in the dip. Burst both front fork tubes and one rear shock. Hurt a lot but I didn't fall so I kept on riding and hoped dad hadn't seen me. We hauled everything in his van. He saw me but it didn't look that bad although I had fallen almost straight down fifteen or twenty feet! I did cool my jets on the jump after that.

I was at the high banked half mile short track when a guy was jumping about a dozen cars, morons putting Corvettes and shit in line for him to jump over. The amazing thing, he set his ramps up on the track itself so they leaned mightily to the side. The ramps were only about two feet wide! When he finally went for it he made the jump like driving on the sidewalk. Still ranks as one of the damnedest things I have ever seen, landing on that two foot ramp heavily slanted to the low side. Landing on a two foot wide ramp would have been amazing all by itself, the side slant seemed to make it look like suicide. I have seen longer jumps, never one that seemed more dangerous.

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fish2 said:

What is the difference or advantage between this shot and using a shot with top spin to get correct shape on the 7?

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David in FL said:

It allows for a firmer stroke and more cb speed than a super slow roll while still minimizing follow distance..

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And we (most of us) are more familiar with the speed/hit needed for a stop shot, and can more easily adjust from that than accurately gauge the rolling speed needed to “roll through” the right distance.

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