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Matt51001 said:
You are being fooled by the photos. On both cues the inlays are very clean and perfect. No visible fillers and they are straight. The first cue looks like a custom builder or Adam to me. I was hoping somebody had the same cue or a catalog pic. The 2nd cue is the one more in question for me. I based my Koa opinion on the cues on their site. If they build for other brands than this is a possibility.
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I think the one in the last pic, with the uneven points looks nice. I see some nice figured BEM in the forearm. Those uneven points looks horrible to me though. And, the inlays in one of the points, from a pic of the other cue, do not look very good to me. They look a little lop sided. A Japanese Made Adam cue would look a lot better. More perfectly aligned with everything.
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I watched a live stream of an 800 Fargo rate player, competing in a $20 weekly tournament, recently.

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DieselPete said:
To that point, Julio Burgos (747) plays in some $20 Wednesday night tournaments at Beyond Billiards in South Florida. A typical format is the "chip tournament" in which players round-robin against each other, one game at a time, until you have lost your assigned number of games. Strong players get four losses. Some get five... weaker players get six. Julio and a few others get three losses.

With that handicap and a roomful of strong players (and it being nine ball), he is far from a cinch to finish in the money.

I played him one game a few weeks ago and I lost, but I was very happy to make it an extended safety battle in which I got to the table five or six times before he got an opening to really lock me up. While I lost the game, I felt like I gained some respect, which is fun.
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That is really cool. I think I would hate Chip tournaments, unless they call you fairly quick, to play the next guy. If not, then you just play 1 game, then wait. Then play 1 game, and then wait again. Hard to get any kind of rhythm going, I imagine, if that makes any sense. With that being said, you played him 1 game, so it made your odds so much better, of winning, then if you had played him, a race to 3, for example.
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I watched a live stream of an 800 Fargo rate player, competing in a $20 weekly tournament, recently.

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CanadianGuy said:
if the tourney is legit handicapped, would that not give any pro the same chances as anybody else?
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Depends on if it is handicapped fairly. Going way off topic, but I never understood why handicapped tournaments have calcutta's. I mean, if they are bidding one playing up, through the roof, then that just means that the player was not really fairly handicapped.
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I watched a live stream of an 800 Fargo rate player, competing in a $20 weekly tournament, recently.

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CanadianGuy said:
if the tourney is legit handicapped, would that not give any pro the same chances as anybody else?
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Most handicapping systems retain some advantage to the higher level player. But also, at this level you run into caps on race length. For example, my match against Neuhausen should have been 4-14 for truly even odds based on our ratings, but it was capped at 10, which gives him an advantage probability-wise.
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Arizona Open 2026, Yuma, August 13-16

Bob Jewett
This is the inaugural Arizona Open for the WNT.
The format is new -- 128 players and single elimination. Half are WNT pros and the other half are open entries.
Entry fee $350
Total prize fund, $125,000, including $80,000 added money
Location: Quechan Casino Resort (Winterhaven, CA, 12 miles from the Yuma airport)

The required hotel for players is the casino. Rooms are $125/night total which is lower than their usual rate, especially on weekends. The casino seems to offer rooms only through its official site, and not through Orbitz or Booking.com and such. Use the link from the Matchroom event web page.

The only airline into Yuma seems to be American (by Skywest), from either Phoenix or Dallas. From PHX, the roundtrip fares with luggage are $570 to $900 for the one-hour flight. For the adventuresome, Amtrak has a Yuma station and provides service to/from Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Maricopa (near Phoenix) and Tucson. From Maricopa or Palm Springs, the round trip is about $70 and takes about three hours. The train, which is not daily, runs at night.
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