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.

Hu

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.

pj
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jbart65 said:

Kaci wrote in another post about losing in the first round of the Arizona Open to Sun Yi Hsuan of Taiwan:

"Dunno the guy, but he played great."

I had to wonder. Did Kaci look up Hsuan's Fargo (778)? Check any YT vids? Do any scouting at all - what else was there to do in Yuma?

Kaci seemed slow to wake up to how good Hsuan is.

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Did you see Sun's next match? He was amazing for the match vs Kaci. Played nowhere near as good in his next match. It was strange to see.

Just laid it out and looked at it a bit. Occam's Razor: Put the CB in the side opening and shoot the 7 in the top right because of the shelf you can get an angle away from the rail with the CB. It's not an *easy* shot, but it's there and leaves you good on the 8.

easy-e said:

I've been playing a bit of straight pool lately trying to join the century club (100 ball run if you didn't know). My past high run was 84 balls. I got too steep on the break ball for rack 7 and rattled it.

Yesterday I started rolling along and found myself at 56 with a pretty nice break ball. I cleared the next rack and got long and tough on the break ball but a nice angle so all I had to do was make the ball. I drilled it and got a nice spread! Finished that rack to tie my record at 84 and had a near perfect break ball. The nerves were there but I was ready! I probably hit the shot too hard, made the ball and the cue ball went way up table and ended about an inch off the top rail. I surveyed the rack desperate to find a dead ball. I saw one I liked, but the pocket it was heading towards was a bit blocked. I had maybe 3/4 of the pocket to work with. I opted for a different shot. Makeable, but long and near straight. It offered guaranteed position on a few balls if I made it. Of course, I hung it in the pocket and my run was over. I put the cue ball back where it was and fired at the dead ball. Straight in the pocket and exploded the rest of the balls. I still like the choice I made.

Getting so close to 100 again was both awesome and frustrating. The game is so much harder than it appears on the surface. I'm playing on a Diamond with standard pockets and a wood rack. I'd love to try it on the table Jayson set his record on with generous pockets and template racking. Back to the grind!

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84 is no joke -- congrats!

Lou Figueroa

Mickey goofed big time on that last safety attempt at hill, hill.

A gem of a cue here, unplayed new.