There is nothing new here, been happening for decades. In the WPBA, the WPA, Carom (forgot its acronym). Men and Women. The absolute biggest stars were banned in each discipline. Jasmin was banned. Caudron was banned. Half the male pro's were banned during the latest WPA fiasco 2 years ago. No one is immune. Nothing will ever change on this, no matter how many FB posts are made about Sofia.

It's the worst part of our sport, IMO. The organizations trying to strong arm the talent. For no logical reason when each arm of the sport has less economic opportunities than working at McDonalds except for the top 5 players. Its communism for cue sports.

George the Greek said:

and as far as deflection went if I could place the black on its spot and the CB on the brown spot and cut it in the corner with full side and hit the rail just by the side pocket the shaft was good.

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Looks like you don’t really understand deflection.
Making that shot is possible with any cue, depending you compensate for deflection correctly.
On such long shots, all shafts will require compensation in aim, if not for deflection, then for the swerve.

Badpenguin said:

All I hear is TEXAS, TEXAS TEXAS, TEXAS TEXAS TEXAS TEXAS. Good luck with that.

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Yep. The US Open came to Texas for a reason, we love pool as much as Texas itself.
Plus, Texas is good enough for poker and big enough for Pool.

I am a very strong left eye dominant...(shoot left handed).......Many many moons ago in my travels....I was given a tip from a genuine authenticated certified actual world beater that I should come into alignment on all my shots from right to left....Walk around the table if you have to....just make sure you are getting on the other side and coming into your shot line with your left eye first....right to left........He said it also develops a consistent visual pattern.

So basically...short answer is..........I aim with my left side..........

IMO...I suspect it has to do with how dominant one eye is over the other.....If you happen to be a directly under the chin shooter...I suspect it does not matter as both eyes a fairly equal dominant....but if you shoot under a eye....or favor a eye......you probably want to come in from the side that brings that (dominant) eye into alignment first.

In my case he saw that (like him) I was very dominant in one eye and shoot with cue under eye.

336Robin said:

.It's sad on all levels and she is 17 yr. old child unable to enter a professional contract.
It's bad press and I hope it hurts them enough for them to understand they aren't anything without the players.

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Than maybe the WPBA shouldn’t allow minors playing in their events either.

Bavafongoul said:

Why 19 ozs?

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I've shot with many weight cues. My Meucci is an 18oz, 12mm shaft cue. My first Joss I asked for a 21 oz 12.5mm shaft because I hadn't measure the Meucci shaft. I prefer a 19, 19.5 oz cue, and will adjust to the 12.5mm. My cue being built is going to be between 19.25-19.5oz 12.5mm. I don't like the lighter weights, taper has never mattered for me. I am a short statured American (see my profile photo).

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Does anybody have a set of these here?

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Seems to not have been long in business, and never saw anything about these Poker balls anywhere.

And another question: can anyone recommend good sites for finding second hand billiard stuff in the US? I am aware of ebay and craigslist, but maybe there is something else where one might stumble across rare things like the set above...