BRKNRUN said:

Well.....you are a favorite to lose this rack...

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Yep. My own damn fault, too, running out to the 8.

uk_9_ball_convert said:

They all use wood, think a lot of them are wooden cues ...

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Well, yes, but what diameter of tip?

skogstokig said:

Have they removed the race to 7 format? Only match clock determines now it seems. Saw one guy being down 7-1 with like 3 minutes left and not concede.

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There are multiple events. The Shootout is a 30 minute match. The player with the most wins wins. Then the Open is a race to 6. And has a match clock.

Bob Jewett said:

The most accurate potters seem to be the snooker players. What kind of shafts do they use?

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They all use wood, think a lot of them are wooden cues made by John Parris, but he has something ridiculous like a 10 year waiting list if you want to buy one of his cues. Snooker has been very traditional, but there has been a recent trend of players moving to titanium ferule to reduce deflection instead of brass which was the norm before (before that never really heard snooker players talk about anything equipment related to reduce deflection).

There was an interesting episode of Karl Boyes Youtube channel where he had Gary Wilson (pro snooker player who also plays some pool tournaments) talking about his pool cue and they ended up getting into a lot of detail about how the ferule material effects deflection, but also about how wood and carbon deflect differently. He mentioned something I hadn't heard before, the harder he hits a shot with a wood cue the more deflection he has, whilst with a carbon cue the harder he hits it the less deflection you get. Don't actually have experience of playing with a carbon cue to corroborate that myself, but found it interesting. He sees snooker as his main career so he doesn't want to get used to something to different from his snooker cue at pool, but said if pool was his main priority he'd play with carbon as he feels disadvantaged at playing power shots using a wooden cue.
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IT AIN'T THE MEAT, it's the Motion.
Login to view embedded media Well it's got a good beat and is fun to dance to..
Drive for show and putt for dough
Well I still recall my self to self talk as I racked for the sixth time in a race to 7, when I had two.
Make him (or her) earn it.
Is the digested version.
The full version included,
This is the biggest stage I have ever been on and the gallery is huge. Perhaps he has never been on the big stage either. So how about I quit handing him easy games . And see what happens.
Kinda a Die with Honor outlook as me winning 5 before he got 1 more seemed like lottery odds.
Accepting the fact that I had looked helpless took the lock off my brain.
He didn't break and run and I got to 7 first.
" I got my mind right now boss"
Is a favorite Cool Hand Luke quote.

bbb said:

You get the freebie prize.

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The fix is in.

Breaking.
Cue ball initial cloth impact, airborne hop, then landing skids.

Little Frank Big Frank said:

Thank you but I found a buyer I trust for all the cues.

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That is awesome. Who all did the buyer think the three cues were made by?

Can you even reach it without an extension? With the extension you would have trouble powering the object ball. Bob Jewett correct in shooting one rail make the fifteen but call the eight as well and find a spot on the rail to leave the cueball. Phone a friend to shoot it for you - that be John Brumback!!!!!!!

skogstokig said:

damn i felt old looking at that picture

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My stepdaughters were big fans of these people. For the longest time, I though Mary Kate and Ashley must be three people!