World Pool Championships 2025, July 21-26, Jeddah


Cheating accusations

"now it's a fact"

What glove do you use?

My Predator glove is about two three months old

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A perfect example of strain caused by constant fist-pumping.

I use Predator second skin now. I have used a glove for over 20years, started with Sir Joseph and then for a long time played with a bag of 20 cheap gloves I bought from Ebay buck apiece. Need to have open fingers and needed to cut the fingers open so now I prefer Predator but I have to admit Taom felt sturdier and more supportive.

What changes have happened to pool in the last decade?

My hands sweat so after all these years. One year ago I gave in and got a glove. Yes, I have noticed alot more people wearing gloves.
I started wearing gloves the instant they came out 30 years ago sir Joseph’s was the one at all the pool halls. lol they just made sense. Most of the people who made fun of them then wear them now. If you don’t need them god bless lol but I have oily hands and went from having to deal with powder or cleaning the shaft all the time to never giving it a thought.

What glove do you use?

I like the predator 2nd skin but kamui gloves are good as well. When they first came out they didn’t last long for me but I learned that when you put it on or take it off to pinch it where the extra padding is on the palm. They are super thing which is great but they can also tear easily. I also take a minute to hand wash mine with dawn in a plastic dish once a week. Takes a minute and then let it air dry. I play every day and my glove lasts 9 months to a year it seems.

World Pool Championships 2025, July 21-26, Jeddah

Is that where you can find a lot of top pool players talking about current things in pool these days? I joined X a couple years back expecting to find top players like Shane and others speaking their minds but it seems like many pro pool players aren't active there. Either that or I couldn’t find their real accounts.

he was joking.

maybe instagram or facebook

What glove do you use?

i have two main requirements:
- finger cuts
- long fingers

Tried several gloves with Cuetec among them and found that it doesnt do its job as finger are too short abd than cue slides over my sweaty fingers. Not good.
Cuetec has great build quality just looking at It. As it failed with my I gifted it to a friend.
My glove of choice is Taom XL. Realy nice glove.
Second one I am using now. First one teared after a while and I am satisfied with how long it lasted. I found that to be because I tend to slide my hand over the table when creating a bridge so it teared at the root of the palm and top of midle finger.

Every glove will fall a part at some point. Friend has sam glove and his unsawed at wrist probably because of the way he pulls it when puting it on.

I wash it wearing it and like washing my hands with couple of squeezes after.

World Pool Championships 2025, July 21-26, Jeddah

I felt they had problems with the conditions and the equipment from the start. MR should really rethink the location or at least the dates for this to work in the future.

But the conditions are equal to all, so the best players should come out on top.

I had a feeling before it started that the top names won't go the distance and that the last 16 will be made mainly of Filipino and Asian players. The amount of relatively unknown talent in this part of the world is crazy, and we don't get to see them often in Western events, so we don't know them, and then we are surprised that they beat the known top players.

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