DrCue'sProtege said:

I thought Grady Mathews was considered one of the all time great 1P players back in those days?

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In the very early 80’s he was feared by many.

Paul Bell said:

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It sold for $1000.00

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Sure it did.

They should just start racking with the 10 on the spot. That'd change things up a bit!

Here's my prediction:
- These bigger tournaments will realize they need more "dead money" entrants to get the prize pool bigger.
- They'll slowly start introducing tiered entry fees based on Fargo ratings to entice the lower-rated players to come.
- They'll start offering reduced races to attract more players.
- Eventually they'll all be 600 and under events that sell out in 8 minutes.
- Top players will be hosed again.
- We here at AZB will see an increase in threads about sandbagging.

maha said:

one thing that is going to hurt tournaments. at least smaller ones is that now there is way too many. some on top of each other.

the dead money is the key. they provide most of the profit. room rentals, food spending etc. and entry fees that never get paid to. those players will go to certain events but cannot afford or want to go to a multitude of them.

and only so many will pay for viewing.

basically the pie is getting cut into too many slices.

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Correct. And all the US events they took over, the local bracket fillers are not going to play versus these world class fields.

I am sure this is due to the reality that...

There are now too many events for even the top sponsored players to attend.

That no matter how many events they have, the best players take the lion's share.

The entry fees have gone up and worldwide quality entrants increased to the point that all the advanced amateur "bracket fillers" are not participating.


They should offer a bounty to the highest placing playsr who had never cashed before....with a Fargo under say 725.

Yuma is so remote when I looked at flights I needed a long layover just to get from there to Las Vegas, <300 miles away. Two or three layovers to get anywhere else in the US.

I've traveled to Manila for the Reyes Cup, and to Hanoi fir the Hanoi Open. I'm not going to Yuma.

The Old Jaybird said:

.$93.50

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Hungarian said:

$92.

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Bidderpreffered said:

It's actually a Palmer cue (often manufactured or distributed under the Adam cue line in the late 1970s and 1980s) featuring a signature or stamp for Cisero Murphy

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measureman said:

$1000 buy it now

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Chopdoc said:

I am in for $95.67

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It sold for $1000.00

the WPA rankings aligns better with reality now than it has done for 10+ years.

fargorate isn't up to date with #9 on the list obviously. and the ko brothers don't play much american pool at the moment. other than that i would take fargo

The one with most cash
And don’t forget the WNT ranking…
But who cares?

granted.

just goes to show how great those players were back then playing on wet slow tables with no air conditioning most times. both danny and ronnie were on the downside of their careers there.

notice how quickly they played and made it entertaining not like the greats now so much as its a slow drawn out wait for each shot.

New never chalked 4 point Ben Greene with faux ivory handle. $950 shipped.

I am interested. I would like to purchase this, I’ve never used this site, how does it go down?