the proliferation of gambling to most all states led to the pool hall money moving to casinos.
coupled with a new generation of players that were and are not in to gambling.

Mensabum said:

You can bet they'll be in for a rude awakening with the quality of the playing field.
For that much coin, those tourneys are going to have the closet monsters show up that no one has heard of outside of China except in whispers.
You can bet there's a whole bunch of them!!

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there aren't many unknown monsters in our time, neither in china nor outside of it.

i don't know if the JOY heyball players are allowed to compete in this, if so zheng will be up there along with the ko brothers as favorites. wu jiaqing and myint kyaw will be high up too, but likely not favorites

Hard Knock Cues said:

On another note I received these snooker balls today and Just cleaned them up with not much effort. I was stunned that they were in unused condition, besides the box top. They were a bit dull and the cue ball had a bit of chalk on it but they cleaned up fabulously. I don't know much about the English balls so I was hoping that a couple of you folks from across the pond could give me some info if you would.
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I really like the green colour there! Have to check my Crystalite set, if the green is the same. I think mine are darker

Hard Knock Cues said:

Very nice, I need to pursue some boccette sets now.

I happen to have these sets of Aramith's in one of my display cabinets now. The top set are the premium, 2nd set down are super Aramith pro tv, next are the premier baseball, and the bottom set are super Aramith pro EX (numberless) .

I only was trying to point out earlier that I don't think aramith made the baseball numbers 16 through 21 in a premium ball just in the premier ball.

I have plenty of sets that don't have the original boxes, but that's okay. Maybe someday I'll find them because I do try to match it up when I can.

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Those numberless Pro Ex look rather nice! Never seen them before, I think…

What are you looking for in a josey?

fastone371 said:

Its not about being sharked but about paying attention to what you do, if I set my hand down on a pile of rail chalk it inevitably ends up on my shirt, my pants, my face, and my cue. If I have wipe edown the small section of rail I am going to use so be it.

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If you're putting mental energy into correcting your opponents behavior or keeping mental track of where they place a thing or all the other things people have mentioned in this thread that they do to "combat" this. You are no longer paying full attention to what's important(the game), therefore you are in fact sharked by it.

DeeDeeCues said:

Craig Montana, on the upper Madison River. Fly-fishing bucket list for many.

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I have had the pleasure of fishing the Madison. An old customer of mine used to own a fly shop out of Costa Rica, learned a lot on that trip.

EDIT: I also know the family who owns this A frame house on Henry's lake, I've had the pleasure of fishing there also. And since this is the funny thread. Me and my sons and my buddy were out on a small boat looking for big trout and and I hear my son to my left make this funny noise, at the same time I see/hear commotion from the son on my right so I focus on him. The way he was yanking that rod I thought he caught a fish, turns out, on his back cast his lure had somehow turned a corner and hooked my other son in the ear. As I see him yanking the rod, and once I figured out he didn't catch a fish, I looked at my other son and I see his head getting twisted around. LOL.

Picture of said here, circa 2005

Black-Balled said:

They are the discount code at whatever point of sale you're using.

All area codes work.

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I can confirm this works at all Jacksons gas stations. Located in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. You get discounts on certain things, when they are handing out free stuff plug in this number. It only works once for free stuff though, so you have to be early.

$965 on the Joss website.

Fred's tiny shop was tucked away behind another business near the border of Corte Madera and Kentfield (across from Bread and Roses if you happen to know the area). The late forum member, L.S. Dennis had Fred make him a couple of shafts for his Helmstetter. From my one visit, probably mid-90s, I remember him as a really pleasant older guy. Of course, now I'm an older guy.