Playing 10 ball my opponent has a straight in shot on the 2ball which is 6" from the pocket. He misses 2 goes 2 rails and off 4 balls leaving me hooked.

He gets ball in hand makes the 3 then the 4 ball is 6" from the pocket and again he misses goes 2 rails and off multiple balls and I am hooked.

He is squirming and emphatically states "Not trying to hook you , I am going for the run out".

He has ball in hand shoots till the 9 which he hangs. I finish the game and again he states , "wasn't trying to hook you".

I replied you aren't good enough to go off 2 rails and 3 balls playing a safety. He thought about it for a second then realizing I was being funny he laughed.

garczar said:

Its carved/cut in dude. Might need glasses.

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So much for welcome back

Nice job. Looks good. It was done for fun. Where did you get the acrylic blank?

Guys, I apologize for the monstrosity this thing turned out to be. It should be burned. Login to view embedded media
I'm in the process of making a carbon fiber shaft that'll be way less gaudy, I'll throw that up soon.

The only players in the final 16 with a sub-800 Fargo rating are Oscar and Baoanan at 789 each.

Baoanan has a low robustness, though. Only starting playing outside the Philippines a few years ago. Made the final 16 of the 2024 US Open too, where he lost to Alcaide 10-7.

I've had the pleasure to hit balls with this beautiful cue, as well as the other two cues Jason has for sale on here. They all have that super solid feel and the sound of a extremely well built cue when you strike the cue ball. I'm surprised he is selling any of these cues, particularly this one!

Chopdoc said:

I posted pics recently of my ebony Dufferin cues. After mulling it over, I thought to grab some group pictures of the Dufferin cues along with a couple Mali cues that are also ebony and maple.

Curious to see what anybody else has in just ebony/maple spliced cues, no veneers. Please post pics! Maybe some customs?

I will start it out. I am no photographer. Just cell phone pics on a piece of fabric my daughter had. You can see there are some tiny finish dents on the butt sleeve of the second Mali, the bigger marks are smudges. The first one is darn near perfect, those are just smudges on it. I have two original Mali shafts for both of those cues.

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Great looking cues, and nice photos. I really love that series of Mali Cues. Green label Malis like yours are known as the M-series and they were produced, from 1984-1985 and they are beautiful playing cues. I have bought and sold many of them overs, like you I love them, the craftsmanship in these cues was fantastic at the time, and they were made in the United States at the Mali Factory. The Mali factory in the United States was open from 1961 until 2001, all cues after 2001 are Chinese imports, and they are unfortunately poor quality, unlike your cues.

Here is the my favorite M Model, it is a M-15 the most expensive cue the came out of the M-series like your cues





Here are some very nice ones of the same series with inlay on EBay.

1. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1677176451...d=link&campid=5335988529&toolid=20001&mkevt=1.

2. This cue was the first cue in the series. https://www.ebay.com/itm/3762714907...d=link&campid=5335988529&toolid=20001&mkevt=1

bbb said:

Can you beat the 3 ball ghost?
4 ball ghost?
At what number do you fail?
I doubt if you just spread out 9 balls with no clusters you could beat the 9 ball ghost
am i wrong?

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I would still like to know the answer to this

If he cant run 4 balls
Who cares about his break
Why waste your time?

jbart65 said:

He can’t close the deal. Lost a 9-5 lead to John Morra in the Florida Open as well. Got to watch him more to see exactly why.

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He had some unbelievable misses in the last few racks of that match.