skip100 said:

People are talking Bergman up for Mosconi Cup on a big table but he can't even win on a barbox, his supposed specialty, against a guy AZB says has about $30k in career earnings. No thanks.

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To be fair, AZB also says Gareth Potts has < $150k earnings and Ronnie O'Sullivan isn't even listed. I wouldn't use AZB as a source for anything other than American pool.

Chopdoc said:

You might not recognize the earliest cues made by Bob Meucci.

You're comment is interesting to me because overall I don't like meucci designs, though I like some. I find them generally ugly. I own exactly one Meucci cue.

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I like a lot of the Meucci Original designs but more specifically the 84 series, Jim Rempe cues, some of the David Howard models. I have an 84-5 that I like. There's an 84-6 on ebay now but I need to quit spending money on cues for now.

In the late 80's I was playing with a Meucci but wanted a Joss or Schon. Got a used gold letter Joss and they are by far my favorite production cue maker. I need to add a block letter Joss and a gold letter Joss to my collection now. Never did get a Schon. Back in the 80's and early 90's almost all of the cues I bought were used and at a pool hall or from a pawn shop. I used to go looking at pawn shops for something interesting.

skogstokig said:

oscar lost to a 12 year old

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That would be Gavin Ray Mathew from Frisco, TX. I'm guessing we'll see him in the US Open.

And speaking of kids who have no respect for their elders:

pescadoman said:

What causes this?

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Is this in a billiard room or a home table?

fastone371 said:

I see plenty of great chubby NFL players. I would guess that that 60 minute football game is every bit as exhausting and more punishing as a tour weekend unless you are paired with Happy Gilmore.

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Quarter backs, line backs, receivers, kickers?
Is that who your talking about or was it the Frig?

garczar said:

Is the op referring to the burn-marks or what looks like shadows coming off side pocket? Those can be caused by cloth improperly stretched.

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Not sure but he's going to burn a hole in the bed cloth, so I thought I'd mention it.

Bob Jewett said:

On a related note, the last two world snooker champions are young Chinese players (22 and 29). When the Chinese OG (Ding Junhui, now 39) was in the finals of the World Championship, a reported 100,000,000 Chinese were watching (2016).

But.... According to a friend of mine who sells a lot of stuff in China, most cue sports games of any kind now occur on Chinese tables, like for heyball. That includes all disciplines: American pool, English 8-ball, carom, snooker, pyramid....

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I80 + million in China watched the World Snooker Championship. Viewership has taken off with the past two champions being Chinese.

GrizzlyThunder said:

So I’ve been seeing a lot more Chinese videos on social media of them putting a lot of time and money to create programs/schools for billiards games. They have also been hosting big prize games to compete with traditional one.
How long do you guys think until china/Asia becomes the big dog here in the US/Euro?
It just seems to be hard to compete with the money that’s backing this drive.


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i've heard about pool in school curriculum in taiwan, philippines, poland, etc. but i find these stories apocryphal. i guess i too would like it to be true, pool being treated like a sport worthy of teaching in school, i just doubt it's true

uk_9_ball_convert said:

... Gary mentions his snooker tip is 9mm in that video. But they are also hitting smaller balls so not sure it transfers, ...

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To compare, I think it makes sense to go by % of ball width that the tip represents.

For Gary: 9mm/52.5mm = 17%

For a 12mm pool shaft: 12/57.15 = 21%

So, a 12mm pool tip looks bigger on the ball than a 9mm snooker tip.