Nice posts.

Glad to see Richard is doing well. Richard and I go back to 1978.

CJ is a good dude, too, and I enjoy when he comes to HI. I have the cue he won the 1996 Million Dollar Challenge Tournament with. The tournament where Earl Strickland ran the 11 racks of 9-ball for a million dollars.

DrCue'sProtege said:

When did the Sands Regency in Reno and the US Open switch from the Gold Crown table to the Diamond table?

And yes, I know at times the Sands Regency tournament was played on the AMF Advantage table. Which, of course, was a Gold Crown copycat.

I believe the US Open switched starting in 2001 after Strickland defeated Okamura in the 2000 finals. But I'm not sure about the Reno tournament.

r/DCP

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I used to go to the Sands Regency tournaments for many of the 20 years or so that it took place. I don't ever remember Diamond tables being used, I only remember Gold Crowns. I could be wrong but that's what I remember, Jay would know for sure.

DM me, i have several available.

garczar said:

Been watching him play since he was about 18. don't see any stroke differences. he hasn't changed because of his cue. his 'schon stroke' looks just like his 'cuetec stroke' to me.

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I thought it was a Joss?

it’s completely different!

not only has he progressed from wood and a bare hand to carbon fiber and a glove but his piston motions now are nothing like his arm-elbow-wrist action from when he was young!

like you i’ve been watching him for decades

of course i could be wrong but to me he has an entire new set of co-ordinated and crazy motions that were not there 10-15 years ago

to me he now shoots like ronnie osullivan

fluid, busy, complicated, developed and intense

when he was young it was all very simple

straightline said:

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Always read the fine print.

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In China, they use measure word for tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands etc.

So they would say 2 ten thousands, hence the comma placement 二万 = 二/2 and 万/tens of thousand (four zeroes)