the appleton world championship story was rather primitive. not my idea of a practical joke

Hello all!

I'm an old guy who worked in a pool hall and played heavily in the 1990's and early 2000's and then stopped when I got married. I'm just now coming back to it 20 years later. I'm originally from Central Jersey and New York, but now live in Colorado north of Denver.

I'm restarting in the APA to get my feet wet and work with training wheels, but I hope to get back to tournament play. I bought a lower-end Joss to match the feel of my old Joss and Richard Black cues, which I plan to sell to cover some bills.

A lot of my searches lead to results here on the forums, so I figured I would join. This seems to be the place to find answers.

I look forward to chatting with you all.
Matt

Could just call them Time duds instead of Milk duds

TwistedTexasStyle said:

You are correct! My source is the words you quoted and all the smiling faces I saw at the event.

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Like you, I am optimistic here. Count me among those who attended and enjoyed the 2026 US Open 9ball in Frisco.

july9x said:

In 2001 those 3 are still amateurs so there was no robbing, what are we talking about?

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Because they did not belong to the APA or any similar league. Their friend made up a fictitious league to get them in there.
APA is handicapped. I wonder what their fake handicaps were?
And yes, if you go into a tournament like this drastically under handicapped you are robbing the tournament.

Your topic thread title makes it sound like there was a physical robbery.

I was at the local hall yesterday in Atlanta for the daily special, practicing by myself. My neighbor at the next table asks if I want to play 8 ball. I say I don't like 8 ball, but I'll play 9 ball. He can play a little, I'm guessing 425 fargorate speed. He ends up winning the first game because I missed the 9. He says something like: "How does that work? I made the 9 but you made most of the balls. In APA that I play in, you would have won the game on points". I chuckled and said "The APA does everything backwards. You won that game, period."

KingSamurai said:

I have been playing in some tournaments where I run into players who refuse to lag the ball to determine whose break. On short races on a template rack, the break is a big advantage and I prefer to lag. It generally is the lower skilled players who insist on flipping and I been having a couple people throw a fit lately. I always thought that the default was lagging if there was a disagreement. I guess I was curious on what opinions are out there regarding this.

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What is worse is when they wait till after you hit your shot by a few seconds and then hit theirs.

Jaden said:

What have they ever been up to other than collecting fees and further degrading professional pool with their decisions?

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What decisions have they made that have affected professional pool? As far as I'm aware, their business models are for amateur players/events and sponsor some pros to go and do trick shot shows and exhibitions. Did I miss something?

iusedtoberich said:

Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but these "what's in the case" series, usually have poor camerawork. And I mean going back 15-20 years when Inside Pool was doing them, and everyone in between. They seem to focus on the player talking, and ignore the cues. The camera should go back and forth, or have two cameras, one on the cues, one on the player, and edit later.

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Definitely would rather look at the cues than the testicle shaped fanny pack!

800 point match over even 2 days can be a lot of pool if it stays reasonably close. This may be a mental stamina match as much as a 14.1 skill and knowledge match.