Quote of the match.

Buddy - “ I know one thing he (CJ) won’t have to worry about the shot clock”

Man CJ was just sprinting around the table. This is a quintessential match, players, announcers, location and style. Great post and great match!

the Judd Trump escape kick into pocket jaws from Wilsons drop dead perfect safety was a beauty

that had to just suck all life out of Wilson

Would you want to trade for a Jamie Crouch?

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If all the hints don't help, save a picture to your computer, keep on copying and pasting, and if too big, resize it down and down in percentage until it will work.

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Thank you for your suggestions, however, housepro got me in

@mikepage hey wait a minute! I just read thru this old thread, and my post #78 from 2024 showed he had 744 games, yet today in 2026 he has 706, which is what he had on post #1. What gives?

6.5 year bump! Nick is now a 772 (down from 777), still with 706 games. He hasn't played a single fargorate game in 7 years. His rating must be super fragile now, and any new play will be highly weighted.

Baseball has added the pitch clock and has limited the number of throws a pitcher can make to hold a baserunner on. These changes have made a big difference and have made the game much more entertaining.

Pool is on the opposite trajectory, and slow play is a bigger problem at the pro level than it ever has been. Managing the game's entertainment value does not seem to be terribly important to either pro players or event producers. To be fair, Mike Zuglan's Joss Tour has long been the exception. Mike gets in the face of players that play slowly, and habitually slow players can have a hard time signing up for events like Turning Stone that routinely fill the field.

Sad to say it but slow play in pool, at this point, almost qualifies as a tradition. Amateurs watching the pros surely note how slowly most of the pros play and I'm sure many of them either copy it or use it to justify, or at least rationalize, their own lethargic pace of play.

Predator Classic -- "The Green Hornet" -- Model SPJLW: Sneaky Pete Jointed Linen Wrapped

One of my favorites.

I'm actually a big CJ fan, but I have more appreciation for matches like this and the stories of his gambling match-ups that make you realize how strong a player he was than the tournament he won in Santa Rosa, CA (that he seems to hang his hat on) and considered some kind of major championship. I was there...didn't feel like a major.

This match in particular pops into my head often due to just how fast he runs out the last rack, at the end of a match, and has top pros just laughing about how he has nerves of steel. The entertainment value of the old Accu-Stats videos can't be replicated today. Even if the play has advanced, the feel is just different.

Some old Bicycle Club matches he was part of in Los Angeles were real fun to watch too...I'm sure people remember the famous Sigel shot from one of those events.

There are MANY players today who I would put the over/under of shooting that rack out at 10x the length of time he took.

I moved to Baltimore and they move it to NJ Edison I believe. Always a good time though

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yuck

Hockey (NHL) has done the same thing.

A little background information with a July 2008 AZ post about Jimmy Reid:

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Jimmy Reid once posted a graphic with this concept:

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Island Drive said:

Traditional Flo Charts Don't help the room owners, the players and the competitive game itself.
A team event in IA finished well past 3am.
Very few if any room owners LIKE every table being completely tied up, and very few players enjoy playing into the next day Sunday and then have to play again after a nap the same day. Golf is realizing speeding up play is important as many other pro games feel the same.
We know there are opinions on both sides, but what's the benefit to players/game of any sport being up for a match 12-14 hrs?

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That's normal for poker every damn day during the World Series.

And the breaks you get are never long enough due to the massive amount of people