Ģüśţāṿ said:

Is it just me, or does it look suspiciously like a rebranded rhino CF shaft?

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For sure, probably pick an existing product and modify it till their liking. Everyone needs to make money, if you invest in time and effort to build your brand, you can sell your product at whatever price you want. But selling a $800 pool product out of nowhere is wild LOL.

Majority of customer today knows better, plus there already hundreds of CF shafts on the market. Of course Alex team understands that, they want to be different than the rest, which makes sense to me. They do not want to compete with Predator or CueTec for the mass market, they aim to a different and smaller group of buyers.

As far as I know, most CF shaft cost less than $50 to make (shipped to your warehouse/garage), some probably less than $10. Taom chalk probably cost less than $1 to make (shipped), hell maybe even10 cents. Of course you have to buy large enough quantity. It's the branding and the trust that make it $20 chalk or $500 shaft . Alex's branding is not yet worth $800 to me today LOL

couldnthinkof01 said:

....snip.... I watched every game of both sets.
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That's more impressive than the play! hahaha

For the late night crew ha ha

$795 is absolutely ridiculous

skor said:

But he didn't change sponsor, just a cue.
The interesting part is both his last cue and this one are not of the shelf Viking cues while he still wear the Viking logo on his shirt and Viking are not on his sponsors list on his web site, just Triple 60 (which is still Viking), maybe they make customs for him, maybe they are Triple 60 prototype cues.
Some find it interesting without the urge to buy anything or thinking that getting it will make them a better player, just a point of view of a gear head.

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He's about to make his own under the "ghost" brand.

july9x said:

I don't think derby is a WNT ranked and pointed tournament anymore, so less "pros" attending this?

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Its not

u12armresl said:

Just curious your opinion as a trusted member and someone I follow on the site. Anthony did win.

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Long slow match, but have watched Anthony play for 20+ years. Glad he's finally getting out there and making a name, didn't know if it would ever happen

I'm thinking Rhino....

skor said:

I thought so too as Alex played with MEzz shafts in the past but Mezz don't do 11.8mm and this one is said to be made in Canada.
From the short video on the web site and some of the details, it looks like it might be a wood core wrapped in CF. an opposite hybrid?

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Mezz do make an 11.8 now. Kieth Andy make a shaft like this. I think they share the same factory with Mezz. Interesting. A hybrid between the two perhaps.

Thomas Haas vs Julio rematch starting now. They split 2 30k sets yesterday and broke even. Thomas won 10 ball, Julio won 9 ball.

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calibration said:

Is it me or are there significantly fewer pros at derby this year, what am I missing ?

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I don't think derby is a WNT ranked and pointed tournament anymore, so less "pros" attending this?

Is it just me, or does it look suspiciously like a rebranded rhino CF shaft?

I'll wait for the Kardashian line.

David in FL said:

I know him personally and have played him in several tournaments.

He's a "good" 600.

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Im in