ShootingArts said:

"Women can't play pool!" Back in the seventies and eighties there were plenty of men with this opinion. Fortunately I met a few ladies that could early in my playing days so was never given to such foolishness.

Never did but I have to think traveling with a lady player would have been like having the keys to the mint!

Hu

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Badpenguin said:

The legal gambling services have not taken on pool. Why do you think that is?

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skor said:

This just came in time for my birthday (3 days late but let's not get petty here).
I absolutely don't need it but was really interested to see how it performs against the 314-2 and other shafts that I own.
It's a real shame that it has very limited joint options.
Will hit the pool hall on Tuesday and will have a first impression by then

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CocoboloCowboy said:

If AI is so intelligent, why has AI not figured out how to kill off CANCER? ASL, Diabetes, Heart Disease, and a long lot of Bad things that happen to people?

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Black-Balled said:

That table is built to withstand commercial use.

Let those beautiful people play...they prob wont do it often and if they do, yay.

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BobbyD963 said:

Good points. I appreciate that. My wife and kids think this is the household pool table. While the table will be in my formal dining room I would rather not have them play on it, as pathetic as that might sound. So the less shots they make the less fun they have and the less likely they are to play on the table.

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Bob Jewett said:

It wasn't based on the current notion of AI, but Virtual Pool had computer opponents a long, long time ago that could run racks.

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skip100 said:

None of which requires agentic AI, but sure, I'm sure some people would like to have this in their house.

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Badpenguin said:

People have to gamble because there isn't enough money in pool. Their isn't enough money in pool because of the gambling association. There isn't enough money in pool so people have to gamble. Pool does not have enough money because there are no sponsors because of the association with gambling and other forms of addiction. Round and round we go.

Speaking about the US, of course. Well, grifting seems to be widely socially acceptable in the US at all levels now, maybe I should just give up the argument.

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iusedtoberich said:

First set was race to 5 for 100. I was up 4-1 but couldn't close it out. It went hill-hill, and the backer asked "back up double up?" I jumped and said yes. Second and final set was race to 8 for 200. I won 8-5.

We could have probably played 4 9 ball sets in the time it took to play these two sets. I don't understand how anyone that can make 1 in a row likes this game.

The backer was sitting next to me for a while and busting my balls at how slow the game was going. haha.

BTW, in the very first post of the thread I wrote:

Two of my buddies that I used to gamble with daily about 20 years ago are in the mid 500's, with approx 400 and 600 robustness. They are the only players in my area I played even with at any time in my life that are in the system. However, none of us have the pool "bug" like we did when we were coming up, as we are in our mid 40's now. Based on this, I think I will end up at 565 if I ever get to a few hundred games. I'll update if I get more games in the system.

The two buddies were the backer and the player.

May 2023:
Backer 564/413
Player 554/631
Me 0/0

Today Sep 2026:
Backer 585/2788
Player 583 1682
Me 572/2191

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