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Kris_b1104 said:
Yeah idk why I put myself through that, I woke up with regret 😂

Although, the chat and commentary was more entertaining than the match itself.

Some may not like Dunn's commentary but I find it quite refreshing compared to the boring "4 in the corner, draw back for the 5 in the side" tic-tac-toe commentary. He said he's actually good friends with Oscar so he's just joking around when he's ripping on him, I don't get butthurt over it. He said he only likes to commentate when he is allowed to be his authentic self, and doesn't have to filter himself.

There are a million other streams you can watch if you want the typical vanilla commentary that will put you to sleep. The chat was very engaged and had fun clowning Raulito's towel antics.

Someone nicknamed him "Towelito" lmfaooo
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I wouldn't like it in say a matchroom event or like a "professional" environment.
He is perfect for this and I was loving the banter on the stream. Cool he had Josh on their too. When everyone left and it was just him and the wife... comedy gold🤣

Diddy's Dungeon 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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All 8 first round matches at the Snooker Masters...

Bob Jewett
It's fairly easy to add in the difference in abilities of the two players. Instead of figuring the chance of a win or loss as 1/2, you insert the estimated chance of the particular player, so you get A^6 and B^2 where A and B are the respective chances for A and B to win a frame.

It turns out that the best chance for a 6-2 score is when the better player is about 75% to win each frame. If he is better than that, he starts to get a lot of 6-0 or 6-1 scores and the odds of a 6-2 decline. The peak is about 40% higher odds of 6-2 than for equal players.
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Roy Billiard Cue Repair Machine

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Scott44 said:
Thanks for the info. I have looked at both Cuesmith and Mid-America lathes and they do look nice and are made in the USA but I just don't think I can justify spending that amount of money to just put a few tips per year on. I did try to search for used ones and there just doesn't seem to be much out there.
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Search for a metal lathe like this one locally: https://www.amazon.com/VEVOR-x14-Benchtop-Variable-Precision/dp/B0DLNK42SM

One caveat is that you will need to buy/build something like a steadyrest to support the shaft on the rear side of the chuck.

It needs to have a bore in the chuck of 23mm or more. Bigger than that and you can use collets. The closer it is the more likely you will need to use a drive set.
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Question about tip shape...

muskyed
Bamacues said:
I have been at this game for over 60 years.

Pretty much all I ever heard or saw was "nickel or dime" shaped playing tips.

Recently, it appears that some of the top-level players are using tips that are almost totally flat.

Some even (especially snooker players) appear to have intentional "mushroom" built into their tip install.

Am I imagining things? Is there a particular logic to the cue tip shapes that I am not getting?
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I mentioned this awhile back that I had noticed a lot of the better players tips being quite flat in the center and was basically told by a poster on here that they were wrong in doing that. Maybe, maybe not, but I would venture to say some of those players with flatish tips, were probably better players than the person that insinuated they were wrong.
Was it the tip that made them good, I doubt it, but they were very good players. Personally I'm not sure it matters, but I see a lot of really good players that don't seem to worry about their tips as much as lesser players do.
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FREE Action Stream.......starts tonite

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Kris_b1104 said:
He did elaborate. It's not his equipment, it's someone named Del Sim's camera who is there onsite in NYC. Dunn is commentating remotely from Florida. Del Sim is unavailable today to record the 3rd set, hence no stream.
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del sim is/was a solid player, nicknamed the highlander. new yorker originally from scotland. also the tallest man on earth
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All 8 first round matches at the Snooker Masters...

Bob Jewett
The Wolverine said:
Have been completed. And they all finished 6-2. The commentators just said it was 15 million to 1 odds as a parlay.
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If you had to pick the correct winner at 6-2 as opposed to just the correct score, the odds get a lot worse. Like 256 times worse. But those are not the odds that a bookie would offer. I suspect that bookies were offering 7-1 for a 6-2 score by a particular player, which would give the 15 million to one parlay.
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