jasonlaus said:

Practical application

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Exactly

stevelomako said:

God forbid we throw “Yoopers” into the mix eh?

Then da Yoopers will talk about the “Trolls” beneath the bridge.

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Ya dere ya know dere hey, I forgot about them.

Mensabum said:

Be a good question to ask him.

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He's in the Philippines now. Maybe they don't have internet? Kidding.

Tascarella for me.

Bump. Anyone have one of these, or just the bumper insert they’d be willing to part with?

SlateMan said:

Hmmm. I wonder how good things like a Fargo Rating would be to predict odds on this field, and then to see if the bidding is in line with those odds? For instance, Billy Thorpe at $9k to place in the top 8 and still make a profit ($2,800), is that in line with a full model running the tournament just on Fargo ratings?

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DieselPete said:

That's a fair question, for sure. But is it a reach to use Fargo to predict One Pocket, when One Pocket is not a game that can be used to create a Fargo rating?

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@AtLarge
posted this in his thread on the stats from buffalo's
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65 matches were played in this Buffalo's event.

- The player with the lower FargoRate won 23 matches (35%).
- In 12 of those 23 matches the difference in FargoRate between the two players was 20 points or less.
- Hall, Chohan, and Compton accounted for 11 of the 23 matches won by the lower-FargoRated player.

superskippy said:

To be fair it was the hottest it's ever been in May in history on the first day of this event!

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Yep, it's a bit unfortunate - it rarely gets that hot, and if it does it'll be July or August. To be fair though, there are plenty of large air conditioned venues. It never ceases to amaze me that, when in the UK, I can walk into a high street chain store that has the AC on when the ambient outside temperature is between 17 and 23 degrees. Even when it's 14 or 26 that's ridiculous.

And while we are here let's go a step further - even in hot countries you don't need AC most of the time - unless it is really hot. We've all seen the old pool vids from the Philippines (and there are plenty of Sinuca vids from Brazil) where people didn't say, "it's too hot". They just play and make their shots.

On Table 4, there is a Vietnamese player and they have Vietnamese commentators. I think that's a nice addition since there are normally commentators only on the main table.

I got an Emperor Star recently and it's a great cue. How do you like the shark skin?