cueball2010 said:

Im pretty certain that is a 4 point splice. Anyway the 9k series is only like $30 dollars more. Im guessing the 9k is probably better.

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The first SP’s used to be full splice and I liked them.
The later ones had an ugly “predator” branding on the forearm.
I’m sure that the new ones are not full splice, just look at the wrapless version.

skor said:

Also not a full splice… kind of a letdown for me when it comes to “Sneaky Petes”

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Im pretty certain that is a 4 point splice. Anyway the 9k series is only like $30 dollars more. Im guessing the 9k is probably better.

JerseyJ said:

Ace has always been a gentleman! He was 1 of the best players from Reading but was no match for Jimmy Matz. Does anyone know Mac Duncan? He had a lot of potential & was just starting to be a good player. We played each other many times at Paradice Billiards on S 9th St in Reading. In those days Mac was no match for me.

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Never forget the loss I took from Ace in a tournament. Didn't sleep for three days as it was on my mind.
Had him down 6-2 in a race to 7 in a tournament and lost the match.
Not a handicapped tournament.
Still bothers me to this day.
Some matches you never forget.

Nobody was a match for Matz.
He'd run 300 balls and just walk away from boredom.

TheRooster said:

It’s real, but I think Magnus’s memory is a bit of an abnormality even among top chess players in the world. I don’t think most grandmasters can do this, and I think that is a fairer comparison to most top pool players.

Also, chess has a discrete number of positions. Pool has infinite positions. I would expect this to have an effect on remembering positions.

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Maybe. But he got the games right after 3-4 moves. I'm a total banger at chess, but don't they have a few standard openings?.... So that the opening sequences from game to game would be more likely to be similar or the same until the middle game is on? If so, that means a ton of chess games would look exactly the same through the first few moves.

philly said:

Just so you know, Ace is still around and playing well and still a real gentleman.

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Ace has always been a gentleman! He was 1 of the best players from Reading but was no match for Jimmy Matz. Does anyone know Mac Duncan? He had a lot of potential & was just starting to be a good player. We played each other many times at Paradice Billiards on S 9th St in Reading. In those days Mac was no match for me.

excellent post, thank you for the detailed discussion of your journey

anyone who is fascinated with this game and the struggles and rewards it provides recognizes that the difficult work of improving takes daily effort over the span of weeks and months and years and when a well written and thoughtful and thorough treatise such as yours comes along, we spend as much time as it takes to read it carefully and repeatedly