maha said:

with filler being way to good for anyone. it almost means you are playing for 2nd place money and on down. not worth showing up for the majority, unless finishing very high, you don't even break even for expenses.

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they're pro players. if they had this chickenshit mentality they wouldn't be pro players

jay helfert said:

One last thing, if you want the ultimate test of rotation pool you use all fifteen balls and play Rotation. This is by far the most difficult game. Efren was far and away the best Rotation player in the Philippines (the main game there for decades) and maybe the best ever at that game. Sigel once made a mistake and challenged Efren to play Rotation. It was a very costly mistake!

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that would be fun. in theory i don't think it would favor either more than the other, not much anyway. both are great movers and kickers. but maybe would be a tough sell for the PPV streamer, and naturally players don't want to gamble on an unfamiliar game

with filler being way to good for anyone. it almost means you are playing for 2nd place money and on down. not worth showing up for the majority, unless finishing very high, you don't even break even for expenses.

For those who were wondering about the cost of all the restoration...

The chateau and all the buildings around it and 18 acres of land cost about a million dollars. The owners have spent about three million so far in the restoration. Because it is a historic site, the French government supports the restoration work, with the requirement that the work be done by skilled/approved architects and workers. It seems that the chateau started to be abandoned after WWI, after the cheap local labor died fighting the Germans. No one had lived there permanently "for decades", and 11 different family members were co-owners, so nothing got repaired.

Here's a video about that:

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elvicash said:

GorstyBoy do you program OpenCV appications?

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I just ask ChatGPT to do it

Where is the mother of pearl at?

you do owe interest when late paying a a debt of any sort. the winner could have invested that money and made
great profits off it. he is entitled to that.

a minimum of 6% interest per year. but in reality should get what the s&p went up in that time.
most wont understand that. and would just be happy to get the money owed, even though it is now severely depreciated.

if invested in such it would be worth 2.5 times what he just got . so really is a big loss over getting paid right then.

GoldCrown said:

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I use my brain a lot more playing pool than I ever did in school.

ok....medium cut on the ball in the corner, but I have to use high right running english to get up table, but that will throw the ball to the left a bit, so I need to cut it a bit less, or cheat the pocket, 0but I need enough speed to go 8 feet after the shot, and I have to be on the right side of the next ball to get any shape at all on the shot after the next one.......blah, blah, blah.....the little man in my mind never shuts up.

Cornerman said:

Not quite sure what you’re saying but that pin, that pilot nosed 5/16-14 Schon pin that Evan created in 1993 should fit every Schon 5/16-14 shaft (except for maybe the S-series). That was Evan’s pride… that all Schon 5/16-14 shafts fit all Schon 5/16-14 butts. He thought he was the first to be able to say that. He was a little chuffed when I told him that Ray Schuler could say that of his cues and shafts from way earlier.

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I've had several schon shafts from vintage to vintage, that were not interchangeable and the simple fix was to run a tap through them.
But then again I've own a huge variety of Schon cues from every vintage.
I remember when the late. Great, Don Sherman sent me 7 of them to run a tap through because they were not interchanging.

I have some nice R series dash ring Schon shafts I'm going to sell if anyone is interested

Bob Jewett said:

And it's important to know the details beyond that. I see beginners try to use the 30-degree rule on many shots where it doesn't apply because they pay no attention to the very important details. A half-ball hit with a rolling cue ball does not give a 30-degree follow angle. Here's a graph of the actual angles versus fullness of hit:

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There's a speed related temporal gradient to this too. I go by observations of ball displacement with the front of ball, carom aiming point.


I ballpark the break at double the displacement before "paralleling" the aim line. The speed is determined by seat of pants.
Most have a stroke that can easily shorten or lengthen the tangent path.

Kris_b1104 said:

And some nits won't even bet $20 if they don't have a lock.

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I call that stealing and I endorse the behavior. lol

Cartune said:

WOW really....honky? HAHAHAHAHA

Tell me, what is YOUR favorite ice cream, so we can all judge you according to our personal preferences.

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Tell me, when was pic taken?

3kushn said:

Deliver the cue in a straight line
That's nearly impossible, unless your backstroke it straight.
Pull the cue back slow and straight. Then deliver the tip to its target... The CBall

Where did the tip land after the stroke?

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exactly.