maha said:

maybe just play enough to be able to look at the shot from anyplace and see where to hit the balls.

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In the long run, I think that's how everyone who turns into a good player does it, especially when they use side spin, but sometimes beginners need a little help.

Sometimes a lot of help. I once was about 15 minutes into the basics of aiming, including ghost balls and a variety of cut shots, and the student piped up, as if just discovering the idea, "So, to make the ball go to the left, I have to hit it on the right?" There's lots of stuff that's obvious to most here that is a secret to many who have played only a little pool.

I hope the WPC moves back to Cardiff. I could go for that again.

About the snooker event, the announcement said:

From what I saw of the snooker tournament stream, the thousands of spectators must have been watching from the camel tent.

This is the sort of thing that happens when an event (or an organization) depends on a single person or unrelated entity rather than being "organic". One person dies or changes his mind, and poof, it's gone.

maybe just play enough to be able to look at the shot from anyplace and see where to hit the balls.

Get it out of the Middle East entirely. They are not sporting nations. Fans don’t show up. We have 15 years of proof of that now.

Throwing oil money at it doesn’t work.

Move it to the Philippines or Vietnam, or Taiwan, or Germany, or the USA, etc.

too many tournaments. some have to go. it isn't like baseball games.

anything that loses money loses its sponsors after a time. that is the way it is and should be.

tournaments are boring to watch except for the diehard spectators. and it will get worse as they keep getting less interesting to sit through.

On the matchroompool website:
TLDR: moving, not announced where. Purse still 1MM USD.

Patrick Johnson said:

A well known way to connect the contact points (assuming you can "see" the OB contact point) is to aim CB center to the point twice the distance from the OB's center or twice the distance from the OB's outside edge to the contact point. This is called "double distance" (when doubling from centerball) or "double overlap" (when doubling from the ball's edge

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The figure could be improved with some notes to get some of us up to speed quicker.

I like an approach using CutShots training balls with their 100-some multi-colored spots as the object ball. It requires photos of the object ball from behind the object ball and from the cue ball. It allows one to see the the visible distance between contact point and ball edge of the cut shot. It also shows the distance from OB middle to contact point.

In left photo below, the object ball sits on a black line pointing at a table pocket. Looking at the back of the object ball, the middle point --- the OB contact point --- is the red circle that sits above a black star. To the red-circle's right to the ball's edge are a green star, a black circle, a red diamond, and barely visible, a black star at ball's edge.

The other photo is taken in front of cue-ball center pointing at the object-ball center. The red-circle contact point is still visible but right of what used to be the ball center. Next to it are the objects that were there before: the green star, and a bit of the black circle, but not visible are the red diamond and black star.

Like with Patrick's figure, one can find the distance from OB center to contact point (blue diamond to blue circle to red circle) and distance of contact point to edge (green star and part of black circle). These estimates point to colored spots on the ball and not just eyeballing spots.


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