maha said:

it adds as much complexity as you breaking your wrist on the stroke.

and its not dead but rarely used as the fast cloths don't call for it. pool has changed a lot with time as most sports. and those in the present usually cant fathom what worked in the past.

or how good those players really were. and how bad the modern player in the pool room is compared to previous decades back.

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The fast cloth and rails have killed all "strokes" if you ask me.

There is no such thing as a "power" game anymore. They have made the tables so fast that "bunting" is now called a stroke.

In the old days, it took a power shot to draw the cue ball long distances or to drive the cue ball three rails around the table for position.

Now you can bunt and do it.

The game has completely changed.

For the worse in my opinion.

Bob Jewett said:

Could you give us a translation, please?

(That's a "stroke-slip" that he's using, I think.)

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I think "Stroke Slip" was an agreement between us talking about it on AZB. As far as I know the rest of the world still calls both a slip stroke to the confusion of everyone! Just playing around I have used both on one shot starting off with my hand far forward. Would that be a slip stroke slip?(grin)

I do like slip stroke and stroke slip to differentiate between the two as the names seem pretty descriptive.

Hu

I get the younger guys implying some of us are dinosaurs but to them I say: trust me -- in 40 years you'll be singing the same song, lol.

Lou Figueroa

Bob Jewett said:

I think that "Full Field Payout" does not mean that everyone gets money back. I think it means that if the field is full, these are the top (or maybe only) payouts. I think the house is going to keep the remaining $340. Maybe $40 each for the next four and the house keeps $180.

Evidently it's not single elimination since 3-4 play off with $50 in the middle.

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Thanks! Didn't understand that.

Keith is on Facebook and is pretty active on there. If you're on there I'm sure you can go through his photos and find a bunch of his work. I'm usually not a big fan of floating inlaid points but his work is so clean and classy it's hard not to like them.

Does shane still play the break with his playing cue? I vaguely recall TAR 1 he was smashing the rack with his playing cue the whole set.

Man, I'm a sucker for points without veneers. Sweet cue.

Bob Jewett said:

Could you give us a translation, please?

(That's a "stroke-slip" that he's using, I think.)

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