middleofnowhere said:

I tend to disagree with that statement that I highlighted. I live in a town used to have about seven pool rooms between real pool rooms and bowling alleys. They were all great with championship equipment. Today we have one bowling alley and it doesn't even have a pool room room.

You read it on here all the time people complaining there's no place to play where they live. I wouldn't call this an improvement in the game when it's almost has no accessibility unless you play on a bar league.


Except among the small subculture and professional players and there's not that many of them that could make a dime, pool is almost nonexistent in the US anymore.

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in my area, it's different. when I moved to where I am now, the first thing I did was to find a good pool room or atleast something that resembles a poolroom. I only found 3 and they have no players to go up against within 3 miles and 1 around 12 miles. you can't even find a single shop where to buy some good cues locally except ordering from Ebay. one of the main reasons why I quit and stopped playing pool 15 years ago. now that I got back to playing pool, there are atleast 6 pool rooms within my vicinity and 20 within 12 miles. what is also nice is that there are now leagues, tournaments and communities that got established after when I was playing by myself. atleast, that's my experience.

maha said:

so do that then.

and i would rather beat a better player out of a few hundred getting a spot i can win at. then donating a few hundred to a top pro just to watch him run balls and then say thank you.

two hundred up rather than two down is a 400 dollar difference that really is the cost. if you have the choice of each.

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Nice tangent to something you clearly don't understand.

This is what you wrote

maha said:

although the lessons part.

there is so much more you can learn on improving from videos and on the net reading. than you could ever really get from a live teacher.

but neither will do much good unless you take that and apply it.

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With some teachers you can learn so much more from them in person. Do you think every bit of knowledge that they have is put out in videos or in some magazine? So you statement is completely false & just your misinformed opinion.

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I hand a black whitten style copy. 100 plus shipping. Many nice cases on offer, this is a high quality leather case with strap. But for way less

8intheside said:

yup. You bought that 1000 break cue didn’t you? Lmao

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I break with my playing cue.

Keep being a sucker

I buy cues that increase in value

I have a Mariposa that has similar block rings to bluegrass. The wood pin plays fantastic. Well under 2k

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Fore Rail said:

I would rather meet with my instructor live than watch one of his videos.

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so do that then.

and i would rather beat a better player out of a few hundred getting a spot i can win at. then donating a few hundred to a top pro just to watch him run balls and then say thank you.

two hundred up rather than two down is a 400 dollar difference that really is the cost. if you have the choice of each.

jasonlaus said:

??? Is there a circus in town?

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yup. You bought that 1000 break cue didn’t you? Lmao

middleofnowhere said:

I used to love to watch the play of the game. I used to often not even care who won. Strategy, cheating pockets to get amazing positions, great shot making, thin cuts, backward cuts under pressure. Risk and reward playing.

Today it's headline news if a player even goes for a shot. They never make thin cuts or anything that is even difficult if they can play safe. All they do is cinch shots anymore. It could not be more boring.
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I would say that some are overrated although there are a few that are really worth the highlights.

Who won and what were the scores of the sets?