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WNT, WPA and 2026

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The simple fact is that cooperation is essential to a successful professional sports product. This is a joint production problem where both producer revenue and consumer utility are maximized when governing bodies, promoters, and players work together. You can prove mathematically that fragmentation destroys value and that fragmentation is especially harmful in individual sports where most of the eyeballs are focused on a small number of top players.

If Matchroom/WNT and Predator/WPA/CSI decide to duke it out like chickens in a cockpit then they will be worse off, the players will be worse off, and the viewers will be worse off.
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cue/shaft orientation as you shoot, facing one way every single time!

Cue Alchemist
smoochie said:
I was thinking about this SST cuetec shaft and the story again, I really enjoyed it but I gave it another thought. I think during the videos I posted which was in 1990 and 1991, at that time I don't think there was an SST Shaft. If I remember correctly these shafts came out much later maybe 1998+? Someone can correct me on this but I owned multiple cuetecs back in the day, the shafts were fiberglass and looks the exact same but they did not have an SST logo in them. Some of the ones I owned were thinner than others, some were 13mm thick shafts. I still remember one of the best cuetec fiberglass shafts I've owned was a thinner fiberglass shaft with shorter ferrule somehow I played really good with that shaft. And it did not have an SST logo.

Just to reference the story teller above about Earls shaft, maybe it was his shaft later on when he owned the black cuetec shaft, but not from the Early 1990's to 1995, because back in those days he had a cuetec shaft without a SST logo.
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I think your right, that shaft with the silver ring, fits the line of cue he as using from 1999 and still using those in 2002 when he beat bustamente in the final, of the worlds, the two black cues with the glitter points and diamonds in the butt, black grip. He used the other one to break with.
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cue/shaft orientation as you shoot, facing one way every single time!

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I was thinking about this SST cuetec shaft and the story again, I really enjoyed it but I gave it another thought. I think during the videos I posted which was in 1990 and 1991, at that time I don't think there was an SST Shaft. If I remember correctly these shafts came out much later maybe 1998+? Someone can correct me on this but I owned multiple cuetecs back in the day, the shafts were fiberglass and looks the exact same but they did not have an SST logo in them. Some of the ones I owned were thinner than others, some were 13mm thick shafts. I still remember one of the best cuetec fiberglass shafts I've owned was a thinner fiberglass shaft with shorter ferrule somehow I played really good with that shaft. And it did not have an SST logo.

Just to reference the story teller above about Earls shaft, maybe it was his shaft later on when he owned the black cuetec shaft, but not from the Early 1990's to 1995, because back in those days he had a cuetec shaft without a SST logo.
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WNT, WPA and 2026

J
sjm said:
Wow, that's tough. How about David Alcaide? Jayson Shaw?
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Shaw was Mr Obvious! (-:

One site showed Alcaide missing the U.S. Open, but that didn’t seem right to me. I double checked. He did play. So he is one of five who played in all the biggest MR events.

One more Euro on the younger side played everywhere last year.

One of the Asian players should be easy.

The event most big players missed was the Philippines Open.
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one pocket strategy question

measureman
Frosty said:
This works quite well. In a game that’s evenly matched, you can gain an edge by getting your opponent to bet higher, outside their comfort zone.
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We are two 70+ old farts that pass the time away every Saturday for $5 a game.
It's not the money, I just want to beat him.
I'm almost 79 and he's 71 I don't like losing to these kids.
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How High Or Low Do You Cue For Maximum Spin And Had Dr. Dave Ever Studied This?

dr_dave
Nature Boy said:
How high or low do you cue the ball when attempting maximum spin?

The golfer in me knows that for maximum backspin, you want a downward strike. It would seem to me that physics would say the same would be true in pool, which would mean a slightly elevated butt.

Does that mean we should strike slightly upwards for maximum follow? I know that many instructors tell us the cue should finish on the felt for all shots, but this seems counterintuitive to me.

I also wonder if Dr. Dave has done a study on this.

Thanks in advance!
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