Benelli said:

Please elaborate on these doubt's, what is making you feel that way?

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Only from my time playing with and seeing many of these cues. Adams did make a wide variety of cues, but I never saw one that looked like that.

skor said:

in pro tournaments?

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Yep. It's been a standard for the majority of those sports for years. Although I wish esports did more DE to KO stages like pool does. It would make for a hell of a lot better theater, specially in those circles.

deep said:

Picked them up off a Japanese auction site, in total around $125 including shipping.

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What a steal...

My set was the second most I ever paid for a set of balls, they were mostly unplayed but still 3X what you paid for your set!

All eyes on Jaybee Sucal, the kid that want to break through like AJ Manas

sjm said:

Yes, I think this "pride factor" is the case on occasion, but not very often.

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I’m sure there are flawed refs, but refs can’t change calls because of the reaction to a call. Disagreement or arguing a call can’t cause a ref to change a call. But reviewing a video provides a basis to do so if it is allowed.

jay helfert said:

I doubt that is a Rich, Paradise or even an Adams cue. It could even have been made by some novice cuemaker in the U.S. Who knows?

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Please elaborate on these doubt's, what is making you feel that way?

Here is a breakdown of who is playing where this week:

PLAYING IN PHILIPPINES OPEN and QATAR 10 BALL CUP

Fedor Gorst
Carlo Biado
Johann Chua
Duong Quoc Hoang
Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
David Alcaide
Mario He
Denis Grabe
Naoyuki Oi
Thorsten Hohmann
Jayson Shaw
John Morra
AJ Manas
Robbie Capito
Jeffry De Luna
Jonas Souto
Ralf Souquet
Khalid Alghamdi

PL:AYING ONLY IN PHILIPPINES OPEN

Lukas Facasso-Verner
Billy Thorpe
Mickey Krause
Pijus Labutis
Moritz Neuhausen
Alex Pagulayan
Emil Gangflot
Arseni Sevastyanov


PLAYING ONLY IN THE QATAR OPEN

Joshua Filler
Shane Van Boening
Albin Ouschan
Wiktor Zielinski
Eklent Kaci
Kledio Kaci
Alex Kazakis
Niels Feijin
Max Lechner
Daniol Maciol
Felix Vogel
Wojciech Szewczyk
Sanjin Pehlivanovic
Oliver Szolnoki
Wu Kun Lin

PLAYING IN NEITHER
Aloysius Yapp
Ko Pin Yi
Ko Ping Chung
Tyler Styer
Skyler Woodward

The matches should be viewable on:


One of few big events in pro pool not organized by WNT or Predator. The China Open, International and Derby City are the others. Battle of the Bull trying to become one.

I wonder about the longevity of these events. All but the BotB have been around for awhile. What happens when Pat is gone? He is in his late 70s.

maha said:

what comes next.

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If someone walks by a place where a robbery will take place less than a month into the future, AI will be able to pin the robbery on the someone just walking by.

deep said:

Recently managed to acquire a set of Centennial TV tour balls, always wanted a set of these!

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Curious what this pick-up set you back?

These sets in the past year have been all over the place...

Vahmurka said:

Double-elims at preliminary stage, I think, are meant to give players a chance to redeem themselves in case they slip once. Those who made to KO stage without a loss don't need such a chance, hence there is nothing unfair about this.

(What is definitely unfair though, is having a DE tournament decided in the finals by a single set only. This way a player with only one loss can be eliminated without a chance every other participant had. Therefore I really like so-called true double elimination, let it even be an extended shorter set instead of a full one, in case a player from B side wins the first final set.)

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why is it unfair at the final but not at the semi final or last 32?
A second chance should be available to all or to non.

Vahmurka said:

Wrestling (lesser events than Olympics or Worlds). Judo. Baseball/softball. Sometimes tennis and badminton. Curling. And it has become a standard for many ESports (video games).

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in pro tournaments?

Poolmanis said:

I saw this was foul right away. It was so easy to see. I think player should call foul to himself if referee is dumbass.
I have done it many times. This is what is wrong nowadays pool. Players don´t have REAL sportmanship.
Just to share you example that happened 2 days ago in 3 cushion WORLD CHAMPS!

Korean player Choi making nice masse point and referee called it a foul. Caudron comes and talk little with Choi and makes random shot (3:02 to3:40, he has to try shot to not make unsportmanship foul)to give inning back to him. Caudron refuses to get advantage from referees bad call.
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He got some good karma and just few moments ago was crowned to new world champion of 3 cushion..

Thanks Dave i just hope some referees watch your videos!

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I am wondering why it was called a foul and appreciate you sharing the link so I can ask my Korean people what they are asking.