jay helfert said:

You guys are sooo smart! Let me see you do it on the first try. Of couse its a stop shot. Duh! The trick is not simply to make the OB, but keep any other balls from falling.

Go ahead, show me what you got. And tell us how many tries. No doctoring of the rack or balls.

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I could try it with my Delta rack but I think it would be cheating since there is a big hole in each corner to hold balls in place.

sjm said:

I'd guess not even one of them gets entry fees and travel help. If they are a top player, they get a salary and some free product (cues) that they can sell to supplement their income. In the case of an elite player, that annual salary can be well over $100,000 per annum and possibly much more in the case of a Filler, Gorst or SVB.

Based on my conversations with top pros, cue deals have become increasingly lucrative in recent years.

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That is why I liked the Make It Happen tournaments put on by Pat Fleming. The players had very little expenses. I contributed to a number of them when I had more disposabe income.

-dj

Frosty said:

You know as well as I do that in the world of gambling at pool, there is always a certain segment of players, many that play very well, that have a deep seated subconscious need to lose.

They either make bad games to ensure it up front, or even when they have the best of it, they always seem to find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It’s like a disease they’re not even aware they have. Harry was like that.

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There was a guy in New Jersey like that.
He owned a paving company so he had money and he played pretty good.
Always booked a loser and was on every road mans to do list.
I saw him go off $4K or more and in the '80's that was big money.

The ref is playing follow the leader with the player at the table, making sure to stand behind him. Even getting in his way at times.

On a critical push out by Alex where he is bridging over two balls the ref fails to move to where he can see the shot. He stays behind Alex and couldn't see a touch foul if it happened.

Once again who trains these guys? They need to fire him and get a real ref to train them! These refs are like hood ornaments.

This video was most certainly not what I was expecting when I saw "waxed balls". That's all I will be saying on this matter.

maha said:

harry played a lot better than most thought. but in the end he seemed as if he wanted to lose. as he hardly ever was in a good game for himself.

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You know as well as I do that in the world of gambling at pool, there is always a certain segment of players, many that play very well, that have a deep seated subconscious need to lose.

They either make bad games to ensure it up front, or even when they have the best of it, they always seem to find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It’s like a disease they’re not even aware they have. Harry was like that.

The funny thing is there’s all been all this hubbub about waxing balls since Kaci cast his aspersions at the Filipinos.

Yet no one talks about all the pool halls and many with tables at home that think car wax, I.E. Meguires, etc. are something you clean pool balls with. Wax, silicone, etc. cancels throw, it also increases length of the angle in a bank shot. These are game altering conditions. What’s insidious is that as they’re used, going into pockets and ball returns and being handled by the players, the wax wears off a little at a time, thereby reintroducing throw a little at a time, and angle of a bank starts to shorten a little at a time and it’s changing from shot to shot, game to game. That’s problematic

stevelomako said:

It’s the weed. True

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No bet.

2" Exceed extender is available. Exceed just updated the design, they are now called EXC-2K. That's black in colour, you can also get them in red, blue, gunmetal and silver.

There are two types of slate shape. One with cut corners is nice and i can stretch cloth tight. Second one is without cut corners and when you stretch cloth tight corners overstretch it and leaving those lines. So loose cloth without stretch marks or tight cloth with them. Or cut them off of slate. I have not figured out how to get tight stretch for slate without cut corners.

DC1317 said:

Very pretty. Thank you. A little out of my price range.

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What is your price range then?