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EUROPEAN OPEN 2026, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, March 10-15

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sjm said:
Yes, it is surprising. I am not familiar with many Eastern Europeans that have made any kind of mark on the world stage. Educate me. Who are the ones to watch among the Eastern Europeans?
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jbart was talking about eastern european 700's, and while they may not make a mark on the world stage (these are hobby players and semi-pros) they are plentiful. i would think poland alone has well over a hundred. if you take east europe from the north all down to greece, you could fill this field with 700+ players, with or without established ratings
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Best to Say Nothing at All?

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ChrisinNC said:
In a tournament match, at the completion of the match, if I’m on the winning end, I feel the most courteous and respectful thing to say to my opponent when looking them in the eyes and shaking their hand is to say nothing at all.

The last thing I ever want to hear if I’m on the losing end is “good match”, especially if I played poorly, which is usually the case for the loser. Saying “I got lucky” is not much better, but I feel saying nothing at all is the best choice to show respect to my opponent.

The exception to this is in the rare case in which both players played well, then it would be acceptable to say “That was a good hard fought match” or “You played very well” or something to that effect. Opinions?
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Handshake and a gentlemans nod. Undefeated.

Though I do hit them with the "see you in the finals" sometimes.
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Does anyone know Wayne Yates from Mechanicville, VA

Flakeandrun
jay helfert said:
He screwed me on a cue sale. I sold him an original Mike Sigel signature cue for $1,000 in perfect, like new condition. After he got the cue he decided he didn't want it and complained to Paypal that it had scratches on it. He then sent me back my cue with severe damage to the butt. Paypal gave him a refund the day the cue was delivered back to me. When I confronted him about the damage to the cue he went quiet on me. Paypal closed the deal and will do nothing for me!

See attached photos. None of this damage was on the cue when he received it from me.
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Similar happened to me with a shaft here in China using Xianyu.
I sold it to a person, who had clearly bought it without paying attention to the required thread of his butt.
I had explicitly said no returns in the add, and provided pictures of the shaft on my end in detail.
He damaged the shaft and tried to initiate return after I refused to accept it as return.
The process through Xianyu is interesting, in this instance, it initiates a peer review for 48 hours whereby users of the APP vote, if the vote is in favour of the seller, it is reviewed by Xianyu directly. They requested I send them any further evidence.
Luckily I also had videos (which my phone had metadata for with relevant dates).
Money was then mine, no refund required.

Does PayPal have a similar review feature Jay?
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Best to Say Nothing at All?

j2pac
ChrisinNC said:
In a tournament match, at the completion of the match, if I’m on the winning end, I feel the most courteous and respectful thing to say to my opponent when looking them in the eyes and shaking their hand is to say nothing at all.

The last thing I ever want to hear if I’m on the losing end is “good match”, especially if I played poorly, which is usually the case for the loser. Saying “I got lucky” is not much better, but I feel saying nothing at all is the best choice to show respect to my opponent.

The exception to this is in the rare case in which both players played well, then it would be acceptable to say “That was a good hard fought match” or “You played very well” or something to that effect. Opinions?
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I usually say something positive to my opponent even when I lose. If you can't handle losing...play better.
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LF suggestions: custom CF/LD shaft for Schön cue

skor
The combination of Predator 314 shafts and Schon always worked great for me. For my LTD Schon, I "upgraded" the original shaft to a Schon-314 shaft that was available at the time, it has both Schon and Predator logos on it and the joint is a Schon joint which is tighter than a regular 5/16x14, still un-played as my other, older 314 shaft still plays great.

I own a Predator Revo 12.9mm CF shaft, it works just great on the Schon cues I own as well. Keeps a good balance and it is one of the lowest deflection shafts on the market. I know some have issues with the Revo shafts, I don't.

I know that these are not custom shafts but Predator shafts have proven their products and performance while many custom cue makers and other production brands, use the term "low deflection" too loosely... I guess "lowered deflection" won't sell as good.

As I don't know how well is the 314-3 shafts is, I read that it's not as good as older versions (since production moved to China), If I were you I would just get a Revo shaft and if I had to get a wooden shaft, then I would look into the Predator Centro or Vantage but just because I've never played with any of them and I'm a bit curious about them.

I also own a JFlowers SMO CF shaft that plays great in my opinion (and also preform great) and the newer SMO-Wood is intriguing as well as they say it feels like wood and plays just like the CF version.
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