home court is a big advantage even in pool where most things are supposed to be standardized.

traveling around and playing in bars with cue balls smaller or larger and or much heavier makes one very aware of conditions.
cues with flat tips and warped. balls with chips out of them and dirty. roll off in every table, different sized pockets on the same table,
obnoxious players, but you get to leave with the money.

technically of course you are right . no argument about that.

but be gambling in a pool room and your opponent wont let you shoot a non frozen shot forward. and a frozen one you must shoot away from the object ball. you can argue all you want but wont win.

in a tournament as most things you use the written rules for, then you have to call a ref over. so that solves that.

maha said:

in golf its called the rub of the green. you take what you get and adjust to the conditions. its fair or at least the same for the other guy as well.

and if you are the better player and smarter you can use it to increase your advantage.

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I grew up playing snooker with the old Vitalite balls then came the Crytolites and had no problem switching over and playing decent. In a short race and not enough time with the light balls I was losing the CB. I know I should've been able to overcome the shit table and balls but failed

few can tell the difference other than the looks.

if you roll them off the rail you will find almost all balls roll closely to the same length.

maha said:

… allowing a push though is wrong also.

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For the reasons why they are allowed in pool, see the frozen-ball fouls resource page or this video:

when playing you use english on many of the banks to change the banks angle and or for the angle the cue balls comes off for position.

for just making the bank, the majority of them using inside english and a constant speed that you have learned and can duplicate for shots. is a helping aid.

speed shortens or lengthens banks. so if you cant predict your speed, knowing where to hit is not going to be the right spot.

gregcantrall said:

Like Yogi Berra said, "Half the game is 85 percent mental.
My favorite memory of getting "In The Zone" had me making a huge comeback to catch my opponent on the hill. My mind was right and I just knew if I got to shoot I would win. My opponent snapped the 9. That gave me 4th in the Lincoln City A devision event. Plus a new friend! At the handshake My good natured comment was, "You were just afraid of me."
And oh yeah 4th place got me kicked up to the Masters devision in the next event. Oh well.

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Years ago I got in the zone playing snooker and produced tons of big breaks but playing pool it came less frequent. I'm starting to feel the cue again and if get the CB on a string it'll be euphorific

Surprised no one brought up Classic in Lauderhill. I wasn't able to attend but the PLP was just held there.
You have Lucky 7 in Hollywood, two gold crown action one pocket tables with 3-7/8" pockets.
Paradise is my home room- there's always 20 or so guys in there during the day playing cheap sets
Grovers in West Palm does have bar boxes but they have 6 9' gold crowns. The good players play there including Meglino

If you bump around town enough you'll get all the action you want in Southeast Florida. The standard is high, a ton of good players this way.

Cue Stick said:

I bet he was a monster in his prime. When I met him, everybody said he was the best player in Houston (Gabby had moved to California).

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I was friends with Na-Na when I was in Houston from 75 to March of 79. I saw Richie Ambrose when he was beating anyone he played at the time, trying to give him the 8 ball on the table closest to the bar at Goofy's Game Room, and Na-Na taxed him 2k at a 100 a game. I thought Richie's head was going to explode. Richie had been raising hell at him the whole time, and then after he was busted, he asked Na-Na for a walking stick, and Na-Na told him to "Walk alone Motherf@#$er." It was priceless.

in golf its called the rub of the green. you take what you get and adjust to the conditions. its fair or at least the same for the other guy as well.

and if you are the better player and smarter you can use it to increase your advantage.

jbart65 said:

New format this year for all the 256-player WNT Open events (European, UK, U.S., Florida and Hanoi opens).

Single-elimination round begins at 128 instead of 64 as in the past.

A Matchroom event manager said the Philippines Open taught them that earlier single elimination got rid of some "dead" matches under the prior format. Matches will count a lot more, starting earlier in the tourney.

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Thanks for the info. We'll see how it goes. It means fewer dead money matches in Stage 1 but more of them in Stage 2. I'm sure it will be entertaining. It should be quite a WNT season.