uk_9_ball_convert said:

Gary Wilson talking about his struggle with the yips. Never saw the match, but the stats that popped up during it would make you think he played well despite being so frustrated with his performance. As an aside, we were talking about players accents earlier in the thread, I find Wilson's Geordie accent quite pleasant to listen to.
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agree. i love both geordie and scouse. nicer than southern accents imo.

wilson is always brutally honest. he did fall apart. trump got a few crazy rolls, but it was two different garys in the first and second session

skogstokig said:

couldnt been a very good turnout if they knew they weren't gonna get paid? or do you mean they played for entrance fees in the end?

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I'm going by memory but I think it was that organization that was short-lived. I think Rempe Mizerak maybe Sigel and a couple others were running it. It was essentially I guess a show and the players were in on it.

Diliberto, Sigel, Rempe and Lisciotti tried to do a traveling tournament. Sort of like a circus or a rodeo where you do the same show from town to town. That, I believe is the origin of that picture you see of the four of them in front of a Rolls-Royce called the roadrunners.

Black-Balled said:

It's object permanence.

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And spatial relations?

middleofnowhere said:

I just went back and watched it again only the beginning where they're introducing it. And sure enough Mike Siegel is playing Jose Parika and they're playing for a first prize of $40,000.
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What year was that? Or what number. Sometimes they had two per year.

Here are some prizes from the 1980s/1990s listed in a previous thread:

https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/pool-tournaments-history-1990s.496840/page-2#post-6446895

The guy in that thread who was making a full spreadsheet of the Sands Regency events seems to have disappeared.

dquarasr said:

... So it’s possible that distance traveled can be another indicator assuming the area after the hit affords room on the table to determine speed and distance.

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That's true for a perfectly broadside shot as in the video or close to that, but usually the cue ball is coming in at an angle and that can make object ball speed more complicated.

middleofnowhere said:

There was also an Atlantic City tournament that Jimmy Rempy won. It was known by all the players beforehand that that money was not going to be paid out. The payout was going to be based on the success of the tournament. They just wanted to be able to advertise a giant prize fund.

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couldnt been a very good turnout if they knew they weren't gonna get paid? or do you mean they played for entrance fees in the end?

spartan said:

Those few W10B in 2000s were $100K for winner.

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that was only one year, when darren won. not sure if everyone got paid properly either. they scaled back and folded after the subsequent year, amid pinoy poolitics and boycotts