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... I am playing in a rotating 8, 9 and 10 ball season BCA league with 1 or 2 individual match head to head games in a round robin format. ...
I think you mean BCAPL. That's part of CSI. The BCA no longer has any leagues -- it is a manufacturers' organization.

Is the format that's bothersome a choice of your local league operator? Is it the format recommended by CSI?

Nicest Cue Builder you’ve dealt with?

I’ve been interested in Todd Caroenter and seen a couple come up for sale. Was he actually protege to Hercek or is that a myth?
I don’t know his full history but I do know he worked with Showman, Ron Haley and countless others. And I can tell you he makes phenomenal cues(my current player and have had one other in the past). Throwback kinda guy.

Pia Filler hates wood shafts

Why would an extreme amount of power by needed for pool? It's not like golf where balls are driven hundreds of feet, even women and small men can draw the ball all over a pool table as needed with a wood shaft if they have proper technique.
Where did I say an extreme amount of power is needed for pool, I didn't, however it's far easier to stroke properly with less power, my teammate in league was watching my match and said "why are you hitting the balls so hard?" I said I'm not, after my first match was over he said " I can't believe your are getting that much action hitting the balls that soft, I thought you were hitting them hard but I saw you weren't " he has been playing decades longer than I have, I worked with him on his stroke and he was floored how much a proper stroke can move a cueball, the more energy your cue transmits to the cueball the less you need to "muscle" shots, the less you "muscle" shots the easier it is to be accurate in my opinion.

Lower deflection solid maple shaft with Schon joint?

Jacoby makes their Kielwood shafts with a Schon joint They also make their Ultra wood shafts in Schon joints. Both Kielwood and Ultra come in 11.8 mm, and 12.75 mm. I have their Ultra and kielwood shafts for Schon in 12.75 MM that I have turned all down to 12.5 mm. Both versions seem to be low deflection with the Kilewood the lowest. I like both, but really like the Kielwood. It did take some modification from me to balance the way I wanted.
The shaft the way it came was about 3.5 oz, just too light for my balance wants so I added .3 oz at the joint area.
I forgot to mention I have a couple solid maple Schon shafts that I have turned down, One to 12 mm, and one to about 12.25 mm. I like the 12.25 mm the most, but the 12 mm one is lower deflection.

New to the game

I recall playing snooker on a 10 foot snooker table, actually may have been 12 foot table, the red balls were smaller than the rest and they’d bounce off the pocket like a rubber ball if you didn’t pocket cleanly. I loved playing 9 ball on that table.
The middle bags are even worse on Supreme English pool tables. Anything off-angle and they have a tendency to swirl out.

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I looked a little closer. It turns out that the poster, "Md Obi", is in Bangladesh and has started a fake "APA Pool League Community" page, presumably intended to trap the unaware so Md gets more money from FaceBook. Of course, fake pages are not a problem on FB, they are a feature. More traffic, more ads, more money for our social media overlords.

There are four "APA Pool League Community" pages on FB. You can have one, too.

Useful Instructional Phrases That Help You Play Pool Better

OK, totally off topic but about a cow and cabbage! First thing, cows have three "stomachs" so they can put away an incredible amount of food then digest it later.

I was born on a farm. A starvation farm, 40 acres. Dad did about a half dozen things or more to make ends meet including hiring out his huge two row tractor! The farm house burned down, mysterious circumstances in the middle of a feud but that's another story. Four children drank a lot of milk so dad bought a milk cow with a crossbred calf by her side. First day Clover was brought home we all fell in love with her. Dad was proud of his garden. Among other things that year he had planted four rows of iceberg cabbage several hundred feet long. Sweet and tasty, a head of raw cabbage was often an afternoon treat!

To make friends with the cow which had just been a pasture cow my oldest sibling, my sister, had the bright idea to gather some of the loose leaves of cabbage and hand feed her. Worked great, she was gentle as an old dog anyway! Now we have connected the cow and the cabbage. The calf, Billy, was born mean and us children made him far worse!

Clover had a sweet tooth for cabbage from the first taste on that first day. We spent hours petting her and riding her. She was also the source of toys. She almost always had one or two of the huge black horse flies on her. Catch them and carefully tie a piece of thread around their neck and we flew them around in circles like a model airplane. Horsefly necks aren't too strong and when one got the bright idea to cut across the inside of the circle and hit the other end of the thread it was time to find a new horsefly!

I wouldn't think cabbage smelled that strong but then again, I am not a herbivore. Clover would get out of her few acre pen and make a bee line for the cabbage patch a couple hundred feet or more away! It was amazing to watch her walk between two rows of cabbage. She walked at a constant pace and her head swung back and forth in rhythm. She would move at a steady walk and take one bite out of every head of cabbage as she went by, she didn't miss a head or take two bites out of one, she was a harvesting machine! Dad was less than thrilled. That cabbage was a major food source, not a toy crop although dad like most gardeners gave away far more than we ate.

Clover got out of the pen fairly often and when she did she made a beeline for the cabbage! Soon every head of cabbage had one bite out of it and she always took up where she left off, never taking a bite out of a head she had already taken one bite of until she had covered the patch. At three I had started getting up at the first gray of predawn and exploring what was new in my world. First thing I did was check to see if Clover was in the garden. If she was I would rush over and get her back in her pen before dad woke up a little later and got mad!

I barely reached her belly and she paid me about as much attention as she gave Billy but insistent pushing on a front shoulder or her chest would eventually persuade her to leave the garden. I would be barefoot of course but fortunately the ground was soft. My feet got stepped on often in these efforts but they were mostly just mashed into the dirt or mud. A good thing, Clover was huge. Some of my earliest memories were how much it hurt when Clover stepped on a toe or foot and just stood there!

Every time I hear or say, "like a cow eats the cabbage" I get a quick image of Clover walking through the garden with her head moving back and forth like a metronome not missing a step or a head of cabbage!

So now those that have read through this massive sidetrack know, a cow is an awesome cabbage harvesting machine! The saying is based on solid fact.

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Omg i well just a little short and you are a good guy that I love to read. Gotta finish the novel now. 😉Good Vines.
Edit: Vibes ! Well vines are connectors too. So a Freudian slip? 🤷‍♂️

Pia Filler hates wood shafts

CF shafts do not MAKE more power, what they do is transfer the power of your stroke more efficiently, the difference being a CF shaft will not make a poor stroke more powerful, if you have a decent stroke you will see that your cue doesn't rob as much power from your stroke, draw, follow, stun, will all require less effort, golf clubs used to be made of wood, so did Tennis racquets, both are made of CF now, if they can enjoy the benefits of CF why can't Pool players?

Why would an extreme amount of power by needed for pool? It's not like golf where balls are driven hundreds of feet, even women and small men can draw the ball all over a pool table as needed with a wood shaft if they have proper technique.

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