Chris said:

High-quality collectibles are often a great store of value, i.e., their expected selling price increases and keeps pace with inflation. Most collectables, however, do not increase in value, i.e., their expected increase in price over time does not outpace inflation.

About the only times a cue can be considered an investment, is if one can consistently purchase at wholesale and sell at retail, or if the cue is used to reliably and consistently make money at the table, and the amount of that won money is greater than the player could have earned in the same amount of hours in some other vocation for which they are qualified.

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What is interesting is that low quality collectibles can also increase in value.

That can be very surprising.

Determining what will be collectible is quite a game, an then the value.

Mostly, if it is predictable the value does not increase much if at all, and maybe goes down.

Where cues are concerned, there are lower quality, "cheap" examples where the value has gone up hundreds of percent.

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Frosty said:

It seems perhaps you expect others to entertain you, that’ll leave you disappointed. I hope you’re not asking anyone to plead with you to change your decision and stay, that’ll leave you disappointed as well, Rough crowd here

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LibraryFool77 said:

I’m about done w this site.

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The only way to leave this site is to call your shot and Run-Out...

LibraryFool77 said:

Nobody has asked a intelligent question in years,give a guy a bone!

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There hasn't been an intelligent person in my family for years. Ok... I have an intelligent question. Give me a few minutes to remember it.

It seems perhaps you expect others to entertain you, that’ll leave you disappointed. I hope you’re not asking anyone to plead with you to change your decision and stay, that’ll leave you disappointed as well, Rough crowd here

mikemosconi said:

Older very experienced players usually cannot function too well in long solo sessions and probably start to diminish their long competitive sessions as well.

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It really depends on the individual, I’m in my late 60’s, generally playing at least 5 days a week, 4 days at the very least. I have access to the Hall I play whenever I want, I have a key and alarm code. I don’t really have “practice days”, I stay in action.

I do generally arrive about 2 hours ahead of my match for the day and after setting up, spend the remaining time playing short rack banks by myself to get my arm warm and tune in my stroke as I believe banks is a game of different strokes, and I’ve never been a drill type of guy. Then my match sessions generally last 4-8 hours, depending on my opponent and the game we’re playing. Sometimes if it’s only 4 hours for the session, I’ll rustle up another match with someone else. Generally 8-10 hours a day, the days I play.

Now I don’t have bad habits like drugs, alcohol, etc, but I do smoke. My stamina hasn’t really waned over the years, perhaps it’s because I love the game and the action. What I really believe though is that the more I keep moving, the better I feel.

loggerhead12 said:

He certainly did at first. The last 6 racks were much better. But Payne McBride played pretty well, to be fair. Started with a break-and-run and had a 9 on the snap in the third game.

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I thought SVB looked very rusty and closer to his age at first. Eventually he found a groove.

McBride virtually handed the match to SVB, though, with some big misses on shots he should have pocketed.

SA96 said:

Single elimination from 128 seems quite harsh.

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I think it is better to speed up the play to get to the top players playing each other in the later rounds. More fan friendly to me.

As I mentioned in another post, there are 43 of the top 100 Fargo-rated players in Florida. Almost all should make it to the final 64 given the new structure of the tournament. I only expect a few big upsets. The result should not be much different than if the knockout stage started a bit later.

I'll give a re-count once we get down to 128 players, then down to 64.

One of my earliest lessons came courtesy of Jim Ward and his son Rodney. It was at the White Spot, my home table and I was 7 or 8 games ahead of Rodney playing 9 ball for $5. Jim acting as coach pulled Rodney for a conference. When he returned, Rodney offered to continue with 8 ball for 10 or he was done. I was feeling confident and accepted the offer.
By the end of the night Rodney had recovered his money and my Allowance as well. That was a valuable lesson. A smart pills kinda lesson that made me a better player. Now 8 ball is my preferred game.

Scrunge19 said:

Lots of no shows / unfilled spots for a major.

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Some 238 players showed up to play yesterday. That compared to 249 in last year's inaugural Florida Open.

Under ideal conditions, these open majors normally would draw 256 players. Most fall a bit short.

The U.S. Open had 255 players last year show up.

This year, the UK Open had 252 players and the European Open had 217.

Last year's Hanoi Open had 252 players.