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This question pertains to a person who runs an 8 ball tournament in a tavern and charges $1.00 per person. The tavern matches the total buy ins ($5.00 each). This person also plays in these tournaments and to me it seems to be a problem. He can win money without it costing him anything out of his pocket. He could show up totally broke and enter the tourny with money from his fees. Seems a bit fishy to me. Am I just being a nit? lol
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Savannah “The RoadRunner” Easton using a wood shaft?

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middleofnowhere said:
Everything you say is true but a new generation and future generations of players are going to be playing with CF. In many cases probably will never even have played with a wood shafts or have a desire to.

At a point wood shafts we'll just disappear as a natural result. I'm not going to do it but I'm sure there's endless numbers of an analogies that can be used to describe the same thing happening in other areas. It's not a good thing or a bad thing, just how the world turns.

It's funny I just like in the last week had an encounter with the same thing. Cleaning out some drawers and all of my hurricane supplies cuz it's hurricane season now. I must have had like a dozen flashlights all perfectly good and working that I threw out.

No one uses flashlights like those anymore. One of my new flashlights is hardly bigger than a Chapstick and will light things up like an automobile headlight. Times change and things change and hopefully for the better.

There's nothing wrong with not wanting to change. I drive a 35-year-old pickup truck runs perfect not a bunch of computers, parts are available it's easy to fix. But reality is it's got no airbags little in the way of safety devices and it's probably a death trap. I still drive it everyday though.
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I don't think wood cues will ever die unless we reach the point of all bar cues being carbon fiber.

Plus, it makes most financial sense for the cue manufacturers to sell a variety of shafts. Like Predator recently releasing the Centro, despite them overall doubling down on the Revo since 2016.
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How do you find your opponent's weakness?

Chili Palmer
markjames said:
you can tell a lot about people by their shoes and wedding ring

(right or left wrist, i don’t understand why people shoot pool and wear a watch)
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I've worn a watch for most of the 40 years I've been playing pool. Not sure what you're getting at, but for reference, I'm a lefty and wear my watch on my left hand, and because of this, it's never been an issue on the table.

Side note: I have often wondered if wearing it on the stroking arm, think breaking and/or shots that require more energy than normal (jump shots?), can affect the watch. I'm sure all of my watches are quartz driven so that part shouldn't be affected but, there's still lots of little moving parts inside, can something ever get rattled? I can't say I have ever noticed a difference but the inner mechanism of one of my watches has rotated?
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Savannah “The RoadRunner” Easton using a wood shaft?

skor
maha said:
why are you, meaning people here, having issues with deflection. old time players did not have a problem we automatically played for it but stroked and hit where we aimed so it didn't happen or matter.

with using the correct pivot point which you can figure out or just learn soon by adjusting to the spot for you.
and using a small amount of back hand english corrects for it without upsetting your stroke or aiming points.
most or many english shots you still use parallel english on short shots or where you instantly know where to aim.

since even cf shafts have some squirt you still need to correct and if you don't you are going to miss some more shots than those that understand how to hit with a wood shaft.
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90% of the times that someone is missing a shot is due to deflection. The pivot system is far from being accurate.
With low deflection shaft, once you get used to, you miss less.
You can debate it until the ends of time, you’ll still be wrong…
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Rich Cue / Starfire Jet?

Chopdoc
maha said:
you must not have been around the east coast when they were in many pool rooms. no matter how good you were they hit bad enough so you sold it to an unsuspecting sucker.

some may have hit well and hope the op cue he has works okay for him.

most used a paradice or palmer and they all hit well until buyers wanted all sorts of nylon rings on the end of the butt
so they looked cool.
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You must not be familiar with the current cue market.

Old information is sometimes historically valuable, and sometimes just old information.

You never hit with the cue posted. Period.
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