Overdrive said:

I'm going to raise the price of my Rusty Melton to 2100, good luck with your Dinko

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lol. You do that.

I've got a $ 69 GW, the ginger wizard, Drew Pearson. I bought it for my grandson when he was about 8 years old. I had a medium moori put on it and it plays good,it lays on my table all the time so it gets used quite a bit.

Nowadays you can take a picture of suff and google can identify it and reference you to sites where like things are for sale. But with pool cues they're not always identified via signatures or labels. So, you have to go by design, craftsmanship, general appearance an the joint rings.

skogstokig said:

looks great. why did they stop with the round corners?

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Not sure. I put this table around 2004-5

Cord said:

Ok. I think most of us here consider the 7' Diamond the quintessential barbox these days, though.

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Yes and no. To me the quintessential barbox is the 7’ (93”) Valley with standard slow cloth and the big cueball. That was bar pool when I started. 9’ Gold Crown at the pool hall and Valley with the big cueball at the bars. So the 7’ Diamond with Simonis and good balls is a bar table but not really. Dunno if that makes sense.

Recently played on a vintage bar table. It wasn’t a Valley but had the big cueball and standard cloth. It has been well cared for. I hadn’t played with the big ball in forever. I was never good with it or anything either. That is a big difference. So the new stuff is way better, but I still enjoyed playing a game of bar box 8 ball with a house cue and the big ball. Diamond with a good set of Aramiths is better, but plenty of fun was had and plenty of dollars were won and lost on the old stuff, and yes, it was still pool.

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These odds are, to me, odd. They do not reflect who is playing well in 2025. Yapp, to me, who absolutely dominated at the UK Open, is one of the favorites, and guys like Souto, Labutis, and Neuhausen have shown consistently good form year to date. Kaci won the WNT event in Boston and Feijen won the WNT event at Super Billiards Expo. Finally, I'd give Ko Ping Chung a better chance than Ko Pin Yi to win here.

If I were a man who bet on pool ... but I'm not.