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$1.5M first place prize for Chinese tournament next week

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AtLarge said:
Two of the Quarterfinal matches are being played now. Ko Pin Yi trails Chu Bingjie and Wu Jiaqing leads Xue Zhenqi. Losers receive about $22,000 US, winners go on to $44,000 for 4th or a lot more after that.

skogstokig -- if you go to this video and open up the text below the stream (where it says "more"), you can find some of the rules. The text also shows the time limit, which is 210 minutes for the current matches (started 3+ hours ago). Refs keep track of the time.

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thanks. i guess it was time clock in wu's match, he had like double the score. advances to semifinal
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🎈Mike Cohran🎈

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♦️Mike Cochran.....MAK Custom Cue♦️

Well, here is something what you don't see very often especially not the one with the logo hand written in the forearm.
But you won't see any Mike Cochran cue in general.
Mike was without doubt one of the best cue makers who ever lived.

📍For those who don't know who was Mike Cochran, In the article below you can read about him.

♦️🔥♦️THE GUY BEHIND THE GUY♦️🔥♦️

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Mike Cochran The Guy behind the Guy - Issuu

Any time someone would suggest Mike Cochran slow down or take some time for himself, whether it was his wife, or kids or friends, he uttered the same phrase.
issuu.com issuu.com

Better photos of the cue soon.
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🎈Joe Callaluca Ebony on Ebony🎈

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Joe Callaluca

Ebony on Ebony
Radial pin
5 Veneers
Design with Spear Diamonds and Dots

Well, just received this cue and i can't tell how satisfied i am. My friend Joe knocked it out of the park. He did amazing job as always and not only that the cue meets all my expectations but much more than that. I have a few favorite cue makers who are not only cue makers to me but life time friends and Joe is one of them. I met him like 10 years ago when he built me a beautiful and amazing sneaky pete and since then i haven't stopped ordering cues from him. In this period we have become friends and i am proud and honored to be his friend. I am proud to have quite few of his cues in my collection as well. All them are fantastic players and workmanship is always top notch.
I am quite sentimental when it comes to cues and pool in general and Joe isn't helping at all.
With the cue i have received this gorgeous chalk or key holder with beautiful and touching personal note.

Thank you Joe Callaluca. All this means a lot to me! Thank you for everything.
I have always enjoyed working with you on all projects we did and you are not just hell of a cue maker but a great, great guy and a friend for lifetime.
If you ever stopped building cues hope you will be bored as hell in your retirement so you will need to keep starting building them again.
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🎈Craig Petersen🎈

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🔥Craig Petersen🔥

This is a highly rare 6 point with recut short points by late Craig Petersen. I was really lucky to add this extremely desirable, rare and collectable cue to my collection!😃

Specs:

Weight: 19.5 oz
Length: 58″
Joint: 5/16-18
Shafts: 13 mm
Inlays: Ivory
Wrap: EE Leather

♦️About Craig Petersen

Craig Petersen started making cues as a teenager around 1963. He had learned to play pool at the YMCA in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He soon became fascinated with cues, and started doing repairs in a local pool room. Soon, he had a full service shop in that room, but later ended up working in the cue department at Brunswick.
In 1967, Craig got married and moved to California. He was away from cuemaking for the next eight years, returning to Chicago in 1975. For the next ten years, Craig worked off and on for some of the top Chicago area cuemakers.
In 1985, he opened a shop of his own in Bartlett, Illinois. This shop relocated to Addison, Illinois in 1988, and to Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1990. Craig died unexpectedly in 1992, at the age of 46, having made less than one thousand cues. At the time of his death, Craig was in the process of completing his first five-point cue.
Today, Craig Petersen cues are sought after by cue collectors around the world. Later cues are easily identifiable by a "C.P." logo on their butt caps. Craig was famous for extremely sharp and even points. Also, he had a talent for getting inlays, rings, and points to line up perfectly. This was amazing, considering that all work was done by hand with very little equipment. Cues with piloted joints have very thick joints, usually of stainless steel, with very thin pilots.
Craig was a very influential cuemaker whose designs bridged the gap between traditional cues and cutting edge contemporary inlay patterns. Craig's design and construction influence can be seen in many of today's cues and he had a profound direct influence on the early work of Joe Gold of Cognoscenti Cues because of his having trained Joe in the late 1980s.
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leather wrap labor time?

Dave38
measureman said:
My cue repair guy just put a leather wrap that I supplied on my cue.
He had to remove the linen and replace with leather for a very reasonable $50.
My question is he said it takes him 4 hours to do the job, is this about right?
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only if he fell asleep about 20 minutes into it. I charge $75 + with me supplying the blank, with ALL the prep, and I do move slow, start to finish is about an hour. I am retired and do it for the passion.....but 4 hrs.....IDK....nap time?
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Best 1Pocket Player of the 80's - 90's

Cuebuddy
skogstokig said:
there was one edition of the dragon world 14.1 that had in it hopkins, ortmann and mike davis, and they were all playing on the tv table the same day. it was a parade of funky strokes.

modern era, i guess soufi, gerson martinez and lee van sticks out
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I was able to watch much of Gerson's matches this year at the DCC. At first I thought WTF, and after three days I was a big fan.
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cue ID help

Cuebuddy
Chopdoc said:
Regardless of their numbered status, or whatever name or brand is on the decal, they are mass produced.

If you are really that fussy, why are you looking at mass produced cues?

If you are really that fussy, stop bargain hunting and step up with a few thousand for a proper custom cue.

If you look close enough, even they are not perfect.

You want close to perfection? Get a Searing. There are others.

If you find a perfect cue, I will eat my socks.

If it is made of wood, I will eat my shoes as well.

I have good cues, but I have a more fun dabbling with the productions cues. Why? I dunno. Cheap. Variety. Lots' of "unknowns" to research.

I am not looking to replace my Joss or flip cues, so maybe I am different than most.
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I am on the same boat. I have more cues than I can point a pool stick at, the only customs are the cues I have made myself.
I love collecting odds and ends. Still looking for a PBR cue like the two you have. :geek:
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cue ID help

Chopdoc
vintagecollectibles831 said:
I find it very hard to believe that these 97 Series Helmstetter cues, for example, were made in Japan.


The quality just looked horrible, to me. Lop sided inlays, uneven points. The Japanese Helmstetter cues, like the 86 and 87 series, along with the VIP lines, and others, like the Balabushka line, just looked so much nicer, and higher quality.

Kind of makes me sick, thinking about the 97 series Helmstetter cues, for example, lol. They were kind of garbage quality, I thought. Well, not garbage, but just not that great.
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Regardless of their numbered status, or whatever name or brand is on the decal, they are mass produced.

If you are really that fussy, why are you looking at mass produced cues?

If you are really that fussy, stop bargain hunting and step up with a few thousand for a proper custom cue.

If you look close enough, even they are not perfect.

You want close to perfection? Get a Searing. There are others.

If you find a perfect cue, I will eat my socks.

If it is made of wood, I will eat my shoes as well.

I have good cues, but I have a more fun dabbling with the productions cues. Why? I dunno. Cheap. Variety. Lots' of "unknowns" to research.

I am not looking to replace my Joss or flip cues, so maybe I am different than most.
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