Life was better when people didn't have a platform to tell the whole world how fucking crazy they are.

Ah!!! HERE IT IS.
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Forged in Fire and Case Hardened, comes to mind. Shrug

HawaiianEye said:

I am not playing in any tournament that is 9-ball, race to 2.

It's a crap shoot, especially with handicaps.

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vintagecollectibles831 said:

On the other hand, imagine playing a race to 2, and having to give up the 6 out? Lol.

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It's $20 on a Wednesday night. It isn't the most serious tournament on the planet. And the $20 gets about 90 minutes of warm-up time before the tournament even starts, if players show up and take advantage of it.

And the guy giving up the six-out is a professional-level player against a 450.

After the fact is when the numbers matter.
Dan Louie produced the most incredible come from behind victory in the Oregon Coast BCAPL event. I think it was a race to 7 and Dan got a shot at 6-0 because his opponent showboated the case 9 ball for game set match. Dan won that set and the second as well. Never Give Up....

The limits a person puts on themselves is HUGE!
I don't think I am a number.
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TheGrandWazoo said:

To offend you, I would need to understand you. I have the crayon’s if you have the time. Seriously, from your OP I can’t quite understand your point. Could you elaborate?

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To explain his original post:

Chris Renfro is the owner of Outsville. They make chalk. Taom and other similar chalks have taken over the market because they are clean.

Chris believes these chalks all contain nano particles and are made in China. He also believes these are bad for you. He has been saying this for some time on Facebook.

He has now come out with his own “clean” chalk, without nano particles, which he is calling Atomic chalk.

To be clear I’ve never seen his new chalk and don’t know how it works. Nor do I know whether his claims have any truth to them. I’m just explaining his post.

straightline said:

He said when he's behind he plays like a lion and when he's ahead, he plays like a lamb. Logic being, there's no good reason to risk squandering a lead.

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Also, why play your full speed?
When you can keep the fi$h on the line and come back.
When I moved to Los Angeles 1976 and started my roadwork, wanting to see how good I could get, even tho in 1990 my game was at the top, I improved Every two weeks over a period of two yrs.
I had my usual route to pool rooms I'd visit/match up with certain players.
There were approx ten pool rooms..... and a couple after night places where McCready would be at.
I won every time I came back to play the same action.
After about 3 times thru they wanted a spot, which I now could do.
As it turned out, I got about ten trips to each pool room and won every time before I killed my action.
This was during my Strickland Encounter 1979.
Roadwork is KEY for a player that can play, to win especially when you lock up the money and may have to play 10-16 hrs straight.

bm

Tom1234 said:

Since you are new to cue lathes, one thing you need to keep in mind; keep your tooling SHARP. Cutting off leather tips or cutting down a tenon, sharp tooling makes this easier and more accurate.

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What do you use to sharpen your tooling? Will a knife whetstone work?

Kris_b1104 said:

Not surprising, Ashley gambles A LOT.

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Oh I knew that going in. I even gambled her half a day at one hole a year or two back. Have to support the locals though