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Nick Varner Interview Released

Matt_24
T411 said:
Good listen. Two takeaways that may be surprising to some - Nick Varner the greatest all around tournament player in American history yet tournament money was so meager that his exhibitions were what paid the bills. - Recalling his mentor Hubert “Daddy Warbucks” Cokes telling him “Yeah, it shows, if you don't bet your own, it shows a weakness in your character” - Meaning if you don’t gamble with your own money, you don’t fully believe in yourself.

I really liked his comment on Jimmy Fusco and what a classy person he was. You can feel Nick’s sincere warmth and humbleness come through in this interview. He’s almost embarrassed when others speak of his accomplishments. His respect for others of great character says a lot about Nick himself.
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I love how open Nick is. I can't wait for the other parts to drop. I really enjoyed hearing about how before he won his first World Championship in 1980, he stood, talking to himself in the bathroom before his final with Sigel, stating "I am going to win...I am going to win." Nick is awesome.
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Soft hitting custom cue maker cues?

Jimmy_Betmore
Mensabum said:
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Sorry dude, but you'll never change my mind about this. Joint type absolutely affects hit. Any player worth his seed can tell you that.
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I'd never say that the pin has zero influence over how a cue hits. But I will say with 100% confidence that it's a very small piece of a very big puzzle. Based on my experiences, the tip plays the largest part in how a cue "hits." Right after that, it's a mishmash of ferrule material/construction and shaft geometry. And after that it's another mishmash of joint material, butt geometry, butt construction, butt material. In the distance is pin type.

Take any cue and swap its shaft with one from a different maker or company and there's a near 100% chance it will play very differently.
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Prevailed with desperation

pt109
This game can give you a bad day sometimes. Robertson and O’Sullivan had a snooker game with the balls all over the table and safeties were tense…Robertson took over 5 minutes on one shot…longer than O’Sullivans famous 147. O’Sullivan eventually won it to get to the hill first….but Robertson won the next two games in one turn to win the half million. A game that became incredibly long was interesting as hell.
This 9-ball runout was interesting in its own way…every shot was hit in panic mode….but the man got out.
….amazing how your own imagination can take you over….not unlike a glass bridge in China….

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A great explanation on how to post images

muskyed
One strange thing I have noticed. When dropping in pictures from my phone, android, every once in awhile I will forget to downsize first. You would think, no big deal just go back and resize, not.
For some reason it remembers my first attempt and no matter how much I reduce it first, even down to 20%, it will keep telling me the file is too big. My only recourse then, is to delete the copy I've typed in to go with the picture, get out of the page I was on, and restart my phone to clear everything out and start all over.
Not sure why I can't just go back and reduce the photo and insert it, but I can't. This has happened on my last two phones, both Samsung's, but different carriers.
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Corey Deuel still good? Fargorate

mikepage
poolscholar said:
Just watched him get smoked at the us open. He tried a jump shot and didn't even hit airborne. His fargorate is 773... What if he's actually a 730 or 40 now...then I wondered
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FargoRate tracks the decline pretty well, provided
(1) it is natural decline, like with age, as opposed to sudden, like with a stroke
(2) The player keeps playing

Take Archer, with 10,000 games in the system, for example. He was once (decade ago) around 790, was 766 beginning of 2024, and is 751 now. So he is currently going down at about 10 points per year.
If we compute his performance for his last 800 games (Feb 2025 to now), we get 753

Efren basically nearly stopped getting games into the system. So though his rating has gone down 20 points in the last 3-4 years, his actual skill could be declining faster. We don't know.
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