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WPBA Fine of $2,000

336Robin
JAM said:
There's some news circulating on Facebook that Sofia Mast was fined $2,000 by the WPBA for competing in the Ultimate USA Pool event earlier this year. It was stated that her sponsors (Olhausen and Pechauer) paid the fine, but they are currently in negotiations with WPBA to have the funds returned. I guess appealing the fine.

Kind of sad to learn this. Maybe that is what prompted Sofia announce that she wanted to go to culinary school, which I think is a good idea. She can still shoot pool, but culinary school will give her a skill set outside of pool.
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I've had the pleasure of working in toxic organizations in my career and this is exactly the sort of thing that toxic
controllers who (think) they have a self-interest to protect when in fact they probably don't.

It's sad on all levels and she is 17 yr. old child unable to enter a professional contract.
It's bad press and I hope it hurts them enough for them to understand they aren't anything without the players.

If Pool is entertainment and entertainment is where Advertising goes on, what do they think they just did to themselves
within the Pool world that operates on social media and forums?

I think they Suck in this regard and without a fairer response just keep proving it.
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Kaci, pro pool and prize money

David in FL
banged up said:
David, you didn't just move the goalposts on the league's profits—you completely moved them on player salaries too.
The Old Narrative You Are Relying On:
The old talking point was that WNBA players make next to nothing and the league is just a subsidized charity case.
The 2026 Reality:
Under the historic new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the entire pay structure completely fundamentally shifted:
  • The Salary Cap Pool: Exploded from $1.5 million per team in 2025 all the way up to $7 million for the 2026 season.
  • Average Player Salary: Has officially surged past $580,000.
  • The Baseline Minimum: Even a rookie coming right out of college now commands a $270,000 baseline minimum.
Your Double Standard on Goalposts:
First, you claimed the league shouldn't exist because it loses money. Proven wrong.
Then you shifted to "well, individual teams lose money."
Now you are trying to lean on the outdated myth that they make "next to nothing".
The Desperate Pivot Back to Pool:
And now, right on cue, you suddenly try to pivot the entire conversation back to pool's economy—which is completely irrelevant to what either of us were actively debating! You realized your WNBA facts were completely dead, so you ran back to a completely separate topic to find a safe zone.
A business does not multiply its employee payroll cap by nearly 500% in a single calendar year if it is a failing enterprise facing extinction. You are trying to fight 2026 financial balance sheets using 2018 talking points you heard on TV. It is a completely different world now. Changing the subject won't hide the scoreboard. Take the L and move on.




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I get it, you like the WNBA. Good for you. But try to understand my post in reference to this freaking thread.

Whatever pittance they get paid, why is it that the NBA pays its players a LOT more than the WNBA? Why does professional golf, baseball, football?

Again, it shouldn't be that difficult to understand.
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Right Side/Left Side

G
Mensabum said:
I've been noticing a tendency to undercut on the right side when shooting towards the left and vice versa when going right. I'm thin on one side and thick on the other. I'm guessing dominant eye plays a part. I'm not seeing the shot clearly and I could prolly use some glasses. I make a higher % of bright colored balls vs the darker balls on shots over 4 diamonds. That's a fact.
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Im not sure if it'll help but line up you're shot,get back up,move your feet left or right 1 inch and get back down and try those shots.
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Kaci, pro pool and prize money

banged up
David in FL said:
How so.

The point for this thread remains the same.

Pool pays poorly because it doesn't attract any viewership, advertisers, or revenue.

It shouldn't be very difficult to understand.
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David, you didn't just move the goalposts on the league's profits—you completely moved them on player salaries too.
The Old Narrative You Are Relying On:
The old talking point was that WNBA players make next to nothing and the league is just a subsidized charity case.
The 2026 Reality:
Under the historic new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the entire pay structure completely fundamentally shifted:
  • The Salary Cap Pool: Exploded from $1.5 million per team in 2025 all the way up to $7 million for the 2026 season.
  • Average Player Salary: Has officially surged past $580,000.
  • The Baseline Minimum: Even a rookie coming right out of college now commands a $270,000 baseline minimum.
Your Double Standard on Goalposts:
First, you claimed the league shouldn't exist because it loses money. Proven wrong.
Then you shifted to "well, individual teams lose money."
Now you are trying to lean on the outdated myth that they make "next to nothing".
The Desperate Pivot Back to Pool:
And now, right on cue, you suddenly try to pivot the entire conversation back to pool's economy—which is completely irrelevant to what either of us were actively debating! You realized your WNBA facts were completely dead, so you ran back to a completely separate topic to find a safe zone.
A business does not multiply its employee payroll cap by nearly 500% in a single calendar year if it is a failing enterprise facing extinction. You are trying to fight 2026 financial balance sheets using 2018 talking points you heard on TV. It is a completely different world now. Changing the subject won't hide the scoreboard. Take the L and move on.




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Kielwood Snooker Shafts?

G
I played alot of snooker and mostly used wood(10mm) shafts and the occasional switch to an ash 3/4 cue or 2pc that i still have. I never heard of Kielwood until recently and as far as deflection went if I could place the black on its spot and the CB on the brown spot and cut it in the corner with full side and hit the rail just by the side pocket the shaft was good.
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Funny pic/gif thread...

Rusty in Montana
Frosty said:
A friend and I recently had a discussion regarding the younger generations propensity for things such as unnatural colored hair dyes, piercings of all sorts, and that there doesn’t seem to be more than a small percentage of them that doesn’t have at least 1 tattoo, and that most of them are covered with them. Wouldn’t it be faster, and cheaper, and easier to just have a custom T shirt made that says “MOMMY AND DADDY DIDN'T LOVE ME ENOUGH, PLEASE LOOK AT ME”?
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What they forget is that they may get old skin may start to sag and stretch in ways they can't imagine then whatever will they do ? Ha ha
I've been asked if I have something against tattoos , I don't have anything against them what so ever , it's just not my thing besides I've been disfiguring my own body since I was a young kid getting more bumps , bruises and cuts not to mention surgical scares that I earned the hard way !

So why should I give someone some of my hard earned money to disfigure myself even more ha ha !
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Texas Petition for Olympic Pool(hard copy)- Frisco

TwistedTexasStyle
I am petitioning for the Governor of Texas to declare it is in the Best Interest of Texans that pool (cue sports) be included as an Olympic event in time for the Texas BiCentennial which coincides with the 2036 Olympic Games. It is an achievable goal and Texas has the ear of the world as the US Open Pool Championships and the Texas 9Ball Open approach. Since the birth of Texas in 1836 pool has been part of the States rich culture. As a Texan I am proud the loud and respected voice of Texas can be used to lead the call for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to make Pool a Gold Medal Sport! It is only fitting the timing coincide with the 200th birthday of Texas.

This is a call to action for other States and Countries to also raise awareness of the popularity of all the various types of cue sports to the point the IOC is compelled to include Pool in the Olympics. I am a Texan so it will not be hard find me at the pre-opening event Monday at Rollertown Brewery, inside and out at the US Open, at Snookers Billiard Hall or Stixx and Stones from the 24th-30th. This is a proper petition aimed at getting any form of cue sports into the Olympics, not a specific game. It asks for date, name, signature, age, county and zip code with an OPTION to leave contact information. Age is asked for to demonstrate that Texans of all ages, young and old, want pool in the Olympics. County, with a Zip code as a verifier to show the signer is a true Texan. Contact information is optional because I am not making spam list for politicians! I encourage especially the youth to sign for it is their future and us old farts who have long waited so long for this to come to pass.

For full disclosure, personally, I do not want just any form of pool in the Olympics. I want my game in the Olympics- Texas One Shot(TM). I may not be good enough at pool to be in the Olympics but my game is! If I was a betting man I would put my money on Pool being an Olympic sport by 2036 and that Texas One Shot will be played at least as a demonstration game at the 2036 Olympics. The odds must be extremely long for a game just 3 years on the market making it to Olympic play when Pool itself is not in the Olympics yet!

Pool before Pickleball

private message me if you want to set up a game in Frisco

Reed Moore
Twisted Texas Style LLC
TX1Shot.com

I will also be in Round Rock for the Texas 9Ball Open at Skinny Bob's over Labor Day Week. The Drive across Texas for Olympic Pool will began after the Texas Open concludes. From Dalhart to Brownsville and from El Paso to Texarkana I will drive across Texas seeking signatures and raising awareness of Pool and the Olympics and Texas One Shot following the trail of leagues across Texas. No one asked me to do this but a grassroots push is all that it will take to get pool into the Olympic Games. The hard part was done by others before me in getting the IOC to recognize Pool as a sport with an International Controlling Body. Viewership is up for Pool, now let the IOC find out how much pent-up demand there is for Olympic Pool.

RE- Define Olympic Pool ____Drain Olympic Pool ______Pool before Pickleball _____Texas One Shot featuring the Phat Rack


contribute to the Drive Across Texas for Olympic Pool and get a free 'Pool before Pickleball' bumper sticker
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