The problem is not with your daughter who would treat her dad’s stuff with respect knowing it’s important to you and you were trusting her. I have no problem with that part. You wouldn’t be asking the question if you did not trust her at her word.

The problem is with her juvenile friends and burdening her with the responsibility of making sure all her friends are careful and respectful is a shitty task to bear. Then the question is does she become so distracted she doesn’t enjoy herself. Or worse, has to correct or chastise one of her friends for not listening to what she told them about being careful.

I’d lay down the law to the kids as a group before letting them know this is a test of their growing up and acting responsibly. You trust your daughter and she trusts them so don’t disappoint her and they had better not disappoint you either. Enjoy your time and here are the rules…..

I'm trying to figure out why people that aren't involved are trying to alter a tournament that had 51 happy players come out on a Wednesday night.

The things you are suggesting are on other Wednesday nights. There's a rotation.

jnwilliams said:

OK- I have a mancave/barndominium 150 yards from house that the Lord gives me great peace in. Diamond professional 8'. I take great care of my stuff...keep my pool room pretty spotless.......My 14 year old daughter had a few friends over and wanted to go shoot pool with her friends...without dad, of course......

What say ye?

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No

SeniorTom said:

Tbh, I don't see the advantage of playing with a synthetic tip , at least not the soft one . I have been playing with the bulletproof synthetic soft tip for about a year now , and it still mushrooms like a leather tip . I don't have any complaints about this synthetic tip, but it does mushroom . I have had even others tell me the same thing when I showed it to them. I haven't tried anything but the soft , and wonder how the medium and hard hold up as far as mushrooming .

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I don't think the green hard mushrooms at all. It's not ungodly hard, something like a good le-pro after it's well broken in. It's not in the realm of break tip hard, just like a hard leather.

gregcantrall said:

Start with the 3 Stooges

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Rubik's Cube said:

Is anyone aware of an earlier ‘black’ set than Raschig’s 1983 Four Players?

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Any chance that seller has another set?
Have contact info?

The more complete version.

The Simple Rules.

Cameron Smith said:

A Fargo Rating isn’t an absolute prediction. If you watched two 650-rated players compete every day for a couple of weeks and one consistently outperformed the other in both execution, knowledge and match results, then there may be a discrepancy. But on any given day, either player might perform well above or well below their established level. A Fargo Rating is essentially an estimate of a player’s long-term average playing strength, not a prediction of how they’ll perform in any single match.

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I generally agree with this, but of course Fargo only measures match results. It’s blind to how you win or lose a game.

One easy example is the OP’s question about women players. You can look at many 700 level women players and rightly say their breaks aren’t on par with their male counterparts with the same rating. But if so they must do something else better than their male counterparts -maybe they play better patterns, or kick better or whatever. At least in my area there aren’t enough women’s events so the women players play against men all the time and their Fargo will reflect that.

This can be a problem when someone says that they saw a 650 who doesn’t play as well. Maybe that 650 doesn’t run out as much as other 650s. But maybe he plays smart safeties. Or maybe he plays bad patterns and just relies on exceptional shotmaking to bail himself out. Or maybe the 650 is on fire and playing like a 750 - then they probably have off days when they play well below 650.

Took long enough.

jnwilliams said:

OK- I have a mancave/barndominium 150 yards from house that the Lord gives me great peace in. Diamond professional 8'. I take great care of my stuff...keep my pool room pretty spotless.......My 14 year old daughter had a few friends over and wanted to go shoot pool with her friends...without dad, of course......

What say ye?

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No drinks around or on the table.
Do any of them know how to how a cue?
Give them the rules & a few pointers on how to hold the cue, stop the cue ball, treat the equipment & turn em loose.

Let them give it a shot, with you present at first. Teach them a few basics, and introduce them to the game. Get a few house cues, maybe an extra set of "cheaper" balls... I'd be curious if pool is the reason they want to use the space.
Good luck.

Oh if you drop hints of super secret spy that perhaps or uh most possible Grampa has the room under servailence. Don't need it just make them think that perhaps. Of course a top notch sound system mechanic could provide incredible security at affordable price.
Of coarse the system could serve as a teaching tool as well. So yeah I can justify the expense to the book keeper.
Just have a monitor near the table. Sheesh a 14 year old could teach me that part. Shrug

Black-Balled said:

Worse...?!?!?

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The reverse ATM.

Yup, 100% let her. If they are kids you allow your daughter to hang out with, then you should know them and trust them.

You have the right to give them rules and explain the cost of violating those rules.

Accidents will happen, so what?

A Fargo Rating isn’t an absolute prediction. If you watched two 650-rated players compete every day for a couple of weeks and one consistently outperformed the other in both execution, knowledge and match results, then there may be a discrepancy. But on any given day, either player might perform well above or well below their established level. A Fargo Rating is essentially an estimate of a player’s long-term average playing strength, not a prediction of how they’ll perform in any single match.

show them, teach them.. grow interest