I recall a HawEye post in one of the cue threads. FnR I recall him saying he was going to Finland(?) to visit family and or enter a major in China and that's it.

Sorry to let this slip...travel and family kept me from looking at this for a few weeks. These are still available. Paypal is fine but I'd prefer friends and family to avoid their fee. Thanks. If you are still interested, shoot me an email and michaelsingsen@gmail.com and I'll be sure to see that message right away.

in a tournament no. but in a cash game yes you can tell your opponent what you will stand for or not.

its like a driver driving half the speed limit in a no passing zone.

Her bounce on the seat says it all.

Slow play in pool is the most annoying thing and is just as aggravating when encountered playing golf.
No shot in pool is so difficult you require more than 30 seconds to evaluate how to play it or what to do.
If you do rarely encounter a situation requiring more time, take a timeout. There should be 1 T/O per game.

ghost ball said:

I was in LA and used to head down to Hardtimes, Bellflower, in its hey day. This was when all top pros were hanging around including the Efren, Parica, McCready, Tang, Janette, etc were all there. Everyone was matching up with everyone. Everyone stayed away from Mark Tad. I remember just watching him on the back table all by himself practicing for hours. I think at the time, Efren was giving away the 8 to anyone except Mark. That speaks for itself.

I feel like he was only around for 2 years… shooting at that high speed. I know nothing about how he got there… other than his ability to focus.

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Efren wasn't giving the 8-ball to Buddy..guaranteed...

hello said:

Ok, now we ''know'' how Tadd was able to produce his run ;-)

But how do you know all this?? Are you a pool historian or did AI assist..?

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Matt_24 said:

I would agree that Mark Tadd's elite status shined during a very brief window of time but it did shine bright. Look up the LA OPEN I believe it was. Mark beat the best in the world in multiple disciplines. I just don't think his heart was in tournament play. I would ask that you search the forum for threads on Mark Tadd, and then argue that Mark definitely earned his own legendary status within our billiards history since so many people love to share stories of his mythic exploits.

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An esteemed member reveiled the field of the LA open, Tadd beat everybody ''but'' the best who were competing at the Desert Dust-Off.

fuggles said:

How do you enforce a shot clock on dozens of tables?

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You can have timekeepers on each table, as mentioned above for the first Atlantic City US Open, or you can use chess clocks. You could probably also do it with a camera and the right software -- where are the balls, when do they stop moving, when do they start moving again?

straightline said:

Speaking of absent, where's flakeandrun?

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You are correct, where is he? Troubling -- he is as close to a regular as we have. Off
working? He's already on the other side of the world so any movement would be closer toward us.

But I am so out of it, HawaiianEye's absence escaped me, and he is definitely a regular.

Someone needs to call roll at least once a month.

Ok, now we ''know'' how Tadd was able to produce his run ;-)

But how do you know all this?? Are you a pool historian or did AI assist..?

Either way, stupendous work, Sir

as far as those hitting the balls up table when it isn't necessary i tell them they have two choices if the don't want me to quit them after this game.

one stop doing it, or bet 5 times as much from now on each game.

mike was a nine ball and straight pool player. nick played all the games. both are two of the best that ever lived.
both had fans and haters as with all in life. both are great people away from the table.

fuggles said:

Dr Dave did a test of a few different chalks. One was the Taom. And as I recall there was no difference in the tip position and miscue between the various chalks. In my personal experience, and I've been using Taom exclusively for about 2 years, never noticed any issue with miscues.

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I think Bob’s point earlier was a good one. Dr Dave’s tests use meticulously chalked cues. It is possible that people either chalk differently with V10 or that it is more prone to miscues if you don’t chalk properly. I used V10 for a year and green Pagulayan for a year and didn’t notice any issues, however. I mean I do miscue but I’m pretty sure it’s no worse than any other chalk and I’m sure 95% of them at least are down to a bad stroke.

It is also possible that it may make the tip glaze more. I do think this may be true - I’ve had to use my Kamui gator to slightly rough up the tip a bit more than before.

Overall I think the occasional bit of tip maintenance and good chalking practice is worth the cleaner CB and table.

AtLarge said:

I checked Billiards Digest and Pool & Billiard Magazine. The only matches they mentioned that included Mark Tadd were the following (Tadd's score first in each match):

One-Pocket​

Steve Cook 2-3 (hot seat)​

Dave Matlock 3-1 (semifinal)​

Steve Cook 1-3 (final)​

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Bank​

Lou Butera 5-1 (hot seat)​

Donnie Anderson 5-2 (final)​

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9-Ball​

Bill Incardona 11-8 (6th round)​

Roger Griffis 11-3 (hot seat)​

Dennis Hatch 11-5 (final)​

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For an idea of the field strength, here (from P&B Magazine) are the top 12 finishers in each event:

One-Pocket​

1 Steve Cook​

2 Mark Tadd​

3 Dave Matlock​

4 Jose Parica​

5/6 Jeremiah Johnson, Dan Diliberto​

7/8 James Brown, Cecil Tugwell​

9/12 Jimmy Fusco, Wade Crane, Cole Dickson, Jimmy Reid​

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Bank​

1 Mark Tadd​

2 Donnie Anderson​

3 Lou Butera​

4 Bill Incardona​

5/6 Tony Fargo, Jose Parica​

7/8 Gary Spaeth, Shannon Daulton​

9/12 James Brown, Larry Humphreys, Tom Hardwood, Morro Paez​

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9-Ball​

1 Mark Tadd​

2 Dennis Hatch​

3 Roger Griffis​

4 Mike Defino​

5/6 Bill Incardona, Keith McCready​

7/8 Rodney Morris, Jose Parica​

9/12 Grady Mathews, Bill Cress, Tony Fargo, Bill Meachem​

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Tadd's winnings were $26,000 in total -- $5,000 for 2nd in One-Pocket, $6,000 for 1st in Bank, $10,000 for 1st in 9-Ball, and $5,000 in the Grand Prix (all-around prize)

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Man, thank you so much for going through the trouble of getting that info Its a bit like I suspected, in that apparently (for whatever reason) a lot of the ''big guns'' did not participate in that event.Where are Varner, Buddy, Sigel, Rempe, Davenport, Earl, The Miz, Efren etc.?I very much doubt that they all had been knocked out in the early stages and while its still a great feat to almost win three divisions in a tournament, now that I see the roster, to me, it becomes less impressive...

No.