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Bergman will play WNT events in 2026

jay helfert
mikepage said:
You have a mental image of a "9-foot player" of a certain skill, say 600, who can go to a 7-foot table and adapt pretty easily.
And of a somehow similar "7-foot player" who struggles on a 9-foot table because he has less transferrable skills.
But those two players don't have the same rating.

You need to find better 7-foot players to do this right. Keep getting better and better players until you find some who after a little bit keep up with that 9-foot 600 when they go to a 9-foot table. Then we call them 600s and everybody else on the 7-foot table falls in line compared to them.

In other words, 600 is the same skill on both tables because we make it so. This is the same kind of balancing that connects the city to the countryside.
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Mike, I made no reference to Fargo ratings whatsoever in my post responding to Kris. Maybe you need to address this with him.
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One pocket match Allen vs Diliberto

jay helfert
CocoboloCowboy said:
Well this match happened in 1988 in a different World, different place, and Pool Rooms were still many. Saw Ronnie one at Baker's in Burbank, CA on Hollyweird Way he was a character. Read where he own a Room in North HollyWeird wonder if that could have been North Hollywood Billiards, sure Jay would know. There were two short segment inbedded in this U-Tube with instructional material, IMHO PUREGOLD.
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Ronnie's room was called Big Mommas. He was partners with Lenny Moore (aka Marmor), a noted gangster who was the basis for a character in the movie Casino.
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What's your favorite pool memory from 2025?

Island Drive
skor said:
It's been an interesting year for me.
Got back to the game and the world of pool after being a way for about 15 years.
Equipment changed, I changed, the top pro players have changed...
I signed up for an 8ball league and started to play in a weekly 9ball tournaments and been doing pretty good, much better than I thought that I would. Been getting into all the league's playoffs and last league I finished 2nd.
Won a bunch of the weekly 9ball tournaments and finished high in most of them.
Not a bad year.
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If your in a healthy demographic of players that can handle getting beat.... your in a good area.
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Who builds the Becue, full pool cues, and are they popular?

DJKeys
Slopopolis said:
For anyone that's used becue shafts with both the white and clear ferrules - do you have a preference? Is one lighter than the other? Stiffer?
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I have Prime II shafts, both 12.5mm. One has a clear ferrule, the other white. I prefer the white for sighting, and I also feel it has a crispier hit than the clear.

-dj
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Great Pool Room Stories

ShootingArts
David in FL said:
Lee Trevino famously said that pressure wasn't a 3' putt for $50,000. Pressure was a 3' putt for $5, when you only have $3 in your pocket...
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I have fired an air barrel twice. Once I was broke and two days without eating. That was a carefully played game. Another time I walked into a low dive over towards White Castle. It's six in the morning, I have been out all night, so have the two guys playing a hundred a game on the challenge table. This doesn't happen often. Two friends with me, time to form a corporation! I had almost forty dollars alone. After pooling our money I had almost forty-five dollars.

I told my two friends to watch the table. I was getting in. If something weird happened, bolt for the front door and we wouldn't look back until we had ten miles of highway behind us.

I got away with both air barrels. I never fired a third one.

Hu
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How Often Can You Run This?

iusedtoberich
straightline said:
Going the same route?
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When going one rail across with low outside from the 7 to the 8.... Twice I jammed the 7 because its a hard (fast) shot and I brushed the rail on the way in, hitting it too fat. Twice I hit it perfect, but then scratched one rail into the corner by the 9.

I found the best chance of getting from the 7 to the 8 was getting close and straight on the 7. Then, I could draw it straight back to either side of the 8 (depending on exact angle) with much higher chance of making the 7.
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