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$1.5M first place prize for Chinese tournament next week

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kingwang said:
I've never seen Ko so stressed and frantic at the end there.
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kingwang said:
Post match interview with Ko about how it feels to lose a heartbreaker like that: Login to view embedded media No, your right - they do favor mixing in international players for viewership. Foreign (including Taiwan and Hong Kong) players get to skip directly to the stage two draw, which skips a large chunk of the tournament. It both incentivizes participation by foreigners and reduces the chances of a monotonous final stage.
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glad he can still smile post match
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Wht did they use a Balabushka cue in the film "The Color of Money"?

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CajunPopeye said:
It's currently the n7. It was the j18.
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The actual Joss cue used in the 1986 film The Color of Money was a custom, one-of-a-kind prop (there were 2 or 3 iirc) made by Dan Janes. It did not have diamond inlays in the butt sleeve. That design element is said to have been left out to make the cue show up better on camera.

The J18 had the diamond inlays.
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cue ID help

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Chopdoc said:
That depends on the level. Millions of lower level cues were made in Japan, even of ramin wood.

It was partly the low end cue market that made raminwood endangered, along with the furniture market. The mass production of low-end pool cues had a noticeable and highly concentrated impact on the depletion of ramin wood. Ramin wood in Japan is a highly regulated now, because of heavy over-exploitation, it is strictly controlled under CITES regulations, and direct imports to Japan have significantly declined

Both Adam and other Taiwan and China makers like Kao produced a wide spectrum of quality cues.

What has happened now is that when people see a better made Asian cue they say it is Adam, and if it is less well made they say it's not, probably Kao. It's not accurate, it's a more or less hit and miss assessment. Add to that fact that there have been millions made with no logo or branding.

We have been down this road before. I have a number of examples, but this is the one I repeatedly use.

This is a Kao made cue that was MSRP $500 in 1992. That is $1,454 today.

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I see. Very nice cue. The point I was trying to make is that, with Adam cues, the quality seemed to go down hill, after the mid 90's, at least for awhile. Not sure. But those 97, and 98 Series Helmstetter cues just did not look that good Uneven points and lop sided inlays. Here is a 86-16 Helmstetter that I had. The 86 series were very nice. Fairly even points, and really good inlay work, I think. The 97 series just looked like garbage, in comparison. Playing with both, I could really notice a big difference too. I felt that the older Helmstetter cues played far nicer.
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How far would you travel for league?

ShootingArts
The last time I competed fairly regularly I lived on the West End of the twelve mile bridge. Crossing that bridge took between twelve minutes and close to three hours.

I had a major surgery. Allowed two hours for the drive, took closer to three. I wasn't worried, unlike a pool tournament, they wouldn't start the surgery without me! Allowing two hours to cross twelve miles of bridge was annoying. Often I crossed it in twenty minutes or less. Could be worse, I was coming in from the West. The variance was an even bigger swing from the North!

A weekly show, less than an hour. I used to fee the same way about work, more than hour drive and it felt like I deserved travel pay!

Hu

Hu
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How far would you travel for league?

ShootingArts
The last time I competed fairly regularly I lived on the West End of the twelve mile bridge. Crossing that bridge took between twelve minutes and close to three hours.

I had a major surgery. Allowed two hours for the drive, took closer to three. I wasn't worried, unlike a pool tournament, they wouldn't start the surgery without me! Allowing two hours to cross twelve miles of bridge was annoying. Often I crossed it in twenty minutes or less. Could be worse, I was coming in from the West. The variance was an even bigger swing from the North!

A weekly show, less than an hour. I used to fee the same way about work, more than hour drive and it felt like I deserved travel pay!

Hu

Hu
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