jalapus logan said:

Yes. Fargo rated handicapped tournies are all that are going in my area. It does de-motivate for sure. Hence, I only played in two all year. Won one, finished middle of the pack in the other. Spotting most of the time, sometimes quite a bit. I'm going hiking more this year. Pool rooms are for casual fun for this guy these days. Wait, then again, has anything changed?

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Bavafongoul said:

It sure seems like a lot of posters would benefit from reading and embracing Hal Mix’s Pocket Billiards Secrets.
Just because you’ve done something all your life, or a very long time, doesn’t mean you couldn’t perform better.

The issue becomes change is difficult and often seemingly impossible, for older players. Habits get formed that
are really hard to change and impatience takes control. They tend to become frustrated and revert to old habits.

Now that’s perfectly fine and basically they’ve limited their opportunity to improve other than through repetition.
They’ll practice, employ drills, hit lots of balls & pocket most too. The value and importance of center ball gets lost.

English is not needed or necessary on every shot, especially cut shots, when angular cut shots are so simple & easy
to predict & control cue ball location. But as long you can run the pool table, then you don’t need to change a thing.

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ChrisinNC said:

As it wasn’t Oscar’s poolroom, I’d be surprised if he had the proper tools with him and worked on tightening the rail bolts without the advanced consent of the owner/manager. If there were some missing rail bolts as he claimed there were, I would be even more surprised if he happened to have extra rail bolts with him to use.

It’s hard to fathom that a first rate poolroom like Brass Tap would have Diamond or Gold Crown tables that had missing rail bolts. That would certainly never happen when Tony Coates was the owner.

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SmoothStroke said:

I’m sure Guama, along with everyone and their mother, were aware Oscar touched the table. Why didn’t he refuse to play or adjust?
It’s a way out.

You need an attorney and heavy artillery to play big today. Oscar is better off at home playing for 50/100.

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bbb said:

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muskyed said:

Fit two replacement handles to the wheels of my Mid America Professional lathe today. The fixed handles they had were slightly inconvenient. Not only do these spin free, I made a little extender bar for the small wheel. Was pretty simple to upgrade, especially if you put them where the original handles were. Just take the original wheels off and punch out the fixed ones, then drill and tap, 10x24, for the new ones. Really simple great upgrade.
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Cuebuddy said:

I have spent a fair amount of time in Italy over the last five years. I was curious what part of the country these were manufactured at.
After studying Google maps I noticed that the Becue factory shares a wall with a company that produces carbon fiber products of many kinds, including tubes.
I am not a betting man but it seems likely that the company next door may be where they could get there tubes from.

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Kris_b1104 said:

Does anyone know the ending to Savannah vs Pia?

It was tied 1-1 set each, with Savannah leading 3-2 in the 3rd set, but the video went offline.

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