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• The table is open after the break, no matter how many balls drop.
• Groups are not assigned until a player legally pockets a called shot after the break.
• But if one group is completely gone, the remaining group is automatically assigned to the incoming player.

ShootingArts said:

Only 1.4 or 1.5 Billion people in china. How many unknown pool players can there be!(grin)

I doubt there is or was ever a road player that didn't run into a chainsaw now and then, a local with no name! I wonder how many people in china are on the net? How many pool players? Even a couple decades ago the pool hall regulars here didn't know how to turn on a computer unless it was job related!

340 million in the US. If there were any way to prove it I would bet the farm that there are more than a dozen unknown players that nobody wants to bet their own money against. I spent a fair amount of time at Buffalo's when I lived down thataway before Katrina. It was damned rare anyone picked up a phone and took a picture! How many times have we seen somebody trying to ID a player on this huge AZB site? It happens, but usually after the skinning and not very often even then.

I believe monsters lurk even right here in the US. china? Hell yeah! I don't know what it would take to bring them out though.

Hu

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BankT8Ball said:

Ken,

I'm not sure if the ebony Tomahawk cue is
more common one. I've seen a lot more of
the OP posted cue than the ebony one over the
years but thats just me.

The green Tomahawk cue is probably very
hard one to find. Just about as hard to find like the
Meucci original brochure that I have and the Meucci rotating display
case with cabinet.

Mike

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BlueRaider said:

Is it possible to reach the top 75 globally in anything as an adult, even if you start your journey as a strong amateur? I say no unless it's something extremely niche.

Reaching 800 would put him one point ahead of John Morra. He'd be 5 points behind Chris Melling and Jeff De Luna. Guys who each have decades of pro tournament experience and significant titles. That just seems absurd on the face of it.

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Philthepockets said:

Is this ruling correct?

If you break in 8‑ball and all seven balls of one group (all solids or all stripes) drop on the break, the ruling is actually very simple — and it’s the same across all major rule sets.

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Pocketing balls on the break does not give you ball‑in‑hand or any special continuation. The break is always considered its own turn. Once the balls stop moving, your inning ends unless you pocketed the 8‑ball (which is a separate rule).

So even if you made all seven solids (or all seven stripes):

• You do not continue shooting
• Your opponent comes to the table
• Your opponent is automatically assigned the other group
• Your opponent must shoot at the remaining seven balls of their group

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thenuke said:

Allen Hopkins in my opinion was the best all around player, say 1980 - 1985. One of his proposition bets was to throw out all 15 balls

on the pool table and run all 15 without the cue ball hitting a rail. I personally witnessed this in either 1979 or 1980. It was the year that

he won $112,000 at The Rack in Detroit playing 1-pkt. He told me that he left thousands in $20 bills with the houseman as sort of security that he

could walk out with the rest of the cash

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