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Why You Choke Easy Shots Under Pressure

gregcantrall
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Play that I am favorite . The easy stuff. Giving cheap lessons. The one and two or even quarter fifty, nine ball ring games.

Play that I am expecting to pay for a lesson. My visits to the 211 in Seattle definitely. 🤷‍♂️ I had a budget of well expected to pay more per hour than my day job paid. 🤷‍♂️
Some of my best lessons came playing Portland Slim last pocket 8 ball for 5 a game. He was in his 80s and I in my 30s. (74 now). He would get me down 7 or 8 games and then he started to tire and I could get back to even, learning the whole time. I then paid the time and bought him what he was drinking.

Practice of course.
A three legged stool.? Headscratch
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Need ideas/donations for my awesome charity

benjaminwah
I may have a place lined up, I have a family and a business to run and it's the holidays so this thread wasn't a priority this weekend.

I understand the scrutiny and welcome it. If someone is going to donate to ANY charity they should be curious about where their money or donations go.

I just donated some hand written lyrics to a Rock and Roll museum in Joliet. I went there, met the guy who runs the operation and got a great tour. If at any point I was suspicious or didn't like what I was seeing I would have left.
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SJM at 2025 Mosconi Cup: Way too Late Thoughts

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MattPoland said:
Just to "yes and..."

The USOPC receives a significant portion of U.S. broadcast revenue from the multi-billion dollar deal with the IOC and NBCUniversal to air the Olympics in the U.S. It also gets some corporate sponsorships with Nike, Coca-Cola, Visa, and others for marketing rights. It raises money from individuals, including one-time and recurring donors, as well as major gifts from wealthy patrons and foundations. The USOPC licenses the Team USA brand and selling Olympic-branded merchandise. And the USOPC and its affiliated foundations host gala events, auctions, and donor summits to raise funds directly. And I'm sure specific sports national governing bodies are prominent enough to do their own fundraising if their sport is prestigious enough (gymnastics).

The obvious issue for billiards is that the BCA doesn't receive any of that financial support from the USOPC. Of course pool isn't in the Olympics, just the World Games. Which doesn't preclude it from getting some USOPC support like bowling does. I'm sure if pool got in the Olympics it would go a long way to get access to USOPC funding. Maybe even participation in the Pan American Games would help its case. But I've heard the primary sticking point is that the USOPC only wants to work with a single national governing body (NGB) for a sport and the main deal breaker is that the BCA is not a unified North American governing body for pocket billiards, snooker and carom (it's just pool). Kind of like how the IOC only wants to deal with the WCBS, not the WPA. USOPC wants to deal with something that doesn't exist, not the BCA.

Your point is valid that any debates between socialism and capitalism aren't relevant. But I thought I'd contribute what appears to be the primary deal breaker for supporting our athletes under that umbrella. It's very hard to see how American pool talent develops outside the model of pool hobbyists supported by family at a very young age become motivated to "go pro one day" and find success commercially through events and sponsors. It's hard to see how we develop a structure that systematically develops talent without a major breakthrough on the commercial side of pool.
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just skip school and play pool all day, like jaybee sucal and the other pinoy kids🤘
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Need ideas/donations for my awesome charity

benjaminwah
maha said:
so do you do tattoos and or go over them and get paid for it. or you do it for free for the charity.

why would this charity need money? wouldn't any decent tattoo parlor help out these people for free? it isnt like they would have a big line of them out the door. be great for their business and a write off as well.

and why arent you trying to get these people a job and then they can just pay for it themselves. isnt that a better result.

and of course any charity should or has to publish where 100% of the money goes and is spent. and that should be included with when asking for the donation.
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All 501c3's have to provide their records upon demand. When you see these charities like BLM, the Red Cross etc getting blasted for where the money goes, that's why.
Most places are not just doing free tattoos. These are 100% free for the client. If I was in a situation where I could just do them for free I would. I am not. It's the best option for these people at the moment, if you can figure out how to provide a better situation please do.

"why arent you trying to get these people a job and then they can just pay for it themselves. isnt that a better result."
Man, if you only knew. the stories I hear are incredibly sad. these are people coming out of the worst years of their lives. Family bridges are burned. They usually have children. They are trying to get an education so they can get an actual job that isn't minimum wage. They have their kids in day care while they go to school., then the kids are either alone at home at night while they work or being driven around in the car with them while they door dash.
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Gun drill?

DeeRay86
I seen some comments about gun drills saying things like, they were suckers back when they bought them. They definitely could have been referring to where or who they bought them from. But it has me wondering how necessary they are. Im sure chip extraction and exact cutting diameter is a big reason for them. What else? Guys I know this may be a dumb rookie question to a lot of you so please understand Im looking to you for a lil help. I have spent a ton of money on equipment and somehow this is one tool I don't have. So $200ish is a lot if I can get away with a fraction of that. I am not looking to cut corners, just save where I can. Thanks fellas.
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Custom and High End Cues on the Decline?

cueman
skogstokig said:
mezz is japanese. but, referring to your previous post, do these people want cues that matches cf shafts to a higher degree?
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I was not addressing Mezz at all or any one China made brand cue in particular. I was stating that cue repairmen have been showing pictures of various China made stuff that is very poorly made. Yes of late people are often wanting butts made to match their collection of Carbon Fiber shafts.
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Predator Men's 10 Ball JAX

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jax_joe said:
Definitely seems this will be a standard event at Predator stops. Never been a fan of double but if they limit all the unnecessary talking back and forth I'll give it a shot.
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i have rarely managed to sit through a match with oliver szolnoki, but with his doubles partner muyan zhang in the last event it was actually a good watch. that girl will be a world champ one day.
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Need ideas/donations for my awesome charity

benjaminwah
middleofnowhere said:
If you boil it down, it sounds like he will provide the service but wants to be paid. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays my wife goes to the food bank, loads up her truck and distributions food to a number of families.

She doesn't ask to be paid. At the food bank they are all volunteers. Most of the food comes from Publix, Costco, Walmart and a few others. No one is getting paid. They do it because they want to.

Many years ago I got involved in a homeless feeding program. After a while I came to discover the money we were donating, I was giving $400.00 a month, was mostly being pocketed by the Priest who was running it. Food he said was being bought was actually donated.
Here's the thing, was he feeding people, yes. But he was also inriching himself.

One on one charity is a good way to help people. You can't help everyone but can make a small difference in the lives of a few. As far as the tattoo thing. It seems like the cost of a 2 inch cover up tattoo is not really that expensive.

Where is the money going that would be donated? It seems to the tattoo artist for his services. That's not charity, it's a revenue stream.
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I do take a portion for my services but it is minimal, less than half of what the tattoos would normally cost. Costs of running a business in Chicago are very high at this time. Many long running businesses are shutting their doors around me. All of our overheads, from supplies to utilities are way up. I have a few clients that run charities, most take a salary from their donations. I do not.
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