ShootingArts said:

It is surprising how few people are gambling while waiting to be called.





I have seen six or eight hour calcuttas! Typical start time reads, calcutta starts at seven, tournament immediately after calcutta. We have a guy that I think is the world champion calcutta auctioneer putting together the quarter million dollar plus calcuttas but it takes time, lots of time. Somebody else doesn't get a fourth the money, or take a fourth the time!

In fairness, I quit going to these events so I don't know if what I am saying is accurate today.

Hu

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You cant shoot pool while the calcutta is going on otherwise I wouldn't mind so much.

JLSACESUP said:

My 1963 Valley 770 table has this coin slide.
I want to make my coin-op table coinless. If you have been successful doing this, please let me know how you did it.
Thanks in advance.

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I cant remember what I did on mine, it was at least 5 years ago but I was able to figure out how the coin allowed the slider to go all the way in and I disabled the locking mechanism so you could push it all way in with no coin. It was only a single quarter slide. It wasn't anything permanent so I can change it back to a working coin mech if I wanted. I originally had the glass door off but our cat kept crawling inside the pool table thru the opening.

Somewhere I think I still have one small trophy I won in some local tournament in the late 80's. It's the only one I ever won. I didn't think it was a big deal. In fact I just remembered it while visiting this thread.

I also have two trophies I won in a local custom motorcycle show for a chopper I built 25 years ago. I didn't enter it in the show, my friend did without me knowing. I was just there to hang out and look at bikes. I went back to the bike at some point and it had a number on it, an entry in the show. It's a vintage Triumph chopper, I still have it. It turns out a girl at that event liked the bike, she had asked me to enter it and I declined. So, she went to my friend and he did it. She was a bit of a cutie, barely dressed, and went around the event drumming up votes for the bike, pretty much "showing off" herself as I am sure you can understand. I think it's hilarious how the bike won two trophies. Somewhere I have a picture of me and her with the bike. They also took a professional photo of me with the bike for a magazine. I have a big print of that somewhere.

I have those two trophies around somewhere too.

I think I treat such things as "been there done that, once is enough". And even then I mostly don't seek such things out. I even treat my professional career that way. I don't care about my CV and haven't for 15 years. The awards, degrees, certificates etc. that I earned are packed away. I don't care about them much. I don't have a "glory wall" in my office.

I think the real trophies are my memories.

dr_dave said:

FYI, I just posted a new video that covers the WaxGate saga in great detail in this new thread:

WAXGATE and the Effects of Slick Cloth and Waxed Balls​

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I like how you are getting on this topic. While I have seen your clips about throw and induced throw effects with different cleaning agents, I knew that CB and even OB will behave differently under certain cleaning agents. Those are scientifically true.

But lets face it, what you have pointed out about experiences and compensations of different conditions is also true. I think this is where the magic of Pools and Billiards are...aka...interesting hobby. If without those elements, it wouldnt be interesting. Fedor banana carom into 9 was an amazing shot, and he knew well enough if that missed, the 9 would have been there for the taking.

So the question is, how did Fedor compensate so well while Kaci did not ? Was it all because of Wax ? Nahhh, you are just less experiences and knowledgable than you thought you were. That is it.

But also, we couldnt use Wax on Fedor Gorst banana shot into 9 as an excuse to aay CB was Waxed....because Biado did not use gloves and did not do any funky roll as anyone suspected at all. So how come the CB was that slick ?

Dont all Pros and tournaments happen on slick brand new cloth with new set of the balls and...not sure what the team used to clean the balls. But if they used Aramith official cleaning agents then there are Wax in it for sure...which case...is not the players fault and should never be pointed out to defame such players that way
But how do you do it under millions of views and REF ?
In the end, what I am saying is that scientifically Wax and substances will make ball behave differently. But if you used those evasive behaviors of balls and blame on for your losses, you are just a sore losers. Elusive ? Because different wax has different effects as Dr.Dave pointed out

How did the waxing of the cue ball even become a thing? I mean who intentionally plays pool like that, I can maybe see it for trick shot stuff but regular pool???

Mensabum said:

If I'm gonna stick someplace that long, it's not gonna be for some petty tournament pot. For those long ass hours?? I never wanna work that hard. I'd rather be downstairs in a 9 straight hour ring game, losing my ass but having a ball , than sitting around for six hours waiting for some TD to call my number.
Ugh.

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It is surprising how few people are gambling while waiting to be called.

fastone371 said:

Our local tournaments typically say calcutta at 9 tournament play at 10, it takes 3 hours to get thru the calcutta. If they got thru it in the hour they planned we could start 2 hours earlier.

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I have seen six or eight hour calcuttas! Typical start time reads, calcutta starts at seven, tournament immediately after calcutta. We have a guy that I think is the world champion calcutta auctioneer putting together the quarter million dollar plus calcuttas but it takes time, lots of time. Somebody else doesn't get a fourth the money, or take a fourth the time!

In fairness, I quit going to these events so I don't know if what I am saying is accurate today.

Hu

billiards_watch said:

Don't forget when they use to actually give trophies. I had a friend who had a storage unit and they were filled with nothing but pool trophies. He didn't play in leagues it was something he accumulated through various tournaments.

That was a regular joke...give us the money that it costs to order that trophy. LOL

I always get a kick out of the trophy being to be presented .

Now a gold bracelet would be different.

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When I was a kid i was in a junior bowling league and we had an awards banquet at the end of the year. I was embarrassed because I got like 8 trophies for that league and nobody else got anything. They would announce what the award was for then say the name of the winner, they started handing 2 trophies to me at once.

FYI, I just posted a new video that covers the WaxGate saga in great detail in this new thread:


Here's the video:

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Our local tournaments typically say calcutta at 9 tournament play at 10, it takes 3 hours to get thru the calcutta. If they got thru it in the hour they planned we could start 2 hours earlier.

I'll take it. Please PM me payment info.