Tomorrow is the big day! Only about 12 hours away.

New cloth on both tables.

New light over the Diamond Professional.

It will be like Christmas come early!

straightline said:

That thing has nothing to think about. Pool shooter may have different thought cycles for every shot in a sequence and the pause can allow time to get one's bearings.

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You should know that before you ever get down.

you do need to go three rails or you may not get on the correct side of the 4 ball

you need to be about where you are now on that side of the 4. otherwise you start the progression to get out of position on the 6 to get an easy shot on the 8. then you can get into a bad spot and not get out.

think more balls ahead here.

PDX said:

I was going through some stuff and found this old box of Le Pro’s. IIRC, the ones smooth on the bottom are supposed to be the “good ones”, is that correct?

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Good ones, yes, then you can tap the group that shows Very little grain, and the sounds will tell you the hardness that hardened group which is likely to be what your looking for. Always used the good ones for the Players.
Prchased many boxes.... Ran a room for four yrs, had my own lathe set up at home.
I usually found 8-10 good hard Le Pros in the box, kept those.... others went on the Dufferin House cues.

I use Aramith diluted 20% and two drops per 8 balls. For a spray, I use Clean & Shine, got it from Seyberts. I get the balls spinning and pump twice over them. I like this alot also especially if not too dirty. I clean them maybe once every two weeks. I have to say though, with the Dynasphere Challengers I got awhile back you don't have to clean as often. They stay cleaner than even my Aramith Duramiths.
Rexus has his highly diluted mixture of Aramith that can be sprayed and he seems to get great results.

HawaiianEye said:

Does the pendulum on a clock pause?

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That thing has nothing to think about. Pool shooter may have different thought cycles for every shot in a sequence and the pause can allow time to get one's bearings.

Any other thoughts?

tim913 said:

You can work on this particular layout until you can miss the 8 ball, and get position on the 4 ball every time, so what? The balls will be layed out in a totally different pattern the next game you play, where you need to use the rails, and you’ll have the same problem.
As suggested earlier you really need to learn a rail system that works for you and helps no matter the layout of the balls or as you said in your opening post, you’ll always have this problem. I think it is especially important no matter your skill level to learn this

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He doesn't do that. He doesn't practice break shots, he doesn't set up problems and shoot them until he makes it more than he misses.

It's why a lot of people refuse to help, things like new cloth and rigged lights are what rents space in his head. He 100% doesn't want to get better unless it means buying something that will fix the one at the moment problem.

Been to so many tournaments probably hundreds. Played in so many tournaments, I got to tell you I really enjoy sitting at home watching them on my giant screen TV. Streaming is the best.

I've received a few J/B tips from Samsara about a year ago, they were selling for a good price (interesting why they don't have them on the web site anymore).
I haven't installed any of them yet so I can't say how they feel compared to a 17 years old Samsara tip I had in my tool box which I've installed.
But here are some pictures of the last batch I got from them if it helps






These were shot on a gray mat and the white balance was correctly leveled so these are true colors if your monitors are calibrated correctly (best to use an iPhone or iPad for accurate colors, not that there are much of them)

CocoboloCowboy said:

Your observation is a good one, I would be willing to bet Diamond has a Deal with Cesars to get some of the Room & Food Revenue. So it is win win for Diamond.

For year people have been complaining about the venue, food availability, price of restaurants. But until Pool Player & Spectators do not come, business will be as usual.

Never had to decide to go to DCC after it moved out of Lexington KY. Lexington has restaurants & lodging close to DCC location, but that was how it was before moving to middle of nowhere

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When was it in Lexington?

It all works for Diamond -- they make a boatload of money and tons of players enter from all over the world.

BUT

It is not for everyone. Maybe if you just go to spectate, or you're champion, or you just want to go and see what all the hullabaloo is about.

But it has long lost it's charm for myself and many other players that I know of. I wish them every success.

Lou Figueroa
their scheduling and
1pocket rules blow

I really like Fedor’s stuff. Works with one or two spritzes on the whole set.

-td