Taxi said:

SVB, Gorst, Styer and Bergman should be there. For the 5th slot it'd be between Thorpe, Hohmann and Sky, and based on recent performance at this point I'd go with Thorpe, even if he's skanked his last few MC appearances and doesn't appear on the current ranking board.

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I would prefer Sky over Thorpe but I agree with the rest of your list.

jay helfert said:

You called it "An unexpected pleasure chatting with him and Mike." He is and was a con man Stu!

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Yes, it was a pleasure. We spoke for less than two minutes and Kevin was courteous and showed enthusiasm for his attendance at the US Open 9ball. He was there as a fan sweating matches in the bleachers, and he sat toward the back of the venue. He addressed me as a fan of the game and that is how I addressed him.

If I steered clear of chatting with all who have done hard time in prison, I'd have to steer clear of a lot of professional pool players. We both know who they are, and I'd be surprised if you don't enjoy chatting with some of them. Would it bother you to know that I also chatted with Rodney Morris at the US Open 9ball last week? In America, most of us view people who have done hard time as having paid their debt to society.

Yes, I do speak to a few people who have done hard time and, yes, sometimes it is an absolute pleasure.

Kris_b1104 said:

Anyone who has 2 and half hours of free time in their day and chooses to use it by watching a Pinegar match...bless your heart.

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Dennis Orcollo vs Shane Van Boening
9-ball, Race to 120, 3 days event
At least $200k in the middle
October 23–25, 2020, at Bill's Billiards in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Hand down the best 9-ball showdown thus far!!!

Put this shit on ESPN pay per view and get those betting companies to sponsor, BOOM! Only way for pool to get big QUICK!!! You can try a do-it-right for the game good in a "long run" shit, but it ain't working for the last 30-40 years, so need some changes.

jasonlaus said:

I honestly hated the finals, the breaks were way too long, found myself watching TV most of the time.

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Of course, we would all prefer our live sports without commercial breaks, but this was on ESPN2 television, and they would have been dictating the number of and length of commercial breaks. In baseball, you get a commercial break every half inning. In NFL Football, there is a commercial break after most possession changes and after scoring plays. Do you hate watching those sports, too?

Island Drive said:

It's 12-12 he's breaking.... he Has to roll out and give Captio good access to the 2 ball, but earlier Capito missed the exact same type shot to the same pocket with the three ball? earlier on he missed the pocket completely just like here.

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When I watched the shot in replay he undercuts the ball a fair bit and the CB comes to the rail a few inches from the scratch in the corner pocket. If he cuts it thinner he’s obviously going closer to the scratch. Perhaps that was in the back of his mind?

skor said:

Yes
Doesn’t have to be a fancy rack, but the plastic ones don’t freeze the balls.

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Dont blindly dismiss a material...the Diamond plastic triangle is excellent.

jbart65 said:

Not dismissing it. I just think it’s the second biggest event in pool. Just a hair behind the U.S Open.

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Lol.

Tell um, cowboy.

I actually did see Stu in the finals, during Capitos turn at 12-12, he was in the crowd sitting slightly looking down on the table.

Bob Jewett said:

I think it's probably better to get the rules directly from the WNT website than to go to Scribd.

https://worldnineballtour.com/wpnpc

Here is the current pertinent section:

7. Unsporting Conduct

(a) In the event of

(i) any conduct by a player which in the opinion of an official is willfully or persistently Unsporting; or ​

(ii) any other conduct by a player which otherwise amounts to Unsporting Conduct; or ​

iii) any player refusing to continue the current rack; an official shall warn the player that in the event of any further Unsporting Conduct the rack will be awarded to their opponent. ​

(b) If the official has warned the player under (a) above, in the event of any further Unsporting Conduct, the official shall award the rack to their opponent, or, if this happens between racks, the referee shall award the next rack to their opponent, and the official shall warn the player that in the event of any further Unsporting Conduct the match will be awarded to their opponent.

(c) If an official has awarded a rack to a player’s opponent, under (b) above, in the event of any further Unsporting Conduct by the player concerned, the official shall award the match to the player’s opponent. [/URL]

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yeah definitely better to go direct to source, my googling skills let me down as don't think that page came up in my search, but looks like it says the same thing as the scribed page.

Which begs the question did Pinegar get docked a rack, or was Elliot mistaking thinking he had two warnings or did Matchroom just not follow their own process? If they should have awarded Elliot a rack he subsequently lost, then that means hypothetically it could potentially have been 7-7 and a deciding rack if the correct process was followed

Bob Jewett said:

I think they just don't see any reason to trim the mushrooming. The standard reason to do so is that the edge might tear more easily. Is that true?

A possible factor is that they seem to use more fibrous tips and those are harder to trim without bringing out a fringe of fibers.

Another possibility: pool players notice mushrooming more when using a closed bridge and a long backstroke. There are some pool (and carom) players to bring the tip through the bridge on some shots.

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My assumption was always that it allowed the player to have a smaller shaft diameter (and thus less deflection) while preserving the benefits of a larger tip.

I did just do some googling and found this from 20 years ago:

“The reason why players have been adopting the mushroom tip is because in theory that the bigger surface area on contact means there is less chance of miscueing and putting unnecessary side on the cueball.

However, there is a disadvantage with the oversized tips is that it makes playing off the cushion much harder. You have to raise your bridge higher so you don't catch the tip on the cushion which makes the shot more difficult.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/articles/2006/04/27/cue_doctor_tip_advice.shtml

It also brought up an old AZ thread:

Mensabum said:

He likes stirring the pot.

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garczar said:

What did the SupremeCourt justice say about pornography? "I can't describe it but i know it when i see it" I can't define a cue's hit but i know it when i feel it. Everyone has their own aspects of a cue's hit/feel that they feel is important. PJ has played long enough to know that there is no definite answer to this.

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He likes stirring the pot.
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