RunoutJJ said:

I was watching The Hustler the other day and I noticed something. The scene where Sarah came down the stairs at the mansion and told Eddie not to beg. That Burt was the man that broke his thumbs and it hit me!!!

Do you think that Burt put the word out on Eddie? The word to cripple him. Therefore getting Eddie to play for him? I know it sounds a bit crazy but another thing I noticed was when Burt came into the bar and he said to Eddie... Why the open bridge? Something wrong with the hands? Burt didn't see him take a shot when he said that

I could be reading way to much into it but I just caught that and it got me thinking of how dark and sinister Burt truly was.

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Pidge said:

After many years of cue sports followed by many years out of cue sports followed by a few months back in cue sports I've come to a realisation - aiming, by a long way, is the easiest part of any cue sport.

Playing with friends and family that have little to no experience it's apparent to me that they easily find the line of the shot, but for a multitude of reasons deviate off the line between getting down and striking the cue ball.

Why are people, especially beginners so quick to criticise their aim....MY AIM SUCKS!...We've all heard it. I never hear anyone shout that their PSR sucks, or they're terrible at keeping their head still.

It's a strange one.

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The_Brit_Pool_Player said:

I realize this is an old thread but, a question came up recently regarding double elimination tournaments and the reporting of the final 'playoff'

It seems pretty normal, when getting to the last games, that the 'hotseat' player simply offers to split the money to save having to play more games (it's often getting late by this point) and in the majority of case the person (with 1 loss) accepts 2nd place and a bigger share of the 'pot'

Let's say the winners bracket played a run to 3....if the tournament director enters 3-0 final win (even though they didn't play) this will go off to Fargo.

I know most software (Challonge for example) will accept 0-0 and a selection of the winner's name...and then close out the tournament. Surely this is a better option when this situation arises rather than give someone a false score but, does Fargo accept 0-0 into the system or does a score have to be entered? even if it was (say) 1-0.

Hope that makes sense LOL

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Mainplayer said:

a foul.

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