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New Room in San Francisco's Mission district called 'The Hall'

L.S. Dennis
A similar place opened in SF during the early to mid 90's following the Color of Money boom called The Great Entertainer. It too had great food (a complete sit down restaurant a beautiful bar featuring all kinds of beers and spirits. This room was big with private rooms with pools tables and glass doors, a main floor with around 45 Gold Crowns, two snooker table and a billiard table. It had a full schedule of USPPA and NPL tournaments and leagues during the week (in fact I played in one of Bob and Gene's NPL tournaments). It also had a parking lot, but it too could not defy the laws of economic gravity and had to close in just short time. We'll see what happens with this new place,,
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The Banker is Back!

MattPoland
realtor1618 said:
If they were playing a big money nine ball match who are you taking? I wouldn’t be betting on a blowout but I would be on Oscar. I think it would be a good match to make actually.
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I’ll concede the point that Oscar is the favorite against Billy in a race to 100 if you concede Billy has a better shot at beating Moritz in singles in a race to 5 with an unruly drunk crowd and adrenaline spiked to the max.

Because stats don’t lie. Oscar is yet to win a singles match against anybody in MC and he’s not getting younger. He’s a grinder. Which also means he’s not a front runner. He’s just a guy that doesn’t give up. That’s not the best skills for a race to 5. Same with SVB these days. But he still comes out of the gate with a better gear. Not a great one, but a better one.
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Do you see Challenge (winner stays on / quarters on the rail, waiting to play the winner) tables going on anymore?

Protractor
middleofnowhere said:
What pleasure did you get on that?
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I did the same thing. There were too many drunk cowboys & rednecks that liked to fight that would put their quarters down. I was doing it for the practice and since the stakes were never high, I could shoot all night for free without getting my ass kicked. I only played guys I knew for money.
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Chasing that Pool 'Jones'

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jjohnson said:
Chasing that Pool 'Jones'

Some guys don't get it. Pool doesn't do it for them.
But we get it. We know why. We feel it. And that's enough.

Why do you shoot when you shouldn't shoot?
It is the reward you are anticipating if you make the shot.
It's that dopamine rush that you're going to get.
That's what you're chasing.

Yet it's this anticipation that is overriding your better judgement.
You can't help yourself even though you know better.
So you only get disappointed when you miss.
No reward.
You are your own worst enemy.

If this isn't bad enough, let's say you do everything perfectly.
And you're feeling confident that you're going to make the shot.
But just before you pull the trigger, that hint of doubt creeps up.
You can't help but think: "Damn, I'm not sure I can make the shot."

Where does this doubt come from?
Well, you're not entirely confident because you're still learning the game.
You don't truly know what you're doing.
Now this haunting lingering doubt doesn't help.
Now guess what?
You come off of the shot.
Maybe just a little.
Imperceptibly at first then a cascade that leads to failure.
And disappointment.
No reward.

But you persevere because of the potential for a dopamine rush reward.
You keep on trying.

So be smart.
Think efficiently.

Ultimately, you are in control.
So be in control by taking control.

And enjoy your rewards.
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Someone suggested reading the book "The inner game of tennis" and it's an eye opener, the book is really about how your brain processes information, it's a great read and the only time it doesn't work is when you don't follow what you have learned.
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Tip life

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skor said:
If you play 6 to 10 hours a week and you don't smack the balls, a soft tip could last up to a year.
Thing is with soft tips is that they compress and get harder with time and loose their softness, this might cause miscues if not scuffed often.
For me, soft tips loose their characters really fast, like 5-6 sessions. I switched years ago to hard tips, they are more consist but require some learning curve with tip placement and stroke not to miscue.
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Every tip has about the same miscue limit but a hard tip will let you know when you don't stroke the ball properly, just lived it, 2 balls left on the table for me to win, had a long draw stroke shot to gain position so I loaded up on my stroke and launched the cueball into the corner pocket like a hole in one, the worst part is I didn't need to "load up", it's an old habit I'm still trying to break, by "loading up" I didn't follow through, I have practiced that shot at least 50 times in the last few days and really started working on the fundamentals of my stroke.
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