jay helfert said:

on a par with the best men snooker players.

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Not rooting against her, but nope. Her best win on the men's tour is against a player ranked 75th.

We can revisit this in a couple years.

AtLarge said:

Oliver Ruuger next, I see. That should be a good challenge; play well, Lou!

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As always, sparring outside my weight class, lol.

Thanks, Large.

Lou Figueroa

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I’d love to resurrect this discussion. Dr Dave did highlight some of the same talking points. Increasing speed having a better effect due to the kinetic energy equation squaring velocity. There being diminishing returns going too light or too heavy. And the little difference within the sweet spot range because there’s a plateau in the ideal range. And he emphasizes that a lighter cues benefits those with ample fast-twitch muscle fibers and a slightly heavier cue benefits those without. I’m also seeing articles saying older men have 2-3x less fast twitch muscles than younger men but slow twitch muscle deterioration isn’t nearly as pronounced (old man strength).



Kinda means the older you get the more you might want to shift to a heavier break cue. And it is still individualistic whether you’re a normal adult, athlete, body builder (explosive training) or body builder (bulk training), etc. Maybe the ideal range is between 17-20 oz. And maybe you start in the lower end and work over to the upper end with age? But what happens as you really age? Is there a time where a 22, 25, or even 27 oz cue would make sense? Certainly there are rulesets that ban heavy cues. Would a 27oz cue be outside the range of reason always or would a 70 year old man likely get benefit from it? Or again is his ideal more likely 22oz? How do we quantify this knowing its individualistic but there has to be ranges that makes sense for 95% of young men, middle aged men, and old men and the physics support defining that range.

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Dr. Dave Article

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People who are APA 2s and 3s buy expensive break cues.

They can't even control a playing cue yet, but they think they need a break cue to shoot maybe two breaks a night with and they still haven't mastered hitting the head ball squarely.

Go figure.

jay helfert said:

More Pool Wars is also out there in Kindle version. IUniverse has the publishing rights so they sell them everywhere, in paperback or kindle. They also wholesale them to book dealers. That's why you can find cheaper versions of my books then I sell them for. I think I get about a dollar for every book they sell for me. Gas money!

Go to Amazon and look for the Kindle edition. It's on there. Also on a few other Kindle websites, Barnes and Noble and a couple of others. I get a royalty check (very small) every three months. Still amazes me that people buy this book to this day.

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Think I can get it via. Amazon, then can add it to my GF kindle. Think she needs to run the file through a software or something, as Amazon/kindle is defunct here in China now. She still uses her kindle with a little magic, so hopefully I can get it. Thanks

GoldCrown said:

It's not the table....Someone ruined yours. What exactly is wrong with it? Not level. Wrong or poor cushion installation? Slates damaged.

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I don't know.

I just know it plays really tough and stingy. Balls typically will go in on the break but it seems like rarely does it give up a decent runnable spread.

I suppose it might just be me.

When I get the new Diamond Professional if the same thing happens I will then have a pretty good idea of what the deal is.

r/DCP

jay helfert said:

Six Ball is a joke with BIH! Any top player will run out all day playing that way. It's also a gaff game. Very had to make a ball on the break. So if you give up the break you become a big favorite. Worked for me many times!

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I will take the break on a bar table all day in 6 ball.

jeephawk said:

Lou wins! Congrats @lfigueroa !

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Gracias.

Lou Figueroa

So, for unimaginable reasons, I am still in and, according to the TD (who is somehow able to decipher the tournament chart hieroglyphics) I have made it to the last 16 and am in the money (small money).

Had Marc Vidal, with me needing one to his four for the set and I let him get away (damnit). After two 3-2 nail biter wins today I play again tomorrow at 2. I have no buy back. Miracles happen. God bless us, every one.

Lou Figueroa

Just get an AI Robot to play for you problem solved, if you wanna spend a lot of money on equipment be my guest knock yourself out it's not my money.

Island Drive said:

''I had a hard time with him.''
Well said Jay.... it's what I would of thought.
Did Cole play Ed Kelly?

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Probably when Kelly first came out west, but I have no knowledge of it. I saw them together several times in L.A. area poolrooms and they never tried to make a game. They probably had a history I don't know about. I do know Kelly traveled to the Bay area in the late 1960's and maybe they met up then. Kelly was probably the favorite over a teenage Cole. He was only the best All Around player in the world at that time. Cole would have had zero chance against him at One Pocket. 9-Ball would have been a shootout.

straightline said:

Keith's description matches Vince perfectly so RIP Vince. Sorry I wasn't the score you were looking for.

Nuther guy from that era said he "play's" Cole Dickson with the 8. Meant nothing to me. I only knew the name.

Same guy, James - house painter by trade said Cotton ran 36 racks of 6 ball and no mention of Cole. Straight pool is harder but 96 racks is a lotta balls...

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Six Ball is a joke with BIH! Any top player will run out all day playing that way. It's also a gaff game. Very had to make a ball on the break. So if you give up the break you become a big favorite. Worked for me many times!

maha said:

i was good friends with cole for many years(decades). and gambled with him many times but not in pool. that was off for both of us.
and also played richie and broke him for over a good 5 figures twice, in a trick game.
i guarantee both were about equal on their best days . cole had less best days, and occasionally made big mistakes from being lackadaisical when playing.
but only a very few of having any chance when he was on. cole got to drinking too often and went downhill from there. changed him.

no one should have ever gone or even talked to sizemore. he was the prime example of a complete creep. and even worse than joe veasy,
and the steve the whale, who at least was funny.

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A more accurate assessment by someone who knows. Richie might go for a gaff game thinking he could outrun it anyway. Fats outsmarted him to the tune of 26K in Johnston City one year.

We knew all the same people. Sizemore partnered up with Younglood to dump me and they got me for 400. Steve the Whale stole my Szamboti cue from Keith after he won the BC Open with it. I got it back but you'll have to read Pool Wars for the whole story. I played Joe Veasy some One Pocket at my poolroom and he gave me 8-7 and 9-7. I had no chance against him otherwise and I played good on my front table. I won a couple hundred at 40 a game and he never spoke to me again.

I was afraid of Sizemore, especially after he slit Carolina's throat in a beef over money. Carolina told me about it and showed me the scar across his throat. So I never said boo to Sizemore about being dumped. I thought Youngblood was my friend but not after that. You do know how it ended for Sizemore. He took off a big score (60K) in Georgia and they followed him and forced his car off the road. He was found dead in the car, maybe 35 years old.

Flakeandrun said:

Will have a look! I tried looking on zLibrary, but couldn't find it. Tried your website too, but seemed paper copy.

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More Pool Wars is also out there in Kindle version. IUniverse has the publishing rights so they sell them everywhere, in paperback or kindle. They also wholesale them to book dealers. That's why you can find cheaper versions of my books then I sell them for. I think I get about a dollar for every book they sell for me. Gas money!

Flakeandrun said:

I will likely order a paper copy to my parents place, and pick it up when I visit, and try to get a digital copy to read here

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Go to Amazon and look for the Kindle edition. It's on there. Also on a few other Kindle websites, Barnes and Noble and a couple of others. I get a royalty check (very small) every three months. Still amazes me that people buy this book to this day.

jay helfert said:

Otherwise he was a nice guy.

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Oh that brings a chuckle.. it is accurate though.
I have more than a few stories of interactions involving him. I hadn't heard but figured with his life style he was gone by now.

It's just a matter of copying and pasting the link, I think....

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skogstokig said:

i wouldn't know enough of the american scene to fully diagnose the lack of pro growth. and i knew very little of league pool before the UP. it's possible barboxes is a factor in pro growth, but leagues cannot possibly be one. by the time you're drinking age and join a league it's too late to become a pro, no matter what tables the leagues are played on.

so then it's just two different things, recreational vs aspirational, and it seems to me both are good things and they don't really collide

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I generally agree but will add that some rooms can be oversatuated with leagues which take away table availability. My local room runs leagues 5-6 days a week and some days tables are all used up during prime hours, even weekend afternoons. It's a business after all, so I can't fault the rooms, but it doesn't leave much room to practice on a daily basis.