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Rickhem said:

PayPal a long time ago, she was the seller and her linked checking account was frozen while they did their investigation

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PayPal billed my checking account without my knowledge. I sold a cue on eBay and used Paypal to have UPS ship the cue in a round tube. Nothing on UPS website then mentioned extra charge for tube. Later, UPS notifies PayPal, doubles the original shipping fee, and deducts the extra from my checking account without notifying me.

Here's a pic of the world champion chart hanging in the room where Kobayashi won over Sir Raymond.

I like leather.

PayPal owns Venmo too.
I've used both, but have stopped using PayPal if I have another option. I pay the weekly fees for two APA teams to our league operator using Venmo, and a couple of the players pay me if they play that night using Venmo.....so far, so good.

Had a co-worker go through a bad experience with PayPal a long time ago, she was the seller and her linked checking account was frozen while they did their investigation. It wasn't a very fast investigation. From that point, I always had a completely separate checking account that I linked to these services, and only keep a bare minimum balance in that account. It's easy enough to transfer from a different account to that one via electronic banking, no fees, so I fund the account with enough to cover any transactions and that's it. I don't know if that really protects me from anything, aside from in my mind, but it's been working for me.

jay helfert said:

All French to me!

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Latin Jay

Kim Bye said:

Cocobolo IS a rosewood..
The genus is Dalbergia, lots of varieties in that genus. Just to mention some of the spectrum BRW, African Blackwood and Tulipwood are all rosewoods, so in Latin: Dalbergia Nigra, Dalbergia Melanoxylon and Dalbergia frutescens

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All French to me! The only wood that ever felt different to me was Black Ebony. Macassar I think they called it. Hank Corsair made some coveted black beauties.

Was pulling for JB hard in that match.

He struggled early on, but pulled it out of the bag.

Was watching the stream and noticed that Emily (I think) came over for a chat at the end of the game.

We really need Thorsten to lose, so real Americans JB and Sky get the wild cards for Mosconi.

jbart65 said:

Styer is married, of course, and has a life. He is a virtual shoo-in for an automatic Mosconi spot. Two players among Gorst, Woodward, Bergman and Hohmann would have to finish in the semifinals. Even then, Woodward or Bergman would have to win the event outright.

Gorst just needs to finish one round ahead of Hohmann to get the third auto bid.

Tyler was smart. He played in the UK Open to negate the need to travel to the Philippines. Woodward,Bergman and even SVB, I believe, had to play in the Philippines Open to qualify.

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Skyler did his best to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, missing a straight in four ball at 9-9. Luckily for him an errant safety by Arpellida gave him a second chance. Sky crept across the finish line.

mikepage said:

Rodrigo Geronimo is actually Edgie Geronimo (787, 3769 games)

All we know about Saldy before this event is he played in this event last year and lost 10-2 to a 795

There are no doubt strong players in PHL not on our radar or fuzzily on our radar. But I think the degree of this sometimes gets exaggerated. For instance, of the seven players completely new to FargoRate this year, all seven lost in the first round. Sure amongst them could be a high level player who (perhaps like Saldy last year) just happened to lose a match. But these first round results are at least some evidence there is unlikely a big untapped pool of unknown 800-level players.

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We shall see.

X2 for linen or wrap less here also , however I've been interested with the idea of elephant ear for a wrap but that's as far as that has gone .

But I'd still like to try it .

skogstokig said:

bergman has last year's runner up arseni sevastyanov in his next match today, likely on the tv table. after that it's probable he will face recent ranking event winner aleksa pecelj. then maybe chua or aranas. i don't think he's gonna make the MC team on points, but as a captains pick.

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Tough road ahead. Justin does look comfortable though, no more jet lag.