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Phoenix Open - August 18-22

jay helfert
Been watching Phoenix. First a general comment. This is basically a glorified pool room tournament and they've atttacted a world class field. That said there are more good players than ever before. All these guys know their way around the table, and that's why we see so many upsets.

They all still do hang up a ball on these tight pockets but the majority of errors I see are tactical in nature. Poorly thought out safeties and a lot of these guys have trouble with the push shot. I see them occassionally playing safe when they shoot be shooting and vice versa. What really surprises me is when someone pounds a hard shot and of course the pocket spits it out. That's a high speed choke!

DeLuna is playing the best he has in over two years. He's got himself back in shape. The kid Roberts played good against Johnny. Johnny acquitted himself well too. I've always liked Chung's game. Not one to be taken lightly.

This should be a rip roaring U.S. Open with all this talent here.
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WPBA Fine of $2,000

sixpack
VTEC John said:
Absolutely right, and you don't have to go very high. Most jobs are "at will" employment, not contractual, and often it's just right there in the Employee Handbook that you don't work for competitors.
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Normally in business, non-compete agreements are not enforceable without some kind of compensation attached to them. If you are an employee and getting paid a non-compete is valid. If you get let go, normally they will ask you to sign a non-compete in order to get some kind of separation package. Without the package it would be unenforceable. Which makes me wonder if the "elite" WPBA players get any compensation from the tour. If they do not, maybe that clause should be scrutinized a little more closely.
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WPBA Fine of $2,000

GideonF
On Window’s Open a few points came up:

The restriction is on “Elite” players (as defined). The real issue there is the definition of Elite is very broad. Too broad in my view.

The restriction is on women only events that (a) aren’t handicapped; and (b) non WPA sanctioned. So mixed events are fine. I assume they are trying to protect their product (being the women’s professional tour) from someone running their own competing events. This seems reasonable to me, but I do question whether an 8b BB event like Ultimate Pool is really in competition with the WPBA. Also, the WPA exemption has a disproportionate impact on US players vs European based players (since there are many WPA tournaments for women in Europe and few in the US).

Also, the Mast situation really arose because of her sponsor. I’m pretty sure the sponsor was sponsoring the Ultimate Pool event. They offered to pay her fine when the WPBA refused to grant her an exemption.
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What's the Best Water-Resistant Cloth?

Bob Jewett
jtompilot said:
The day after Buffalo installed new 860HR a few chumps spilled beer all over the table. Buff brought in a carpet cleaner to try and clean it. They got most of it out. Are you sure HR is Teflon coated? I would have thought it would play much faster with Teflon.
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Well, I could swear I saw something on the Simonis site about about Teflon, but evidently they do not use it in the HR cloth. They say they get stain resistance with a tighter weave. Teflon is mentioned as being in Simonis cloths in old posts on other sites such as here and Reddit.

In fact Simonis wishes users of Teflon-coated cloths good luck in sticking on their spots:

Resisting liquid spills has always been a part of Simonis cloth. Simonis cloth naturally repels liquids because we use the finest worsted wool, an optimal thread count and a proprietary manufacturing process. This keeps liquids from penetrating the cloth and allows spills to be cleaned up quickly without staining or damaging the playfield.​
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(Oh, and good luck getting your table spot to stick on Teflon® treated cloth)​
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