this is a great contest, raga vs ameer. very high quality play

just as i wrote that raga channeled his inner gerson and twitched on a straight in shot

Island Drive said:

Jay how about? Do Dong?
Pinoy for sure but, not sure if the above name is correct.
Wore T shirts never dressed sharp but a monster, kind of looked like a raggedy bar table player.
He came to Denver in 80's.
Medina didn't like it on the 4 1/4'' GC table.

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Da Dong is the nickname for Leonardo Andam, another filipino great! He made a run across the USA and beat everybody he played. Passed away a few years ago.

okay so i did not play well this set.

however.

i recently double dog dared my good buddy and fellow azb member @Birk1 to start filming ghost sets. to reciprocate and show him that its no big deal i took on a race to 3. I Fully expected it to go 0-3, but Instead it hilariously went hill-hill.

Forgive my commentary, as i was speaking directly to Birk1.

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so now that i’ve put my shitty play out into public, i am once again double dog daring @Birk1 to get the ghost…..

…..except this time i need you all to help me publicly shame*cough* i mean motivate him to get this done.

put me down for 2-7. no fargo. easy table

FrankieD said:

This Ameer Ali's cue ball is good. It is a little odd that this is my first time seeing him as he's in the top 10 of Fargo.

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all his pool matches are regional (for him). saudi and qatar

You need 7 players minimum for FargoRate to accept a tournament. I know this as fact. Their support informed me when a tournament I was the TD of had 6 players and I asked why it was not accepted.

Make a digitalPool account and start your own tournaments at your local pool room. That's what I did. Worked out ok.

People don't like going to private houses in my experience. They like being at a pool room for the social aspect. Even serious players want the social aspect. The home table is for playing solo. The pool room is for competition.

gregcantrall said:

This triggers an old fart memory.
Long ago and far away, I was playing a $10 nine ball game. A neophyte player approached to put a quarter on the rail to challenge the table. I informed the challenger that it was a $10 game if he indeed wanted to play. His instant reply was, "Don't tell me you are gambling! You can get the house in trouble for allowing gambling."
So I immediately revised the response to, "Okay, we are Not Gambling! It's a pool tournament. $10 entry, single game 9 ball, single elimination. When this tournament concludes, we will play another.... Do you want in?"

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That response was GOLD!!

yates is wrong there.. i watched ameer ali play with a shot clock in the recent heyball big money event. lost to melling iirc. he also played the qatar open. should be used to it

This Ameer Ali's cue ball is good. It is a little odd that this is my first time seeing him as he's in the top 10 of Fargo.

datnodude said:

No gloves for biado. Must be hiding the wax in his hair

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his hair is lego

I'm on the 3 seconds band wagon as well, works very well with my watch.

anyone on here own this cue?

Yeah like said before I wouldn’t trust random people coming into my home. I found out the hard way that even close relatives will steal from you

I would love to see examples of his cues posted. There just doesn't seem to be more than a single handful of them shown on the internet. If other Odom's play like the one I have, they should be highly sought after.

3 seconds.

Hold up great and has a watch cut out.

Noticed Raga likes to place the chalk chalk-face down on the rail. Must drive his opponents nuts.