Lowell said:

AJ Manas actually has a reverse chicken wing.

Seems like a lot of sharp shooters have that (such as Seo Seoa in women's pool), but very few have an actual, outward flaring chicken wing. I speculate it's because the latter inherently leads to a pronated wrist, while even Billy Thorpe with his ridiculous reverse chicken wing is able to keep a nice wrist alignment.

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Agreed. You see a lot of reverse chicken wing arm positions with the elbow tucked inward among strong players, even some very pronounced ones, but almost never pronounced ones where the elbow is flared out wide.

SA96 said:

Talksport sometimes show the events.

But I will be watching on WNT TV!

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Yeah I've enjoyed watching a few events on Talksport Youtube channel (it's been the one plus of giving Andy Goldstein an entry in to tournaments). Don't think they ever get the main table though, and I'm presuming there is only one table for the Reyes so not holding my breath they'll be showing it.

Hail Mary Shot said:

I tell her it's not new.

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I used to go to watch my wife's state tmts with her and her girls team as she would always want me there to watch. After buying a Jacoby no wrap cue at each of the last couple tmts while she was shooting, she lo longer wants me to come along. She knows I have a thing for no wrap cues.

Playing for money wasn't gambling, a tournament was. I remember a big quarterly or twice a year event at Greenway. Two hundred and fifty added money to bang heads with Buddy Hall, Jose Parica, and more of that level for three days. I could make a loop through Acadiana for the same three days and be pretty certain to make four or five hundred dollars and find a beautiful girl or two. Cajuns love to gamble and few nationwide can hang with the Cajun girls on looks. I considered Greenway a few times but when the weekend came around my wheels just naturally tracked towards Acadiana!

Gambling is more flexible and viewed in the long term was much more profitable for me. Simply because of more time on the table and both producing pressure, I believe skills will increase faster gambling than playing tournaments. I saw people that shot drills for hours a day putting in forty to sixty hours a week shooting drills. They were damned good at shooting drills, did little for their game.

Gambling can make a tournament player. I have never seen tournaments make a gambler.

Hu

Black-Balled said:

Cue id?
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That would be an “Ugly Cue”.

CajunPopeye said:

My recent addition. Curly maple.

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Curly is my 2nd choice.

For all you cue whores (or Johns???) out there..., I need to reduce. But that's because I've decided that getting a few 1980's Meucci cues suddenly is in the frontal lobe, which admittedly could use the -otomy...

We run a 26-table room in Lakewood, CA. Your plan sounds more thought-through than most. One thing we'd add: track hourly table use from day one, not just revenue. Once we did, we saw exactly which nights and which tables made money, and it changed our league and pricing decisions. We got sick of doing that on paper, so we built our own iPad app for it (Pool Hall Master), but a spreadsheet works to start. Also, get the leagues committed before you open. Good luck.