Buddy Hall tried marketing it for a while. It reminded and helped me to look and see straight ahead. It's better than staring blankly into space. With CPG and all the useful shot lines, I don't need it anymore.

GoldCrown said:

Everyone has $$ for nice cues... go to an Eye Doctor...get an exam, refraction and do it right. I threw out a lot of money going to an offbeat place.

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To be clear "eye doctor" can be a vague term. In this case it means a doctor of optometry, an optometrist. They are not a physician. They don't actually have a doctoral level education either.

An ophthalmologist is an actual eye doctor, an MD or DO, and a surgeon. If you just need glasses, you don't need an ophthalmologist.

Any competent optometrist can examine you and prescribe the glasses. An optician is the lens grinder. Neither is educated or trained to provide medical or surgical care.

I see an optometrist that has an in-house optician. They make the lenses on the premises. Experience taught me this is preferred. Any corrections, fixes, etc are handled right away. There are only a few highly specialized lense production processes that they can't do and need to send out.

I had my riding glasses and shooting glasses made locally. I chose Wiley-X frames for both. You may have seen them in NPR where I posted pics. My riding glasses were about $550. They offered to make me pool shooting glasses too, but I have yet to have that done as I haven't been so serious about my game for some years. That may change this year.

An optometrist is great for eye health screening as well. They will refer you to an ophthalmologist if you need medical or surgical care.

When it comes to your eyesight I have one rule. Get the right and best care you need. It's your freaking eyes. Poorly prescribed or fitted lenses can cause more problems than you might know. Don't bargain shop. Cheap frames with excellent lenses are fine. When I was in med school I got frames dirt cheap at a second hand shop and had excellent lenses put in them.

mr3cushion said:

Rich, that's where John Guffey plays 3C.

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Bill ... just wonder ... how many Cuemakers ... Beside Paul Dayton, Dieckman. Guffery, and not counting Product Cue Build (McDemott), or others. Made Cues to your spec? And what is "Chicago Bad Boy" cue spec???

It used to be common as dirt on house cues hanging on the wall. They were marked so they could be easily indexed with the warp in the vertical plane.

There is another reason for those marks even on straight sticks. You can turn the mark to remind you where the tip and cue ball are actually making contact when using a lot of side. While most people embrace hitting off center they still aim with the center of the cue.

Hu

Remember what I earlier wrote……..for the integrity of the game………and that’s what rules are intended to do.
You are entitled to take your clubs, go to a golf course with friends & make up whatever game or rules you want.

As long as you do not negatively impact pace of play, no one really cares. You can call it golf even with mulligans,
10’ putt concessions, lift, clean & place, golf tees in fairway bunkers, whatever. As long as you have fun, that’s great.

Whatever floats your boat is a wonderful approach to enjoying your time spent doing anything is a wonderful approach.
The only distinction I’m making is it isn’t really poker if you declare deuces & one-eyed jacks and sevens as wild cards.

When you’re playing me you can.


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Texas3cushion said:

A couple years back a local pro 3c player and I were looking for a female with interest and talent that we could train to help grow the sport and potentially send overseas. lol that never worked out. the best candidates could not average .5 at best. 3c is hard af.

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Texas3cushion ... That what my dear Dieckman was trying to do for both Female and our Youth ! Yesyura also try to do the the same.. Money, Promoter, training/materials not there... today. I would always support youth or female event if ask. Paul Frankel,know that from past Event. So did Jim Shovel.

Honestly, we could not expect anything grandour, specially since the BCA has been out of the pro pool game for what? 2 decades now?

IMO, this says a lot about the current group that tried this. Next year, if they go with another edition, they will need to overhaul their marketing strategy. I'm sure we all want something like this to succeed but again, they have a ton of work to do if they want to be taken serious in the pool world.

And let me just add this. IMO, there is no need for both 9 ball and ten ball to be contested at this event. They need to just stick with 9 ball as it is the game being sticked with as the pro game.

Texas Carom Club said:

If it were so lucrative they’d have 6 by now in there doubling profits

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Rich, that's where John Guffey plays 3C.

Fore Rail said:

You go ahead & cling real hard to this pov.

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First, that wasn't my original reply. Second, it will suffice in this case anyway. Read the whole reply, not just the part you cherry-picked. Then apply it to APA competition. Beware though, you must be able to make the leap from "APA competition" to "APA rules" (does that really need to be explained?).

fastone371 said:

I guess I don't understand the Fargo dig, I think Forgo works great, must be an APA thing.

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Didn't you just say you can't compare your successes to others if you don't play by the same rule set? The rule sets behind the data going into FargoRate can vary wildly, so how can it work at all?