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Definitely Chohan and Compton can be considered specialists. I don't know enough about Lunda or Hall to say for sure. Define specialist? If it's anyone who's best game is 1p then perhaps both of them.

Chohan is probably the gold standard for a 1p specialist. As for point bump, well, he's a 777. Gorst is an 850. Who's better at 1p? By how much? Either way, they are probably reasonably close. Does that mean Chohan is better than his rating, or Gorst is worse?

Hard to say, but I think that it's pretty clear that among the common games (so 8b, 9b, 10b, 1p; although perhaps it's pushing it to call 1p common) the game with the biggest potential variation in player skill relative to their general Fargo rating is 1p.

it means you can basically include anything with a cue involved and argue for its inclusion.

yes, lunda is a specialist, as is josh roberts. justin hall at this point is a non-factor in rotation, but very good at 1p and banks.

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Didn’t he also have some sort of surgery (back surgery?) in Russia last year?

he has scoliosis. but he has won two world championships and a US open with that condition, so it likely wasn't that.

to be fair, he arrived some hours before his first match, and hadn't khalid played as good he mightve gotten into some kind of rhythm and it could be a different story. i doubt he has any regrets, he won a boatload of cash at buffalos

Do the best players you know have OCD or perfectionistic qualities moreso than the average person??

Guess he was traumatized. For me I began doing it when a few of my matches had those funny rolls. Not picking on every shot though but it did raise my awareness a lot and became quite sensitive with seeing them. Inspite of having poor eyesight now, I see the lint more frequently which I find funny.

Archer was seemingly picking up lint that was not even there, lol. I remember thinking, wtf is he picking at?

Do the best players you know have OCD or perfectionistic qualities moreso than the average person??

I played Johnny around 1990. I didn't notice any lint picking then, certainly nothing excessive. I suspect that unnoticed or ignored lint or trash on the table cost him an important win or two to start the habit.

Not as noticeable but I had a two piece get very loose. After that I always picked up my cue with two hands, one above, one below the joint. A quick check to make sure the joint was tight.

I might be mistaken but I think at this point if Johnny doesn't see lint he picks up imaginary lint, part of his preshot routine.

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Guess he was traumatized. For me I began doing it when a few of my matches had those funny rolls. Not picking on every shot though but it did raise my awareness a lot and became quite sensitive with seeing them. Inspite of having poor eyesight now, I see the lint more frequently which I find funny.

Frank Paradise Cue

looks like one of his more simple cues that someone else added those two rings and a long ferral and that long wrap.. i find it hard to believe he ever made that cue as it sits.
i suspect it was a broken cue sent to someone else to customize it.

mid to later 1960's was his heyday. before he died and had gene leave him. i got the last cue he made and kept it for a long time. sold it to a guy on here years ago.
Added? Modified? Broken? Really?

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