billiards_watch said:

The man is the #2 in the world. Not sure if the #2 will give you a tits odds.

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Yes, but it seems the odds makers had the same kind of skepticism some of us did on his speed.

skogstokig said:

yep, and gets even wonkier down the line with wojciech and maciol at 67, niels at 101 (decimal odds). proven winners. the longest odds are ameer ali at 201.

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I just saw this on page 1 and have to wonder if anyone laid a sizable wager on Ameer.

Well I am telling you it said 498 in the phone app. I have no reason at all to tell you a story. That was my experience and if it was a mistake on Fargos part when setting up my account, I can’t tell you.

Kledio's push foul definitely opened the window for Ali.

jsp said:

My guess is that there's a screen that shows a top-down view of the table somewhere.

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Maybe he has a coach in the stands? ha ha

pt109 said:

I’ve made a lot of bets on a lot of different things…..but I’m not into paying or collecting where semantics is a factor.

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Yeah, I like to see somebody really able to do something. Ti could do a lot, but he also relied on trickery a lot and was a top card mechanic. He was a monster with paper cards, plastic took a lot of his edge away.

I remember betting on stupid stuff when we were kids. "I can jump higher than the school house!" That's an easy one, school houses can't jump. I can't remember a couple bets that did make me a little money all through jr high and high school. I flipped nickels daily with a classmate in tenth grade biology. Dummy brought a bunch of acid to school one day, never saw him again. Bad timing, I was up a few dollars!

I was a country boy and didn't start gambling until we moved to the big city and I started third grade. Went to Catholic school then and the penguins were a bad influence. We had daily raffles for cakes or cupcakes, almost anything a parent would donate. They let us gamble dropping marbles, top wars, paper football, pretty much anything that didn't make us bloody! I was very good dropping marbles, just thought about it, kinda relates to pool. By the time I left Catholic school in the fifth grade I was a hardened gambler and disappointed when the public school wouldn't let us openly gamble!

People talk about gambling through college but how many gambled through third and fourth grade? Noncatholics that is, I think all of us Catholics did!

Hu

maha said:

ebony cues are hard to get down to most players preferred weight. but make super good cues.
it is about the only wood that wont float in water. the ebony you get with white streaks in it is inferior and cheaper.

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You are correct that ebony is about the only wood that won't float in water.

Others are lignum vitae, ironwood, some rosewoods and natalie.

skor said:

Back in the day, the best glove was Sir Joseph, I alway had one in my case just if conditions required one and except for a short period of time that I used a glove to see if it's better, I hardly used it.

These days with CF shafts, a glove is a must to have. I like the new type of gloves with the cut fingers.
I got a Rhino glove first, it's nice, a bit thick but the main issue is the seam at the end of the fingers is really thick and annoying.
Then I got the Predator second skin glove. It's nice and thin but after a short while it falls a part...

What glove do you use?
How long does it last?
Do you wash it? and how?

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Why is a glove a must have with a carbon fiber shaft?

iusedtoberich said:

What is Ameer looking at every single shot way up in the air. It must be the shot clock.... but he looks at it at the beginning of every shot, when it's reset. Doesn't make any sense.

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My guess is that there's a screen that shows a top-down view of the table somewhere.

TheGrandWazoo said:

I don’t know what they did but when my profile was created, I logged into the app and it said 498. The guy who set it up is Bryan @ Fargo. I am sure he would be able to shed more light but this is my experience.

All I said in my request was, I would like to get a profile, gave them my demographic information and that I would be playing on Salotto. It was literally a one sentence email.

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Yeah, I don't think you have a starter rating. If you download the phone app (it's free) it will show you if there is a zero there or a number, like my screenshot. The website doesn't list the starter rating if you have one. You must go to the phone app.

skogstokig said:

his lips moved, and ameer probably saw it. but the rule isn't for the opponent to hear it. he won't do that mistake again

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I saw a replay video where it sounds like you can hear him audibly call "push" in the stream audio.

What is Ameer looking at every single shot way up in the air. It must be the shot clock.... but he looks at it at the beginning of every shot, when it's reset. Doesn't make any sense.