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Bob Jewett said:
Instead we often see the finalists split the pot at 2AM. Somehow the players think running into the dawn is OK. I guess for the players who go home at 10PM, it is. They got to play for a while and see some good players, and they get to bed at a reasonable hour.
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Tiered payout amounts. 100% payout by a specified time, and less by 10% every half-hour (or whatever seems right). The slower everyone plays, the less potential money to win. Could even break up the place amounts, so if the 3rd place finishes before the 100% cutoff, they get full pay, but if the 1st/2nd finishes an hour later, they only get 80% of the on/before time payout! :LOL:
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4-6 point cues with colored veneers and linen wraps are my favorite

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fastone371 said:
The Richard Black story is funny. I'm guessing he knows exactly where all of the non perfect areas (I hesitate to call them flaws) are on the cues he builds but most normal people will probably never notice. Its the same with the racecar chassis' I build, I know every area that I don't consider "perfect" but the owners never or rarely notice, sometimes even when I point something out.
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Black was right in that there is a reasonable level to examine anything. I used to in the early 80s buy and sell gold, silver and occasionally diamonds. Even diamonds have a reasonable exceptince of flaws. A diamond used to be, maybe still is, called flawless if flaws could not be detected under a 10x magnifier. Put it under a scope maybe 100x it may shows a number of tiny flaws.
That gold buying in the early 80s was very short lived. It took about a year for laws to be passed to catch up with this new gold buying enterprise.
People made millions though while it lasted.
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Blast from the past: The Miz vs CJ Wiley

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JohnnyOzone said:
Watching Mizerak play 9 ball is like watching Michael Jordan play baseball.
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When Miz was young he was a lot like Yapp. While not really robotic once on the ball he was very precision. Sigel also. They played much like today's players as far as execution. You don't win 4 US opens in a row unless you posses something extra. In that match with CJ it was in the 90s. He was not the player he was in the 70s.
His weight was probably a factor.

We had dinner once in Texas during one of the Reds tournaments. He ordered the meatloaf. It came and was a whole small meatloaf enough to feed 2 or 3 people. He ate the whole thing along with all the side dishes, Washing it down with multiple glasses of diet soda.
It was scary to watch.
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