garczar said:

When player's have to duck fairly mundane shots because the pockets too small is not fun to watch. It becomes 'cinch' pool because there's so little room to cheat the pocket. To me the 'snookerization' of pool is not good.

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Not sure what kind of marketing research these pool promoters do, but I think there has to be 99.9999% agreement that it is brutal to watch pro players ducking the Predator ARC side pocket. Hopefully, Predator will use good sense and redesign that pocket. Granted that you cannot satisfy everyone, but to me, the need to redesign that side pocket is a no-brainer.

How about just more tournaments in the USA……like the WSOP…….a cash buy-in……pros and amateur can enter.
I suppose people would argue what constitutes a pro so make it 3 groups and include women and senior divisions.

Hold it every quarterly in Las Vegas and the top money winners can compete for a national crown. It needs corporate
sponsors which should be why it will never happen. Companies today are concerned about their bottomline a lot more than
the billiards industry future or any trend lines. There needs to be a national association of business members to pursue this.

civil defense makes similar now. does what you say, rifle speeds, but shallow penetration. may not get deep enough.

maha said:

yes in a way i am. but have done really well in my life so it is not substantial enough to be bothered with smaller bets.
plus no longer a spring chicken.

most courses i played were links and public courses, many 7000 yards. when gambling you play what they want, and from the tips to whites or blues.

my above post was to say that its not the equipment that determines how well you play, it can only help a little bit.

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I’m coming around more and more to your position, even though I think good equipment is better and newer is often better. That said, I had an internet conversation with a very good golfer some time ago. Good D1 player, got through Q School but couldn’t keep a card, US Open qualifier. So a real good player. He said if you approached him on the first tee and offered play with your regular ball or take one stroke off your score and play a rock two piece distance ball, he’d be teeing up the rock hands down. Obviously at the highest level you wouldn’t play a ball that cost you any strokes, but the differences in equipment are pretty small.

maha said:

i play both games with the same shaft. and cuestick. do fine at both and dont see where hitting a billiard ball needs a stiffer shaft or a heavier one or whatever.

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A billiard ball is significantly heavier than a pool ball and it travels much farther in the course of a game.

Nobody goes running in loafers by choice!

dtroup64 said:

I purchased a carbon fiber shaft to try out, a Rhino 11.8mm. Didn't like the taper, but it was probably simply to thin for me (I'm used to 12.5mm). Just sold it on ebay and returning to my wood Katana 3.

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Do you think if you tried a 12.5mm CF shaft with a taper you liked might change your opinion? I decided on Kielwood but maybe CF could be different with a shaft size and taper you prefer. It be might worth checking out to be absolutely sure.

HouseLady said:

I have a few “new” sets of these. The creator sold some to my dad years(!) ago, and only these remain. Before I get into listing and shipping, any (hopefully local to NY) interest in them here?

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Do you still have any sets left?

links courses are in places where there is more land. as many also have another tee farther back called the tips. not just the blues or whatever each course uses. and 7000 is often there. but most public courses are in the mid 6,000 range. from the back tees.
most gambling is from the whites. as most gamblers are not real golfers same with pool players.
places like bandon oregon and torry pines ca. have 7000 plus courses and those are the kind of places that bettors go to.
and vegas has a handfull of them.
and are open to public play. not cheap by any means .

golf just like pool you see the big bettors betting their own money and making their own games. and are not top players or even close to being labeled as real good.

ou when i said public i meant open to the public not just publicly owned.