wlycdgr said:

Follow up question: if spots are limited and you are towards/at the low end of the Fargo range, do you think etiquette requires waiting to register until late, to give as many higher rated players as possible a chance to register before you? Or is it first come first serve, and tough luck to any 810 full time pro who was hoping to make a few bucks but forgot to early-reg? Is it on the organizers to implement a "players below X rating must wait until the week before to register" type rule?

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The top 64 WNT-ranked players who want to play have automatic reserved spots. Don't worry about them. Due to top players not playing in every event, the top 80 or 90 are probably covered with seeded spots.

If the entries are open, enter.

There were how many open spots in the Florida Open? Filling up doesn't seem to be an issue at these 256-player majors, US Open perhaps excepted.

But if I somehow decided I wanted to play in one, and got a spot, and found out later some pro is sniffling in a corner somewhere feeling left out...well tough luck for him. He's the pro. He should be more on top of these things.

the white house doctor seems to be a special kind of guy

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CajunPopeye said:

Are you sure? Double it! Ok, maybe it's just me. I am known to put cayenne pepper in my peanut butter.

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We are similar……I also use crushed red pepper flakes on a steak when I grill it, for scrambled eggs, chili.
I’ll open a can of Bush’s Baked Beans (Brown Sugar Hickory version), add diced Jalapeño peppers and
hot sausage links sliced in cubes & slow simmer cook it. This turns a can of baked beans into a quick meal.

wlycdgr said:

Follow up question: if spots are limited and you are towards/at the low end of the Fargo range, do you think etiquette requires waiting to register until late, to give as many higher rated players as possible a chance to register before you? Or is it first come first serve, and tough luck to any 810 full time pro who was hoping to make a few bucks but forgot to early-reg? Is it on the organizers to implement a "players below X rating must wait until the week before to register" type rule?

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With larger tournaments there is no practical way to use that sort of rule in my opinion. For reference, the Texas Open for 9 ball is at the end of the month and it sold out 160 spots in 9 minutes. The waitlist was full about 2 hours later.

I would also tend to believe that if an 800 plus Fargo player wanted to play in a particular tournament, they can probably contact the organizer to cut in line, so to speak. Especially so if their sponsor also sponsored the tournament itself.

I think that if I were to register as a lower ranked player, I would go to the organizer a couple weeks beforehand and see who was on the waitlist. If there was a pro there, I would consider giving up my spot.

wlycdgr said:

Follow up question: if spots are limited and you are towards/at the low end of the Fargo range, do you think etiquette requires waiting to register until late, to give as many higher rated players as possible a chance to register before you? Or is it first come first serve, and tough luck to any 810 full time pro who was hoping to make a few bucks but forgot to early-reg? Is it on the organizers to implement a "players below X rating must wait until the week before to register" type rule?

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good post. i've been thinking along the same lines. organizers do, to a degree, follow such rules. WNT pros don't need to sweat the registration online i think, and predator has something similar. but other than that it's pretty much who clicks first

Bob Jewett said:

Can you recall what was different about the miss in competition? Sometimes the problem is not just the shot.

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I rushed it and let off my stroke.

Baron said:

I feel the exact same. It's weird - the thick nickel ring the Tascarellas do looks great, and yet thin it up just a little bit and the same cue looks cheap to me. It's a problem I have with a lot of Scruggs cues.

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I had a nice deal offered to me on Russ Espiritu cue that I passed up because of the thin metal rings he most often used. I do already own one of his cues.

It's also one of the reasons I have never been into Schön cues. I don't own any.

I don't typically like metal rings, especially thin ones, anywhere in cues and have relatively few with them.

So, it is one of the things that stands out on a custom to me when I come across it.