GoldCrown said:

I think that is the proper thing to do otherwise it turns into Missing Person, GoFundMe, Is He Ok?, etc.

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And a permanent sticky post.

LibraryFool77 said:

I didn’t come along until Dale was only eBay. I have heard good things about the cues he personally built. I’d love to talk to him about his business model and how he feels about his reputation.

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From my experience, he was a 1st class A Hole. He treated me so horrible on this one deal. Sent me a sneaky pete cue, that was like the biggest POS that I ever held in my hand, and it somehow got a crack in the butt, that was not my doing, and he blamed me. Said that it must have been my fault, and refused to give me a full refund.

On another occasion, when I called him up (about a different purchase, that happened years earlier), he acted like such an Egotistical A Hole, and laughed at me, during part of the phone call.

His cues, after maybe 2003-2005, that he sold on ebay, were pure garbage, from my few experiences with them.

But, anyways, yeah, his early cues played amazing, and were very high quality, I thought.

Define intelligent

Bob Jewett said:

AI got that one right. More precisely, the answer is 0.00053720314119 or one in 1861.5

Bob needs 117394 games to be even money to run 10 at least once.

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I know a slew of players that have played far more games than that and never strung 2 together

LibraryFool77 said:

I’m about done w this site. Nobody has asked a intelligent question in years,give a guy a bone!

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Oh no! I probably won't get no more than 8 or 9 hours
sleep tonight because of this news.

Yapp playing Dimitrov right now. If he wins, he plays Paul Song next to qualify.

And he is struggling with the pockets. Players seem to be hitting a lot of shots too full.

Island Drive said:

Maybe they will try Zebra striped cloth soon, I heard it helps keep the flies confused.

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We had time to kill between wedding festivities a few years back, found a bar with a table to shoot some pool, they had pink/black zebra patterned cloth, it made it really tough to play on. We ended up finding a different bar. I think it was a holiday, we were minutes from Romines but they were closed. I was so disappointed, its an hour from home and I don't get down there often.

There are lots of long-time players who have hit a million balls but have rarely, if ever, practiced. By practice I mean consciously working out how particular shots or situations work. Shots that often stop your runs. Situations that cause you to lose.

People refer to the "10,000 hour" rule to become an expert, but those 10,000 hours are in purposeful, directed practice. That's not knocking balls around or even playing sets.

As for the half-hour max rule... That's too long for some people and too short for others. How long can you maintain focus?

SBC said:

Yes people want to see reactions in the players playing the game....not robots.

Matchroom is the best we have and sure there is a ton of tournaments. Matchroom owns US pool so they have made whatever changes they like....but that doesn't mean I have to like everything.

The short races with shootouts that Predator does are lame.

The timed speed pool on barboxes that Ultimate Pool does is not pool.

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Well the majority says otherwise, you are in the minority. The rest of the pool world could only hope to have growth like UPL.

Frosty said:

Have you played a lot of stakes matches that only lasted a 1/2 hour? Not a gambler, ok, have you played a lot of tournament matches that only lasted a 1/2 hour?

My point is, if said instructor states most average people lose focus after 1/2 hour, making further table time useless, then how do you propose to ever become a good player or do well in Action or Tournament matches that are longer than that?

To do battle, and succeed in battle, one must prepare for battle

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I am not disagreeing with you...but if I was practicing for running a marathon, I would not run a marathon every time I practiced. I think there may be a better plan.