Kris_b1104 said:

Agreed. It's gonna be a lot harder to sweat tonight without the hilarious chat and English commentary. I'll probably have it on mute and play some online poker while I watch.

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Kris_b1104 said:

Yeah he kicks real good, but he gave up ball-in-hand way more than Oscar did throughout both days. He is more prone to fouling.

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ibuycues said:

Dean is one of my very good friends. He and his wife June have come to Kansas
City and stayed at our home. Over the years we’ve done over a dozen big
deals, always delighted and perfectly happy. Both ways.
Done with a handshake.

I appreciate your nice comments about Dean, they come no better.

Will Prout

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Not Dead Ted said:

I have wondered whether a flat tip would be advantageous when shooting a cue ball frozen to the cushion. Impact point a few millimeters closer to the equator can't hurt.

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Kris_b1104 said:

Yeah he's a straight shooter for sure. The only thing that bothers me is he spends so much time doing everything else during his pre-shot routine, and then gets down on the ball and fires at it in 1.5 seconds. I would think if you are that methodical about your pre-shot, you would spend a little extra time on the actual shot execution, but everyone is different. If he eliminated his routine, he could probably run a rack as fast as Jayson/Drago/Arseni.

I'm hoping this was all part of Oscar's plan, let it get to day 3 so they can back it and jack it to $100K+.

Another thing that confused me was Oscar being one of the best safety players in the country, but he rarely put Towelito in jail or married him up to a ball. I was expecting a shit ton of 3-fouls from Oscar, and he definitely had chances where he could've, but didn't.

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Kris_b1104 said:

Username checks out once again

Would you bet with him if it wasn't posted but you were getting the stone cold nuts?

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Scott44 said:

Thanks for the info. I have looked at both Cuesmith and Mid-America lathes and they do look nice and are made in the USA but I just don't think I can justify spending that amount of money to just put a few tips per year on. I did try to search for used ones and there just doesn't seem to be much out there.

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Kris_b1104 said:

Yeah idk why I put myself through that, I woke up with regret

Although, the chat and commentary was more entertaining than the match itself.

Some may not like Dunn's commentary but I find it quite refreshing compared to the boring "4 in the corner, draw back for the 5 in the side" tic-tac-toe commentary. He said he's actually good friends with Oscar so he's just joking around when he's ripping on him, I don't get butthurt over it. He said he only likes to commentate when he is allowed to be his authentic self, and doesn't have to filter himself.

There are a million other streams you can watch if you want the typical vanilla commentary that will put you to sleep. The chat was very engaged and had fun clowning Raulito's towel antics.

Someone nicknamed him "Towelito" lmfaooo

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muskyed said:

I mentioned this awhile back that I had noticed a lot of the better players tips being quite flat in the center and was basically told by a poster on here that they were wrong in doing that. Maybe, maybe not, but I would venture to say some of those players with flatish tips, were probably better players than the person that insinuated they were wrong.
Was it the tip that made them good, I doubt it, but they were very good players. Personally I'm not sure it matters, but I see a lot of really good players that don't seem to worry about their tips as much as lesser players do.

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