Does anyone know what type of wood is used in that cue?

cueball2010 said:

Thanks. Hey, is there any benefit to compressing Recoil tips?

Also, this is probably more of a general question. If we take the original height measurement of a tip and compress the tip by 10%, does that mean that the tip is 10% harder? So like, if the tip is rated 80 hard and compress 10%...does it become 88 hardness? or would it be 10% of 100-80=20. 10% of 20 added to 80, which is 82 hardness? I probably sound ridiculous, but maybe someone can make sense of taking a 80 hardness tip with an initial height of 3mm and compressing it 2.7mm for example. What is the result hardness?

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Recoil tips cannot be compressed. They spring back to their original shape and hardness if compressed. As far as your other question goes....that is above my pay grade!

One can meet all kinds of people at the table.
I am lucky i play in a league, where players are very respectful and sincere. We play chess and cards while waiting for a match.

it is crazy to buy off the internet, but not if from a maker or business that you trust. top cues are or can be a good buy but unseen from a stranger it has too many pitfalls.

this is for a playing cue not a wall hanger as then you are mostly paying for looks. or collection. that is totally different. as the internet is the only easy place to find such.

and if it has a buy it now price and is a good deal it will usually be gone before you see it. and if still up there likely isnt a good deal.

spartan said:

WTH , AJ Manas? Dumbest decision of the decade
Matchroom has lost the plot and making it up as they go.
Last year Reyes Cup (RC) they follow MC qualification criteria 3 by rankings+2 wildcards https://matchroompool.com/reyes-cup...yes-cup-to-launch-in-the-philippines-in-2024/
This year they changed to 2 by rankings+ 3 captains pick /wildcards. https://matchroompool.com/news/the-road-to-reyes-cup-and-mosconi-cup-2025-players-qualification

MR should be goalpost manufacturer instead cos they like to shift goalpost.

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Exactly! The Mosconi and now the Reyes Cup picks have shown what a joke Miss Emily leadership have proven to be. They want and reward loyalty, but seasoned players are dumping them for whatever they think is best for them. Matchroom is making millions and rewarding the players with peanuts ... well, players are not monkeys.

mikepage said:

With all the posting you've done on the subject, you keep circling back to the ball color and a referee issue. If those two things form the core of your judgment, just let us know so we can decide whether to weight them like you do.

Calling the kinds of judgments listed above "clear" is not providing support.

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There's more, some of which I don't remember off the top of my head, and some of which I just chose not to mention because I feel those were good enough examples for the point (and with one of them being directly related to the missed call incident that was discussed in this thread). If somebody thinks that keeping a head ref around for years who doesn't have the knowledge to make even the most basic of calls indicates the type of competency fitting for a CEO, then they just aren't using reason and no amount of other examples are going to make a difference. You can't hardly get any more incompetent than that, you could only get worse by being that incompetent on more things more often.

If someone made the argument agreeing that keeping Marcel around for the past few years was grossly incompetent, but they didn't feel that would make it more likely that she would do other similarly incompetent things, and that they felt she did enough other things well enough to more than offset that and on net still felt that nobody else would likely be able to do a better job, then that might be reason to give further examples, but nobody really argued that (sjm went sort of in that direction, but his position didn't seem to get all the way or maybe even half way to that argument).

years back hanging out in the pool room or just going there was a social thing or a place to gamble. or both.

Benelli said:

Yeah this is going to be a hard one, but that small joint collar may be a starting point.

What's under the bumper?

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A small hole for a weight bolt, that’s it.

JolietJames said:

I read Greg Norman shot his very first round of golf as a child at around par.

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At age 15 Greg Norman was a hack just like everyone else when starting out playing the game of golf.

It took him 18 months of what I would imagine was damn hard work to achieve a scratch handicap.

Check out https://www.poollab.pro/
Their space is in Etobicoke and they have a few instructors on staff. I believe their online booking form is being redone but you can email them and I’m sure they’ll be able to schedule something for you
Hope this helps

trob said:

I agree a million balls sound crazy but tiger woods insists he hit 1000 balls a day. He felt it was the only way to make everything as 2nd nature as possible . Take that for what you will.

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Tiger said “When I’m getting ready for tournaments, I make sure that each and every day I have 1,000 contacts with the club.” That does not mean he is out hitting 1000 balls a day on the range.

He was looking at contact / touches of the ball with any club in his bag. That means x amount of putts, chips shots, pitches & yes full swing shots on the range.

skogstokig said:

wonder what happened to dodong. he was so promising before the pandemic (and USA visa thing). now barely makes a dent in any tournament

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He was just more visible on social media hanging with Roy's Basement, playing money games one time playing long set with JF . No offence to Dodong but I wouldn't put him in shortlist to win major. Yes he did win team event WCOP but so has Petri and team event is different ball game altogether

jbart65 said:

Duong loses 10-5 to Roberto Gomez. He self destructed much like Woodward did in his loss to Gomez.

Gomez had the easiest draw of anyone who got to the round of 64. He has no business being in the final 16, but his opponents gifted him a number of times.

I've now seen Chua, Woodward and Duong self destruct in very visible ways. Odd.

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CIA or some other spook agency has a saying "They all break"
Same with pool-All pro players self destruct.
If you have not seen a pro self destruct, it is either (a) you have not watched all streamed matches or (b)the matches they self destruct were not streamed
There are no definitives in sport. When pros say things (like I always call foul on myself, I don't miss easy balls ), take it with big pinch of salt.

sjm said:

Nonsense. If you wish to cite some examples, go ahead, but this blanket, and insulting, accusation is way off base.

I tried to debate you with civility, but as you have now chosen to make this personal, I will politely bow out of this discussion. I respect your right to have an opinion, but not your right to publicly attack me.

Nonetheless, I wish you everything good and hope that the Matchroom product evolves in a manner that pleases you.

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It wasn't personal, or an attack, and I am sorry you chose to feel that way but you shouldn't. You asked why I had mentioned that perhaps some of your bias for Emily might be because she was female, and I answered only with the truth, and did so in a very non-attacking way.

I don't remember specifics too much any more but one of them I half remember was something similar to "I wish a woman would win this mixed event", with you wanting a woman to win simply because you wanted to see a woman win as opposed to a man. Why would one care in the least what sex won as opposed to just wanting the deserving player to win? Why was what they had between their legs important in any way in the least? Bias is the answer. When we don't care, we don't care. It's pretty low on the scale of gratuitousness, but it doesn't change what it actually is even if we don't want to have to admit that to ourselves.

spartan said:

I think Appleton likely has most World titles (this millennium)
WPA World 9B
WPA World 10B
WPA World Heyball
World Games

WPA World Team
World Cup of Pool
(Excluded World Pool Masters as that is invitational)

Ironically, Appleton has never won a World in English 8 ball the discipline he started out

Filler just has to win another individual W9B or W8B or W10 to surpass Appleton as he has already won W9B, W8B, WG, World Team, WCOP.
I am not betting man but I will bet $1 that he will surpass Appleton in next 3 years

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Too bad the word ”World” does not make a tournament a real World tournament or has anything to do with World Championships.

skogstokig said:

he almost made the final. lost on the hill to albin (don't know how, they flubbed the streaming).

saguiped also lead kazakis 8-5. what a bookie breaker that would've been.

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Hijikata has a monster 8-ball break. Too bad the stream against Albin broke in the end so couldn’t tell what happened at hill-hill and how they ended up there.