what is so horrible in the economy. the stock market is been up in records. and that is the value/ profits of most all companies
of significance.
peoples equity in their houses has skyrocketed the last 5 years or so.

interest rates have been declining significantly and so have gas prices.
job market is at about its strongest ever.

never has it been so good for someone trying to better themselves.

and your right about not needing the expensive or newest fancy type cues.

nataddrho said:

I like this one better than mine

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I don't. Can't get near a rail with that clunky thing. Yours is simpler and less over-engineered, just a spring and a small anchor.

HawaiianEye said:

EVERY time that I have walked out with the money, I have won more games than my opponent and I have always played "even"...no spots.

I never sharked anyone or hid my speed.

I played full steam ahead right from the get go.

If you hung with me, I came out ahead over 90% of the time.

If you couldn't hang and quit, I still came out with your money.

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This. The opposition. Not only is the mindset different, now there's two. _And_ yours better be commensurate.

gregcantrall said:

It's not that I hid my speed, it's just that I never used speed that I didn't need. Well as a rule in a one dollar game I might pronounce, "that was a 5 dollar shot if and when I felt the need for speed.
As for sharking? I never started it but I can finish it.

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The problem with the emoticons, can't tell if laughter is real or sarcastic. That was very real, I chuckled out loud! We have so much in common we could probably have survived a few months on the road together.

I didn't exactly hide speed so much as why work hard when it wasn't necessary? I didn't on my day job, I considered pool my second job. If three-quarter speed let me control things why should I put the pedal to the metal?

I didn't make a habit of sharking either but I was a pretty fair hand when I worked at it. The same went for outright cheating. For years I believed in fighting fire with fire, including cheating. I could cheat with twenty or thirty people watching as a stranger in a strange place and not get called on it! I sometimes proclaimed myself the best left handed player ever and I wasn't talking about shooting left handed!

Cheating went through several phases over the years. First was the hell with it, I can win without joining the cheaters. Then there were years of when in Rome,... I could cheat with the best of them! Then I went to my final phase. I can win without cheating but I'm leaving. Don't need the risks and don't want the rep if somebody did catch it. I have to admit, it was fun cheating with the cheaters sometimes!

I can say that I have never cheated without catching the other player blatantly cheating first. One of the funnier things was people moving balls by hand enough to make them become blocking balls. A little later they would jump up when I casually shot the ball in the hole they knew they had blocked! They were upset, they knew I had cheated, but they didn't want to open a conversation about cheating. Quiet hands come in handy for other things besides your stroke!

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jeephawk said:

Or "knot" on those imports!

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I think he must be saying that you should only get burl wood cues from Joss...

Im one of the younger guys who play at my local hall, and i’m 29, which is another issue in and of itself. From my perspective and a lot of the other guys around my age, its just easier to buy a predator or a cuetec and call it a day. I bought an older 6 point roadline and 314-2 from a friend, and put a Revo 12.4 on it. It shoots amazing and has next to no deflection. I got a McDermott stinger jump break about a year into playing and then bought a Hanshew jump cue from another friend about 2 years into playing as a fun gift to myself for my birthday, completely unnecessary. These offer all the cue i’ll ever need, and don’t command the custom cue/vintage cue pricing I see on here and other websites. Also, the ecomomy is horrible for everyone, but I specifically see it impacting younger people my age as we aren’t as well established in careers among other things. Its hard to justify frivolous purchases for a hobby.

Island Drive said:

If an unseeded player wins his first match.... are they in the money?

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No. All players, seeded and unseeded, start in the same first round of a 128 man bracket. No bracket gimmicks. No stage 1 stage 2, etc. No "qualifying" bracket for the unseeded players to get into the "main event", like some WPA events do. Just a simple 128 man, single elimination bracket, played through to a winner.

As to BobbyDee's question, Are LD shafts only really helpful on long shots w/ a lot of side spin?

ChatGPT said it helped some to a lot even on shots with side spin where both cue ball and object ball were on the same half of the table. See below. This likely could mean whether spin was intentional or inadvertent.

ChatGPT claimed it got some (or all?) of this info from Dr Dave at https://drdavepoolinfo.com/faq/cue/low-squirt/

iusedtoberich said:

I like the format! Single elimination, 4 days, 64 seeded pros, 64 other. In and out and done fast!

IMO, 256 is too many, can’t fill the field. 128 makes it more special if you get in.

Single elimination means amateurs have a chance to cash if the pros have a bad set, or if they get a favorable draw. More luck involved this way.

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If an unseeded player wins his first match.... are they in the money?