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WNT Hanoi Open 2025, Vietnam, Oct 7-12

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I have a weird feeling that MR has a hand on the Manas pick, even Django can’t explain why he picked AJ. He was being cagey about.

Now, when it comes to James “Dodong Diamond” Aranas’ anemic showing, it’s probably because his hometown just got rocked by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake yesterday. I’m sure he’s very worried for his loved ones there.
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Shoot a Million Balls? Give me a break.

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gregcantrall said:
Oh well you got my attention. I had some interesting interactions with Cole. 3877 is the number scribed in the stainless joint of the cue I purchased from Cole.
My first conversation experience with Cole came when I drove him from Kelso to Seattle in his truck. Oh did I get stories. A perk for a good cab driver. 🤷‍♂️
Any Cole stories are appreciated. Thanks
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Not much of a story. Just some filler I heard. Bucktooth used to own a poolhall in Castro Valley. He hired Cole to work there. He didn't last long. Cole was playing pool all the time and not taking care of the counter. I'd think Cole was probably 14 or 15, because when Cole was 16, no one in the San Francisco Bay Area could beat him, and I'd think Cole wouldn't need to work in a poolhall with that ability.

I also heard that Cole was very upset when he was in, I think it was Houston. He heard that there was lots of money to be made in this one particular poolhall, anyway, you had to be 18 years old to get in and they wouldn't let him in because he was too young.
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Has anyone tried the ThePro™ Pool Cue, Triad or Barringer ElkDud Tips?

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They don't seem to get metioned when single layer tips are discussed...

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ThePro Pool Cue Tips (similar to LePro)

ThePro™ Pool Cue Tips are another Barringer cue toip to fight MAP from manufacturers such as Tweeten and their LePro cue tip. These are manufactured in the USA and produce a medium to medium hard tip extremely similar to Le Pro at a much more reasonable price point. These are 14mm.Tweeten Fibre...
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Triad Cue Tips

Introducing the all new Triad Cue Tip by Joe Barringer to compete with the ever popular Tweeten Triangle Cue Tips.As we all know, Tweeten Fibre Company (manufacturers of the Triangle Cue Tip) is a very difficult company to deal with, sort of stuck up and for no good reason. They have a niche...
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Barringer ElkDuds

These are Elk Master tips soaked in a solution of milk and then pressed under an inordinate amount of pressure to form an incredible hitting tip. These are a 14mm medium tip, no mushrooming, grips the ball like no other tip and holds chalk! You have to experience these for yourself!! These are...
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WPA Rules Question

markjames
is there a rule that says players have to help the ref or the racker gather the balls?

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11K views · 133 reactions | Is Predator/WPA getting dumber ? Bad enough this format is a joke for a World Championship 💩 Race to 4 💩Yes Touching the cueball while it’s still moving is a foul. This here should never be a foul. Rubilen Amit was obviou

Is Predator/WPA getting dumber ? Bad enough this format is a joke for a World Championship 💩 Race to 4 💩Yes Touching the cueball while it’s still moving is a foul. This here should never be a foul....
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Single layer tip in between an Elkmaster and Triangle or Lepro?

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Poolplaya9 said:
This is the exact opposite of my and a lot of other people's experience. So much so that you had to have just remembered it backwards, because it is literally the exact opposite.

One third of Le Pro tips are dried out and rock hard, so dry and hard that when you try to scuff them all you end up getting is lots of microscopic dust but you can never get a rougher tip surface that holds chalk well. The next one third, when you try to scuff them, they just shred badly like the leather has rotted and is falling apart. The last one third are great tips that shape well, scuff well, play well, and hold up well. I have never understood how they can be so wildly different.

Triangles are very consistent. They are all good, and are all the same. They are very similar to the one third of the Le Pro tips that are good ones and shape well, scuff well, play well, and hold up well. Their sides don't burnish that well though so it is hard to get them looking as polished/dark as many other tips can get.

Even though they are rated as being very hard, Triangle tips and the good Le Pros do not play like that at all. For whatever reason they play like medium tips in my opinion.
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The reason that Triangles don't burnish that well on the sides is they are a partly chrome-tanned tip. They get both chrome and veg tan, the only tip I've heard of that gets both. Chromium results in a tip that is very good, but doesn't highly burnish on the sides.

Unlike your experience, I do get a bit of variation in the hardness of Triangles, from about medium to medium-hard, but if you have a good look at the tops, you can tell which it's going to be.
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