Well maybe I can shed light on this subject since everytime it comes up I can teach the novices what happens when the balls are altered.
Having the cue ball cleaned by an official every so often is ok but not fair to have done after every rack and it must be done by a neutral towel meaning the refs towel not the players towel because there are a few players out there(wont mention the names) that have silicone on their towel to have buffed on the cueball to gain an advantage.
Anytime the balls are pulled of the table after a run starts the run can only be some kind of practice and the run that the player runs should never be reviewed as on the square and not to count.
When the balls are polished so often the polish makes the balls open up very easy so just look at some videos and when the player doesnt hardly have any clusters the balls have been polished.
If the balls are put into a ball machine with no polish then they are being cleaned and burnished and the heat that the machine buffs into the balls also make them seperate easy on the breakshots and there for again the player almost never has any cluster and can easily get through racks with out much difficulty.
For what it is worth none of the great players from back in the days such as Lassiter,Mosconi,Crane,sigel, varner and so on never used any silicone or ever had a ball polisher so again the way I see it is doing it in practice then whatever but doing it during a match is CHEATING.
I do know that some top players that are still playing like Holmann ran like 412,Cohen ran like 460,Neils ran over 400, and Thomas Engert ran 492 all without any ball polishers or illegal silicone and Ofcourse I never used either with my little run of 311.
Sorry about the long post and if I offended anyone but the truth must be told for people to understand why the balls react like they do.
Having the cue ball cleaned by an official every so often is ok but not fair to have done after every rack and it must be done by a neutral towel meaning the refs towel not the players towel because there are a few players out there(wont mention the names) that have silicone on their towel to have buffed on the cueball to gain an advantage.
Anytime the balls are pulled of the table after a run starts the run can only be some kind of practice and the run that the player runs should never be reviewed as on the square and not to count.
When the balls are polished so often the polish makes the balls open up very easy so just look at some videos and when the player doesnt hardly have any clusters the balls have been polished.
If the balls are put into a ball machine with no polish then they are being cleaned and burnished and the heat that the machine buffs into the balls also make them seperate easy on the breakshots and there for again the player almost never has any cluster and can easily get through racks with out much difficulty.
For what it is worth none of the great players from back in the days such as Lassiter,Mosconi,Crane,sigel, varner and so on never used any silicone or ever had a ball polisher so again the way I see it is doing it in practice then whatever but doing it during a match is CHEATING.
I do know that some top players that are still playing like Holmann ran like 412,Cohen ran like 460,Neils ran over 400, and Thomas Engert ran 492 all without any ball polishers or illegal silicone and Ofcourse I never used either with my little run of 311.
Sorry about the long post and if I offended anyone but the truth must be told for people to understand why the balls react like they do.
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