With Joshua winning in Vegas, does Fedor's backers still want some?

Ummm, no.

Tell me about garczar from Azbilliards forum

Short answer:
“garczar” is not a pro player, cue-maker, or industry figure. He’s a long-time personality poster on the AZBilliards forums — basically one of the recognizable “regulars” in the online pool subculture. If you read enough AZB threads (especially the Main Forum and Wanted/For-Sale sections), you inevitably run into him. What makes him notable is his posting style and longevity more than any competitive résumé.

Below is the real breakdown so you understand why people even know that username.


1) What AZBilliards is (context matters)​

AZBilliards forums are the closest thing pool has to an old-school bulletin board — think:

  • league captains
  • gamblers
  • cue collectors
  • retired road players
  • tournament railbirds
It’s not Reddit-style casual conversation; it’s a reputation-based community. Long-time posters develop recognizable identities, and a handful become quasi-celebrities inside that ecosystem. “garczar” is one of those.


2) His status on the forum​

His account carries the “AzB Silver Member” rank (a tenure/activity designation) and he has been posting for years across multiple topics.

He shows up in:

  • cue buying/selling discussions
  • scam warnings
  • pro-tour debates
  • Matchroom/WNT format arguments
  • general pool culture threads
Example — warning about payment scams:


That’s very typical of him: blunt, opinionated, and zero sugar-coating.


3) His reputation (why people remember him)​

He’s known for three specific traits:

A. Extremely direct / abrasive posting style​

He talks like a poolroom rail — not like a moderated social media user.
Short sentences, sarcasm, insults, and profanity are common. For example, in a scam thread he called the perpetrator a “scumbag” and said he confronted him directly.

That style makes him:

  • entertaining to some
  • obnoxious to others
  • recognizable to everyone

B. “Old-school poolroom” perspective​

He typically represents the traditional American pool crowd viewpoint:

  • anti-scammers
  • skeptical of internet cue sales practices
  • critical of Matchroom decisions but pragmatic about influence (“email them directly, forum posts won’t change anything”).

C. Longevity​

He’s been around long enough that users literally notice when he disappears:
People posted threads asking where he went and hoping he was okay.

That only happens to posters who’ve been part of the forum culture for years.


5) What he is​

This is important because people outside AZB sometimes misunderstand:

He is not

  • a touring professional
  • a commentator
  • an AZBilliards staff member
  • a known gambler like Keith, Scott Frost, or SVB rail figures
He’s essentially a high-visibility railbird/enthusiast — but in pool culture, long-time railbirds often carry influence because they:

  • know equipment
  • follow tournaments closely
  • have been around players and rooms for decades

6) Why AZB users talk about him​

On AZBilliards, reputation is earned through consistency and personality.
Garczar is memorable because he:

  • posts often
  • argues without backing down
  • takes strong anti-scam positions
  • speaks like a real pool hall regular (not internet-polite)
In other words — he’s part of the forum’s “cast of characters.” Every old forum develops them.


#4 referred to your health situation so I decided to remove that out of respect.
Am I the only one that finds it both hilarious and terrifying that ChatGPT has a file on each one of us...
 
Am I the only one that finds it both hilarious and terrifying that ChatGPT has a file on each one of us...
It's a public forum, so it's aggregating information from it. I definitely agree though, it's wild. Some people are offended enough by it to even notify the moderators.
 
Posting AI generated bullshit profiles of people, ANYONE, on here is not cool. This nit thinks he's funny well he's not. Mods have been notified.
None of what I posted is against forum policy/rules. You are just offended for some reason. Ironic that the person who is always cursing, calling people names, and being rude to others is the one crying to the moderators. Even Jay Helfert was curious about what it said about him. I don't think that's a reason to get me banned. Plus garczar is not even your real name... Mr. Helfert didn't seem offended.

Thank god you're not a moderator yourself, we would all be screwed.
 
Am I the only one that finds it both hilarious and terrifying that ChatGPT has a file on each one of us...

It doesn't. It simply does a web search and summarizes the results. Similar to someone doing 15 minutes of Googling for your name.

Source: I'm the technical co-founder of a AI related startup and I'm working with these tools 8 hours a day
 
It doesn't. It simply does a web search and summarizes the results. Similar to someone doing 15 minutes of Googling for your name.

Source: I'm the technical co-founder of a AI related startup and I'm working with these tools 8 hours a day
Agentic ai has complete dossiers on you and your start up, and will use subtle social media prompts to program your dinner cravings for the foreseeable future. It's the moral purity spiral that AI has been orchestrating in our society.

Source: AZB NPR
 
Wowww one whole sentence out of the entire post is nonsense, and it's a sentence you made up on your own, with quotation marks, not even included in the post. Good reading comprehension skills. I don't use social media and you can't tell me what I should or shouldn't post. I did it for fun to see what it would say.
You asked what was nonsensical about it, I told you.

Glad to know you cannot collect and express your own thoughts in writing, welcome to your own idiocracy.
 
You asked what was nonsensical about it, I told you.

Glad to know you cannot collect and express your own thoughts in writing, welcome to your own idiocracy.
One little AI post and everyone loses their mind. I have thousands of posts on here with my own thoughts in writing.

Glad to know you cannot properly utilize quotation marks.
 
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It's a public forum, so it's aggregating information from it. I definitely agree though, it's wild. Some people are offended enough by it to even notify the moderators.
Well, no, it isn't quite that simple:

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Whoever is scraping this site and training their AI models with it, then regurgitating it to others, is in fact violating their copyrights. But who gives a shit, let a few billionaire tech bros commit crimes en masse without any fear of paying any consequences. Meanwhile, during the 90s, grandmothers were sued and lost because their grandkids may have used napster to download a Metallica song.

Take your AI and shove it up your $RTQF##$$.
 
Agreed with the majority that Filler's level is kind of mind-blowing. As somebody who has seen the entire 9ball era up close, I feel that it's between Filler and Sigel for best player of the 9bal era. For our viewing pleasure, the story is still being written. Carrying an almost unfathomable Fargo of 860, Filler has taken rotation pool to heights it has never seen.

Even Jason Sword, Fedor's very savvy backer, has called Filler the best nine ball player he has ever seen, and given the Filler resume of 9ball major titles, it' would be hard to argue that Filler isn't the best 9ball plyer of all time. I think at 10ball, Fedor vs Josh is a little tougher to call. but recent form makes one wonder whether anyone should want a piece of Josh. The last two giant-elite-field ten ball events were the Predator Jacksonville Open in December and the Predator Las Vegas Open last week and Filler won both of them. Tough draw? For Filler, it's a so what. In single elimination at the Las Vegas Open, Josh had to beat three different world champions on route to victory in Carlo Biado, Shane Van Boening, and Fedor Gorst. At the Derby City 9ball, he had to beat both Van Boening and Gorst in the late stages to win the title. Even the game's giants have had a hard time of it with Josh of late. Fedor hasn't beaten Josh in a rotation games match in something like eighteen months (just my best guess).

I think the great story that's nearly at our doorstep is whether Josh and Fedor can supplant Yapp, who won three Matchroom majors in 2025
(UK Open, Florida Open, US Open 9ball), at the top of the Matchroom pecking order.

Like every superstar before him, Filler is beatable, but just like the best few that ever played the game. it sure isn't easy.
 
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