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matchup I heard the guy in his 50's is jessie chavez and he has recently beat players in south florida and rodney morris at Capone's. He is supposed to be an amazing player who is in Orlando playing out of Jimmy's. He is playing so well he is destroying his action.

wpba pocket size In florida they used the new brunswick metro tournament tables which has 4.5 inch pockets. The rails are a little longer so the played a bit tighter more like a diamond table in the corners. Many players were rattling balls during the whole tournament. Shots down the rail were...

Kt I don't care about kevin's past. I am only looking at him from the establishment of the IPT. I hope he makes a bundle.

ipt Even though I am a skeptic, I am sitting back and waiting to see what develops with the IPT. I have been around pool for many years and have seen many different types of tours come and go. The real question is can a tour make real money from pool. I am waiting to see if the IPT gets...

I love the recent post from 9balllvr. If the WPBA touring pros need to play tournaments in between the WPBA events, Let them play in mens events which are held all across the country. Since the arguement that playing against tough competition has been made many times in this and other threads...

Imagine an event where you have to play kim shaw in the first round and then you have to play tiffany nelson on the losers side. It looks like two losses to me. You're out of the money and get much fewer points than you would have. This happened at a spirit tour tournament earlier this year...

regional tours and pro players Terrific posts. I was trying to get this kind of dialogue with me post about the ladies spirit tour.

Blackjack, you have expanded on the pat answer that people have given for years. You did not address the problem of declining attendance at events. The last event had 28 Forida players +Pan+webb+thornfeldt. They used to get forty to fifty players at an event. Without support from the florida...

Great post linda, you covered both sides very well. I still think that the regional tours are the minor league to prepare women to play in the majors. A few years ago the newt tour before they banned touring pros( except for state championships) gave the qualifier to the ninth place finisher...

Thanks for your response, especially at 5:52 in the morning. Yes, that is the pat answer. As I said before I have been following this tour for many years and in my opinion it is dying. The room owners become a lot more reluctant to hold events with a small number of entries, because it costs...

I saw the results of the tour event this weekend. It is not too hard to imagine why regional tours that allow wpba touring pros to play are dying. This weekend Webb and Thornfeldt made an apparence and took 1st and 2nd prize money away from all the regulars that play on the tour. There are not...

apa sandbagging occurs in every APA league. It usually is not monitered at all. The bCA is much better but you run into similiar problems. A team made up of pool hustlers and people that play pro tournaments but dont have UPA rankings can happen. David Alcaide from Spain was ranked by the WPA...

world 14.1 championship Call it what you will but this is an upa tournament with mostly upa players. Some of the players in the tournament did so poorly, it was a joke. Losing 7matches in a row is ridiculous. Where are all the great 14.1 players from the far east.and other european players like...

women 14.1 players As for megan it was a case of simple old charlie patronage. Just like taking meraglio to korea several times or miyuki playing in the patriot cup. What about picking former womens world champions such as lorre jon, ewa or belinda? with a monopoly you get to do exactly as you...

amalia matas Miss matas is currently ranked 11th on the euro women's pro tour. She plays against Wendy, jasmine and the rest. I certainly don't think she is an amatuer player. Pros and top regional women players were not supposed to play in the tournament. Amalia is at that level and by...