Recent content by BasementDweller

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I haven't had time to watch any of this event, so my view is based on previous events with this format. For me, it's the combination of the short sets AND the somewhat arbitrary racking quality. The ship has sailed on using any triangle rack if you ask me. The spreads after the racks are so...

I read that: Josh is cute in manly cocobolo. Not the image of him I wanted.

Eclipse the contact point. Everything else is noise.

We were talking about Ozzy Reynolds getting banned from AZ.

If league pool was a buy or sell stock -- I'd sell right now at a high. I think they are going to hit a wall in the next couple of years because one of their systemic advantages is being able to rate players, and then use this insider information to field competitive team events. Players...

Yeah I did some searching. I think he got banned for having multiple accounts. It had a lot to do with how they treated JCIN after the takeover. I think they sort of took advantage of his whole TAR operation and sent him on his way.

Yeah I would have left out the insults about the Predator tables, which some players actually like. He threw some other petty insults in there that hurt his case a bit. Still -- I'd rather live in a world where people expect good customer service than one where we continue expecting it to be...

Thought for sure you were going to complete the most epic troll of all time and link to a picture of the break shot. In my experience, jacked up shots are never mastered. Instead, they have to be continually practiced. If you can't make the shot in question, move the ball closer to the pocket...

He's not trying to make a legal issue out of this, at least as far as I can tell. He can speak for himsel, but I'm guessing he understands this isn't worth pursuing legally. Didn't Ozzie from CSI get banned from AZ years ago? I can't remember the circumstances, but I think that happened.

I think so many of us are so used to poor customer service everywhere we turn, that our lines in the sand are hard to see anymore. You are sort of screwing yourself out of playing, but refusing to pay the late fee is admirable to a certain extent.

My only remaining FR question is about player variability. My intuition tells me that the better the player, the closer they'll be to playing at their rating. I'm thinking the lesser player will play over a much wider range. Here I guess, we would have to couple FR and TPA. My problem or...

How Hunter Lombardo (739) still manages to get any invites is curious. I imagine his pool playing is a net negative. I'm guessing he makes his money with instruction but I really don't have a clue. He's certainly had an interesting journey.

I was playing some 1P this weekend and was explaining my theory that 1P is way easier for the elite players to play because their shot percentages are so much higher than us mortals. If they are 95 percent to shoot a shot and the mortal is 75 percent, the calculations are so much more difficult...

It's actually pretty amazing how well people can play when they AREN'T cueing straight. I'm going through a similar thing right now. Just returning to the basics and drilling straight in shots, has me getting closer and closer to straight every day. I think one of biggest differences between...