Recent content by GideonF

That’s on a 4.5 x 9’ table with directional cloth (like snooker) and snooker style rails and pockets.

I would suggest you start with Pat McCarthy, who is the top table mechanic in the GTA. He’s a good snooker player too and does lots of snooker tables (which this is). For sure he could make it play great, but I don’t know if he does the refinishing work you mentioned. If not, maybe he knows...

There are 100 percent carbon cues (both butt and shaft). GO custom is one. So I don’t think you’d have to worry about warping with those cues. But I don’t know how the tip ot the glue would fair.

What is interesting to me is how often the top snooker players seem to have issues with their tips during tournaments. They struggle with a tip they don’t like and may (or may not) replace the tip during the tournament. For all the pool I’ve watched, I can’t think of a match in which a player...

Kenny. Ron dogged it on the hill at 24-23 and again at hill hill.

Fargo Bob sounds like a good cowboy name. Or maybe a road player. Or both.

Well, there would be SOME action among equal players, but otherwise I agree.

How long ago are you thinking about when people didn’t ask for weight or a handicap? Ancient Roman times? Every story I’ve heard of gambling from the “old days” involved weight unless the players were even. “Buddy was giving the guy the 7 and the breaks and still robbed him”. CJ talks openly...

I don’t think you can assume that all older players are declining or that all junior players are improving. That said, my guess is that the most consistently underrated group in Fargo are junior players that are dedicated to improving, because their rate of improvement outpaces their Fargo. For...

I’d say that’s true for guys like Earl too. Flashes of the old days return but they don’t seem to last for a whole tournament.

Just keep the Gorst chalk in the box it comes with. That’s what I do with my Pagulayan.

Thanks, Bob. I wasn’t sure what the number was, as some of the lists I’ve seen Mike put out have required 150 and some 300. Maybe the 300 are one off lists and not the maintained top lists.

It doesn’t have to be deliberate sandbagging. I know of a player who’s rating was based on old games only and who stopped playing competitive pool for some years for various reasons. When he came back he performed under his old level and dropped pretty quickly (because his previous games were...

Agreed. Dick Lane shook worse than Nick and ran 100s at straight pool.

I’m pretty sure the “Top” lists require a certain number of recent games (presumably to deal with people like Nick that aren’t active and whose rating may be innacurate for that reason).