The only Predator I have is the bottom shaft that I had custom fitted to this cue from a Predator 314-2 FAT blank when I had Mike Pancerny convert the cue from a 1950s one-piece Titlist.
The top shaft is an ivory-ferruled Pete Tascarella.
If the TOP Asian players were selected without politics, I think the Asian team would be the favorites.
I think politics in the Reyes Cup favors stacking the team with Filipino players.
There are many better players in Taiwan, China, and other parts of Asia.
I played with two old guys who played decent pool for years, but struggled to draw the cue ball with their own playing shafts.
Both of them could draw the cue ball twice as far with my Becue the very first time they tried it.
I have shot and called shots 10 times harder than that and made them, but I would have bet $10,000,000 to $1 that I wouldn't have made them.
Hail Marys.
Flukes.
I got LUCKY.
Just try your best to win every game no matter who you are playing, what game you are playing, or what type of setting you are playing in.
Play an APA-3 the same way you would SVB.
Don't give anyone any breathing room.
Don't worry what your rating is.