Recent content by iusedtoberich

Local tournaments should ALL be single elimination, luck counts, 9 ball. That's a fast game, and fast format. It also leaves open tables much earlier for regular paying customers. It also promotes action as eliminated player have time and tables to match up. 8 ball should be banned. Takes...

Well besides that, it only lines up with the ghost ball, which is all imaginary and hard for a beginner (or a good player) to "see the center of in order to sent the center of the CB there"

I don't understand how anyone can aim at the geometric contact point. It's not reality. The CB squirts and swerves and throws the OB.

I had this match years ago on DVD. (since gave ALL my pool DVD's away). It was the best one hole match IMO for learning. Bentivegna's commentary on Fusco's strategy was top notch. Any chance it can be put on youtube, or available digitally? Maybe the Accu-Stats treasures series? @azhousepro Thanks!

@mikepage hey wait a minute! I just read thru this old thread, and my post #78 from 2024 showed he had 744 games, yet today in 2026 he has 706, which is what he had on post #1. What gives?

6.5 year bump! Nick is now a 772 (down from 777), still with 706 games. He hasn't played a single fargorate game in 7 years. His rating must be super fragile now, and any new play will be highly weighted.

For example, your iPhone is made by Apple, right? Yes, it is. They design it. They prototype it. The refine it. Over years. They then contract with Foxconn to build it. Foxconn is the contract manufacturer. But everyone says it's made by Apple.

Yes I understand all that. But they are an OEM model, not ODM. They designed their whole line. Then they had manufacture's make it. It's like that in lots of industries. They are not a "marketing company" that goes to manufacture XYZ and says "bring me something that my customers will buy in 3...

They are a big company making thousands of cues and in fact did change the pool world. Can't do that in a basement. Predator started with 2 guys like other cuemakers, but they decided from the beginning to go BIG, and they did.

No. They've made full cues since almost the very beginning. Maybe the second year after the shafts came out the full cues came out. They had different manufacturing partners over the years, but the designs came from Predator.

HA! I think I had the same ones. But older. I had a sneaky pete that was 5/16-14, and I think the 99-1 (*edit, I think 2k-1) which was also a 5/16-14 version of the all black plain jane you showed.

I too have been a Predator fanboy since the late 90s. But shafts only. I thought almost all of their butts were gaudy and ugly as sin. Their plain-jane ones and sneaky petes were the only ones I liked.

Below is the result if I use chatGPT to do the BBCode for me. I paste the table into chatgpt and ask it: "give me bbc table formatting with a nice header for this data that I can paste into a forum post:" and I paste the table there from google sheets. It preservers the hyperlinks. Oh, I forgot...

Still doesn't work for me. See above post.

Paste from Google Sheets into post: High RunMember 84batmmann5 77ZZpop 70jeagle64 52mjantti 46mnorwood 39DJKeys 36Samiel 32JochenG 25dquarasr 23qolbrand 21bpeacock 21BadBeef67