Recent content by iusedtoberich

Nick Varner is a multiple time world champion. His peak as a player was in the 1980's. He used his star power to start a billiard company in the 1990's, and that's the cue you have. It's an import cue, not worth much today. He is still semi-active as a player, and his company is still going. I...

I have to say, those are the strangest pics of a cue I've ever seen. Laying down in bed with feet/socks sticking up, while another person holds the cue...

Who won with Siming? I only watched a minute or two.

Siming gets a spot of she only has to make 6 balls instead of 7 of her suit.

This was by far my favorite. I used it for about 20 streams thus far, and had 2 locals buy the same setup. It's cheap, and has manual focus, manual zoom, and manual iris, which imo are all perfect for pool. The 6-12mm lens is perfect for most 7' and 9' setups. IF the 9' is quite close to the...

Shit is harder than becoming a good pool player!

It's for bangers. True story.

Best tip #1: quit 8 ball. Only play 9/10 ball. #2: Find the best players in your area and watch them as often as you can. Watch their mechanics, and how they move the cueball. Try to copy.

If there is anything in your area reporting, even if they give you a higher "tournament specific" rating to start, it's worth going to build your rating. Before FargoRate, if a stranger walked into a new room on their weekly handicapped event, they'd be rated either somewhere in the middle, or...

Georgia and the South in general seem to be super anti-Fargo. (I live in Atlanta). You can do Salotto matches. Also perhaps you can run a few small events out of your room as the TD, and use DigitalPool? I started doing that at one room I go to.

Cool hearing different formats of "buy back". I have never heard of buy-back = replaying the match just lost. Wouldn't that hold up the entire event one round? And why should the winner be penalized? Not judging the format, just seems strange to me:) That reminds me years ago on here one of...

Derby is a one-off though. I've never heard of a local event doing anything close. Buy back I've always seen simply take the place of a first round bye in a single elimination chart. If you use DigitalPool, it has a feature to "add late player". It inserts them where a Bye was.

Usually the buy back takes the place of any first round BYE entries. There are only as many buy backs as byes. Alternatively, I have seen years ago at my local weekly a 32 man bracket have an entire 16 man leg added to it to accommodate a bunch of first round losers that wanted to re-buy.

*I'm colorblind, may not apply to others* This tournament is over, and I was able to watch a few matches on the WNTTV full production table, that had the ball's remaining graphic on the bottom of the screen. I'm not 100% sure, but these may be the best balls for viewing, "for me", that I've...

I'm colorblind too! haha. Yeah, I'd HATE that set. How do you do with the Predator set today? I have my head on the table at least once a rack to see a number that happened to land directly on the cloth.