Recent content by jbart65

I assume some players have waxed balls. Too many people have complained not to think it hasn't happened. I just don't have a clue as to who has done it, or what it would look like. Not unless I waxed balls myself and shot them. As such I think like sjm: All MR can do is try to stop it going...

No idea. But I have seen Niels clean balls like that before. Many other players, too, including Gorst. No matter who they are playing.

Here are my conclusions from these vids speculating on foul play: Pro pool players never think the cue ball is clean. Or clean enough. Aloysius Yapp is particularly convinced the cue ball is never clean. His conviction is greatest when he loses. Pro players outside the Philippines think ever...

Thanks. I stand corrected. Amended my post.

Gorst talked more about waxing on his podcast yesterday. He says it has been going on for decades. Players have complained about it for quite some time, but nothing was done. Now it is being addressed, he said. Evidently there are no rules in place against it now, not officially, his partner...

Other than Filler and the Ko brothers, most of the top 30 to 50 players will be in Florida it appears. Another sizable contingent of Pinoys. The Ko brothers have been a bit scarce this year - Big Ko was not sharp at the WPC. I assume the brothers are playing in the world games and will go to...

Isn't every baseball game the same game over and over again? Every NFL game? Every Premier League game? This is the way of sports. Only golf and tennis have some variation, with the selection of golf courses or the variation in playing surfaces. But the best players play mostly the same no...

Speed of play is about getting a broader general audience to watch pool, as you surely know. Those old matches, by the way, still played fairly fast even if a player seemed slow. Most of Nick Varner's matches available on Youtube tend to run between an hour and an hour and a half. Not 2-3...

There are a lot of events in Asia in September and October, so I would expect most WNT regulars to show up in Manilla. The WPA has the World 10-ball Championship in the last week of September in Saigon. The WNT has the Peri Open (Da Nang) and Hanoi Open in the first two weeks of October...

Just one more thing before I stop adding fuel to a fire! Chua has one of the best draw strokes in pool. Among current players, he is in the mix for being the very best. De Luna, SVB, Biado are others that stand out to me. A few years ago, Chua made a video showing how he draws shots. He's one...

Yates suggested, and I concur, that both players seemed surprised by how the ball reacted in the first few racks. I didn't think Chua had any advantage over Ko in the first half of the match. Both had some setbacks. By the second part of the match, both players had largely adjusted to the...

Went back and watched the Hanoi Open final between Chua and Ko. Dunn used examples from that match to question if waxing was going on. My reaction was a lot different than Dunn’s after watching the match. The table played fast and slick for both players. The first rack required 19 shots to...

I didn't find Dunn's videos conclusive of anything in particular. Saw the whole Chua-Ko match at the time. Didnt notice anything funny or one player having an advantage. I assumed the weather in Vietnam was the biggest factor. That said, I have seen Chua play 100-150 hours at least. He's...

After reading this thread, I am still not sure how waxing a ball could: benefit the player doing it; hurt his opponent; and not backfire on the player doing the waxing. Whatever the case, I have to think there might be something to it if Gorst, Kaci, Yapp and Shaw are all talking about...

The idea that players should get more time to retrieve jump sticks is ridiculous imo. Jumping has changed the game, but I don't want to see jumping made any easier. It's a high risk, high-reward shot. The shot clock makes it even more so, and that's good. Time pressure is now part of virtually...