Recent content by Poolplaya9

I mentioned three of the reasons. Reasons buying in person might not be as good as buying online is because by buying in person you are significantly limiting your selection, leaving yourself without enough time to know if the cue is truly the right fit for you, and having to endure a lot more...

I agree that for the most part you won't know how well you will like a cue until you can hit with it. One good reason for buying online anyway though is that it significantly widens the options that are available to you. For most people you can see a hundred times more cues and cue makers...

There's more, some of which I don't remember off the top of my head, and some of which I just chose not to mention because I feel those were good enough examples for the point (and with one of them being directly related to the missed call incident that was discussed in this thread). If...

It wasn't personal, or an attack, and I am sorry you chose to feel that way but you shouldn't. You asked why I had mentioned that perhaps some of your bias for Emily might be because she was female, and I answered only with the truth, and did so in a very non-attacking way. I don't remember...

I have seen several posts from you over the years where you wished for or valued the success for a woman/women over the success for whoever was most deserving based on merit. That shows a clear bias in favor of women at times, even if that isn't the value you aspire to, and so it is certainly...

It might be able to help explain where they could be selling today, but it wouldn't help explain who was buying them in say the 90's when there was no foreign market, and there were far, far fewer tips to choose from, yet I never personally saw one around then either.

You definitely see things through biased, rose colored glasses because you are so happy that there is more pro pool to see, and probably to a lesser extent because she is a woman, and a half likeable and attractive one at that. Anything good you just automatically attribute to Emily without any...

Most fabrics feel rougher in their more raw state than they will after they have been shaved, pressed, ironed, etc, and linen thread is no different. Also linen thread is round so you would feel those little micro ridges the whole way down the wrap (which bugs many people) unless it has been...

She has done nothing but make bad decisions, and lots of them. Matchroom only continues to run because they have a lot of money to throw at it, and because the team around her is able to keep it mostly going in spite of Emily and all her horrible decision making, and make no mistake about it...

Same here. I've known about Royal Oak tips for decades and during that time I have played pool all over the country, and have read a lot of forums, and I have yet to ever even hear of somebody that uses them, much less meet anybody who does. I wonder if they are just popular in some small...

That wasn't what you had said though ("...but they are not Matchroom produced events and are therefore not majors") which is why I corrected it. Now that we got that sorted, we need to worry about how we are going to get Marcel sorted out. Knowing how Emily is, she isn't going to do a thing...

I wasn't offering an opinion one way or the other on whether they are majors or not, and whether they are or not would have nothing to do with what you said or my response to what you said. You said that they, and by implication any other events, can't be majors because they are not produced by...

Who produced an event has about as much to do with whether something is a major or not as what color of shoelaces a player is wearing has to do with how great of a player they are. What makes for a major are things like current and historic field strength, current and historic prize fund...

As soon as I saw your post mentioning a horrible ref call, I immediately knew Marcel was involved, because he makes a lot of horrible calls. In fact, it seems that the vast majority of the truly horrible calls on the most obvious situations come from Marcel, and Marcel alone. Watched the video...

I have no idea what is going on this year regarding Matchroom or SVB, but it is not a total secret that SVB does not like the Mosconi Cup at all, and for years has only played because he has been begged to and/or felt pressured to have to.