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Counting the CSI US Opens as majors is hilarious. None of them are and, frankly, it has probably been a few years since anyone on this...

When you compare excellence across different games, I agree with your analysis, regarding Mike and Efren. However, if you look at Nine...

Nice post! As you note, action pool has no relevance to this discussion. Greatness is measured in titles, and not in minor ones but...

Efren is still probably the best player that ever lived, although I think that distinction will one day belong to Filler. Sigel is the...

Yes, well said. An irony is that the viral globalization of the game that brought our game to its current mind-blowing level is...

He's already in my top five players of all time, along with Mosconi, Greenleaf, Reyes and Sigel. Josh has won at everything. His...

Stu, There's a few things at work here. DCP is far from a top player. It is also his contention that you have to go three rail which...

Yes, well said.

Yes, also a good solution but, in my experience, top players will usually go three rails here.

Yes, very well said, but don't fail to appreciate that in doing so, he sometimes increases his likelihood of finding the right side of...

A crude but solid method, that eliminates most of the guess work, is this: Line up the three-rail path (of the cue ball) with your eyes...

Now that made me laugh!

I just can't believe the 2 guys in white sitting center stage had the balls to sit in Stu's chair 🤣

Manas keeps progressing, nothing wrong with making it to the finals and losing to Filler well done AJ!

Yes, but he has won two China Opens since then (three in total). Not sure how long you have been around pool, but until fairly...