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    Mosconi Cup 2025, Dec. 3-6, Alexandra Palace, London

    If Tyler doesn't miss those three 9-balls, the US would be up 6-5 right now.
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    If the lag is a skill shot, there's a better way

    The softer you hit, the more table roll is a factor, not less...
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    Mosconi Cup 2024, Nov. 30-Dec. 3, Orlando

    The Mosconi Cup is hardly pool's Super Bowl.
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    Mosconi Cup 2024, Nov. 30-Dec. 3, Orlando

    A bad roll doesn't mean the balls defy the laws of physics.... It means they behave in a way that the players can't be expected to predict, or that something happens the players don't intend. When Mikey Krause missed the ball in the side and it went two rails into the other side, that's a roll...
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    The Reyes Cup

    You think that seeing a closeup of a cueball while the player shoots the critical shot of a match, so that you can't actually see whether the ball is made or whether position is gotten, is useful? Agree to disagree...
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    The Reyes Cup

    This was another great event by Matchroom, and fantastic to see Reyes getting a cup named after him. But one thing that I will never understand is the camerawork during these major tournaments. Someone tell the directors that extreme closeups of the cueball before it's about to be hit are not...
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    The Reyes Cup

    Really questionable decision by FSR to play a push out after the break when he had a direct shot at the 2 ball: Instead of playing safe on the 2, he chooses to push out, leaving Yapp this shot: This is essentially the same shot FSR had, but from greater distance. Yapp plays safe but ends up...
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    The Reyes Cup

    Pure nonsense.
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    US Open (9 ball) 2024, August 19-24, Atlantic City

    I have a hard time believing you're really asking this in good faith given your history of comments, but what the heck. An exhibition is a display of skills for the public. It's a match that has no significance or stakes other than to show the public something cool. This match had 100K in the...
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    US Open (9 ball) 2024, August 19-24, Atlantic City

    That's not what an exhibition means...
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    US Open (9 ball) 2024, August 19-24, Atlantic City

    Jeffrey Roda has a FargoRate of 795 with a robustness of 773
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    US Open (9 ball) 2024, August 19-24, Atlantic City

    Yes the outfields, and also the height of the fences. No two MLB parks are the same.
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    US Open (9 ball) 2024, August 19-24, Atlantic City

    Baseball fields are different sizes.
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    2024 World Pool Championship

    The tournament is in Saudi Arabia - it's hot there.
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