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To me with the far right hand edge of the performance bell curve opening up a gap between them and the bulk of other professionals, the gap that the shortstop has to cover is just larger. To carry over the baseball metaphor, the APA-7 third baseman is sitting in the 3rd base dugout and...

I've had a cue live in a vehicle in Orlando summer, Illinois summer, and Louisiana summer. In a case and out of direct sunlight (for theft prevention as well). No issues. Cheap to mid-range McDermotts at the time. It's just a risk and reward calculation, no one can say what any one person...

It may be marketing/social media playing (which Fedor seems to be adept at), but it’s looking like the “American” trio of Fedor/Shane/Skyler are all now in fairly tight with each other.

I’m sure it’s not available but I’d be interested to see 8-ball vs. 9-ball stats with large of a skill gap. At a low enough Fargo their win percentage is just going to equal whatever percentage the higher rated player rattles the 9. In 8-ball even that’s not an option. Anecdotal: When I...

Acceptimg the premise as true (not sure it is), if a Fargo 795 is slightly less of a dog to a Fargo 820 at 4.0 inch pockets than on 4.5 inch pockets, does it really matter? At some point there needs to be a sweet spot where the number of potential winners of any event is high enough to create...

My head canon is that Mike's been using his window sales gig as a front to hustle. (Scouts houses with pool tables in the basement, throws a rock through their window at 3AM, uses opportunity to sell them new windows) "Oh gee, I see you have a pool table, can I take a shot" **CLANK**...

The key to having an SL-9 is to have that person's SL-2 spouse also on the team, who really has no desire to improve and it's just husband/wife social night.

USAPL is Fargo handicapped (effectively the sister league of BCAPL) and you play a match format. The APP will generate a race to ball count based on Fargo rates... so 8/9/10 ball use ball counts kinda like APA but with notable differences. 1) The winner of the rack receives 14 points no...

Sure, NOW someone tells me not to shoot blindfolded.

So long as it’s not a Uniloc, All you have to do is take a Dremil and grind away all but one thread on your pin. The resulting rattle in your playing cue will match the resonant frequency of the cue ball and you’ll generate perfectly accurate bounce every time with no loss of energy - it’s...

Is this a new Fast Eddie's, or did Fast Eddies rip out a bunch of 8' Olhausens and replace them with 7' Diamonds? (I've only been to Fast Eddie's in Beaumont and Lafayette, LA which were all Olhausen).

I feel like this is my wheelhouse - league guy who plays in the 400-525 range (granted, on Diamond bar boxes). I'm going to guess in "take what you make" formats (APA), breaking success won't be correlated much with winning, and if you're a truly weak player you may be better off with a poor...

Accidental - #1 type of spin used in my case.

I'm not sure what tables they play on changes how much money they would spend though. If a US tour gets off the ground, it needs sponsors, and sponsors need to be getting their return. All that is a question of (a) how many customers do we have now? (b) how many potential customers are up for...

I would tend to agree about market potential (at least how someone wanting to grow pool would view it). The amateur and "could upgrade from casual to amateur if they cared 5% more about pool" crowd in the USA is sitting on way more disposable income than other countries.

The caveat is both players have to agree to sub balls out in the case of an early 9 on a coin-op, but I've only known one player to insist on spending the extra $.50 each to get the 9-ball back up there. The same happens in USAPL 10-ball where the rules require the 10-ball to spot. It's...

I think being married to Fargo 700+ pool player wouldn’t be a drag. They can wake up and have a decently played scrimmage with their morning coffee. Meanwhile Skylar has to sit around and listen to stories about that bitch Cindy in accounting and pretend that he really cares.

Crossing state lines is a lot different than crossing international borders. Anything over $10,000 USD needs to be cleared inbound to the U.S. That said, honestly you or I could probably sneak more in no question, I’ve never been sent to secondary screening at US customs. But specific to...

Yup, until you spend more than 330 days outside the U.S. in any given year. Not sure if prize money is different than income. I work in China a lot. I pay taxes to both countries. Relevant for Fedor this looks like how Indiana handles it...

Wouldn't it take a few accountants to figure out what what an effective chop would be between an Albanian and a US taxpayer regarding officially reported prize money? Fedor in particular seems like he would be the last person to try to cheat US tax codes at the moment.....