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Agreed. 8 ball is a thought provoking game to watch trying to figure out the pros patterns. 10 ball patterns are pretty straight forward but the pressure is high to not miss any shots.

They have a big booth with at least a hundred cues on display and a single entrance. They seem to have only one person watching it usually so when a customer is engaged with them it leaves an opening for these aholes to steal.

Looks like team taiwan is getting destroyed badly in this event. Baby Ko still looking promising - he hasnt lost to anyone but other taiwanese players so far during his current US trip.

Interesting. Maybe Efren chose the wrong type of bar ;)

Hahah. Too little hours of sleep to try to explain this type of subject.

Im not sure what the oxygen bar really is. I think they just blow more oxygen dense air into your nose?

One thing to steal and one thing to steal AND think that it isnt wrong. Back in the day I was in high school some of my friends would steal stuff from stores and argue that itis because they are charging too much thus ripping them off. Never understood the logic behind that but I guess criminals...

Seems like Efren has been playing very poorly recently. I can almost call all the shots he is about to miss. I caught him hanging around thr oxygen bar at the Rio. Guess that dodnt help :D

It is sad how their teammates actually didnt find much wrong with his behavior. I hope he gets what he deserves (hint:not a free cue).

The second character IF two characters are assigned to the give name is the primary character with the first character being a supporting one. However more often than not the two characters make up an actual word that means something together. Having grown up in Taiwan vs living in the US for...

Last weekend at the CSI Invitationals someone came up and asked Chang Jung Lin a similar question. His response was: "money is coming!!" (in mandarin). His more serious explanation was that he thinks about how exciting it is during a close match and it makes him play better. The person who asked...

I have beat a dorm mate who I did not know out of some money, unintentionally using a tip-less cue, hitting all shots with the ferrule.

Having lived in both countries I can understand the errors made cross-culturally. I have seen quite a lot of funny english translations of words and phrases in Taiwan and I believe it is much worse in China. In English we have words that is made up of a set of characters but in chinese "words"...

Definitely. Out of them Chang is the most experienced tactical and consistent player. But dont forget Ko did place 5th last yr in US open 8 ball in a tough field and bald Cheng placed 3rd.

Sometimea they take on their husbands last name to add onto her full name. As for middle names, no, theres only a first name. Pin-yi is two characters but just one first name. Usually the first name is one or two characters. Sometimes there are two charactered last names too. The last name is...

Chang Jung Lin is also a former world 8 ball champ

A good friend would address him by his first name "pin yi"

If Chinese was not my first language, I probably would have a hard time telling the difference as well. I do however have trouble differentiating Japanese names.

Some of his behaviors come off as a bit ethically in the grey area to me. That incident along with blatantly pattern racking and soft breaking to defeat Jayson Shaw at Hard Times. There were a couple other incidents that I can't think of off the top of my mind right now.

Dennis was practicing jump shots last yr in one of the US Open events on another table either during a time out or during his shot.