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Thank you for the reply. I couldn't find any information on any of the events you mentioned online. Maybe they aren't posted yet. Is there a website I could go to or a facebook page with more information?

I need help and thought I'd turn to my AZB community. As the title says I am looking to build my 2025 calendar and am looking for events that are good sized big table events that I could look into attending. My problem is that I book my calendar 3-6 months out with bootcamps so too often I...

Thank you so much for coming to MN and for taking the time to write up your experience. I also got your message today where you shared how the techniques, shots, and strategies we worked on were blooming in your play at the table. It really reaffirms that we can always keep growing. You were...

Thanks for the shout out! The whole story is that it was a rough set and one I didn't feel good about. He played a little off and some things went my way. I was fortunate to take that one, and winning definitely takes the sting out of some patchy play. Unfortunately playing tight won't hold...

Affirmative. Hoping we meet in the hotseat match ;)

Thank you! Yes, this is my first time. I’m going to be staying with Lil Chris and he and a few friends I haven’t seen for years will be playing. Looking forward to it. Haven’t been playing as many hours the last few months. Sometimes family and work take priority and pool gets the short end of...

Does anyone know SVB's track record against Filler deep in a major? I vaguely recall SVB winning a match or two maybe but my general sense is that Filler has been really hard for him to get past.

Memory is notoriously unreliable, so I'd be a fool to insist I could recall the nuances of a shot from 20 years ago. This isn't a really hard thing to differentiate, however. I said it jumped off the back of the pocket, but more accurate I should mean it spit out of the pocket. This means it...

I remember a session where I was playing someone from FL for a little bit. Tough sets but I won the first two. We doubled the bet and that third set was close. Racing to 9 and I was on the hill up 8-7. Clearly I had to nail this rack down. I was running out and had a long, straight shot on...

Bummer. I have played this event the last three years. I sat this one out because they didn't open registration and only ran qualifiers, or at least that was my understanding. To see open spots in the field when I would have loved to have played is a bit disappointing. Oh well. Matchroom...

Interestingly they both had 44 break and runs. If SVB had a break edge at all it must have been more opportunities to play the first safe in the other racks. But I think if they tied on BNR then the break wasn't that big of a factor. I think a different way to interpret this is that the...

Hey Doc! Yeah, the best of 5 sets format is one I really like. It's good for the viewers too because the suspense is always there. One thing these long races do is create a ton of pressure. When you play best of five sets you know you can lose a set and still win. But in a race to 120 you...

A few thoughts after reading this thread: -While I acknowledge that this is a community of die hard pool fans, some of who are in the know on certain topics, there is also a lot of third and fourth hand information out there as well as just plain speculation. So while some of these details...

I remember seeing them for around $200. But really, $100, $200, $300. It's all the same. Way more than a paperback is normally, but affordable if your mind is set up to own a copy. Is it worth it? Obviously that is relative. But in my opinion it is definitely worth it. Rags to Riches...

I feel they are such different works that it almost doesn't make sense to compare them. One was a movie that told the story of hotshot players and hustles. Another was a story about growing older and the growth that comes from it. This is just a one sentence take of course, my point is that...

Stu, not sure if I missed a post of if you aren't on the record. Who do you like in this match? I've given this quite a bit of thought and have really struggled. I think I have a lean finally but it is not only a close match but I do believe it is one both could win. But if you were a...

Venom knows his business and the limitations he was up against. When I watched this though I was very disappointed with the shots he performed. Before Venom there was Mike Massey and some trick shots in a book I read from Byrne. Pretty standard. When Venom came along he blew my mind with...

I think there is opportunity for a US tour. Social media has made high level pool more accessible to recreational players resulting in a surge of serious amateurs. In turn social media has also made tournaments more visible and accessible to those amateurs resulting in record attendance for...

I am of the opinion that this is as far from a pay-per-view chop exhibition as could be. I respect Stu's views that tournaments are how you keep score among the elite pool players and that long races aren't that interesting. And when it comes to tournaments and titles and hall of fame status...

And bbb nails both awesome points immediately. Well said Doc! My favorite game is big table 9/10 ball because I think it is the most challenging to run racks. But my firepower isn't at the elite level. So I'm probably most competitive at bar table 8 ball and one pocket. But I'm a challenge...