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My personal experience is that practicing on a table that is looser than what you compete on sucks for all the reasons mentioned. It’s just hard to feel completely in flow unless you get ample time to warm up, which isn’t always guaranteed. And then, having the same pocket size isnt ideal...

I don’t see myself in the data here. Can you drill down to fractions of percents? I want to know my chances of beating Jaysons record.

Knowing this, do you think you would do better next time with those adjustments? Style of play was partly what I was thinking of too. I recently had a match on in the background with two good amateurs who were just totally dialled in and getting out from everywhere. But they used a lot of...

Just from watching the matchroom events on 4” pockets, I see pros blowing the first round players out of the water. Probably down to a mixture of being over awed and the pocket size, in this setting the mid 600s are missing routine shots, getting out of line and leaving the pros easy layouts...

I lean the opposite way, at least for pros. Yes, you lose the ability to do some things but Shaws run showed that keeping big pockets for pro 14.1 is at the expense of tight patterns.

A $1. One time I put my money in and the table released the balls but didn’t eat the Loonie. I call that a win.

For the women, I’d be shocked if Kelly Fisher didn’t walk away with a 160+ ball run after a week. And then Han Yu should be capable of putting up a 200 based on her Fargo alone. Side note, what do we think about having attempts for a 4.25” pocket category? I know, I know, 14.1 on anything...

Id like to see some from the top 20 on the Fargo list who is also genuinely loves 14.1. In other words, a top player who plays it even if isn’t being paid to.

This is silly. Even if you don’t accept Jayson continuing mid-rack, why would you ignore the subsequent racks?

I'm working through a slump of my own at the moment. as I’m reflecting, it’s important to recognize if you are going through an execution slump or a thinking one. Or both. Currently I’m hitting the ball quite well but it’s easy to not recognize this since I’m still ending runs with a lot of...

They still can, but it wasnt as common before. You won’t see as much of it on the Turning Stone stream because they don’t always have top players (or even pros) featured.

I have a couple of guesses. Marketing first and foremost. Dripping this out keeps them at the top of the Facebook feed and I expect that will lead into promotion of whatever tournament is up next. Second, I can’t imagine it hasn’t crossed their minds that this is also sort of a not so subtle...

True, but that’s a problem all sports are having if I remember correctly.

My feeling is that the age restrictions in many pool rooms is probably mostly to blame. We need to increase the proportion of 8-17 year old players to drive higher numbers of 18-49 year olds in the future.

I wish we could get access to the data or even just data from pro tournaments. I’d love to just do my own analysis. Even if I found on my own that table size do not influence ratings on average, I’d still want to see if there is any data all that might support what people think is happening...

Even though I know that I can’t increase tip contact time, I still find trying to do so tends to encourage me to accelerate into the ball better.

I’d say it’s also the only way they can compete with matchroom. Setting aside that it’s basically a totally different game.

I missed my chance to be a semi-finalist

How are we defining good though? One of the biggest reasons we see snooker players being competitive in 9 ball is the vastly different structures between the games. If Filler or Gorst wanted to make the switch to snooker, they’d need need to go through QSchool to get onto the WST ranked at the...

I think the biggest difference really comes down to that they relish making the big shots. I think if you had the top 20 players all do shotmaking drills and tracked their results we may be somewhat surprised at the outcome. But perhaps where the real difference is at the top level is in the...