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There are also some intangibles, such as helping a player build a local brand to be able to charge for lessons. Being able to call yourself a "pro" (whether your level warrants that rating or not) lends some credence to be able to charge for lessons. I know a low level female player who plays...

Good point about what cue they use. Mark Gray still uses a snooker cue and I sometimes play with my snooker cue now and can play pretty decent with it. I think for upper echelon snooker players (which Lisowski and Wilson definitely are and Lilley not too far behind) they have the cue action to...

Pretty excited for this. Wilson is a talented player who is capable of causing a few small surprises. Lisowski is one of the most talented snooker players on the tour. Capable of potting them off the lights when on form, but has not quite lived up to the huge hype as of yet. Jack survived...

I played a rack against him once in a dive bar. He was more than a little tipsy (it was St Patricks Day in NYC), but decent enough. He seemed like an extremely nice guy. He put his name up on the waiting list and waited his turn like everyone else.

I don't disagree with that at all. In the moment a couple of beers does help to numb the pain, so it is definitely a short term fix.

I didn't find that CBD helped (I know they work well for some people), but I have found that weed gummies that I take to sleep, have also helped my shoulder, as they have an anti inflammatory quality to them. I have to drink a bit in order to play pool, as I have an old tear and some arthritis...

Pretty glad that SVB is out, as at least JJ might stop talking about him now. I normally love JJ's commentary, but he needs to keep it in his pants a bit when it comes to SVB. Even when SVB is not playing he still talks about him 50% of the time, it's wild. A small gripe, but his love for Shane...

I like the Rasson as well, they are very similar to Diamonds, but the balls make a really satisfying sound when they hot the back of the pocket. The Predator 7 foot tables I played on were nice enough but seemed cheaply made and made a weird tiny sound when they hit the pocket. I don't get the...

It seems like Predator has released an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) for a number of new products, such as the rack, cloth and tables. In my humble opinion it is an error to do that for a paid for consumer products as you end up burning your best customers and sully what was a pretty stellar...

I have to say, I have never known humidity to be an issue within the Rio convention room. Especially not where it would slow the tables down that much. I think the interesting thing is that the quality of cloth just isn't there for this current event Almost all the players that I have seen, have...

In addition to the racks, the tables have been playing really slowly. I don't recall these tables/cloth being that slow before, but you can see players resorting to trying to muscle the ball around to get shape. I don't know what has changed, maybe a dodgy batch of cloth? Lee Van was also...

It is definitely open season to grab a spot on the WPBA. What I find a little laughable is the level of players seeded and then you get the likes of known players like Fefilova, Tkasch, etc being unseeded and needing to "qualify" even though they are known players. Once you are seeded, you...

Thank you. This is a brilliant post. Really informative and gives me a good idea of what I can aspire to, now that I am just starting to play regularly again.

The only real issue I have with the handicap system is the massive disparity in level between 7's. I have played some 7's even up in APA 8 Ball, but in other local leagues have had to play the same player giving them 5 games on 10 and should win. I am not a super 7 (639 Fargo) by any stretch of...

Great to see such an international field. I have seen an increase in South Americans competing the last few years, how big is pool over there? There are a bunch of players I have not seen before who are clearly talented players.

For the experience check out El Batey in Old San Juan. They have a beaten up table that has almost no room around it, so they have a medley of short sticks that you can use. I just ended up using a short stick all the time to save messing around switching cues. It is a real dive bar, but a lot...

They should use the old "best effort" rule. Where it is only called a miss if a player does not make a genuine attempt or plays it too slowly to hit the ball. After three obviously non genuine attempts it is loss of frame. That being said I played in hundreds of amateur tournaments in the UK...

Sadly, it is near on impossible for snooker to take off in the US. Snooker still lives off of the back of Barry Hearn's genius realization in that the general public will only watch snooker if people care about the players and who wins. You will notice snooker tournaments almost always a have a...

Perhaps a local league operator sent a data dump to Fargo? One of the old leagues i played in uploaded 5 years of results earlier this year and my Fargo jumped 20 points over night. It doesn't mean the system is broken, it just means that Fargo is obviously reliant on the data they receive.

The kick jump is a useful tool, but the situation rarely comes up. It is not especially difficult, so it is worth a little practice. As Stu said, the outcome here was pure luck, he was just trying to hit the ball.