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  1. ShortBusRuss

    Savannah's home table?

    Are we talking gambling, or tournaments? I really don't know, since I did not get to watch any of them play live until much later, but the word on the street was that Parica murdered a lot of champions on the gambling tables way before he started winning tournaments. Granted... I think your...
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    Savannah's home table?

    Do you think that maybe that was more about lack of knowledge of play outside of the U.S. at the time, though? I am not sure that Jean would have been able to deal with even the second tier Filipinos at the time, due to the influence of Efren and Parica (and Rotation) on how the game was played...
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    Savannah's home table?

    Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, gross!
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    How do these diamond tables play so badly? vid

    This. iusedtoberich would be driven absolutely bats**t crazy by the Gold Crowns most Germans play on. Absolutely rock hard pocket facings, as they don't extend the subrail so they can use a proper thickness pocket facing, so they just double them up. Makes the pocket facing play like concrete...
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    Dechaine vs Krause

    It is looking like he might give Krause a good old fashioned passionate horse f***ing!!!
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    Seeking Input: Archer ‘93 vs. Today

    Ten packs with the 1 on the spot where the wing ball was dead wired in the corner on certain tables, on 4 5/8" pockets. Not even in the same universe as what players are doing these days. Top players of that age had a power break, because obviously they needed one... But everything else about...
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    Dechaine vs Krause

    I agree. He is proving me wrong.
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    Dechaine vs Krause

    Oof... I don't think this is gonna be as close as some people are thinking.... As in.. I think Mike may be lucky to get 10? (Sorry, Mike!)
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    Quiet Eye Theory

    I used to do the same thing, and would specifically focus on elements of license plates as I was driving to the pool hall to practice. I have a theory about this. From an evolutionary perspective, what we call "dead stroke", and other sports/games have various different names for, is a state...
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    Dechaine vs Krause

    Can someone post the link when they get it? I cannot access Facebook from work...
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    Seeking Input: Archer ‘93 vs. Today

    Ehhh.... I think that a main factor is that the older cloth almost always came with bigger pockets, and as a result, lots of players never were under any real pressure to really work on having a laser straight stroke. And actually... Slower cloth is inherently more friendly to poorer strokes on...
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    Kid Delicous

    AI voice + script.... And that's all I got to say about that. To cleanse my palette, I have to now go and watch one of his actual matches....
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    McCready bingeing!

    Gonna agree to disagree, at least from a personal watching perspective. if people wanna watch "entertainment", then they can watch the Mosconi Cup, with people in the audience drinking beer and wearing QAnon Shaman with body paint, or whatever. That, and women bent over the table with...
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    Seeking Input: Archer ‘93 vs. Today

    What was the pocket size on the Greenleaf-era 10 footers, versus the Big Foot table? I have to believe they were a little bit more generous.
  15. ShortBusRuss

    Non-Gambling Pool Players

    Hogwash. People don't gamble as much any more, because the populace as a collective whole has less spare money to risk, due to falling wages, out of control inflation, and rising home prices. People are doing well enough these days if they can afford rent/mortgage, plus a car payment. People...
  16. ShortBusRuss

    Fargo Match.... 679 vs 851

    Well, feel free to hide my posts, then. Then I won't have to deal with your annoying "annoyance with me".
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    Fargo Match.... 679 vs 851

    About as often as I'll post that I loathe Denis Grabe... Though.. You liked that particular message. I don't suppose your irritation with me has anything whatsoever to do with me consistently criticizing the way "Murica" does some things, huh? Nahhhhhhhh! That couldn't be it! Your response is...
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    Fargo Match.... 679 vs 851

    I can attest to this.. I played him in 2023 on the small pocket Diamonds that year at Derby in the 9 ball.. He and I both missed maybe 2 balls the entire match... He made it look a lot easier than I did, though. I felt I played pretty damned good to get to 5 games. My Fargorate "expectation" was...
  19. ShortBusRuss

    What's the thoughts on this case?

    Man, this hits home. My son plays, but he is very seriously bipolar with alcohol and drug problems, so there is zero chance I give him my sticks, guitars, pool table, or anything else I don't want to see sold for pennies on the dollar.
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