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Great post Mark. I completely agree. Matchroom is the best company out there for pool and they do listen to the fans. I believe in years past they would just pick the team and in the more recent years they have moved more towards publicizing the points races and how they will choose the teams so...

There is a point system used for both teams. Players earn points at several national or international events all of which are announced at the beginning of the year. They even dropped the lowest score for each player to make it more fair if players had to miss one event. The guys that played...

Because I believe the Mosconi Cup was modeled after the Ryder Cup in golf. Adding teams would take away from this mirroring.

Well you pay more here but people also earn A LOT more here. You can work at McDonalds in an entry level position as a teenager and make 18CHF7hr which is about $20USD. They also have private clubs here where you pay a monthly membership fee and get a key to the place so you can play anytime...

This is a link to the pics of the snooker room from the Billiardino website. http://www.billiardino.ch/billiardino_gal.php?gallery=22&name=Snooker#

Good luck girls! You are all amazing women and I am excited to see what you gals will be able to do. For anyone that hasn't visited their website I would encourage you to check out their profiles and to learn about the background of the women. This is a very diverse group of accomplished (both...

The Grand which is close to downtown has tournaments at 730 on Thursday evenings, it's usually a small turn out but there are a lot of good players and nice people to meet there. They also have one at Saturdays but I dont remember the time. Up norht at Skinny Bobs there is a weekly tournament on...

I have heard CJ tell this story and shortly after I heard it from him I heard the other side of the story straight from one of the lawyers that defended the insurance company that was supposed to pay out the prize money. (I will see if this lawyer might be in the DVD but I don't know if he would...

Great post Justin! Most of them are new to this so there will certainly be a learning curve but I do commend them for trying to organize something. I think it's a step in the right directions and hopefully they will get some meaningful results. As for the U.S. Open...For an event that has been...

If you offer the top woman paid entry I will play for sure next week. I think having a women's event on it's own won't draw much of a crowd unless you do it alongside another men's event. The women usually only travel for the OBCues Tour these days.

Thanks for catching that...I'm sure there are more typo's. I was bored are work and writing quickly :)

I just posted my opinions (and these are just my person opinions of it) in my blog http://cristinadlg.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-analysis-of-association-of-billiard.html

Wow...I love how everything on this forum gets turned into a consiracy theory. Predator has been sponsoring events in Asia for a long time so I doubt this will change that. And if you look at their player roster, there are very few that only play events in the U.S., most compete in all of the...

I have to say I am quite surprised as well that it turned out to be Mike. I don't know Mike personally but I have always thought of him as a great guy and a great supporter of pool on all levels, that opinion doesn't change. I totally give him credit though for owning up to it and responding. He...

Yeah, unfortunately for the men, no one has instituted a means of guaranteeing the money for them in any tournaments. It's a catch 22 because the people that DO pay out money (like Matchroom) are now basing their invitations on ranking points for events that don't always pay on time, if ever at...

That's good advice. The two things that players don't practice enough are the break and safeties. You won't change your shot making ability overnight so practice those two things and you will find you are getting a lot more chances at the table. Here's a link to an article I wrote that shows a...

Exactly! The more elite players need to realize that our sport would not exist without the "casual" players and without the companies that serve those casual players. Cuetec invests a lot of money into pool and if more companies paid their players as well as Cuetec does it would be a lot easier...

Is this a guarenteed $5K added or is that just with a full field? Anyone know?

Does that mean shane was racking for scooter? Scooter knows a lot about the rack too so if they were racking for each other I doubt shane was slug racking him. And depending on how much money was at stake for each of the sets you are talking about (btwn the players and on the rail), Scooter...

This has to be done because these are the TV rounds so we have to have a set number of matches (not a possible double-dipping situation). Additionally, statistics show that for ratings, it is best to not have the same player in all 3 matches which can potentially happen with a true double...