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This reeks of the ACBS. They tried everything possible last year to get the event cancelled by the host city as well as played hardball with Asian players.

“ 🔊 Important Notice for All WPA Licensed Players 🔊 The WPA wishes to remind all licensed players of the serious consequences of participating in unsanctioned events. In particular, we draw your attention to the upcoming Hanoi Open scheduled for October 2024, which is an unsanctioned event. We...

To be fair, we are on a pool forum where pool is not played but rather discussed. So in this instance the knowledge serves the discussion. And in this case, there are people that that attempt to take this knowledge and apply it into an adjustment system that they leverage on the pool table...

Interesting enough Jeremy Jones does educational videos for APA. He advocates an FHE-only approach. He doesn’t use that terminology. But for me being familiar with the vocabulary I can say that to some people here and they’ll know exactly what I’m saying instantly and have a frame of...

I’d love to have a three piece cue to try out for work travel. I’ll visit pool halls when I can but those trips aren’t worth checking or shipping my cues. Often I play with some really bad house cues off the wall. I’m not savvy enough to know someone that would build them and actually be able...

What’s been measured is that tip contact time actually is overrated. On average tip contact time is between 1-2 ms. A very soft tip can make that 2-3 ms. A hard tip can take that as low as 0.8 ms. Your stroke action whether it is swooping, straight, accelerating, decelerating, or constant...

Sorry man. Physics is physics. Tip offset. Speed. Direction. Mass. That’s about it. Stroke is important. If you intend to hit the ball exactly at one point but inadvertently hit somewhere else then you are not getting good results. A good stroke delivers to the exact intended target...

I read these last few comments and can only picture this.

Front Hand English (FHE) is the act of applying sidespin by moving your bridge hand laterally either as you place it down on the table or as an adjustment right after. Back Hand English (BHE) is the act of apply sidespin by moving your back hand laterally so that the front of the cue pivots...

I like that answer better than a generic “I like red dots”

I just want whatever cueball came with the set from the same manufacturer as the object balls. Same formula. Same density. Same size. Same mass. Whatever. I don’t want to risk a ball that’s lighter or heavier and plays gaffe.

I think it makes sense that it doesn’t need to be rehashed. I just hate to see the word “mistake” when we are describing an intentional choice to engage in a conspiracy of wrongdoing for personal enrichment. A mistake is a barbed wire tattoo on your arm. We don’t have to keep dragging their...

There is this part of me that’s got to reconcile the speculation, with my admiration for pool’s legends, to my absolute disgust at the possibility of lying, cheating and stealing from my role models. I’ve seen other threads about this over the years trying to shrug it off as a mistake or a poor...

I wonder what time the matches will be scheduled for. They are 7 hours ahead of EDT. So a noon match there would be 5AM for me. Hopefully they schedule deep into the evening there so we can see more of the action without having a rooster in the house.

Do you think she had a problem with gambling in general or do you think she had a concern of players gambling on the practice tables of an event hosted in a casino. I know other events hosted in casinos that have no gambling rules because the casino requires it as a stipulation of using their...

I don’t know all the history of that event and who was in on the take. Every time it’s mentioned, Lebron gets his name attached to it like a patsy. Wouldn’t be more accurate to associate Buddy as the Pete Rose of pool in this story? Threads like this get titled “Never forget Mike Lebron”...

I like to look at it this way. Ask yourself what the best 5 finishes were of a player over their career. What were the best 5 finishes of their peers they competed against? To me, I can’t exactly judge Kim very well. It was a different era. WPA Championship started in 1990 on the tail end...

It was discussed in the APA / Billiards Digest Live. Panozzo explained it as a couple people that just kind of rationalize in their heads specific players they feel are overlooked and want to see get in first. So when they cast their ballots they only vote for them as a testament of their...

This conversation has been about who is a good candidate for Meritorious Service, not Greatest Player. There is something to be said about his impact on the game. He discovered and exploited flaws in racking advancements in the game to a degree the rules needed to be changed. That’s not...

My “go to” thing to say is this. I know a lot about pool. I’m no pro but I’m very well versed. There are neophytes that just make me want to pinch their cheeks. You watch them play and you know every mistake they are making. Many are fundamentals. They jerk their cue. You think, “I just...