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No, it is not commitment, I really don't believe Mike has the mental ability to be shown as a huge loser, especially with all the shi* talking he was doing and come out better for it. I really honestly think this might be the start of Mike's downfall in the pool world. Even if he does show the...

What I am wondering is...Does Mike have the mental ability to overcome this? Given it obviously is not the first time he has been beat, but like many, I truly believe that he thought he was going to beat Shane this weekend. I truly believe he thinks he is the best player in the United States and...

This more applies to 8 ball but kinda can be applied to 9 ball as well as far as number of balls on the table. Just throw out one set of colors (solid or stripes) and the 8 ball and run those, no particular order just run them. Intention is to put you in a position of your opponent had ran out...

Well AA/AAA is the highest division they use for regional and national VNEA tournaments. Vegas championships goes to regular, intermediate and master divisions based on how you have finished in Vegas before. The reason it is listed as AA/AAA is because they play together with a 1 game spot from...

Granted that can be true. What I do know is, with that frame of mind and strategy of practice, I went from brand new beginner player to AA/AAA in VNEA in just over 5 years. It has always worked extremely well for me and everybody I have ever told it to. I like to make it 10 times in a row then...

We had explosion packs. 3 stacks of money had explosion ink packs, also, our jewelry stands had the same thing. Once you remove it from the base it is sitting on, 5 minutes later KABOOM! Extremely hot ink went everywhere. Nothing ever happened while I was working there but before I started...

I am surprised nobody else has addressed one particular part of the OP post. To better your game, you HAVE to practice the shots you missed. Like the old saying goes "an amateur will practice a shot until they miss it, a pro will shoot it until they CAN'T miss it" Every pro, coach, and/or...

I worked in a pawn shop for quite awhile and to answer your question this is how it works. You bring in an item, for conversation sake let's call it a pool cue, they will then usually consult a blue book (for all applicable items that have a blue book printed) to get a general idea of what...

In my opinion he was trying to keep the cueball up there by putting all the high and right on it and was going for leave to shoot the 7 in the top right corner as we looked or the right side pocket, the right english just happened to be still going and took off the rail and snuck past the 7...

I was trying to think of his name and was drawing a blank for some reason, there is one more guy too that for the life of me I just can't think of his name. As far as saying Justin Bergman is better than Tony, I won't say yes I won't say no for a fact, but I am leaning towards Tony being better...

Talking about barboxes let's add a couple more names in the mix that deserve to be there. Glenn Atwell, Tony Piazza, Mark Haddad, Jesse Bowman, Stan Tourengeou(sp) and a few others. Or basically take the top 10 from 4 bears and those could all make a play at being in this list. Speaking of...

Close, he personally has told me it was barbox 8 ball but never mentioned anything about last pocket. With someone of his ability last pocket is just a joke. As I understand it, he has a worldwide offer with NOBOBY barred to play anybody for any amount some barbox 8 ball. It has been quite some...

So basically what you are saying is you got your ass kicked and are upset it took so long to stay there just to lose? I have always had a great experience there and that is the general opinion of most people too. If it was so horrible then why do they keep having tournaments ever week? It isn't...

Thanks for correcting that, you beat me to it. I am going to be going into Pete's hall today and there are several pictures and newspapers with them all on there and even the big check from winning that doubles tournament is on the wall. I will take some pictures and post them up late tonight or...

One thing you can always work on is simply not applying as much english. If you have a good enough stroke then you can get away with using less english. Less english=less squirt and throw. Barring extreme examples, how much difference is 6 inches to a foot going to really make with your next...

I wasn't claiming Rod was better by any means. Both of them told me the same story, when they first played Rod used his well known "mud ball" ability to beat pete for I think they said around 1k. Pete then practiced with the mud ball for 2 straight weeks and went to where Rod was and robbed him...

In all fairness I think you are highly under-rating pete. Every time SVB comes around he still goes in there and talks to him and has always greatly valued everything Pete could offer. He has advertising sheets from back in the day with all the big well known names on it and he is one of the top...

Generally I would agree with most other sports. But answer me this, and this will kinda move away from the strictly hustler aspect of my question, but why is Mosconi's high run still intact? It would not be hard to get the same size table and adjust the pockets to the same size if someone felt...

I was curious what everybody thinks about this. How do the "road warriors" of today stack up against the old timers, a close one to me and well known, I will use Cheyenne Pete Trujillo as an example of the older road hustlers. How would guys of today compare to them? I like the older ones...

http://www.cuetimes.com/ Go through there and lists every tournament around. There is also an open/handicapped 9ft tournament on Sundays at Matchups in Fort Collins which is about 60 miles north of Denver $10 entry and $100 added.