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Yeah, but that system makes sense. All that means is that if you reach a rating of 2000 and someone suspects that you are sandbagging (ie your rating dropped to 1500 leading up to a big tourney) then you are put on a minimal rating list and you won't be allowed to go below 1700 for example...

The logic here is that there ARE manual adjustments, thus they are necessary, thus people have cheated and not everyone keeps accurate score according to the logic in your statement. Chess isn't handicapped per se in that one player would get a material advantage to start a game. It's more of...

Hmmm....I never had a problem with anyones golf handicap either.... I think I'm starting to see the theme. Golf handicaps, chess ratings, and all other decent handicapping systems are used all of the time. They aren't only applicable during competition, they are used during all forms of play...

$750 sounds legit if the table is in good condition. I don't know about your area, but I shopped around a little when buying mine and I found a few in that price range, but passed on them because they were pretty used. I finally stumbled across the table I ended up buying and I paid ~$1200 for...

Escrow on an unfinished cue? I'll just wait and if he ever has one to sell that's finished I'll pick it up.

Yeah, I would love to have one, but when I see someone trying to collect lots of upfront orders and trying to create a two - three week timespan before the first deliveries are late, I just get leary. The guy sells exactly what I'm looking for, basically PJ's with great looking wood, but I...

How do you guys/gals feel about buying or committing to buy cues that are unfinished. I see people listing cues in the Wanted/For Sale section that are "nearly finished" or "a week from ready" and they are taking orders for them. Do people jump on this? I noticed that someone is offering...

Obviously if the problem is that you rolled the ball too short or too far for shape, then you need to adjust for that. The speed of the table is something that needs adjusting for as do many of the environmental variables on the table, but if it was just a simple miss and I've been pocketing...

The concept is right, the time is wrong. If I'm playing in a match, particularly an important one, I don't have the time to think about why I missed one shot. I shot 7 or 8 before the one perfectly fine. Dismiss the miss, focus on what you have to do and move forward. Reflect on it perhaps...

Yeah, the hand flip is a strange pool mannerism. The one I hate the most though is the guy that misses, and as he walks away from the table feels compelled to let you know what he intended the outcome of the shot to be. For some reason that one irks me. Or the guy that says "did you see...

Hmmm....no offense, but this seems like a cop out. As long as this is the 'accepted' method of handicapping, I'll continue to stay away. Acknowledging that the scorekeeping is poor and that cheaters are abundant and then attempting to resolve that problem not by reforming the system, but by...

Yeah, Appleton sure doesn't get down on himself. I think feeling a little emotion and showing is okay. Like I said, implosion is a whole different animal. Efren smiles, but we all know what's really happening, he's laughing at himself. You might think, "yeah, that's the attitude", but it's...

Honestly, I hear that sandbagging is prevalent in the APA, but I can at least say that I don't think I saw any of that. We were accused of it (me being a 6), but we were just wasted and I didn't play as much anymore, I was already winding out of pool (hated that pool hall, only willing to play...

I don't know, I'm not a professional player, so I can't proclaim to know what it takes to raise your game. I think it's good to allow emotion into the game of pool. It's a competition. In a number of other professional sports I see plenty of emotion. What makes the greats great isn't that...

This sure does simplify things doesn't it? Well, the world hit 7 billion people today. Should we go on acting as if the only interest in the world is in the 330ish million that live in the US? The problem isn't that Brunswick is a bunch of money grubbing SOB's, it's that the competition...

That actually makes sense. We were completely wasted every night we played. There were ALOT of players in the league that cried that I was a 6. I mean, they were down right pissed off and I didn't realize there's really a rating system that goes to 9. If a 7 really means you can win and miss...

I don't play in the APA anymore. I only played one season. That's all it took to see how retarded it is. I know most of the guys that play in the league from banging balls around with'em or playing with them in local tournaments. Their handicaps just flat out didn't make any sense at all...

I think that in the beginning you focused on pocketing balls. Just about everyone starts by learning to pocket balls. Cue ball control is a non-thought and you just bang around playing 8 ball and hoping that you get a decent shot that you can make. It becomes very quickly apparent when...

So these are both the same cue? Why is one 37/50 and one is 74/250? How many of these are there really?

That's awesome! I'm excited to receive this! I never win shit, so this turned my week around. Thanks!