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Jose deserved it, as he was quite literally the "leader of the invasion" from the Philippines, and changed the way we play 9 ball today. He came to the U.S.A., center of the pool world, and shot EVERYONE'S nuts in for years before Efren arrived. Danny Diliberto deserved it because he became...

He was NOT a good enough "player". That is indisputable. His tournament record stands nowhere close to HOF status. The monsters in the HOF (and quite a few of them who never got in) would have spotted him the 7 easily, and beat him all day long. Louie Roberts, the guy the Action Award at DCC is...

A world governing organization doesn't mean Jack Schitt if the players are playing for pennies. And if Matchroom stops paying good prize funds, the players jump ship. Simple Simon. This is nothing more or less than the WPA getting called out by a competing organization for not growing the game...

I think it is more accurate to say "Filler stuns the ball more, and his English is more effective as such". A well struck stun shot cutting the ball causes the cue ball to naturally pick up running English due to the cue ball gearing off the object ball. When you get this kind of action off the...

Well stroked stun shots result in a very predictable cue ball path, and hitting the center of the pocket. Spinning the ball results in differing thickness of hit, and therefore, pocketing the ball into one side of the pocket or another. This difference results in multiple feet of difference in...

They "roll" the ball less, and tend to have the ball sliding across the cloth further towards the object ball, and as such, tend to minimize the effect of errant left/right English during the stroke. If you roll the ball and mishit it left or right, the cue ball path bends slightly on the way to...

Don't know about all that... I played Tony in the 9 ball at DCC last year, played REAL good on him, and lost 9-5. I think he missed either 1 or 2 balls, on those 4 1/4" (4 1/8"?) pockets. I don't think I would bet against him versus Josh Roberts at all. Actually, I probably bet on Tony in that game.

Jim Rempe would have absolutely been over 800.

Well, in an effort to put a positive spin on it.. At least Team USA won enough games to make it theoretically possible they could win a match, with 9 games across 4 matches.

With the way this is going, I prolly am not gonna watch past today, and this event is probably not gonna be on my list of events to make time to watch in the future.

Wow. Looks like even Gorst is getting infected by the low standard of play amongst the "American" players. Hooks his teammate on the very first shot. Sigh.

Depends on what you mean by "weakness". From an evolutionary perspective, male humans have been the hunters for the vast majority of our evolutionary period, so it stands to reason that pattern recognition and spatial awareness would be better "in general" in males, as compared to females. As...

I went blind reading this, and I had to get a braille keyboard (I am a quick learner) and using a screen reading tool and keyboard from now on... You do realize that the majority of the forum is getting up there in age these days, yes? *EDIT* NVM... This is a superold post, and I went blind...

Some people get more of an adrenaline response when under pressure. This can be trained away, by practicing higher pressure shots until they stop becoming "high pressure", but you have to KNOW that is what you have to do to get past it. Adrenaline has a generally negative effect on fine muscle...

Well... Not everyone who is a pool player is a moron. Yes, we tend to have more than our fair share of morons, but that is not a "requirement" to play pool, per se.

Yes, because America is in end-stage capitalism, where the only thing that matters is squeezing the most amount of money out of everything, no matter the ill effect on the populace, whereas other countries have other priorities. One prime example of this is how the American food chain is...

I am not "defending" Germany. I am illustrating that whatever your logic was with the statement "In 2020, the US earned more GOLD medals than Germany earned TOTAL medals" was, it doesn't hold up. It doesn't mean USA is "better" at the Olympics than Germany. It just means that USA has a bigger...

For the record... USA versus Germany population is 337 million to 83 million. Approximately 4 to 1 population advantage, which if the medal wins were proportional, means USA should have 120 medals to Germany's 30. America's GDP per capita versus Germany's, is about 25% more, as well. When...

Okay. I reviewed the back and forth, and mentioned that it is "sad" that players are so focused on money in America, that they inevitably stall out "because" money is their sole focus, rather than being the very best player they can be, being their focus. If you wanna say that I was "bashing"...

Keep it up for a few more years, and yah just might hurt my feelings! Yah know... When I go senile, and forget my own name, lol.