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AI voice + script.... And that's all I got to say about that. To cleanse my palette, I have to now go and watch one of his actual matches....

Gonna agree to disagree, at least from a personal watching perspective. if people wanna watch "entertainment", then they can watch the Mosconi Cup, with people in the audience drinking beer and wearing QAnon Shaman with body paint, or whatever. That, and women bent over the table with...

What was the pocket size on the Greenleaf-era 10 footers, versus the Big Foot table? I have to believe they were a little bit more generous.

Hogwash. People don't gamble as much any more, because the populace as a collective whole has less spare money to risk, due to falling wages, out of control inflation, and rising home prices. People are doing well enough these days if they can afford rent/mortgage, plus a car payment. People...

Well, feel free to hide my posts, then. Then I won't have to deal with your annoying "annoyance with me".

About as often as I'll post that I loathe Denis Grabe... Though.. You liked that particular message. I don't suppose your irritation with me has anything whatsoever to do with me consistently criticizing the way "Murica" does some things, huh? Nahhhhhhhh! That couldn't be it! Your response is...

I can attest to this.. I played him in 2023 on the small pocket Diamonds that year at Derby in the 9 ball.. He and I both missed maybe 2 balls the entire match... He made it look a lot easier than I did, though. I felt I played pretty damned good to get to 5 games. My Fargorate "expectation" was...

Man, this hits home. My son plays, but he is very seriously bipolar with alcohol and drug problems, so there is zero chance I give him my sticks, guitars, pool table, or anything else I don't want to see sold for pennies on the dollar.

Every cloud has it's silver lining!

Dazz nuffin. Check out Glenn Atwell. He physically tilts his head sideways to get his eye lined up.. It's hard to see in this picture, and I couldn't find a better one.. But it is pretty extreme.

Yeah... It totally sounds shady, without any effort whatsoever to explain "why" they can't make all the match data public.. By "we can't do that", I assume one of three possibilities... 1. They CAN in fact, make all the games public... But don't want to, because of the gamblers who will get...

I'd be curious as to how the stats play out in the year that the pockets were 4 1/8", versus the larger pockets this year. I think the winning expectation changes for the breaker, depending on tightness of the pockets..

Fargorate already gives a "handicap" calculator, that is very accurate in predicting outcomes. But herein lies the problem... It's right there in the site fairmatch.fargorate.com. The entire site is built off of the idea of figuring out what two players need to "gamble" somewhat fairly. But...

Oh, and one more point... The only reason this "sandbagging" sh*t has the "possibility" to work in Fargorate.. Is because not all the data is 100% completely public. Both tournament directors AND players should be able to review the match/rating history of ANY player in the field in the run up...

It is debatable whether Fargorate is more "accurate" than chess ratings or not... But one thing that is not debatable is that the vast majority of the data a player might be interested in, is hidden from the player base.. Unless you subscribe to the app. And even then.... Players interested in...

Mike.... One big problem I have seen is not "homogenizing" names written with English letters, but having foreign accented characters. I was looking up a Polish player from the Italian Open, and could not find them, because they have a single accented character in their name. I literally could...

Well, speaking personally for me... One of the biggest failings I see in Fargorate is the fact that players can "choose" to make all their games public, or not. Chess is not this way. I can see the results of every tournament game I have ever played in my entire LIFE. I am turning 50 years old...

Yeah.... "Pool players".

Nope.. 100% was City Lights. I spent the vast majority of my pool playing time outside the barracks in that pool hall. Rick probably took his cue from the way they did the tournaments at The White Spot. Rick Jones REALLY played some jam up barbox 8 ball. He didn't like our One Pocket action by...

Let me tell you.. That Wednesday night tournament at City Lights got TOUGH there for a while.... Don McKay was a good player who tended to be in the final 8, but not necessarily win the tournament... But one Wednesday night.. His first opponent broke and ran a three pack out the gate to put him...