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  1. Poolplaya9

    Modern Era Tournament Slow Play - (a rant)

    More than anything I think this is just a case of not noticing the difference rather than it not being there. We say to ourselves "look, Kaci just sped up and he isn't shooting balls into the rail every other shot", and this is true. What we aren't looking for or at least noticing though is...
  2. Poolplaya9

    Modern Era Tournament Slow Play - (a rant)

    You are ignoring that regardless of the era you look at, the speed demons weren't all clumped at the top. In fact what you see is more of the opposite, where the top ranks would tend to consist more of the slow to moderate paced players for the era. This is pretty telling when you give it some...
  3. Poolplaya9

    Modern Era Tournament Slow Play - (a rant)

    Some continue to deny this but the fact is that this style of play leads to a higher level of play. This means that most of the top players are going to end up having this style, and that will likely continue to become even more and more true as time goes on. It also means that they obviously...
  4. Poolplaya9

    Did I make a bad call as Tournament Director?

    Even with Vic's newest explanation things still smell real fishy from where I sit and the pieces do not in fact fit together very well at all. There is however an explanation where all the pieces do fit together perfectly, and as a result seems much more likely to be the truth of what actually...
  5. Poolplaya9

    It's a Mosconi Cup themed Caption This this month.

    Filler trying to distract Shane from letting out his inner Earl Strickland on that annoying guy in the stands.
  6. Poolplaya9

    Who let the dogs out? Some threads are gone.

    Agreed, but only with a caveat. A moderator should NEVER edit a post unless they leave a message in the post that says "this post was edited and changed by a moderator and is not as originally written". If they don't do that they are literally putting words into somebody else's mouth, or...
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    Did I make a bad call as Tournament Director?

    That's why I said if you were 100% certain they had no affiliation of any kind. If there was a calcutta, particularly if you didn't know who bought who, you certainly couldn't be 100% sure there wasn't some possible affiliation. If you don't know all the people very well you couldn't be sure...
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    Did I make a bad call as Tournament Director?

    With a he said/she said like this, and with no solid evidence to support either side, I can't see any other ruling than to replay the game. This *might* be one of those ultra rare scenarios where you consider seeking out an independent witness to help inform your ruling though. If there was...
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    APA logo on cue need help identifying

    Everything about it looks like a Mali to me as well.
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    Player of the decade Earl or Sigel?

    Because the Mosconi Cup has been played for coming up on 30 years and at the time it started there was like 17 people in all of Europe who played pool regularly. They even had to fill out their teams with snooker players. Are you like 14 years old or something? Your knowledge on quite a lot...
  11. Poolplaya9

    John Morra vs Tyler Styer race to 30 livestream

    Well you changed that post quite a bit but here is but here is my response to your original post before it was changed. There is room for debate on how best to calculate these things, and I’m fully expecting you are going to wanting to argue the methods since the stats don't really support your...
  12. Poolplaya9

    John Morra vs Tyler Styer race to 30 livestream

    Looking at their entire Mosconi careers, Tyler has performed better than SVB. Even looking at just the years they both played Tyler has performed better. You can see it with your own eyes. And I'm guessing the stats would likely back it up as well but I don't have them available, perhaps you...
  13. Poolplaya9

    John Morra vs Tyler Styer race to 30 livestream

    For the Mosconi Cup Tyler is clearly a better player than SVB. If you got to the point down the list were you were looking to replace one of them it would be a no brainer, the long history of results don't lie and you would have to replace SVB before you replaced Tyler. SVB just can't play...
  14. Poolplaya9

    Can anyone identify the cue on the left with the white collars???

    A long time ago I did exactly what you are suggesting and tried one out of curiosity to see how well it could jump since it could be configured into different lengths. It was horrible at jumping no matter what configuration you put it in. Hit a few balls with it out of curiosity as well and it...
  15. Poolplaya9

    European douche bags

    Here we go, another one of the "everything is always everybody else's fault" types. Newsflash, the sole person in control of your behaviors and actions is you, so whenever your behavior or actions are out of line the only person at fault--and solely at fault--is you.
  16. Poolplaya9

    John Morra vs Tyler Styer race to 30 livestream

    For the Mosconi Cup Tyler has been the solidly second best player on the team for several years now. He shouldn't be the guy you are looking to replace, in fact his name shouldn't come up until fourth on the list of the players that you should be looking to replace on the team.
  17. Poolplaya9

    Honduran Rotation run-out....!!

    It was the right english that caused most of effects that you see in the shot although the top contributed to the cue ball going a bit forward of the tangent line as well. The whole key to this specific shot is that it was played slightly rail first. When you do that the cue ball rebounds...
  18. Poolplaya9

    Matchroom dumps WPA!

    Thanks for the correction, post has been corrected. No idea why I typed it like that, probably because I was thinking about Matchroom's 9 ball ranking list at the time.
  19. Poolplaya9

    Matchroom dumps WPA!

    Except that Barry Hearn very specifically said himself, in several interviews a couple of days ago, that the reason he is breaking ties with the WPA is because he wants them to use Matchroom's ranking list as their official WPA 9 ball ranking list instead of continuing to not have a 9 ball only...
  20. Poolplaya9

    John Morra vs Tyler Styer race to 30 livestream

    John Morra vs Tyler Styer race to 30 livestream at the link below. Don't know what the stakes are if any.
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