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You definitely see things through biased, rose colored glasses because you are so happy that there is more pro pool to see, and probably to a lesser extent because she is a woman, and a half likeable and attractive one at that. Anything good you just automatically attribute to Emily without any...

Most fabrics feel rougher in their more raw state than they will after they have been shaved, pressed, ironed, etc, and linen thread is no different. Also linen thread is round so you would feel those little micro ridges the whole way down the wrap (which bugs many people) unless it has been...

She has done nothing but make bad decisions, and lots of them. Matchroom only continues to run because they have a lot of money to throw at it, and because the team around her is able to keep it mostly going in spite of Emily and all her horrible decision making, and make no mistake about it...

Same here. I've known about Royal Oak tips for decades and during that time I have played pool all over the country, and have read a lot of forums, and I have yet to ever even hear of somebody that uses them, much less meet anybody who does. I wonder if they are just popular in some small...

That wasn't what you had said though ("...but they are not Matchroom produced events and are therefore not majors") which is why I corrected it. Now that we got that sorted, we need to worry about how we are going to get Marcel sorted out. Knowing how Emily is, she isn't going to do a thing...

I wasn't offering an opinion one way or the other on whether they are majors or not, and whether they are or not would have nothing to do with what you said or my response to what you said. You said that they, and by implication any other events, can't be majors because they are not produced by...

Who produced an event has about as much to do with whether something is a major or not as what color of shoelaces a player is wearing has to do with how great of a player they are. What makes for a major are things like current and historic field strength, current and historic prize fund...

As soon as I saw your post mentioning a horrible ref call, I immediately knew Marcel was involved, because he makes a lot of horrible calls. In fact, it seems that the vast majority of the truly horrible calls on the most obvious situations come from Marcel, and Marcel alone. Watched the video...

I have no idea what is going on this year regarding Matchroom or SVB, but it is not a total secret that SVB does not like the Mosconi Cup at all, and for years has only played because he has been begged to and/or felt pressured to have to.

Supposedly a few years back Matchroom had wording in player contracts I think it was that gave them the power to ban any player from their tour who played in any non-Matchroom 9-ball event (or maybe it was any non-Matchroom event, can't recall which).

https://www.billiardwarehouse.com/cues/lucasi/lucasi_lz-er.htm

It is a Balabushka that George personally gifted to the band Van Halen in 2012.

The way I read it Bob is just saying that the current rules do in fact technically allow for those interpretations (but that promoters/refs have a lot of latitude in when/if/how to enforce it), but reading between the lines it sounds to me like he is also essentially saying he hopes that the...

This is the exact opposite of my and a lot of other people's experience. So much so that you had to have just remembered it backwards, because it is literally the exact opposite. One third of Le Pro tips are dried out and rock hard, so dry and hard that when you try to scuff them all you end...

It sounds you like many others are not yet aware that our very own Mike Howerton of AzBilliards is now the owner of Accu-Stats. Pat sold it to him in 2022. I don't know if trying to upscale the videos to a higher resolution before uploading would slow down the process much or not (or how much...

Seems like this would take away some, and in some cases most, of the advantage that the better player has, effectively acting as a handicap of sorts. Hard for me to ever get behind that for any reason.

If I read this right and you are around 550, and beat a player rated around 500 by a score of 5-0, and your rating went down, it definitely was not because of that match. That match raised your rating slightly because you beat the score expectation. Your rating can change as Fargo becomes more...

Agreed. While I don't think it would be a good idea either, a better argument could actually be made for the exact opposite, where the player would never be allowed to call a timeout themselves and where it could only be called by a teammate (and the odds say at least one or more of the...

First, the only way to know for sure if you will like the way a cue or a shaft will play is to play with it, and even then you often won't truly know how well it meets your preferences until you play with it for a few days/some number of hours. The only real arguable exception to this is if a...

That absolutely can and does happen a good bit. Sometimes though the shot is a lot easier than the new player believes, and they don't know that yet because they rarely shoot that shot and instead always avoid it and just choose another option. If they would actually shoot it more often they...