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  1. ShortBusRuss

    Current State/Cost of Salotto

    So, not that many matches here in Germany get reported to Fargorate, but we DO have some players with established Fargorates, and Robustness of 400+.. I remember looking at Salotto a few years ago, and it seemed prohibitively expensive, specifically because it seemed like both players had to...
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    832

    Well, to be fair... Chess operates in JUST this way. There is a wide range of play from ~600 rating to 2800+ rating.. And once the gap opens up to about 400 points, the lesser player literally has ZERO chance to win a single game.. How does chess stay popular? They separate players into rating...
  3. ShortBusRuss

    Commentaries on Streaming Pool Matches.

    JJ is by far the most knowledgeable commentator we have in pool, and it's not even close. He brings up concerns that I did not even realize were things to be worried about, until he mentioned them. You can tell he has done a LOT of thinking about the finer points of pool.
  4. ShortBusRuss

    No more Seybert’s?

    Some more food for thought: If a particular subforum is so poorly administrated that it gets a reputation amongst fans as a place to stay away from (which AZB NPR forum most certainly has..), then that reputation can result in tarnishing the entire site in that particular person's eyes...
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    No more Seybert’s?

    As an IT guy, let me say that if Seybert's is monitoring it's click-thru rate properly, it does not do any good to just "click" on ads, if you don't buy anything. Any online retailer worth it's salt is making it's advertising decisions based on how much actual 'revenue" the partner site creates...
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    Best break spot/technique for 7' 10 ball?

    *points to the post one above yours...*
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    Best break spot/technique for 7' 10 ball?

    Check out the break at 9:57:40. That's what a good 10 ball break is supposed to look like, 7' or 9'... Not too much off center of table for the CB.. Pop the CB straight back in the center off a solid hit on the 1.. The 2 balls behind the 1 should head towards the side, and the corner balls...
  8. ShortBusRuss

    832

    The truth of it is that prolly 5x (or more) the number of people play poker regularly as play pool.. When you have such a difference in participation numbers, there's a lot of room for the dead money to find a level of competition that the pros/shortstops are not gonna be interested in. I doubt...
  9. ShortBusRuss

    832

    I think it is simply a matter of attention spans getting shorter across the entire population due to social media and other forms of digital entertainment, so a game that is reliant on running large numbers of balls in one inning, no matter what limitations you put on that, is not going to...
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    Best break spot/technique for 7' 10 ball?

    This. Due to the geometry of the table and the rack, about 6" off of dead center to either side, and a nice square hit on the 1 ball, gets the best results no matter whether it is a 7' or 9' table. If you are not driving the two corner balls four rails towards the corner, then the problem is...
  11. ShortBusRuss

    Jayson Shaw live High Run Attempts

    See now.. "Seems" looks to be pretty wishy-washy as a response to your "declarative" statement such as "being archived for monetary purposes". Either you KNOW why it got taken down... Or you are making s**t up off the top of your head to sound smart. You should start trying to get into the...
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    Jayson Shaw live High Run Attempts

    I agree with Wizard... This is not a particularly hard shot, on 5" pockets, on Simonis 760. ESPECIALLY as it is Shaw shooting. He made a bunch of combos of similar difficulty during some of his bigger runs. He is simply VERY accurate in the path he makes the first object ball travel, when he...
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    Jayson Shaw live High Run Attempts

    Yeahhh.. I dunno about that. This sounds like someone making a claim, without talking to, or hearing from, the people with the video. Did you hear this directly from "The Legends of Pocket Billiards" channel? I think it is much more likely that the video was taken down for editing, to split...
  14. ShortBusRuss

    Have you ever lost your cue?

    In the Army, I used to practice/compete 6-12 hours a day on the weekends, and then come back to the dayroom and put on an Accu-Stats video, and often fell asleep while watching. Someone came in while I was asleep, and stole my Meucci Maximum. I absolutely loved that cue. The barracks doors had...
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    Jayson Shaw live High Run Attempts

    So... Am I missing something? That Youtube channel covering this does not seem to have the 832 ball run cut out as a separate video, and there doesn't seem to be any title/indicator of which time block the 832 occurred during? What specific video/time block contains the big run? (If you know..)
  16. ShortBusRuss

    Looking for CueSilk alternative - Biosilk?

    I have sweaty palms, and oily skin.... And I have started to become more aware of how little effort I have been putting into shaft care. As in literally a small green scrub pad is how I have been cleaning my 314-2 shaft. I figured finding a way to go back to my previous shaft care steps, without...
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    Looking for CueSilk alternative - Biosilk?

    Because it is insanely expensive for the amount of product you get. .25oz bottle for $5-$7, whereas BioSilk is $25.00 for a 5.6oz bottle. And some people think that Cue Silk is basically just repackaging such an existing product, and boosting the price ~2500%... Some folks have mentioned that...
  18. ShortBusRuss

    Laying It Down

    Absolutely never in my life. Not once. I started playing when I was 18, and I turn 50 this year. Money means nothing to me in pool. I play for money from time to time, but it really doesn't make any difference whatsoever in how hard I try. Plus, I make enough professionally that I'd need to be...
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    Looking for CueSilk alternative - Biosilk?

    Well, I looked, and I couldn't really find an ingredient list for CueSilk, so I am basically taking as the gospel truth one member's claim that it is simply a Dimethiconol/Cyclomethicone based product.... Was hoping to get confirmation from someone who currently uses a BioSilk product on their...
  20. ShortBusRuss

    Looking for CueSilk alternative - Biosilk?

    Hey all.. I heard that CueSilk is just a Dimethiconol/Cyclomethicone based haircare product, massively marked up, and some people have suggested "BioSilk" as an alternative, that has the same basic ingredients.. Can someone advise me on exactly "which" BioSilk product we are talking about here...
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