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Here the 700s only show up if there is at least 100 for the winner. There really isnt any gambling to speak off. Just for perspective 100 almost pays for someone health insurance for a month or groceries for the week. Our pros dont make 150-200 a lesson, so 100 is good money for them.

500-600s, myself included are dead money, it's players at tosti and Mika level who take home the cash for our cheap tournaments.

Personally I think it's the leagues, mainly apa but other offenders, Outside of 7s and 2s it's basically taught everyone that they should win around 50% of the time, or their handicap adjusts until they do so.

Side question, why is the mentality there that you have to have a chance at winning or you wont go? We have all open tournaments and they are always full. I and others lose every week and we become stronger players for it, iron sharpens iron is the general attitude. Could this be why the us is...

Anyone else think the outsville rack causes more roll offs than magic if you can't get it up after the break?

You would think so, but here the same person wins the tournaments almost every week if he shows up. The tournaments are still full and every week people try to come do better. There are plenty of tournaments in town but the ones he shows up to are always the most popular and its major gossip...

Looking for an English copy of Ralph eckert structure book, eu preferably but us is fine too, have a mailing address there.

My bad your original post said you work 72 a week. 12 hours a day 6 days a week.

No, I live in a country with strong worker protections, most work 36-32. And never more than 40. Why would want to spend that much time at work? Salaries here provide a good life, unless you are low skilled and then you get benefits to supplement. Plus 4-6 weeks(4 is law) paid vacation + a 13...

Why would you brag about such an unhealthy work life balance? 8 hours a day 4 days a week is great, five days a week if you have a bad job. Also everytime I've talked with shaw he's been nothing but one of the nicest and welcoming people I've met. Don't understand the hate for him or filler...

Same problem with leagues tho, there are a bunch of leagues and none of them use the internationally recognized rule set as far as I know. My father, a long time us league players, was bewildered when people called foul on him during a tournament for his sweater touching a ball as he leaned...

D Does acs use all ball fouls, i notice that seems to be the most uncommon rule in the us?

I get that derby does things its own way, but hopefully as MR grows they can get rid of these wild events that dont follow matchroom standards. Derby would still exist just not as a ranking event and then people who follow matchroom events wouldn't have to wonder what's going on.

I like wearing headphones as well, and do so when I practice alone. I know in the states they are banned in most leagues and tournaments because of the potential for coaching. In netherlands its considered an antisocial and dick move, no one will stop you from doing it, but everyone will look...

Amsterdam, NL, tho if you look on cuescore.com you'll see the same throughout Europe.

i would agree with you except that where else can i find a bunch of 600-790 (our local 800 fell back below 800 recently), Rather donate 10€ than a couple hundred each to get them over to my table. Our last local 5€ tournament, race to 3 8ball had 2 guys above 700 show up. We play even here, no...

I second Mika, love to see him try once he has won his current battle. Jasmin ouschan and Nick van den Berg would be nice but not sure how often they are in the us, both are 14.1 players. Tosti too!

Curious about how slow his play is? I generally play fast, too fast for my own good, but have been working on taking long. Even set up a shot clock of sorts and took a full 30 seconds a shot just to see what it felt like, even gave myself an extension per rack for any hard shots and that felt...

Each their own, I don't live in the us, so I don't really care about peoples politics one way or the other, nor their interpersonal drama, and he makes a quality product.

That case is back in the us atm, but John made a video of another he did for someone.