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Very sad what happened to Mika. He hung out in Santa Monica House of Billiards when he was in LA and had some good friends in that room. He gave lessons to many of the players and played a lot of One Pocket, cause that was the game in that room. He wasn't a really knowledgable One Pocket...

Mika playing very well at Derby City when he was young.......

He went down fighting, until the end, like a true champion. The man had talent.

Wood shafts all play a little different. It's like guitars. You can play ten guitars, say Les Pauls all the same model and they will all sound a little different.

Earl never kept his emotions in check and I would bet everything that he had way more titles than this " true genius " player you refer to.

Mika is going through hard times for you to pile on...........

Folks usually with lots of hearing loss suffer from tinnitus. So even if his hearing aids are off his brain is manufacturing noise. The noise is hard to deal with..........

Oscar and his dad used to play with super slim shafts..........

One pool hall I played in had the music so loud I would play with shooting muffs on............ It takes a little while to get used to not hearing certain sounds in the hit.........

When you have hearing loss your brain manufactures noise.

SVB used to break with his playing cue...........

That pink cloth is a bust in my opinion.

The LD shafts that were made of wood had ' feedback ' problems according to purists. Many Old School One Pocket players avoided them. Brand to brand the CF shafts hit different. I play with a Mezz CF shaft and have no feedback issues......... Then there is the issue of ferrules, different...

I've seen many champions giving away massive weight to folks that still can't win. They take the money and run............ A fair game? Ain't nothin fair in this world.............

What was the price?

Someone on this thread said that Yapp exhibited a reaction to the alleged bad hit. I reviewed the tape and saw nothing I could point to. I watched the event as it was going down as was not aware of a foul. They had a really fine closeup of the action.

It ain't the shaft but what's aft...........

The last four all CF.

Haven't seen that much of JJ playing. I thought the guy was Russian from his name. My apologies. I saw Arseni before running around the table shooting in a prior match. It almost hurt watching JJ toweling off his CF shaft after every shot. The dude plays with a glove too. Then Arseni...

What was going on with JJ against the Russian. They were taking so long to shoot it was crazy.........