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Good post. It's funny how most people here are either tooting for the talent - "born with it" factor, and the others are saying that anybody who practices +10000hrs will become champion. All of them blind of understanding, that those real champions, have had both. They have had the talent...

Ehem, when was this? When he was like three years of age?

Yeah, I think it's a kind of talent to have the motivation to practice hard. And in the youth years, when those who practice hard catch up with the 'natural talents', the natural talents more or less quit.

Well my guess is that Mika would be interested of the match up and would crush Shane without bigger problems. He's just that good and confident right now.

Yeah, I've said since -02 that Yang is the most 'perfect' player in the world. His A-game is the best, probably only Efren and Strickland could have out moved him on their prime. I guess Dennis has earned his reputation of being #1 from the nightly money matches in Ph, but he has never really...

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But he surely will after given, taken and well usen chance! (is that english?) (anyway: ) GO MIKA!

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Well, Mosconi run his 526 in a 8-footer with loose pockets (or that's what they say..) I'd say that running 250 in a 9'' Brunswick Tournament Edition (Metro or GC V) is harder than running 526 in a 8'' with buckets. The comparison would be otherwise much more than (app.) 1:2, but it must be...

I have a good read and I can bet another 2 cents of yours that you were neither laughing out loud nor chuckling. Anyway, good luck for your qualifications, sir.

Btw, Ps: Why didn't you go with "the better half"? Have some discipline, sir. (Just red Max original post and first couple of answers. I'm sure this issue has been dealt here, so sorry for reminder...) Good Luck Max!

What a moron.

Grady please remember; "If you got to say you are - You ain't" Don't get intimidated for such a thing, you deserve better.

Very true. But the 'sad' thing is that as he changed to Pyramid (Russian Billiards), he took up a 27 ounce cue and is hitting approximately twice the weight of balls now, so the smoothness of his stroke is pretty much gone. At IPT, eventhough he had started to practise Pool again, he still...

Sorry buddy, but (most likely) you would lose all your money then. In which other sports, the 'developement' goes (/would go) into negative direction? The old skoolers might have had more heart, but skills definitely not. We people have tendency of thinking about the past with some...

Yep, just my thoughts. 'Added money' is the money added to the entry fees. Organizers should stop under estimating us players and stop cutting off some ridiculous 'process fees' or 'registration fees' etc... it's just an attempt to deceive money and it's ridiculous that it seems to work...

My words exactly.

Huh, this is sick. Edwin was the closest friend of mine when I spent 5 months in the Philippines at 99-00. He lived few blocks away from my place and I spent days and days in his workshop watching his mastery. Our friendship started when we met at a local pool hall and he heard me saying I...

Gotta disagree. I was just coming to that anyway and Celtic already wrote about it, but Johnny is still "young" and yet his last Major wins are from 10yrs ago or more. Excluding UPA Tour wins, he really hasn't won anything much for many many years and he's same age like Ralf Souquet for example...

I agree with Celtic very much. Also the comparison with Efren (later on) was good. Ralf's knowledge in 9-ball and 8-ball is huge and he's surely cababale of dominating any tournament, especially those Major ones where it's single elimination and one match per day (at IPT he wasn't the biggest...