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If I had any success rate on that shot over 10% I’d personally shoot at it as long as I am confident I won’t whiff the ball. I’d rather give myself a chance at the win than try to out move Scott Frost.

Ideally, any US tour should be a series attached to the WNT. If not a farm tour, then a structured series of minor ranking events. At this point I think there is most benefit from cooperating.

I don’t know diamonds that well, but generally if you are maintaining your cloth then the pockets will play more forgiving than at a pool hall. I don’t have a diamond, but at 4.25” it could feel pretty forgiving when I played everything at pocket speed. I currently have them at about 3.8” (...

Reverse handicapping. Give the higher rated player games on the wire ;)

What if your opponent broke and ran out on all of their breaks?

I think this problem will go away or be minimized when prize money gets better. It seems it was common enough practice in golf at one point for Arnold Palmer to suggest splitting the gate with Jack Nicklaus irrespective of the outcome...

I wouldn’t be surprised if the emcee had never heard of the tour before now. Probably didn’t even know Kaci’s story aside from the bit he was told.

You might get a better response with Fedor. The Ukraine war is still somewhat topical, it has a US connection and it has tidy ‘finish’ to the narrative with a World Championship win under the US banner.

Absolutely. Maybe WPA is drawing the line there because it’s so valuable for MR? But yes I haven’t seen such an enthusiastic crowd aside from the mosconi cup.

My best guess is that point 4 on their list is what they are mainly after with this press release. Application of Permission. If they can at least get the players to apply for permission then the WPA can feel like they have a modicum control or authority over the pro game. It won’t happen...

And this time they’re totally serious!

I’m going to say “no”, but a strong world championship is an important piece of the puzzle. No single event or format will elevate pool even if all the big news outlets have a piece on the increased prize money. if you look at the history of sport, it’s usually the right player or team winning...

Daryl was a full time player up until that win but he was a surprise winner. I dont think you can totally eliminate surprise winners since we see examples of that in every sport. But I do agree that the format should be such that it tends to suss out the best player as much as possible. I...

I agree, I’ve spent a lot of time practicing on 3 7/8” and all of the sudden you will hit balls down the rail which look perfectly struck but then they bobble. If I were tossed on that table for the first time to compete I would have sworn that it was a gaff table. But a well placed camera and...

I’m almost certain this was due to unfamiliarity. Players showed up prepared for 4” pockets and got 3 7/8”. I made a post in AtLarges stat thread that compared the earliest performance on the 4” pocket at the world pool masters a couple years ago compared with the following year and we saw a...

Agree that there is always room to improve. I think MR biggest opportunity at this time is in the overall presentation. I would like to see them take a more of golf approach to the broadcast and switch between 3-4 key matches up until the quarter finals. This would keep things moving and...

I can live with that if I don’t have to watch on matchroom live since I can just put on the replays. But matchroom live doesn’t ever provide those replays.

I’m not sure they are doing any better than pool. Matchroom is releasing reruns of last years world championship and a SVB match posted yesterday has 40k views. And one of the live streams has 460k views. Of that list, I wouldn't underestimate how much novelty can drive initial interest...

Karl posted a picture. It does look like they were less that 4”

I know, but that doesn’t address the performance gap. I was just referring to matchroom and using fair comparables to ensure similar set ups, environments and playing levels. I could have pulled from other events that were closer to 19%. I’ve never seen a 40% BnR stat for a 9 on the spot in...