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You are 100% correct regarding the rules of 9 Ball. This, however, has zero impact on any argument for either winner breaks or alternate breaks. Claiming that it does is actually extremely odd - either dumb or devoid of logic and/or both. Please come up with an actual argument. Or just say that...

Probably quite a lot of things but I guess the answer you are looking for is pool, or at least billiards, related.

9 Ball is often touted the same way, but the actual games played prove the opposite. I wonder how it would be with 8 ball?

Yeh would be fun to watch. But I reckon one of the reasons they would get in stroke so easily at winner breaks is that they already do so at alternate breaks (where you are playing a little bit cold every other rack).

In 1999 the WPA held a world championship. Matchroom held it's own version and continued to do so until the late noughties. The WPA retrospectively recognised both 1999 versions as official world championships - so there are two "official" world champions from 1999. It had no choice. The WPA...

The snooker tournament was first announced in 2019 but then covid hit: https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/08/saudi-arabia-snooker-masters-introduced-enormous-prize-fund-10-year-commitment-11411218/ Be thankful that Matchroom have reworked the deal to include the World Pool Championship.

🤣 to be fair he never truly stopped playing. He even won an English pool tournament while he apparently wasn't playing. Could hardly blame him though for "picking up his cue" with them there Saudi payouts. I think he'll do just fine either way anyway.

The snooker "4th major" was actually announced pre-covid and was always on the cards. However, the WPC is certainly big news.

Was $100k first prize in 2007 with a prize fund of about 400k, so yes can expect the winner to pick up around 200k

Snake Oil. Hogwash. Loada crap.

Any 3 piece 7ft slate is a good table.

What can be better than playing the game that you love all day with others that feel the same way about it? Tournaments rarely allow a player to play, play, play. While you will have matches back-to-back, you will also have long gaps between races. It's an opportunity to talk to people with a...

HCMC is way safer than Hanoi, has more than 400 pool halls and will soon be the epicentre of pool in Asia, if not the world. Vietnamese politics dictates that Hanoi gets the big events and that will take a bit longer to change but it will change. This is not a slight on Hanoi, Hanoi is also a...

That's kind of the point with humour.

It was intended to be low deflection humour but I guess it didn't have the desired effect.

After reading this thread but not wanting to chip in on this complex issue in case I'm wrong, I decided to do an experiment. I hit the same shot with a 13.5 wooden shaft and a 12.2 carbon shaft. I missed the pocket by half and inch with the wood and 0.6 of an inch with the carbon. Confirmed...

Yes, I would use it.

Shaw started in "English pool" where the pockets are far less forgiving (i.e. you can't "use the table" as easily to pot the balls).He was a world champion so he was up there with the best. No real surprise that he is hardwired to aim for the middle of the pocket. However, thankfully he now...

Yeah it is, it's open. It's not an invitational and not a tournament solely for protected players. Anyone can play if they qualify. We live in the information age. It was way easier to hustle in 1999 than it is now. Now the hustler would need to be that bit more creative and find a way to...

Well he does qualify by a combination of birth, geography and citizenship for each of the three teams involved in Matchroom's team comps. Reality though is 0%.