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First, you could empty all the pockets of even a good pool room and come out with less than a couple hundred bucks. I mean the possibilities are so dismal it's seriously tough to even think about it. That's why we get champions playing each other I think, not because they want to. They probably...

Rotation games are pretty messed up because of the breakshot and it's importance. What happens on the average break is a nightmarish paradox for a professional pool player. They are forced to hit the break hard and as a result have a great chance to completely lose control of the cueball. In...

I don't think being smart is worth much except when you are matching up, or maybe trying to crunch numbers to see if you should go to a distant tournament (which the correct answer will almost always be no unfortunately). As we know though, being able to match up better means a lot so being...

That is your opinion. What is silly to me is it is actually difficult for a pool player to get a pool cue. That's not silly to you and I understand that, notice I don't call your post silly though. I'd agree in that it's not necessarily the cue makers causing the "problem" but the collectors...

I think the newer call shot rules are bad for the game as well. Luck isn't actually so much the problem. It's the differential in luck between any two players that is the problem. That differential has not changed at all in the long run with the two sets of rules. Just as with the old rules, a...

Sure. I mean when I grew up you would not even think about video review in baseball. They've changed that, good or bad, and are keeping up with the times. Look, it's hard to be euphemistic, be we have a bunch of crabby old dudes that sorta control pool I'd say, and they are not open to change...

If you feel that way you've gotta answer why they are constantly changing the rules in successful sports like golf then. People don't know it but the rules in golf are actually quite dynamic. You can google it and see the changes taken place each year. I believe we have to have this same...

Nice comeback. I'll tell you what, we got a great young player in this thread and I played him at golden cue billiards in El Monte ca even one pocket about eight or ten years ago and it was no picnic for him. I'd be happy to provide the details of that set that only him and I would know (there...

Yeah, I mean it bothers me that there can literally be a Michael Jordan level pool player, he goes out for the weekend to play a tournament and maybe makes 1000 if he gets a bunch of rolls. Meanwhile, a girl on Instagram selling calendars of selfies showing her twat and ass makes 1000 bucks a...

Do's for me... go to a cuemaker that is reputable for their quality and yet does not have an egregious waiting list which essentially allows them to treat customers however they'd like (which usually results in them making all decisions favoring cue collectors mind you). Don'ts for me... don't...

I think one pocket is the game that needs a serious overhaul. Mostly having to do with the ability of players to take almost absurd levels of intentionals. Start there. An intentional has got to be penalized more. Rotation games are doing ok I think. I think it would be interesting to change...

It's hard to respond to statements like that because there are no real assertions in there, but by shitloads I suppose you mean we have the same percentage of our population putting everything they have into pool as do say the Filipinos. Ok, well you are completely wrong. But, if the money was...

Shane is a total anomaly, and then again, he isn't at all... I think Shane's story is one in a million personally. We've all been little kids so we know how hard his childhood years probably were. I believe that Shane's dedication to a sport that's very hard to make a reasonable living in comes...

Nobody cares about pool in the USA so how in the world could we dominate? I don't know exactly what the original poster meant by dominate, but if he means go back to the way it was in the 80's for example, that'll never happen again because other countries are actually playing pool now. But, I...