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Let's get beyond Single or Double Elimination. Keep the tournament at 256 players to create the maximum prize pool through entry fees. Limit the number of days the top professionals have to be on site. I am creating rounds of play, with the top 64 (seeded players) receiving a bye through round...

OK, the nature of the thread is this: Describe something that you think could or should be a rule for tournament play (as unlikely as it may be), and why. Reply to others (but we already know their post will probably not be a rule, so don't beat them on the head). I'll start: Jump cues should...

There's already a thread on what cue would you want at no cost, and I am not going to hijack that thread. That thread is about brands and cue makers. So, if you could inherit (or find at a garage sale on the cheap) a specific player's cue that you know he used and probably won tournaments...

Two topics in one. TOPIC ONE: Did I coin a new term for the finalists agreeing to share the title and money and not play the final match? "Split and split?" being the offer to 1) split the money, and 2) get the heck outta here (let's split), typically because it is late at night. The act of...

A thread spun off into whether or not a particular young woman is a professional. So, separate from a specific player, I am curious what people consider the necessary criteria to be a "pro," broadly speaking. Never before in sports have the amateur/pro lines been so blurred, with the...

Just caught some streaming content on YouTube of the European Youth Championships... not sure what game they were playing as they racked the balls... looks like all the balls, so it must be 8 ball... Nope. These teenagers are playing straight pool, and they are running balls like crazy, playing...

OK, I am looking for actual rules (If you have an opinion just state it as such). A player is lining up a jump shot, masse, or is "tree topped" over an interfering ball. He clearly attempts his stroke and completely misses the cue ball. No ball is contacted at all. The player admits they...

Maybe this is a "thing" everywhere, but I am seeing it more often... The premise: Instead of handicapping the tournament, play it like a true professional tournament with no games on the wire. Incentivize participation for lower Fargo players by charging them less, on a sliding scale. They...

Setting the scene: The WPBA Soaring Eagle Masters, Pia Filler and Kristina Tkach are hill-hill in a race to 8. Loser will go out in 5/6th place and pocket $3,500. The winner will make a minimum of $4,500. Tkach is looking to run out and is lining up the 6 ball into a corner facing three women...

I was clicking through the UK Open results, looking for a specific player, and thought, "Wow, a lot of these matches are blowouts." That got me to wondering, "How many games does the loser win, on average, in a race to 10?" So, before you read on, guess how many games you think the average...

My local joint redid the tables and made a few other upgrades recently and slightly raised prices to play, to $10 per hour on the weekends. That makes perfect sense to me and I don't mind paying it. What I don't get, and I'm curious what other pool halls do today, is that they charge that rate...

I'm watching Table Two of the Matchroom World Pool Championships, streaming on YouTube, and generally enjoying it. I appreciate that they stream some content for free and the quality of play is obviously amazing. But I find that I do miss having announcers. At the same time, I often find that...

Pick the complete tournament before the first match begins. Sorry for the late post but I'm on vacation. One point for the first round, doubling every round thereafter. The players that I put in CAPS get a walk-over in round one, so pick them for eight free points. Brackets are here...

Feel free to flame me. Tournaments and challenge matches that are being streamed need dress codes. The players, or the men anyway, are too often incapable of dressing in a way that elevates the sport above the level of bar league riff raff. Baseball hats, hats on backward, garbage t-shirts...

Just for fun, let's see how well we can pick the Matchroom World Cup of Pool (like a traditional NCAA Basketball pool). I'll do the scoring. Rules: 1) One entry per login name 2) Complete the entire bracket (see below) in one post and do not edit. 3) Points allocation: One point for correct...

To preface my question: I have no idea what kind of compensation there is from endorsement deals for today's top professional players, but it seems clear that there is a real lack of money available through tournament play. Compared to the 1980s and 1990s, there seems to be less money...