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Yes, poor word choice on my part. I meant it more as in "attracting". Unfortunately, I cannot edit the title now.

There's a smaller Duya Golden Nine event going on in Malaysia right now. The first place prize is only $20k USD, tiny compared to the domestic Chinese events. Aside from the usual suspects (Ko brothers, Orcollo, etc) I was surprised by how many 9 ballers joined. Johann Chua Baseth Mocaibat...

Thorpe looks great. Hit a great bank after a Pongers miss and then broke and ran the next three racks.

I think rigging the draw is exactly how you lose credibility and mainstream attention. The NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NCAA basketball and football, World Cup, and all other legitimate mainstream sports have a common through line: the tournament seeding is based off of performance, not marquee matchups.

I love how the comment section is basically 20 of the world's top pros saying "yep fuck that guy" 😂

That is correct, Mike Pruitt is a friend of mine.

I'm surprised at how many notable matchups he's getting. He got Thorsten Hohmann first round in a 3-9 loss. Pretty lucky, given he should be often drawing less notable opponents in the 700-780 range and still getting crushed.

You're not alone, I wondered this for a while as well. Seems like an obvious solution and seems like the vast majority of viewers would not care.

Tuned in to see Melling tee off on a 390 Fargo. Lag to last ball, 30 min total 😬

Entry fees need to trend towards zero in the long term for pool to become a mainstream and viable sport. There's no world where you can sustain competitors primarily off of other competitors. The first round of play is basically a qualifier, which is common and what other sports do. It was...

Thanks for sharing. Do you know why they're playing American pool? I would have assumed American pool tournaments would have been a rare breed these days. It's really interesting seeing the Chinese specialists try non-Chinese pool. From the few minutes I watched, they're way worse than you...

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@dr_dave do you know the origin of the horizontal forearm dogma? Almost every instructor or tutorial teaches it. I've chatted with several pros and instructors about it and nobody knows why or where that "best practice" came from.

Let's say my robustness increased by 80. Is there a way to see what those 80 games were? This is NOT the same as the most recent matches in my history, since FargoRate does not always process games in order. For example, those 80 games could be from last week, last month, or last year. In my...

What's the limit on foreign participation? I haven't heard that one before. And they definitely are not only interested in the biggest names. They're basically interested in as any and all foreigners playing their game.

It's not even clear if he has to pay for the plane ticket. Could be that everything is paid for.

This is somewhat true. There isn't enough revenue generated right now, but that's not an inherent part of pool. That's something that can be changed with investment and development and the pool world simply has not had enough of that. In 1999, the minimum WNBA salary was ~$50k in today's...

Comparable for tennis as well. Ella Seidel earned $337,745 in 2025 as the 161st highest earner in women’s tennis. In 2026, halfway through the year, the 284th highest earner in women's tennis, Anastasia Detiuc, has already cleared $100k.

Edwards is a ~750 rated touring pro. I think the moment just got to him a bit. IMO, the right shot would be to skim the 7 and try to get the 9 in between. The pockets at the 2023 Spanish Open were famously stingy and players were passing up long open shots like this, so even if you somehow left...

There's just simply not enough added money in the pro events. It's crazy that a large percentage of the prize money comes from the entry fees themselves. So to some degree, he's right that it is similar to a meme coin scam. There are very, very few examples of sports where 1) the top 100...