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    Pool needs a Lipscomb... A MUST READ!

    I had a few comments of this order that I deleted form my previous post: Just about any sport you watch...basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, curling, you name it...is a skill game that tons of people love to watch, but don't compete at that level. Why does anybody watch baseball...
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    Pool needs a Lipscomb... A MUST READ!

    You make good point...perhaps I should clarify. I was mainly commenting on the repeated notion that pool can be raised from the depths like poker was. Using Poker as a template somehow for pools ascension. I think it is a little harder because of the different "natures of the games" and they...
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    Pool needs a Lipscomb... A MUST READ!

    its the game...not the man.... Poker is not huge because of Lipscomb...well it is...but that's not the real issue in regards to pool. Why is poker so huge right now with ever Tom Dick and Harry you run into.... because they (you, me and everybody else) thinks they can do it. Why do they think...
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    Rating Systems - What do you like?

    A standard test...or somehting. The problem with any handicapped system is that tends to be influenced by local talent level. The "problem" is easy to see in the APA when players of the same rank, but different parts of the country, play. They are supposedly similar but one player can be...
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