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    Question for APA players

    The other option is after your break, call timeout yourself, he will come over because he obviously know more than anyone else, then give him some money and tell him you'll need a beer after the game and to give any change to the bartender and to be off with himself. Time outs. Meh
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    How to Prevent Racking Balls on Wrong End?

    Best idea would be to go over while they're chalking up, take a picture of the rack, then slap it with your hands and tell them they're cheating. If that doesn't work try acting human. 😒
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    Time for Europe v Asia instead

    Seeing the way this MC team is going, the matchup you're proposing could be continent vs incontinent.
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    Mini-survey for pool players

    Awesome idea. Great way to get away from the all too common "pre-flag master" posts. Thank you. With that I submit: Favorite game to play - 14.1 Favorite game to watch - 9/10b Your worst / weakest game - 1p Your best game - 8b Make/price of your playing cue - Samsara (priceless) Do you own...
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    This is what put pool back decades

    Tap tap tap. Those that understand, expand their border, are ambassadors and understand bettering the game is bettering themselves. -philosophy that can be applied to more than just pool. Gandhi said, Be the change you want to see in the world.
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    Fargo Ratings thoughts

    Yet ask 1000 more than casual pool players and 99% will know what you're talking about. That's called branding. Every brand starts somewhere. I think Mike would love it if in the future it became a brand name become generic like Kleenex or q-tips. We should all be thankful that Mike wasn't in...
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    Can you be too smart to play good pool?

    ^^^ true dat. If you're so smart that you believe you're smarter than others and that justifies you not listening to experts about the game, you're "too smart to be good at pool" but if you're a bit smarter and can learn things from others that aren't as "smart" as you .... well. Scott, I'm...
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    Pool Chump and John Disque need their own forum

    Perhaps their own talk show.
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    Team USA Still in the Lead

    Which part is toughest? Living there for 183 days per year for 4 years I suspect. 🤔
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    Putting Mosconi Cup "pressure" into perspective

    Easy. Change the selection process. Herb Brooks, "I'm not looking for the best players, I'm looking for the right players." The modern day pool player has grown up somewhat of an outcast. Last pick for kickball sort of kid. Probably not too much in the way of team participation. Missing...
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    Could This Debacle Kill the Mosconi Cup

    If the EU Mosconi Cup team to stop using the EU flag and this argument may stop....
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    Losing a parent

    May your memories always be clear and your grief fade. God bless
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    Is Shaw the best player on American soil

    He probably is 100% of the time Shane is fishing in a boat and therefore not on soil... Would love to see those two matchup in a long race.
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    Do you remember your first pool game/tournament/breakthrew

    Family vacation in June 1972, me - an 8 year old. My dad and uncle crashed in a small airplane, landing them in the hospital for much of the summer. The hospital was close to where they crashed but far away from where we lived. My sister and I stayed with my aunt and uncle who farmed in...
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    What's the beef between Shaw and Dechaine?

    Gandhi's Pool World I think you have a typo. Change a period to a colon. Corrected - A ridiculous analogy: Pool is a one on one game like tennis and golf. Pool not at all like tennis or golf. Not even close. Different PLANET... Until "pool" has a governing body that punishes poor...
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    US Open greatest player

    Dominance of the US Open – Longevity or consecutive becomes the question to me. To have a set of championships span 16 years is pretty dominant. 4 out of last 5 is dominant too. Whichever you choose, neither has a rival other than each other. Shane, Earl or Mike can only defeat the the...
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    an open letter to apa haters

    I'm no psychologist but reading the below, sure does draw a parallel. http://mentalhealth.com/home/dx/antisocialpersonality.html I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin' - anti-social personality fits IB. I come here for pool related things and specific to this thread, play leagues for a reason that...
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    an open letter to apa haters

    ...you'd think at $112k a year the medical coverage would be good enough to get the psychological help (s)he needs.
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    Do you have to play for Cash?

    I think I remember this book, water for elephants, right?
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    5 SVB US open titles - 5 points

    As a spectator I disagree. I can track how many have they both run. I think this adds pressure to both players with the alternating. Then a xpack is even more impressive imo. Appreciate the viewpoint on reacting and overreacting. We seem to be a society that needs to be right always...
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