Wayne Crimi
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I have no idea what he's doing now or what he thinks these days, but I know Tom Walters used to gamble at 9 ball in the Golden Cue many years ago even though he way preferred 14.1
Straight pool specialists
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I have no idea what he's doing now or what he thinks these days, but I know Tom Walters used to gamble at 9 ball in the Golden Cue many years ago even though he way preferred 14.1
What’s his high run?
Does it matter? Geroge Fels and Phil Capelle were not prolific runners of balls and yet they have both written some of the best ever books on straight pool.
Mosconi posted here? I wasn't aware.
As to your contention, there's more than one person on this forum capable but they have to, and have, offered up info, but in small bites.
If you yourself were knowledgeable about the game you'd recognize that to thoroughly break down and explain in the necessary detail, even one small aspect of the game, the word count would be off the charts.
I've put up some extremely long posts about 14.1 situations but when reviewing them thought them to be incomplete.
How to make 14.1 great again is what a specialist would develop today.
Straight is like solitaire on the cpu. Its a fun counting and measuring game.
For todays youth I would say there are many professionals they can meet in the pool world. Acting right in a pool tournament is a better screening process than college or a work portfolio.
I try to tell them to make it a habit and get to know regulars.
Straight is like solitaire on the cpu. Its a fun counting and measuring game.
For todays youth I would say there are many professionals they can meet in the pool world. Acting right in a pool tournament is a better screening process than college or a work portfolio.
I try to tell them to make it a habit and get to know regulars.
Talk about cherry picking and taking things out of context. I hope most people who read what I said understood how it was meant as you obviously didn't.
he does that quite well
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You seem to be familiar with this double x guy. What's up with him putting up post after post and then deleting them a few hrs. later?
That lady is something else
I don't think there is such a thing as a straight pool specialist. Anyone that excelled in straight pool would also excel at any other game. The loan exception I'd say would be bank pool. But they'd figure that out real quick.
Just reading some of this thread for the first time...
-Lipsky was on the IPT tour and turned down the tour card to keep his day job (good decision by him in retrospect!). I can't remember if he got on via invitation or winning a qualifier.
-Polo was a tour stop regular on the Tim Scruggs 9 Ball Tour in the PA/NJ/DE area in the late 90's. He did quite well each event.
-Clark gambles regularly with 700 plus fargo players in 9 ball. There is even a video of him from a couple months ago doing quite well against Fedor. I think it was a Turningstone event.
Tim Scruggs 9 Ball Tour in the PA/NJ/DE area
Never heard of this tour?
From about 1998 to 2002. Open 9 ball with about $70 entry. Used to fill up at 64 players.
I wish more local tours did this, specially with amateurs. I believe a 32 player cap tournament would fill up easily if announced.
Come to think of it, is there an agreed upon fargo number rating that distinguishes what an amateur is before getting to Open level status?
No. However, you can look at the AZB money list, decide what constitutes the minimum annual winnings to be classified as a professional pool player, and look at the FargoRate ratings of all the players who won that much or more. When I did that, it seems that 770 is a reasonable minimum rating that says the player could make a living at pool. You may have a different minimum annual income in mind.
But there are lots of tournaments that use a cap on ratings. Some of those events have caps under 600. I guess that puts a range of nearly 200 points in limbo, neither fish nor shark.
Thanks for the answer.
That would be an interesting thing to look at because here in NY, you know who the Open level players are like Jimmy Rivera, Jorge Rodriguez and Joey Korsiak and those guys hover in the 700 range last time i checked. They are still allowed to play in amateur tournaments but have a huge handicap against them.
It made me think of a couple of years ago now that someone capped a tournament in this area at 650 fargo because they felt that was the cutoff between top amateur and open level.
For clarification, when I used the word "open" for the old Scruggs tour, it was to mean there were zero handicaps, and it was open to any man, women, child under the sun, whether banger or Efren.
Open the way you are saying it is skill level. Yes, players like Joey Korsiak, Eddie Abraham, Josh Brothers, etc, would be Open under the old system of Banger, D, C, B, A, Open, Pro. Now with the fargo ratings, I think that terminology is fading. Those players are all in the 700-740 range in the Fargo system. Above that I think a lot would consider "pro".
Open the way you are saying it is skill level. Yes, players like Joey Korsiak, Eddie Abraham, Josh Brothers, etc, would be Open under the old system of Banger, D, C, B, A, Open, Pro. Now with the fargo ratings, I think that terminology is fading. Those players are all in the 700-740 range in the Fargo system. Above that I think a lot would consider "pro".