WNT, WPA and 2026

One great thing about the expansion of the Predator and WNT tours is the number of events in the U.S.

Four of Predator's eight big multi-events this year are taking place in the U.S. - Las Vegas, St Louis, San Antonio and Jacksonville. Asked about this, the Predator tour director said: "We are a U.S. based company."

The WNT, for its part, has the Florida Open, Arizona Open, Phoenix Open and U.S. Open, plus an expanded number of smaller events put on by partners.
 
jbart65 said:
One great thing about the expansion of the Predator and WNT tours is the number of events in the U.S.

Four of Predator's eight big multi-events this year are taking place in the U.S. - Las Vegas, St Louis, San Antonio and Jacksonville. Asked about this, the Predator tour director said: "We are a U.S. based company."

The WNT, for its part, has the Florida Open, Arizona Open, Phoenix Open and U.S. Open, plus an expanded number of smaller events put on by partners.
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Yeah but they need better advertising of the points events in the US. I went to their site and saw some of them and I was like, what? Why haven't I heard about any of these.
 
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Bob Jewett said:
The shape of the pocket can have a large impact on how easy it plays. A huge factor is how far from parallel the facings are.
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kingwang said:
I don't think your pro is the norm. Even the Fillers have 4.125" pockets on their home table.
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He actually posted a pic to his socials today showing how tight his pockets are. Facings look pretty parallel.
 
Bob Jewett said:
They appear to be 10 to 12 degrees off parallel. The spec is 14.

The facing on the left looks like it was not done properly.
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If they are closer to parallel than spec, does that mean they are even more difficult?

Why do you think the left facing has been done poorly (not saying your wrong, just curious to learn)
 
Lowell said:
The same thing still applies, Matchroom doesn't have some big deal with Netflix to stream pool matches
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Agreed and Pool is never going to be big time in the USA. Enjoy it for the fringe sport it is. Now we have more events to watch cheap with better production quality.

There's honestly more events than most of us can watch. I'm liking the sped up versions of matches online.....that is genius.
 
uk_9_ball_convert said:
If they are closer to parallel than spec, does that mean they are even more difficult?

Why do you think the left facing has been done poorly (not saying your wrong, just curious to learn)
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Parallel makes the pocket easier.

The left facing looks to me like it has been thickened (and the pocket narrowed) by the addition of multiple layers of facing rubber without replacing the entire rail rubber. That is the cheap and wrong way to make a pocket smaller. The proper way is to add wood to the rail and cut new rail rubber to the correct length.

But a real table mechanic can give a more informed opinion of how the pocket was likely narrowed.
 
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