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Why are there so few black pro players..?

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garczar said:
Three off the top of my head: Evan Lunda, Josh Roberts and Ryan Robinson(good player from Little Rock). Like someone else already said: who really cares? How many Chicano or Hasidic Jew players are there? Beats the fk outta me.
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T Rex?
Blacks have been the poster race for oppression, repression, and bigotry in this country - all kinds of fun stuff to evolve a culture around. Frankly I think they've been over enabled in the underworld economy but I wonder more about black absence than any other race or culture.
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Richard Phillipe Custom Cue

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This cue is a great example of Richard Phillippe’s work. The cue points are absolutely perfectly made with ebony veneers with light blue accent going into a curly maple forearm . It is a piloted 5/16-14 stainless steel joint. The cue is 58” split evenly between butt and shafts. Two 13mm shafts with ivory ferrules with LePro tips. Everything rolls straight, apart and together. There is not a dink or mark on the butt or the shafts. Beautiful Irish linen wrap that looks like it could have come out of the shop yesterday. The Butt 15.1 oz. and shafts are both 3.7oz. This cue is both for the serious player serious collector. $ 2750.00 O/B/O
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Corey Deuel still good? Fargorate

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Handicaps and age are cruel. I'm 61 now, and haven't even played competitively for 25 years, dating back to before fargo rate was a thing. I used to be a 7 in APA with a 74% win percentage in over 250 matches played at that handicap alone, and a 9 in BCA. Nowadays, I play at about a 5 clip, and yet if I chose to play leagues again (I don't), I'm locked in to those earlier handicaps from playing in the national singles and team tournaments multiple times. I would think Fargo rate, more of a professional measuring tool, would be more forgiving and accurate at some point.
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US Open 08/18-23

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datnodude said:
some guy in my pool hall said mario he was a contender, I scoffed at this notion. he is not in the contending class of pool players. he would probably be the 3-5th best american player though
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unfortunately you're right. he was racking up eurotour wins when eurotour still had the best european players partaking in it, looked for a long time like a future champion. didn't happen, and i think at least one of the reasons why is very obvious..
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US Open 08/18-23

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Positively Ralf said:
Isn't wolford one of those players these forums hate because all he does is play in bar table tournaments the majority of the time?


Yep, it was Abdullah who I was thinking of. Speaking of which, what happened to him and Omar? They were traveling buddies for all of those tournaments then and they just disappeared.
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abdullah i would guess is on the older side of seriously considering being a WNT touring pro. he looked 50 then, i know he wasn't but probably pushing 50 now

on shane wolford. good talent. but he has an aura about him that he's content with being the local hero, if that makes sense. i think we've all seen and played guys like that
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Slow play by pros

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Nick8400 said:
Too much is made of the tight pockets. I wonder if the people bashing 4” pockets have spent significant time playing on them. The table plays really fair with cleanish balls and newish felt, even for a chump like me.
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And that would be the same for everybody. Its not like, its a new thing in pool. Tight pockets been around a long time.it seems only last few years, events have been promoted with this idea, that it will make the game better.
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Keith McCready Coming on Podcast - Have a Question for Him?

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JAM said:
The podcast concluded yesterday, but I can answer that. He likes a cue with a skinny butt with forward balance, a long professional taper on the 4.0-plus ounce shaft, hard tip, Irish linen wrap, and 20-plus ounce in weight. He usually has two extra shafts.

As far as favorite pool cue, I think one of his favorites, if not THE favorite, was a Balabushka cue he bought from Buddy Hall for $500.
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Did he manage to keep that Bushka all these years? Still use it at all?
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