I'm confused as to what the point of this tournament is. Admittance is a ridiculously low $10 and they give you $10 in tickets for food and beverages. Meaning admittance is free. The food is very good by the way. I would far rather pay $200-300 for a VIP seat, as I did when this was last held at the Rio on 9-foot tables, and be able to see world class pool in comfort. Maybe this tournament is solely for the benefit of the players, which is fine, but I drove 5 hours to get here and there are people that drove from British Columbia to get here. If we would have known how badly this sucks we wouldn't have done it. Admittance is free but my room at the Rio isn't and neither were my meals for the two extra days I devoted to this tournament. It seems impossible for pool to win. No matter what there's ALWAYS an issue. I'm simply going to stop going to tournaments. They aren't any fun for me or my brother anymore, whom I almost flew here from Pittsburgh, for this debacle. I think I, like Efren, am packing it in as a fan of pool.
2017 US Open 10-ball
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Yes its working
I'm not watching if Jay Helfert is not commentating. :thumbup:
Isn't he always commentating when you're watching?
Freddie, George and Bobby make a good team. I wasn't able to join them this year. :frown:
TS has theater type cushioned to the hilt seats-The BCA had freezing cold aluminum bleachers-no comparison.
That's a real shame....
Too bad they dogged it for the people attending.
Keep on truckin'
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Your comments and others make me kind of glad I didn't waste time and money by going to this thing.
Too bad they dogged it for the people attending.
Keep on truckin'
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I meant in your head....there's seems to be quite a few new guys lately who have taken up commentary on these streams. It's good to see a change from the two regulars. It's kind of weird but I don't always immediately notice good commentary but when they, how do you say, um, suck, it's immediately recognizable and detracts from the game so much I usually don't watch.
Good job on the recent big one. That had to be hard to call with Tony's shot selection. The guy says a different game than the rest of us.
The pro events are at Griff's Billiards. The CSI crew will move the set after Wednesday's US Open 10-ball final to the Rio for the CSI Nationals. Many of the pros will play the bar table table tournaments at the Rio. After the Nationals, the streaming returns to Griff's for the Us Open 8-ball.
Freddie <~~~ already exhausted
I was referring to sight lines, not the comfort of the seating
Three out of four Filipinos! What else is new?
I wish a few of them pesky Asians had of shown up :thumbup:. I'm always rooting for SVB, and the US, but I like watching the Ko's, and others play.
I didn't know SVB was Filipino....
No, he's not.....yet. But Warren, Lee Vann and Alex are!
They're trying. There were tons of complaints over the last several years when they moved the pro events to 7-foot tables. So this year they moved to Griff's since it has the 9-foot tables already there, and it's not far from the BCA Nationals.
One thing about Mark Griffin and those guys, they make some mistakes but they adjust and try something new. I'm sure they'll figure this out and adjust next year.
Did Matchroom telling them no 7 footers would be points events have anything to do with their "Adjustment"?