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Only minutes into the match and the Mark Allen method is put on display. I feel like ...uh? Eating ice cream. Mmmmmm good.

riedmich said:

The slow motion starting at 6'28'' shows a kind of bending which makes me understand why some of the very efficient low deflection shafts - Z-shaft from predator for example - can be played without compensating deflection, because there's zero deflection created although adding pretty much of side rotation.

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It looks like half the ferrule bends and is maybe compressed in fourth frame below, frame number 2120 (CT 00000.35460).

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Blink and you could miss him.
Ronnie The Rocket vs Mark Allen.

Probably requires a prescription but the one match is worth the price of entry.
I flash back to my first up close observation of the professional pool in the 80s. Started in 84 or 5 (I think). The last lake Tahoe event. Then once a year for the late 80s.
I certainly didn't mind the daily entry fees.

is there any expected release date at this time? I am anxious

These Chinese players are lucky that SVB, Fedor and Bergman don't enter these events.

Baby Huey said:

I think the 80's belong to Hopkins. RA was done, Efren became the MAN in the 90's and forward. Grady, Joyner and Cornbread did not have his firepower running balls. Certainly Varner could compete at a very high level but Hopkins IMO reigned supreme back then.

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Yep. He was voted by his peers at the time in Billiards Digest in 1991 as the top one pocket player for a reason.

Here’s an interesting read when Hopkins gets inducted into the BCa Hall of Fame: