loggerhead12 said:

Dammit, I really want to not like him. That makes it harder.

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haha why? very humble and unassuming guy, plays at a good pace, two strokes the ball with control (kinda weird but interesting), masters the kicks and multi rail positions like few others, jumps great..

Kaci's cueball is excellent

Nice playing from Kledio.

Down to eight and the next round brings us Ko Ping Chung vs Carlo Biado, so one of the giants will fall.

Think I'll go and get some lunch and I'll be back in good time for the quarterfinals.

JAM said:

Drama in Jeddah squashed.

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Dammit, I really want to not like him. That makes it harder.

Bump

FSR won, but if Casper hadn't dogged that last 9 ball and had been breaking at 9-10, FSR would've been thinking about his terrible position play from the 6 to the 7 when he was on the hill. It looked like he couldn't make up his mind whether to pound the cue ball cross table to get on the left side of the 7, or drag it down the right side in order to shoot the 7 in the lower left. Instead he wound up half heartedly going for the drag stroke and nearly snookered himself behind the 8, giving him little option but to leave himself with a very difficult out, which he then failed to complete. Lucky for him that Casper left himself with a relatively tough 9 ball shot in the final game and then missed it badly.

incredible to play like that for the first time on the TV table, at this stage of a WC. well played ameer. gained a fan in me

i did not see focused Casper today... maybe a tad too much excited to play.

JAM said:

On the other table matches, I would find it extremely distracting to have a referee say "10" and then "5" a few seconds later after each and every shot? It's seems like only 2 seconds go by, not 5 seconds.

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this is probably a bigger scandal than "waxgate", they're totally stroke pulling with that mistimed "5" and will for sure have affected match outcomes

Badpenguin said:

If that were the case every Tom, Dick, and Harry snooker player would be stealing every major pool tournament in existence. Not true, they go out in early rounds. Snooker does not translate to pool at the highest levels.

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you're right. but you asked about the cue sport scene in the region and they mix it up quite a lot, playing both games isn't uncommon, and playing iranians isn't uncommon. i've been victim to one of those multitaskers myself, quite a few times, and he's told me about the scene. now a lot of them play heyball, including ameer ali