World Pool Championships 2025, July 21-26, Jeddah

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.

World Pool Championships 2025, July 21-26, Jeddah

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.

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

World Pool Championships 2025, July 21-26, Jeddah

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.

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

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