VVP said:

Wow, pleasure watching the TV matches. Perfect camera use and great use of the telestrator. Matchroom, Predator and Accu Stats need to go to school on this production.

Congratulations big Ko!

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the production was good for sure, but not really on par with MR or accustats. telestrator guy knew his stuff. ref was weak on soft breaks..

I watched one rack at the Turning Stone yesterday where the breaker sunk the 9 on the break, but the cue was spinning like crazy for about 10 more seconds. Wasn't moving, just spinning in place. Both players stood and watched it until it stopped, then started gathering the balls. Kind of funny, but if the guy I'm playing is waiting after I made that break, I'd stand there and wait too. Both of them standing there waiting made it seem even longer.

Wow, pleasure watching the TV matches. Perfect camera use and great use of the telestrator. Matchroom, Predator and Accu Stats need to go to school on this production.

Congratulations big Ko!

Spent the day there yesterday. Looked for Stu, but didn't see him.
We got there in time for the 10:00 round, a looser's side round, and I watched Dylan Spohr play a few times throughout the day, until he finally lost against Erik Hjorleifson in the 8:00pm round. He seemed to get a little down on himself and rushed a few shots, then couldn't quite catch back up. Erik played great though, and earned that win.

The young guns were doing well, a 16 year old named Jake Jackson won his first four matches, then went on to face Jason Shaw in the 8:00pm round, where he lost. The Vaughn brothers went deep too.

To support what Garczar said, it's definitely not what it's been in prior years. The tournament did take a hiatus, and there wasn't anything in September last year, so maybe it needs to get back on it's feet a bit. But that said, there were even less vendors present. The Joss booth, a staple in prior years, was not there. There were way more league players, and less big name pros than I remember. Both Jason and Moritz are the top two, and only 9 of the field of 128 have Fargos over 750. Calling it a Pro/Am is actually quite accurate given that about half the field has a Fargo under 600.

I did see a lot of players inspecting the rack, and asking for adjustments. Jason seemed to be doing that the most. I thought Mike Zuglan stopped that a couple years ago, but maybe not. I did see plenty of other players never inspect the rack, or just take a quick look to see how they wanted to break it. They use the standard Diamond supplied rack, and those can be part of the problem.

On another topic, general trip observations, we ate lunch at the snack bar, which was good, and way less expensive than the food court downstairs. We had a good dinner in the tavern too. I played a couple sessions of craps and won $125, then $75, so that paid for the day.

Looking forward to the winner's side Jason/Moritz match today, and I think we'll probably see those same two in the finals as well.

Patrick Johnson said:

What does “where it first touches the cloth” mean? What are “right point” and “left point”?

pj
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Here is a diagram of what I using as reference when looking at "bottom of ball" I use those points as a vertical axis in aiming. The bottom of the ball gives me a repetitive (easy to see) reference for aiming. L=Left C=Center R=Right



For this shot I used a visual of L point of CB to R point of OB.....keeping the cue straight on that vertical axis come up and apply a little low....the cue ball can be from almost straight on to off angle (I am not sure how many degrees and it still works)

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I am not sure if there is any "math" behind this shot...but the method works and makes a preceptionally hard shot pretty simple

ko takes it, 13-11. well fought, ronel

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You beat me to it! Great scene!

Way, way, way back my buddy and me, just out of HS and in Seattle from the midwest for an event wandered off from the downtown hotel on a break and headed down towards the water - found a little pool room and we played a lot of pool in those days. We were there in three piece suits and rented a table for a little over an hour. Let's just say we were out of place for many demographic reasons other than our age/formal attire. One guy, who really was funny, but kind of thought he was Jimmie Walker and may have earned income in the room other than pool, decided I was "white boy" and my buddy got "brother" and just a running stream of commentary and we had a good time. I'd been putting some quarters in the jukebox but on a trip back I noticed, shockingly, it had some Barry Manilow - put on "Mandy", haha. Even triggered the regulars and man, I wish I could remember the comments - priceless.

Kris_b1104 said:

Random but I was today years old when I learned Roberto Gomez was one 9ball away from winning the 2007 World Pool Championship against Daryl Peach...

It popped up on my YouTube feed. I didn't even know he's been playing that long.

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Small correction: Roberto Gomez was one 9 ball away from getting onto the hill. He probably would have won the match if he made it, though. When he missed, Daryl Peach was left with a hanger to get onto the hill.

Earlier in the same rack, Gomez just needed a stop shot on a medium range 5 ball to continue an easy out.

Probably the most heartbreaking match and collapse I can remember, since the crowd was behind Gomez all the way (the tournament was hosted in the Philippines that year).

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Back in the day

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There were only 2 players on the East side of Seattle that offered me weight. I busted them both playing off handed though. One of them that had beat me out of 20 playing off handed at 5 and could spot me the 8 ball playing right, asked me for a game. I knew I liked the off handed game as the night he beat me was real close to closing time when we started. So I asked, "how about left handed?" His reply was, "Well Greg, if we are going to play left handed its Gotta be for 10." My reply was quick and confident, "Well if it's Gotta be 10 then it's Gotta be 20." Fortunately he had won a couple hundred at the track that day.

12-11 after another trickshot from ronel