Most young adults do not have the kind of income (or wealth) that would allow them to buy a high end cue.

And you don't fix that problem by making high end cues lower priced--
You fix the problem by making low end jobs pay more--
{{OR make lesser gamblers win big more often}}

Kris_b1104 said:

Play is over for today, Matchroom has reduced Day 2 to just 1 match only, due to the beating.

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Maybe four matches today. 8-0 is a distinct possibility now.

Gorst looked shell shocked in that first game against Filler. I think the whole Team USA is shell shocked after what just happened in that first match. Filler's position shot from the six to seven in rack one was twice as hard as Styer's eight to nine was, and he hit it perfectly. That clearly shows the difference ability wise in these two teams. Pros playing amateurs is how it looks.

Hungarian said:

whats the score now?

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It’s simpler to ask « how many matches have been played so far »!

The shift seemed to come with CF shafts...........

my longest run was in the single digits, but I never played 14.1.

And lets not forget Alcaide making that final shot. Cold.

Dead ball

i don't care about the score. filler vs fedor, it doesn't get better than this

skip100 said:

he left himself weird on the 7. He could have taken a more aggressive shot on that to get better on the 8, rather than playing safe on the 7 and leaving himself a tricky one on the 8. The 8 was closer to the pocket so I get why he did it the way he did.

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I tend to agree with you, but if you choose to play for the funny angle on the 8, you have to then take your medicine and make a better effort to get on the 9. He needed to follow that 8 with some inside to get good on the 9.

kollegedave

AlexWesterlund said:

Inside will not take well on the slick cloth. He played the correct shot, but he just hit it bad

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It's easy for me to speak from here, it's also different when just set this up on the home table...but I stand by my call. Just made it multiple times. Heck, even without the touch of inside, the high ball straightened it out enough to have a good shot...

Perhaps just another of many reasons I'll never be a champion...but that's the way i play that.

All that aside, tough to see. You could tell the guy was feeling the pressure big time. (Not many wouldn't on the day, without the day befores performance) If it was tables turned and europe...would have rooted for that out to make it just a tiny bit interesting...

I don’t really mind the shot on the 8 ball; with the slick cloth I think I prefer swinging it around 2 rails the way he attempted. I wonder if he was scared of the scratch in the side so he just played it too soft. That or it kind of looked he just drew it too much so it came into the short rail too shallow. Either way, massive blunder.

skip100 said:

he left himself weird on the 7. He could have taken a more aggressive shot on that to get better on the 8, rather than playing safe on the 7 and leaving himself a tricky one on the 8. The 8 was closer to the pocket so I get why he did it the way he did.

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Playing two rail position was fine. Tyler just failed to hit the cue ball with enough speed. That is a nervous error. There's another name for it that I prefer not to use here. The C word.

uk_9_ball_convert said:

I don't think it was that easy from the angle he left himself. Probably his shot in the 7 was actually the mistake

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he left himself weird on the 7. He could have taken a more aggressive shot on that to get better on the 8, rather than playing safe on the 7 and leaving himself a tricky one on the 8. The 8 was closer to the pocket so I get why he did it the way he did.

uk_9_ball_convert said:

I don't think it was that easy from the angle he left himself. Probably his shot in the 7 was actually the mistake

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He babied the 7. He babies shots a lot in tight spots. But a high ball on the 8 still would have been better.