I rack the 1 on the spot (9-ball) and 2 at the back. I break from the right side of the original box and the 1 comes up table to the left corner and the 2 to the right corner. I usually make a wing ball almost every break and if the CB doesn't scratch or get kicked I've got a shot on the 1 ball.

Bob Jewett said:

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Does the HFS let me know, "This tournament is as tough to cash in as if every player I play has a rating equal to the HFS"?

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Seems pretty close to that. Here are some results from simulations (Dream64 plus several other majors), showing the HFS (with 0.77 exponent), the player in the field with rating closest to that, and that fraction of the time that player finished top 16 in 64-player tournament in the simulations). You can see it is around a third of the time.

skogstokig said:

he's a double world champion, US open champion, he doesn't have the right to feel pressure against a kid with no title to his name

FSR is the weakest link at the moment. he's been fighting this twitchiness his entire career. when he manages to curb it we all know how crazy good he can can be. if i were JJ i would bench him as much as possible

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LOL, even though Gorst is underperformer in Mosconi, I just cannot visualise Gorst shaking in his boots under pressure playing against AJ.
Yes AJ had a relatively good Day1 albeit with less pressure thin crowds and other players still trying to settle down. But playing AJ upfront instead of their strongest experienced players in 2 consecutive matches is foolish. Some say Manas pick by Team Asia was to help Team ROW (wink wink with some input from Matchroom). Team Asia weaker Day 2 lineup may be also to give Team ROW chance to catch up to make it more competitive (again with some input from Matchroom?) .
Few years ago, Alex Lely gave team Europe a “scolding” when Europe fell behind early in MC and that turned around Europe. JJ has to pull a Lely move or if ROW does not win day 2 by at least 2 points and they go into Day 3 tomorrow trailing by 3 points or more, it is game over.
If they play 4 matches today, ROW has to win 3-1 or if they play 5 matches, ROW has to win 4-1

Just had a cheeky bet on ROW to win outright.

Team Asia look fragile.

SA96 said:

If Gorst doesn't beat AJ Manas, then ROW might as well go home.

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He should, but In a short race anything can happen

Anyone know the biggest comeback in Mosconi Cup history? Wondering when I should start trying to find something else to do.

If Gorst doesn't beat AJ Manas, then ROW might as well go home.

Swighey said:

a vote on AZB would have led to Sky being on the team.

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No. It would be Kaci and Earl!

Browser viewing trick I just stumbled on watching yesterday's replay:

The spacebar key remembers the last thing you did.

If you click with the mouse on the 10 sec rewind button, then every time after that, pressing the spacebar will rewind 10 sec. If you then click with the mouse on the fast forward 10 sec button, every time afterward pressing the spacebar will fast forward 10 sec. Same with the full screen button.

This is on a Mac using Safari. Untested otherwise.

I haven't found any key combos to fast forward and rewind like the J and L key on youtube do.

DrCue'sProtege said:

When Efren and Ralf Souquet played in the Sands Regency Finals in Reno years ago Ralf would rack the 2B in the 2nd row, on the opposite side of where he broke from. The announcers even said he did that so it would come down table along with the 1B.

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Well, I don’t about what the announcers said, but if you’re breaking from the wing, the ball that you place behind the 1 in what you identify as the “second row” on the opposite side that you break from. That ball becomes the second most likely to go on the break, the first most likely being the wing ball, at least in the traditional manner of racking the 1 on the spot as it was back then when the match you reference occurred.

The ball in that position generally goes directly to that sides long rail, and often off that rail directly into the opposite side pocket.

Living here in Montana watching top players playing live and in person is a rare treat , so for me I turn to You Tube for my fix for top flight pool matches .
Locally there are only bar tables that are readily available and yes I miss playing on a 9' table , if mine was a perfect world I'd have a 10' table and a house large for it and have friends over for pool and some BBQ !

So until I win the lottery I'll be satisfied with bar tables and YouTube ha ha

I don't think FSR ever recovered from leaving Predator cues behind.

JAM said:

Wow! Pressure on Fedor to be the first one out of the gate (without the team) on Day 2 for Team ROW. Interesting they will have 5 matches today. If it's another whitewash, I imagine that it will be reduced to 4 total.

Looking at the order of play for Team ROW, it is kind of revealing who JJ "might" think is strongest to weakest so far. Fedor, Jayson, Sky, Francisco, and Moritz, in that exact order.

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he's a double world champion, US open champion, he doesn't have the right to feel pressure against a kid with no title to his name

FSR is the weakest link at the moment. he's been fighting this twitchiness his entire career. when he manages to curb it we all know how crazy good he can can be. if i were JJ i would bench him as much as possible

JAM said:

Wow! Pressure on Fedor to be the first one out of the gate (without the team) on Day 2 for Team ROW. Interesting they will have 5 matches today. If it's another whitewash, I imagine that it will be reduced to 4 total.

Looking at the order of play for Team ROW, it is kind of revealing who JJ "might" think is strongest to weakest so far. Fedor, Jayson, Sky, Francisco, and Moritz, in that exact order.

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I believe they have to take turns playing singles JAM. I don’t read too much into it, although the best 2 players for Team ROW was common knowledge (Gorst & Shaw).

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𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐑𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒 𝐂𝐔𝐏

𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝟐 - 𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐋𝐀Y

Match 5 — Team Match
Team Asia vs Team Rest of the World

Match 6 — Singles
AJ Manas vs Fedor Gorst

Match 7 — Doubles
AJ Manas & Johann Chua vs Fedor Gorst & Jayson Shaw

Match 8 — Singles
Duong Quoc Hoang vs Skyler Woodward

Match 9 — Doubles
Aloysius Yapp & Carlo Biado vs Francisco Sánchez Ruiz & Moritz Neuhausen