Crazy Lucky Shot from Th night 9 ball BCA finals

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hang-the-9

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On a 7' diamond, shooter tries to spin in a 9 ball, totally misses the ball. So everyone thinks it's ball in hand right? Not so fast... this is why you don't touch the balls while they are moving. Cueball spins 3 rails around, hits the 9 in a perfect cut with just enough speed for it to drop in for the win. It was almost too slow to go in, but bobbled at the edge and dropped. Probably the luckiest shot with the angle and speed it was hit to make the 9. If you saw it, you know how freaky that shot turned out to be. The chat room people were stunned, could not believe that what happened actually happened.

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pwd72s said:
I guess we've all made lucky shots...but that's just plain freaky!
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Someone on the chat said they will try to save the shot from the stream, hopefully it will posted up on YouTube. My son and I could not get over what happened for like 5 minutes, it's a shot I don't think I'll ever forget seeing.
 
thepavlos said:
I always play that shot like that?!?!?
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The funny part is that I showed my son how to shoot that shot (play to just miss the ball with lots of inside spin) not long ago and he loves shooting it. So the guy lines up for the shot, and I say "Alex, watch this, you remember I showed you this neat shot to spin it in", and he whiffes the 9, we figure game over, and we watch in amazement as the cueball spins around the rails, just hits the 9 and it falls in.
 
Years ago, Parica had an almost 90 degree cut to the side. Cb at the short rail, ob even with side pocket about a diamond in table. He goes for the cut, misses the ball, the cb hits the end rail, comes back just missing the ob again, goes to the other end rail, comes of it, goes back up table and cuts the ball in the side!
 
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I watched it live and if you see the replay the guy was so disgusted he wiffed the nine he acts like he is going to tap the cue while it is still rolling. Then he realizes that the ball has a chance to carom off the back and side rails so it might hit the nine. Then the damn thing goes in. When things like that happen against me in a match I usually bust out the old "Well I cant play you and god".
 
Neil said:
Years ago, Parica had an almost 90 degree cut to the side. Cb at the short rail, ob even with side pocket about a diamond in table. He goes for the cut, misses the ball, the cb hits the end rail, comes back just missing the ob again, goes to the other end rail, comes of it, goes back up table and cuts the ball in the side!
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I can picture that hehe. Best part is, even with a called shot match, both this shot and the 3 rail "kick" that happened would count hehe.
 
I'm ashamed to say I made the exact same shot when I whiffed the inside spin.
Probably if someone plays long enough they'll see this in their lifetime.

Also in 8 ball I saw a buddy try it, from a less stiff angle, barely clipped his ball and hung it,
then went around the table to sink the hanger anyway.
 
hang-the-9 said:
On a 7' diamond, shooter tries to spin in a 9 ball, totally misses the ball. So everyone thinks it's ball in hand right? Not so fast... this is why you don't touch the balls while they are moving. Cueball spins 3 rails around, hits the 9 in a perfect cut with just enough speed for it to drop in for the win. It was almost too slow to go in, but bobbled at the edge and dropped. Probably the luckiest shot with the angle and speed it was hit to make the 9. If you saw it, you know how freaky that shot turned out to be. The chat room people were stunned, could not believe that what happened actually happened.

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was this the 9ball challenge or 9ball open singles?
 
briandlau said:
was this the 9ball challenge or 9ball open singles?
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I don't know, I think it was the open singles, although the Open for BCA leagues was for lower level players and the two guys playing were known names, at least I have heard of both of them as strong players. Which pretty much leaves the whole "hadicapping is broken" thing out there because players that regularly compete against top level players and win, and are KNOWN A level players, should not be playing in the lowest tier of a league. Which is why they won probably. To win a large league tournament you pretty much have to be a level under-rated.

Saying all that, I don't know if that was the Open tournament or not. There are what, two other things over that right? If so, I would be scared to see who plays in that, must be Efren/Shane/Strickland class to go two tiers over those guys.
 
hang-the-9 said:
I don't know, I think it was the open singles, although the Open for BCA leagues was for lower level players and the two guys playing were known names, at least I have heard of both of them as strong players. Which pretty much leaves the whole "hadicapping is broken" thing out there because players that regularly compete against top level players and win, and are KNOWN A level players, should not be playing in the lowest tier of a league. Which is why they won probably. To win a large league tournament you pretty much have to be a level under-rated.

Saying all that, I don't know if that was the Open tournament or not. There are what, two other things over that right? If so, I would be scared to see who plays in that, must be Efren/Shane/Strickland class to go two tiers over those guys.
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Well, the winner of the open was Crispian Ng and the winner of the challenge was David Alcaide Bermudez. Was the guy chinese or spanish? lol

The event results can be found here.. http://www.ctsondemand.com/Default.aspx


If the players were both well known players, then I'm guessing it was David Alcaide Bermudez vs Marc Vidal Claramunt (aka Spain).
 
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briandlau said:
Well, the winner of the open was Crispian Ng and the winner of the challenge was David Alcaide Bermudez. Was the guy chinese or spanish? lol

The event results can be found here.. http://www.ctsondemand.com/Default.aspx


If the players were both well known players, then I'm guessing it was David Alcaide Bermudez vs Marc Vidal Claramunt (aka Spain).
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Yes it was Alcaide. Marc was the one that made the shot, I think when he was down 5-2 or 5-3 and he managed to tie it up after that. Truthfully I did not notice that David was Spanish, in most of the shots I could not see his face, and we were too focused on the pretty colored balls they are using LOL
 
hang-the-9 said:
Yes it was Alcaide. Marc was the one that made the shot, I think when he was down 5-2 or 5-3 and he managed to tie it up after that. Truthfully I did not notice that David was Spanish, in most of the shots I could not see his face, and we were too focused on the pretty colored balls they are using LOL
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Ah, I see. I believe the "open" is reserved for BCA open level players which include newly joined members, members that have never placed in the top tier in previous BCA events, and members that may have moved up to the advanced but failed to cash in 3 previous advanced events. Of course, this also does not mean that players cannot be turned away based on known ability alone.

There a bit of a discussion about that here http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=275220&highlight=taiwanese+2012

The challenge event is open to all players.
 
briandlau said:
Ah, I see. I believe the "open" is reserved for BCA open level players which include newly joined members, members that have never placed in the top tier in previous BCA events, and members that may have moved up to the advanced but failed to cash in 3 previous advanced events. Of course, this also does not mean that players cannot be turned away based on known ability alone.

There a bit of a discussion about that here http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=275220&highlight=taiwanese+2012

The challenge event is open to all players.
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Right, I did not know they had a challenge event, and was really saying "IF" those guys were in the Open field, it would be very unfair. It's funny about handicaps, I was just in a tournament where I had to spot someone 4-3, the player I have watched before and he is not any worse than me. Well, I got up 3-0 on the guy. Ended up losing though :-( but the handicap even though I thought it was bad, ended up being fair, it was just my missing a 9 ball and also not being able to do a simple 3 ball run out that caused me to lose, not that he outplayed me.
 
Understood. The open event is an extremely tough event. A lot of unknown monsters just come out of the wood works each year and destroy it. I'd guess that the top finishers of this event every year are easily open level players.

For example, in 2009 Bruno Sousa from Portugal took first in the open and then the next year cruised through the masters to finish in second. One can argue that his ability alone should have prevented him from being allowed to play in the open. I don't agree with that since he was within the rules of coming in as a new player into the open. It might be a disadvantage to the lessor players such as myself but that's life.

The other issue is with the way players in Portugal qualified as BCA members. That's a whole separate issue and debate that I'm not looking to get into.
 
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hang-the-9 said:
Right, I did not know they had a challenge event, and was really saying "IF" those guys were in the Open field, it would be very unfair. It's funny about handicaps, I was just in a tournament where I had to spot someone 4-3, the player I have watched before and he is not any worse than me. Well, I got up 3-0 on the guy. Ended up losing though :-( but the handicap even though I thought it was bad, ended up being fair, it was just my missing a 9 ball and also not being able to do a simple 3 ball run out that caused me to lose, not that he outplayed me.
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There are still some dangerous players in the Open. The guy that I lost to in the APA singles event is in there, along with a handful of other strong amature players. If somebody makes it up to A or Master through fields like this, you know it was earned that day.
 
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