Alex Pagulayan going to UK to try pro snooker

muddawg said:
I don't specifically know how it works, but I do know that points are awarded for successful snookers resulting in fouls. So even though there are only 13 points left, the player with less points can still win with successful snookers.
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Alex lost a frame in the first round when his opponent needed three snookers.

( I watched it)
 
JB Cases said:
You forgot desire in your math. Stephen Hendry pretty much lost the desire after he already did everything in snooker.

Alex is hungry to play, as if he were a 20 year old.

You don't know what's in a champion's head. One thing about Alex is that he already KNOWS what a lot of the snooker players don't know and that is how it feels to be a world champion. So having already tasted what that's like in one discipline he is hungry to go for it in another one.

He might not make it, but if it were ALL math based on age then no snooker player would still be competitive after 25. Fact is that many still are.
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I think this is a valid point, although I've also heard Steve Davis talk about players losing their nerve as they advance in age. You don't pull the trigger like you do when you're younger and, in Davis's words, you start to bottle shots you would previously have made.

Whether that is the case with Alex remains to be seen, but advancing age has more drawbacks than just reduced desire, in my opinion.

Regardless, to come this far I think Alex has done really well. I'd love to see him earn a spot on the tour and see where he can go from there.
 
SakuJack said:
I think this is a valid point, although I've also heard Steve Davis talk about players losing their nerve as they advance in age. You don't pull the trigger like you do when you're younger and, in Davis's words, you start to bottle shots you would previously have made.

Whether that is the case with Alex remains to be seen, but advancing age has more drawbacks than just reduced desire, in my opinion.

Regardless, to come this far I think Alex has done really well. I'd love to see him earn a spot on the tour and see where he can go from there.
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I can understand players losing their nerve. I think nerve and desire are two intangibles that go a long long way towards building a champion.

That said in Alex's case he has nerves of steel behind that Chesire cat grin. I have seen him beat the 12 ball ghost for $1500 a set, playing all day against it, set after set. He has no give up in him whatsoever in all the times I have seen him play for the cheese.

So I think for the Lion it isn't a question of nerves at this point.
 
Bob Jewett said:
So far as I know, there has never been a Panamerican Championship. Without actual confederation competition, it's hard to justify many spots.
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Bary Hearn has been in some discussions about expanding the tour to Canada.

Back in the 70s the top pros used to come to Canada to play a tournament at the Canadian National Exhibition.
Dennis Taylor returned home one year with his first jointed cue. :grin:

Tour went to Brazil in 2011.
Igor Figueiredo had turned pro the previous year.
 
Looks like Alex will win game 5 to make it 3 to 2.

So now everything depends on this next game. And if Alex wins it, then ...

everything will depend on the final game.
 
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