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Shane Van Boening v Ko Pin Yi CSI Invitational-July 17) 10ball Race to 21
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You are welcome. The younger Ko just beat Efren 9 to 6. They should move the camera to the Souquet match if it is not over yet.
Not sure what the next match on the stream is. I thought it will be Shaw vs Corey but they have Bustamante vs Cheng on the screen.
Watch this Cheng play! He's something else!
The three older guys (in their 20's) are Shane's speed. Okay
The younger Ko brother (18) is probably Corey or Rodney's speed. He will probably be the best of them all in a few years. Only young player even close to him from this country in the last few years is Landon.
Wu at his best may have been better than any of them. The two most impressive players I've seen in the last ten years were Wu and Yang, both from Taiwan. They were playing on another level than the rest of the world. Remember when Yang pummeled Dennis Orcollo in Manila? Dennis was at his best and he had no chance! Yang ran out one impossible rack after another!
Maybe the best single match I've seen in this time (okay there's two that stand out) was when Darren Appleton beat Wu in the World Ten Ball finals in 2010. That's when I knew Darren would be a great champion and win many events. Wu was playing GREAT and Darren found the courage and heart to win anyway. I doubt that anyone else could have won that match from Wu. Second was Shane's superlative performance in beating Alcano in the U.S. Open finals back in 2008. Shane simply overpowered that tough Diamond table and pounded Alcano (who had been trouncing everyone - many people were betting on him!) into submission. By the end of the match Ronnie would have had trouble even drawing his ball!
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Let's just say this, these challenge matches have a different tone to them then a really big money match, say for twenty G's. Yes both players want to win but it's not quite life and death here. When you amp up the stakes high enough, you find out who can handle the heat. I KNOW Shane can, and so can Dennis. No reason to think the Taiwan champs can't as well. After all Yang came from there and he was the money king of planet earth for several years!
No one and I mean NO ONE wants to go to Taipai and get into it there. Wonder why?
There are a dozen or more players that play so close that on any given day one will beat the other. There is no best player in pool playing the types of games played now. Either an all around or someone needs to come up with a new game that has every skill in it, so you need to have all those skills. Johnnyt
They call that game One Pocket! Ha Ha
Hayden Lingo designed it to separate the top players from the 9-Ball specialists who never miss a ball.
I kind of like watching the young players like SVB play 1 hole now. I couldn't stand that old game of shoot-duck-shoot-duck. I believe that game was invented for players that were afraid to shoot unless their ball was almost in the pocket. Johnnyt
Just sayin!
Bonus ball requires more skills than any other game.
Bonus ball requires more skills than any other game.
I heard it was the best game ever and the players want to play it am the time. In fact, I heard they will play it for free, almost.
