2017 Derby City Bigfoot 10 Ball

Biado 11 Chinakhov 8

Chinakhov, though not at his best, made some fantastic shots, but doesn't play the moves game very well, and against a Filippino, that can be a very big problem. He's young, though, and when he becomes a proficient tactician, Ruslan will be scary good.

On the brighter side, Ruslan has won his first four bank pool matches.
 
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kazakis is in the zone

sjm said:
Message to Accu-stats: Please arm the commentators with more information about the players.

The Pagulayan vs Kazakis match was introduced as a match between a giant and somebody who was about to get experience the hard way. Kazakis was labeled, more or less, a shot-maker with a puncher’s chance.

Obviously, neither of the commentators know that Kazakis is currently the WPA #11 ranked player, that he beat Pagulayan at the 2015 US Open easily (11-4 if memory serves) and that he knocked Van Boening out of the Greek Open in 2015. Kazakis is also the defending 2016 Kremlin Cup champion. Yes, Pagulayan was surely the favorite going in, and I was rooting for the living legend, but little respect was paid to the WPA #11 ranked player in the world.

As we saw, Kazakis is quite a complete player who plays the patterns quite well and plays adequately in the moves game. He’s clearly not one of pool’s biggest stars yet, but like Chinakhov, he must be reckoned a future member of Europe’s Mosconi Cup team. Although he managed a couple of them, he didn’t win by making super-tough shots, but instead by avoiding them.

Credit to Mark Wilson for admitting he had misevaluated Kazakis at the beginning of the match, but his suggestion that Kazakis’ game has developed considerably since the 2016 US Open was very unfounded, as Kazakis won the Kremlin Cup just a couple of weeks after the 2016 US Open, beating Hohmann in the finals. Alex has been a phenomenal player for at least eighteen months.

To be fair, I feel that this match was commentated skillfully, but I maintain that the commentators were not armed with enough information going into it.
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just to mention that kazakis made last holidays playing money to far East:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enFE9WudnDk
he beat everybody there,even the great Reyes prefere to play chess than to play Alex
he is no loger dark horse he plays with the big names and beat them quite often
he won the European 10ball championshiop at 2015
https://europeanpocketbilliardfederation.com/kazakis-khodjaeva-and-tahti-grab-the-10-ball-titles/
in my opinion Filler- Francisco Diaz-Kazakis-Ruslan are the future of Europe.
 
maestro de pool said:
just to mention that kazakis made last holidays playing money to far East:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enFE9WudnDk
he beat everybody there,even the great Reyes prefere to play chess than to play Alex
he is no loger dark horse he plays with the big names and beat them quite often
he won the European 10ball championshiop at 2015
https://europeanpocketbilliardfederation.com/kazakis-khodjaeva-and-tahti-grab-the-10-ball-titles/
in my opinion Filler- Francisco Diaz-Kazakis-Ruslan are the future of Europe.
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Thanks for sharing. I think Fedor Gorst belongs on your list of future stars of European pool. At sixteen, he has already shown quite a lot of form.
 
true that

sjm said:
Thanks for sharing. I think Fedor Gorst belongs on your list of future stars of European pool. At sixteen, he has already shown quite a lot of form.
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in a couple of years school first,anyway dont know if there are in USA players aged 18-23 years old , at that level of play.
 
maestro de pool said:
in a couple of years school first,anyway dont know if there are in USA players aged 18-23 years old , at that level of play.
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The most noteworthy, still somewhat unknown, rising star of American pool is Billy Thorpe, a 20 year old from Ohio. Billy was in the news last week as he beat Mick Hill and Alex Pagulayan back-to-back in Darren's 8-ball event.
 
From the Accu-stats website, here are today's matches:

1:00pm - Lee Vann Corteza vs. Skyler Woodward

3:30pm - Dennis Orcullo vs. Jayson Shaw

7:00pm - Thorsten Hohmann vs. Alex Kazakis

9:30pm - Carlo Biado vs. Fedor Gorst

Those are some nice quarterfinals, with the winners guaranteed cashing for at least $4,000 and the losers failing to cash at all. The winners will square off tomorrow for the first prize of $16,000, the first big payday at the 2017 Derby City Classic.

Not too late to buy the stream if you haven't done so already. Do yourself a favor and buy the stream and support Accu-stats, a truly positive force in our sport. You'll see some great pool, too!
 
sjm said:
From the Accu-stats website, here are today's matches:

1:00pm - Lee Vann Corteza vs. Skyler Woodward

3:30pm - Dennis Orcullo vs. Jayson Shaw

7:00pm - Thorsten Hohmann vs. Alex Kazakis

9:30pm - Carlo Biado vs. Fedor Gorst

Those are some nice quarterfinals, with the winners guaranteed cashing for at least $4,000 and the losers failing to cash at all. The winners will square off tomorrow for the first prize of $16,000, the first big payday at the 2017 Derby City Classic.

Not too late to buy the stream if you haven't done so already. Do yourself a favor and buy the stream and support Accu-stats, a truly positive force in our sport. You'll see some great pool, too!
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Three Filipinos in the final eight. What else is new! :thumbup:
For all the bally-hoo after Team Europe's win in the MC, I would take a team of Filipinos against them any time. Give me Dennis, Lee Vann, Francisco, Warren and Carlo (with Chua in the wings) and let it fly. Watch what happens to the vaunted European kingpins. I'll go even further. I'll put up 50K and challenge that same team that beat Team USA. Bring it!
 
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Joe_Jaguar said:
They posted on Facebook today that the entrants are...

Here is the list of the 16 Big Foot players for 2017:

1) Jayson Shaw
2) Skyler Woodward
3) Alex Pagulyan
4) Shane Van Boening
5) Ruslan Chinakov
6) Lee Vann Corteza
7) Darren Appleton
8) Carlo Biado
9) Johann Chua
10) Thorsten Hohmann
11) Dennis Orcollo
12) Fedor Gorst
13) Karl Boyes
14) Alex Kazakis
15) Nick Ekonomopoulous
16) John Gabriel

Wish they would show this rather than the 9 Ball and go back to opening with the Banks on the stream. Slim chance.
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That's a heck of a strong field. Is this the same event as the fatboy challenge which Efren won a few years ago?
 
jay helfert said:
Three Filipinos in the final eight. What else is new! :thumbup:
For all the bally-hoo after Team Europe's win in the MC, I would take a team of Filipinos against them any time. Give me Dennis, Lee Vann, Francisco, Warren and Carlo (with Chua in the wings) and let it fly. Watch what happens to the vaunted European kingpins. I'll go even further. I'll put up 50K and challenge that same team that beat Team USA. Bring it!
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I'd pay to see this.
 
jay helfert said:
Three Filipinos in the final eight. What else is new! :thumbup:
For all the bally-hoo after Team Europe's win in the MC, I would take a team of Filipinos against them any time. Give me Dennis, Lee Vann, Francisco, Warren and Carlo (with Chua in the wings) and let it fly. Watch what happens to the vaunted European kingpins. I'll go even further. I'll put up 50K and challenge that same team that beat Team USA. Bring it!
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ha ha, how bout any of those guys against Jayson Shaw?

you're gonna see Dennis implode today
 
Stream is on, Corteza about to go up 2-0 after a dry break from Woodward in rack 1 and a whiffed one-rail kick in rack 2.

Not the world's youngest crowd in attendance...
 
Corteza scratched on the break after the cue ball got kicked in the corner. Woodward's position play has been a little off but he has hit good recovery shots and it's now tied 2-2.
 
In rack 5 Woodward missed a thin cut on the 1 ball.

Corteza did a good job navigating a tricky layout but then outran his position zone and snookered himself on the 7 ball. He gave a one-rail kick a mighty lash and then the 10 ball slopped in across the table for the win. 3-2 Lee Van
 
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