WORLD POOL (nineball) CHAMPIONSHIP (6-10 April2022), UK, Winner $60K

Top quarter of the draw looks very interesting to me.

Ouschan vs Hohmann matches up two different two-time gold medalists. Enough said.

Appleton vs Filler is a rematch of a double hill match won by Filler at the 2022 Derby City 9-ball.

If Ouschan wins, he might possibly play Filler, who he beat in the final of the 2022 Premier League Pool and also in the single elimination stage of the 2021 International 9-ball.

Only one of these four will reach the semis. I wonder who it will be, but it should make for some good viewing.
 
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BlueRaider said:
Pressure is pressure. He didn't have a thousand drunk Europe fans ready to go ballistic if he missed but he did have the pressure of coming back from being down 10-3 and not making it all for nothing on that shot (and several others that were major testers).
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Nope, there’s more to it than that. I know SVB very well. I’m not putting any of his biz in the street. But it’s not about pressure. I’ll leave it at that.

Best, enjoy the show,
Fatboy
 
I love that they throw spanner in the works tomorrow Last 16 removing the template , change table cloth to make the players squirm. Will be less B&R, less easy outs and make it more interesting. Those who perform today may struggle tomorrow and vice versa. Like those reality shows (eg. Iron Chef), where they suddenly tweak the rules or throw in curve ball in middle of the action and you see only the more resilient ones who can adapt will perform.
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Fatboy said:
Nope, there’s more to it than that. I know SVB very well. I’m not putting any of his biz in the street. But it’s not about pressure. I’ll leave it at that.

Best, enjoy the show,
Fatboy
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So he misses pressure-filled shots at the Mosconi Cup because of....some mysterious reason that only you know and not because of the simplest explanation? You'd think that a guy THAT immune to pressure would find a way to resolve this mysterious issue.
 
Cameron Smith said:
This match is awesome. This is the type of thing you lose when you go to alternating breaks.
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True enough, but you lose some epic slugfests when you "go" to winner breaks. Hence, this one off match isn't really an argument for either format. But yeah, it's pure drama and great for the game .

Great comeback, which will be remembered for a long time if Shane wins this.
 
skogstokig said:
ko pin yi also had a comeback of sorts vs jayson. so both svb and ko will have that in the luggage when they tee off tomorrow
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They both may not have much left in tank so may not play their best. SVB said interview recently he wants to play Ko cos he lost to Ko in final of big money event in Indonesia decade ago and also the W9B final few years ago.
EddieBme said:
was that the last live match for today?
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Yes that was last. I think they will have same 2 matches per table per session tomorrow

skip100 said:
Chang's performance through tonight's matches is by far the best of the field:
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##  1 Chang Jung-Lin (917 performance): 40 W-11 L against avg. 731  
##  2 Alexander Kazakis (885 performance): 40 W-18 L against avg. 770
##  3 Darren Appleton (878 performance): 40 W-18 L against avg. 763 
##  4 Albin Ouschan (865 performance): 40 W-18 L against avg. 750   
##  5 Ko Pin Yi (863 performance): 44 W-27 L against avg. 793       
##  6 Joshua Filler (855 performance): 40 W-24 L against avg. 781   
##  7 Oliver Szolnoki (852 performance): 31 W-17 L against avg. 765 
##  8 Ralf Souquet (851 performance): 35 W-20 L against avg. 770    
##  9 Robbie Capito (845 performance): 27 W-16 L against avg. 770   
## 10 Naoyuki Oi (842 performance): 40 W-23 L against avg. 762
It's true that his early opponents were weak (two 600s) but his 11-4 win against 810-rated Feijen shows he is not just beating up lower-level players.
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Wow, did not FR can go to 917 :D I tot 850 or sub 900 is highest
 
spartan said:
They both may not have much left in tank so may not play their best. SVB said interview recently he wants to play Ko cos he lost to Ko in final of big money event in Indonesia decade ago and also the W9B final few years ago.

Yes that was last. I think they will have same 2 matches per table per session tomorrow


Wow, did not FR can go to 917 :D I tot 850 or sub 900 is highest
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Due to the small sample size these performance numbers are mostly for fun/illustration.

Depending on the optimization process, these kinds of ratings will converge to infinity if the player is undefeated ;)
 
Vahmurka said:
But wait, what has Matchroom to do with it? Mika makes that 5 ball, end of story. I mean, in order to get such amazing comebacks (nothing to take from SVB here) you gotta have a huge lead being built firsthand.

And the point I was making earlier today, after an afternoon session, finally got to the climax. How could one praise Matchroom for a great tournament while they did not care to provide a freaking ball marker for every referee at the venue?! Even if we make an assumption MR don't have a clue about that, they hired the head referee (Leymahn?) who should have required those markers. This is ridiculous organization at this level.
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If a pool tournament referee (especially a major pool tournament) does not have his own ball marker he should not be a referee! That tells me he (or she) is inexperienced and unprepared. That is not up to John Leyman to provide for them. He has other responsibilities then having to worry about each ref bringing their own equipment.
 
Poolmanis said:
That match was perfect example what i´ve been saying in Alternative vs WInner break format threads. We never get matches like that with alternative breaks!!! I LOVE WHAT MATCHROOM IS DOING... MAKING POOL GREAT AGAIN!
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Winner breaks has always been the best way to play 9-Ball matches (especially long ones) imo. We never played alternate breaks in the major tournaments I ran in the 80's and 90's. Plus the matches were always Races to Eleven on both sides of the board. The fans loved to see the long runs of consecutive racks. It made for some big leads and even bigger comebacks. Those kind of matches are exciting and that is not lost on MR.

In the Mosconi Cup when they are playing a super short Race to Five, then alternate break makes sense.
 
loggerhead12 said:
And flipping his jump cue like Pujols flipping a bat after a walk-off homer.
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And perhaps a future HOF pool meme with Mika (not) watching SVB break on the hill-hill rack.

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spartan said:
Day 3 Evening Session starting now 530pm UK time
Last 32 race to 11
All big name matchups. The real party is starting now :LOL:

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Where is this schedule posted? I’ve searched far and wide and can’t find this… Seems impossible to find a simple schedule that shows what matches will be played on the streaming tables, sigh.
 
I felt for Mika and was reminded of this quote from Andrew Ponzi, describing what he felt while watching Greenleaf run racks for yet another world championship:

“In billiards you have no defense when your opponent is at the table on an extended run. All you can do is sit helplessly in your chair and fume and fret while you bite your nails right down to the elbow. The layman, who plays just for pressure, cannot understand this reaction. Only the professional player, who depends on a winning effort for his bread and butter, know what it is like to suffer thus.”
 
kling&allen said:
I felt for Mika and was reminded of this quote from Andrew Ponzi, describing what he felt while watching Greenleaf run racks for yet another world championship:

“In billiards you have no defense when your opponent is at the table on an extended run. All you can do is sit helplessly in your chair and fume and fret while you bite your nails right down to the elbow. The layman, who plays just for pressure, cannot understand this reaction. Only the professional player, who depends on a winning effort for his bread and butter, know what it is like to suffer thus.”
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"just for pleasure" I would guess
 
jay helfert said:
Those kind of matches are exciting and that is not lost on MR.
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Fair point but let's not lose sight of the fact that it rarely happens. Big comebacks are exciting for sure but so is watching a player win a tournament when he's gone hill-hill or close in every single match - drama is drama! And while everyone is talking about SVB's comeback from 3-10, nobody seems to be talking about Omar Al Shaheen's comeback from 1-9 to 11-9 - so maybe it actually isn't as exciting as it's made out to be?

I think MR should have kept the US Open winner breaks and the World Championship alternate breaks even though I'm a de facto proponent of alternate breaks, but I'll just watch and enjoy.

EDIT: Omar's comeback might have been from 1-10 down. I haven't seen the match yet but certainly will do so.
 
Here’s the shot that Mika complained about. The ref just lifted the 9 and then set it back down when he pulled out the template. Shane barely had a shot but made the 1. At the end of the game, Mika told the ref he should have used a marker. Shane (who probably should have stayed out of it) said it didn’t change the shot, and it went back and forth a few times.

I’m curious if people agree that you need to mark a ball to pick up the template. It’s one thing to pick up the cue ball to clean it, but it’s a different thing to just lift up a single ball a little, slide the template out, and put the ball back down. I’m not sure I agree that you need to mark it first.

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Vahmurka said:
Then again, yes, 8 and out to win a match is great. Just great! At the same time winner's vs alternate break has been discussed inside out, pros and cons are well known. I believe current setup (1-ball on the spot with a template, race to, etc.) does not provide proper environment for winner breaks. Bring a good triangle, and it is a totally different achievement.
As for resistance, I feel Matchroom have resisted way too many 'trends' :) Someone posted here at AZB the other day, and I fear the same: the main problem with Matchroom is they can choose to turn the sport into something entirely different from what it is now. I'd even say, different from what we all used to love.
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I agree that the template is not ideal, I much prefer the triangle for winner breaks. But I don’t like the trend of trying to make the break too difficult to figure out. I just find that doing so overemphasizes the break shot. I much rather watching this current set up to the, break from the box, 9 on the spot, 3 point rule, alternating breaks etc.
 
Swighey said:
And while everyone is talking about SVB's comeback from 3-10, nobody seems to be talking about Omar Al Shaheen's comeback from 1-9 to 11-9 - so maybe it actually isn't as exciting as it's made out to be?
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I don‘t think Omar’s match was on video, which is probably why people weren’t talking about it as much.
 
Swighey said:
Fair point but let's not lose sight of the fact that it rarely happens. Big comebacks are exciting for sure but so is watching a player win a tournament when he's gone hill-hill or close in every single match - drama is drama! And while everyone is talking about SVB's comeback from 3-10, nobody seems to be talking about Omar Al Shaheen's comeback from 1-9 to 11-9 - so maybe it actually isn't as exciting as it's made out to be?

I think MR should have kept the US Open winner breaks and the World Championship alternate breaks even though I'm a de facto proponent of alternate breaks, but I'll just watch and enjoy.

EDIT: Omar's comeback might have been from 1-10 down. I haven't seen the match yet but certainly will do so.
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I think it has more to do with SVB having more fans so there was a bigger audience here. Omar’s a great player but he doesn’t have Shane’s following.
 
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