US Open (9 ball) 2024, August 19-24, Atlantic City

Scrunge19 said:
It’s obvious that a big piece of Matchroom’s business strategy is to try and replicate what they did with snooker and also try to bring part of that audience over for the WNT. Which makes a lot of sense. But I wish they’d let pool be its own thing and stop trying to shoehorn snooker players into all aspects of the WNT. I don’t care what some random snooker player’s thoughts are in the commentary box of a US Open semi final.
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He isn’t a random snooker player. He is a sports presenter with the largest sports radio show in the uk. He is going to do his show from the uk open next year which will really help promote it!
 
iusedtoberich said:
Wasn’t meant to be. I’ve been trying my vpn for 30 min now. Won’t work for MRlive or DAZN. oh well.

Go Shane:)
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Yeah, they have to have specific coding to eliminate the VPN detection on certain platforms. Netflix invests a lot to prevent getting access to different content in countries from VPN use. hide.me has been the best in my experience.

Jaden
 
Lynch said:
That shot on the 2ball there by Shane with everything at stake and against Filler. No lead is safe with that guy. To hit that on 4" pockets at that speed. Wowzers!
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Don't forget about the 1 ball to start the llast rack, he had to slide it in off the rail because the 5 was blocking the straight into the pocket angle.

Jaden
 
Jaden said:
Yeah, they have to have specific coding to eliminate the VPN detection on certain platforms. Netflix invests a lot to prevent getting access to different content in countries from VPN use. hide.me has been the best in my experience.

Jaden
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It’s weird. Amazon prime video works fine. And DAZN is showing me the wpba event on a billiards channel. But no MR pool on DAZN and MR live only has past matches.

Im on a plane now heading back to USA (still on ground). Maybe once the plane wifi is turned on it will work.
 
It's a race to 13 for the US Open 9-ball championship!
It's an epic final between five-time US Open 9 Ball Champion Shane VanBoening and the current World 9 Ball Champion, Fedor Gorst.
Who will win the title?

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iusedtoberich said:
It’s weird. Amazon prime video works fine. And DAZN is showing me the wpba event on a billiards channel. But no MR pool on DAZN and MR live only has past matches.

Im on a plane now heading back to USA (still on ground). Maybe once the plane wifi is turned on it will work.
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VPN to Mexico or Canada for me has US Open Pool Championship listed under Events on matchroom.live. Good luck!
 
Jaden said:
Don't forget about the 1 ball to start the llast rack, he had to slide it in off the rail because the 5 was blocking the straight into the pocket angle.

Jaden
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Absolutely, they kept showing the closeup and I really didn't even think the shot went. After watching him shoot it, you could clearly see there was close to zero room for error.

I know people like to expect perfect pool from these guys and the rest of the 800 FR plus guys, but the reality is, most of the time that's just not how it goes. I love matches like this, so much at stake, you can tell both guys really want it, batting nerves, battling an opponent who they fear (Filler has mostly been Shane's kryptonite too), great stuff. Both guys made a couple glaring mistakes and I love watching them have to compose themselves, battle the mental demons, and find a way to get it done. SVB got a couple huge rolls from the gods, made a couple glaring mistakes near the end, but ultimately still came with some wicked stuff to pull it out at the end.

For his efforts, he gets to spend more time with Fedor trying to make history. You just can't draw it up much better than this.
 
Thanks all for the coverage. Maybe we'll see more players sign up for races to 120 the week before a major when they see who the finalists are.
 
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