World Pool Championships 2025, July 21-26, Jeddah

[Mobiker]

Shane's in a nice rhythm. 3-0

 

[skogstokig]

There was no clock on the Seoa/Ouschan main table match, but the Styer/Makkonen match did have the ref announcing ten/five.

shane talked to the ref, it seems the beeper isn't working

 

[skor]

Shane's in a nice rhythm. 3-0

Yes
Looks like he came ready to play.

 

[sudocrushms]

That didn’t age well

Aged like milk and I'm not going to complain about it.

 

[VTEC John]

I don't follow Women's pool, but I assume Seoa is the best player?

Up until recently, I would have put Chezka, Rita Chou, Tkatch, Wei Wei and probably Jasmine ahead of her. Seoa has posted on her Instagram that she was unhappy with her mental game and was working on it. Given her win in Indonesia a week or so ago, along with her showing so far, whatever she's been doing is working. It's fair to say her stock is going up.

 

[skogstokig]

Up until recently, I would have put Chezka, Rita Chou, Tkatch, Wei Wei and probably Jasmine ahead of her. Seoa has posted on her Instagram that she was unhappy with her mental game and was working on it. Given her win in Indonesia a week or so ago, along with her showing so far, whatever she's been doing is working. It's fair to say her stock is going up.

also siming chen, rubilen amit and han yu.. so she's top 7 at best. but young and improving. her playing at this event is btw because rubilen (current women's 9b champ) got health problems, she is a replacement

 

[skogstokig]

through to SE:

grabe, alcaide, tyler, konrad, melling, hohmann, maciol, pecelj

 

[skor]

through to SE:

grabe, alcaide, tyler, konrad, melling, hohmann, maciol, pecelj

Good for Hohmann. It’ll be nice to see him going all the way for good old times… I was there in Cardiff when he won it.

 

[skor]

SVB 5 - KPY 4
Close match

 

[skogstokig]

Good for Hohmann. It’ll be nice to see him going all the way for good old times… I was there in Cardiff when he won it.

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he bet on himself iirc, doubled the prize money?

 

[Vahmurka]

also siming chen, rubilen amit and han yu.. so she's top 7 at best. but young and improving. her playing at this event is btw because rubilen (current women's 9b champ) got health problems, she is a replacement

Seo is not a replacament for Amit AFAIK, if Rubilen did not withdraw both of them would have been here in Jeddah.

 

[Monti]

I’m not exactly a fan but overrated isn’t fair. He won 2 world championships 5 years apart, 2 World Cups, an international open, and several runner ups in major events. Dude is a monster

Fair point but I just don’t see him returning to be a major contender

 

[bral]

Henderson currently up 7-5 on Yapp on a side table, having a great event at this stage in his career win or lose IMO

 

[skor]

SVB on the hill 8-5

 

[Vahmurka]

Why did no women enter this event?

Is it financial backing...

Based on her shirt, Seoa has a lot of sponsors, including LG!

My question is quite the opposite: why are they allowed to be in this? As long as women have their own 9-ball worlds, men are entitled to have the same. And it used to be like this, until MR decided they need to drop Fallon Sharrock (inquiring minds are free to google this) into the lion's den. Well, Fallon did surprisingly good on her debut year (unlike next attempts). So following these footsteps MR invites some women to compete with men in pool. Oh well, oh well.

 

[datnodude]

Svb is back!

 

[skip100]

This Kaci-Baoanan match is awful!

 

[skogstokig]

filler v gerson on T2. warming up

 

[skip100]

My question is quite the opposite: why are they allowed to be in this? As long as women have their own 9-ball worlds, men are entitled to have the same. And it used to be like this, until MR decided they need to drop Fallon Sharrock (inquiring minds are free to google this) into the lion's den. Well, Fallon did surprisingly good on her debut year (unlike next attempts). So following these footsteps MR invites some women to compete with men in pool. Oh well, oh well.

Oh please, women have always been allowed to enter open events. Would you have banned Jean Balukas from the straight pool world championship?

 

[Vahmurka]

Oh please, women have always been allowed to enter open events. Would you have banned Jean Balukas from the straight pool world championship?

What I'm saying is there were no women at 9-ball WPCs that were intended for men. For some 30 years since I started to follow. I'm fine with what you call an "open" event, but let me tell that as long as a "9-ball women WC" exist, please keep the same for men. Who won't have to be dealing with women or kids.