Than the foul?
Yapp’s Controversial Tournament-Winning Shot in the 8-Ball World Championship … Was it a Foul?
- Thread starter dr_dave
- Start date
One udder thing: when you are playing a tournament match you very much often forgive stupid sheet-at on miscues and possible double hits.
It is very easy to flow from an observant player into the nit category. Most guys don't want to go there regardless of the circumstances.
Lou Figueroa
just sayin'
It is very easy to flow from an observant player into the nit category. Most guys don't want to go there regardless of the circumstances.
Lou Figueroa
just sayin'
There you go again. Spinning the ball had everything to do with the foul. Good enough to make the 8, not good enough to clear the 4. (annoying huh)
I watched the Yapp shot again and he does go parallel past the right facing. Dr Dave (I should check Pubo's placement too) managed to spin the 8 all the way to the left side of the pocket. More eng, maybe.
ANYWAY, With CPG you can play the line to give you the best chance at clearing the 4 - in this case, off the right tit.
and lol...
Another stab at clearing the 4 would involve a micro hop. That one I believe really obfuscates the foul detection.
did you consider that yapp as a pro realized if he cleared the 4 the 8 would be hit fat and he had to turn the 8 with spin
also this has nothing to do with question in the post that i responded to
if i was the ref. it was too close to call a foul. this works for both players.
its far more controversial to call a foul after the shot based on the roll of the cue ball. i dont want to give the ref power to call fouls based on cue ball roll. that opens a can of beans i dont like to see.
if doing that we need a camera.
its far more controversial to call a foul after the shot based on the roll of the cue ball. i dont want to give the ref power to call fouls based on cue ball roll. that opens a can of beans i dont like to see.
if doing that we need a camera.
Have you any idea how simple it is to rattle balls in? It's like uh, go practice that stuff. Major drill that I would do is trying to jaw balls. I copped this from Al Romero who was able to rattle a ball in 5" jaws at speed. Ball just rattled and stopped right there in the jaws. In trying to duplicate this - it's a one hole trap amongst other things - I discovered how much those balls want to fall. If the shot is in spec, there's nothing you can do to stop 'em.so he misses and now his opponent runs out and wins
good advice....
Back to Yapp and his favoring english; he shot that like he was doing surgery next to an artery and well...
I went to watch a World 14.1 Championship in New York. A friend told me the first day, "They're a little shorthanded." I put my hand up. No training, one bizarre rule added, and I reffed 24 two-hour matches in seven days. $5/match, calling each ball and the run total on each shot.
Badpenguin
Well-known member
If you’re talking about the Yapp situation, there was a referee directly watching the shot? And Yapp was in the road - he couldn’t see the hit.
What else was he supposed to do? Maybe he could have moved to see the shot, but even that is questionable as a potential shark move (getting out of your chair when a referee is there to make the call). And as I’ve posted above, he would have protested had he seen the shot.
I wasn't the beast. Cueball Kelly was the beast. He reffed 27 matches and he was 85 at the time. Ball and count on every shot. He was mad because they picked someone else to ref the finals (Sigel/Varner). Maybe he needed the five bucks.
She, and it looked like a brain fart. You know there are sharks everywhere.