Recent content by Cameron Smith

They’re saying people get hung up on ‘race to 4’ when the set format changes the math. A best-of-3 to 4 works out about the same as a single race to 9, so it doesn’t actually give the weaker player any more of an edge since they still need to win 8 games. It just feels that way because short...

Agree and even when the break rules on the WNT were relaxed, 6 was the most I’ve seen on the bigger events. And then I think there might have been a 7 pack at the international open one year. Big packages probably happen less often than 147s in snooker, and full set run outs are only a little...

My suspicion is that if you were able to put snooker players on a relative Fargo rating to compare standards, someone like Judd would be in the 870s or 880s. There has been a lot of coaching and money making opportunities (relatively speaking) for a while now that it wouldn’t be surprising if it...

Simply put… Pool, in its essence, is not merely the gathering of spheres upon a slate plane, nor the act of their directed motion by means of an extended implement. It is, rather, the unfolding of Being within the interplay of trajectory and intent, where the human essence as the one who aims...

Just push the ball in and move the cue ball to where it totally should have finished. Can we get the ghost rules amended?

Previously I was paying $2/month for live broadcasting of both WST and WNT events. While I expected a cost increase eventually, asking me to pay 10x more is a bit much. Especially given that the only way to watch on my tv is to cast from a device, which is always finicky at the best of times.

I certainly agree that Jayson’s style of conserving energy is critical. I remember some of Johns attempts where he would do a lightning quick 200 and bear down after that. I always wondered if he would have been better served to maintain the same pace and style from start to finish.

Willie’s was the official one that had attestations and was accepted as the record for a long time. But Cranfield had claimed a run of 768 and those that knew him took him at his word even though it wasnt listed by any governing body. Also, Eufemia had an unofficial record of 625. If memory...

One possible explanation lies in a concept called brain synchronicity. Essentially, this refers to how well different parts of the brain involved in a task are working together. When synchronicity is high, we’re better able to focus, learn, and perform. However, over time, as we fall into...

Im wondering if the culture is more similar to snooker. One of my favourite books is Stuart Pettmans “As sometimes seen on tv”. It’s a year and the life of his experience on the pro snooker tour. In the book he regularly discusses how top players would arrange to practice together over a...

More than Josh being pulled, I’m mainly disappointed by the lack of transparency from the WNT. At the very least, contracted WNT players deserve an explanation, or it starts to look like players can be benched or removed on a whim. If Josh’s actions truly conflicted with his contract, then fair...

Make room on the list for the 1 ball ghost.

Sadly a 4” Rasson is the only model I could probably afford.

A big reason is that it’s on a relatively small platform and wasn’t well promoted. They have 12k subscribers and don’t update. One thing that any promotion can learn from matchroom, if you have ever even heard of them, they‘ll find you and won’t let you forget that their next tournament is in...

The other tricky part to this is that once you understand which balls go where depending on the break, you may not be explicitly pattern racking but will stop and think “nope I don’t want to put the 3 ball there if the 4 ball is here“. It takes honesty to place if somewhere that you know could...