Recent content by Mr441

I know, its more like wishful thinking on my part. In all liklihood it will be a shutout for Maguire.

I agree about Maguire's temperment. Of all the top 10 or 16 players I would say he's the most easily rattled. I know its still a long shot but it Maguire is still out of form and Alex gets hot which could rattle Maguire, I could just about see it happening in a short race. However if the...

Maguire is one of the top players but the only saving grace for Alex is that I believe Maguire called this past snooker season the "season from hell". He may not have his form back yet...pulling off an upset against a top 16 player could really give Alex confidence.

I think Alex is the 2nd or tied for 2nd on the top up list....so if I'm reading the draw correctly he would have to play either Matthew Stevens or Stephen Maguire in the first round! That's rough! Good luck ti Alex if he plays.

Yeah I hope he wins...if he's on the tour then we'll have long threads like these for every event he plays in. There are 11 or 12 ranking events but there are also a lot of non-ranking events also and they have decent payouts, certainly a lot more than major pool events.

I agree with what many posters have said - he has to qualify for the tour first, if he does that (and it won't be easy) that puts him at a ranking of 117-128th. He then has to play the pros in ranking events this season...that's a whole different level of snooker. If he can even get his ranking...

I believe Blomdahl has won a major 9 ball event...possibly the World Pool Masters, it was quite awhile back.

Actually, I believe 365 is Mosconi's high run on a 5 x 10 table. I know he ran 353 on a 5 x 10 and that was a record, but he soon after ran the 365 while the 5 x 10 tables were still the table used but I dont know if it was ever stated clearly that it was a 5 x 10. Greenleaf ran 276 and Crane...

Onofrio Lauri died while playing pool. So the story goes, he was at the Golden Cue in Queens NY, when he pocketed a ball and then said, as if he knew he was about to die "that was my last shot", and then died right there on the table.

Sorry to nitpick but it's yin yang not ying yang. the yin is black and yang is white.

I like your picks, I would add Peter Ebdon for his tenacity.

As far as skill goes I'd say they were both even but Hopkins seemed to come through better in major events, winning the world 14.1 championship as well as winning the u.s. open 9 ball event twice....Rempe never won either one.

Mika has never won the world 14.1 event.

Definitely not his first 14.1 tourny. He played in the 1993 U.S. Open for sure and I'm pretty sure he played in another at the same time period of the 1993 event.

Yep, my thoughts exactly.