Recent content by Vahmurka

A very telling example is a recent Ohio Open, where, as per event report, "After taking four shots, He had a 3-0 lead". These included two golden breaks (at 10-ball, mind you; lord's sake!), and a 2-10 combo. I'm not sure that's the way we expect a game of pool to evolve. Any game, I dare to...

Yes, even Wikipedia (which is at times not as reliable source as one could suppose) lists J.A. as a runner-up. Apparently, back then getting correct info was very hard. Time to re-check and update my data.

And if we get back to the idea Mike Page mentioned, that the match outcome depends on the format very little - then the dogs DO NOT have THAT chance in reality. The chance people seem to believe in, be it in a positive or negative fashion. Sorry, but shoot-out is not a set. It's a specialty to...

Darren Appleton through his World Pool Series events showed that even such a dubious thing as a pool shoot-out can be made more fascinating and challenging. Makes me wonder how one who decided to implement shoot-out decider could pick a 'standard' version over that one, proposed by Daz.

If omit a second final set, the format is no longer true DE :) Because you don't give a player who took the hotseat a chance in case of a final match defeat, meaning he could be eliminated with one loss only. Of course, I understand that an extended final set in such case is your acceptable...

Event format largely depends on how many tables the hosts can provide to handle N number of players. To my understanding, double elimination turns into single elim mainly to speed things up at a certain point. (My eternal love seems to forever be multiple round robins as used at the IPTs...

The data my friend and myself were able to gather has first scoreline for the final match appearing at 1990. And it says, 11-10 Varner over Sigel

Ah, c'mon, that's a good one. Otherwise 10-ball is no different to 9-ball (apart from the break obviously). If a runout is on and there is a combo on the 10, sink it, spot the 10 and proceed with the run. Otherwise just pass that option :)

Although there are no official WPA rules on One Pocket, general rules and definitions could easily apply. Pretty sad the pool world can not follow the similar guidelines, hence players get lost over the rulings at international events. The thing is, the head string is NOT a part of so-called...

Stu, at the Eurotours single elim stage Round 1 accommodates 32 players. 25% is pretty common I think. There are events where half of the field advances to stage 2, and that's obviously way too many. 6% is what Matchroom seem to like (and that might be too tough for my personal liking)

This is golden. Great observations! Yes, 9-ball is a problem (because no other games are going to get proper attention/development ). Winner breaks is a problem, for the reason you mentioned and for another obvious reason a match might end with a losing player not getting a single chance (and...

Not intending to spoil the party, but as it stands now, the price to be paid is pool being draught to the game of 9-ball. Are you ready to pay this price? Are we ready that the names of the greatest world champions who performed at real pool, like De Oro, Taberski, Greenleaf, Caras and Crane...

YES! Hands down! Thumbs up👍👍👍

One of the things which confused me and got puzzled on the way the tournament is run, was Runouts statistics at cuescore service. Many matches got me thinking there might have not been an ipad operator/scorekeeper/whoever. There were enough matches which could have not ended without a single...

I think during one of the matches at Table 1 I spotted Stu first and Bob Jewett also, not very far. Didn't notice Fred Agnir, but the audience was shown for a brief time only and I coudn't examine all the mugs there :) Nice to see true pool fans we all know from AZB. Stu, appreciate your...