Recent content by zed9

Nic Barrow's cue action trainer

Don't post much but have spent way too much time on here over the years since moving over from r.s.b.

Next up is Ouschan v Potts. Hope some of these matches end up on youtube

The lack of info is somewhat strange. They have sponsored Stephen Hendry, Gareth Potts and now SVB, invited many other 'foreign' players to play in this tournament, flights and accomodation paid for from all over the planet yet the tournament has already started and there is absolutely no info...

Del Hill, a top snooker coach (clients include the likes of Ronnie O'Sullivan, Mark Selby, Stephen Hendry, Jimmy White, Peter Ebdon etc) says that wherever he goes in the world he learns to say 'up to down' in the local language. The relevant part is around 4.30 on the link below...

The numbers game World Snooker estimates a worldwide audience of 300 million, in around 90 countries. There will be 1,500 hours of broadcast time, including live coverage on BBC TV and online. The winner's prize is £330,000, an increase of £30,000 from last year.

it'll be Selby vs Appleton in the final but I can't find any working links found the last frame of Robertson v Fang Yang mentioned by Spartan on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=l09ig1looAY

Could you post some links to some videos of top players - a search for 'chinese 8 ball' in English only comes up with a couple of matches including the very impressive Gareth Potts vs Melling match. How good was Potts ? I have only ever seen a couple of matches, how good are the top Chinese...

Everton 2-1 24 mins

Steven I hope you and your dad enjoyed your trip to Rome and that his wrist is better now. I was impressed at how quickly you adapted to the Italian table, only sorry we didn't have more time to play. It's always nice to meet up with fellow AZBers

Hi Steven, finding a decent game of one pocket may be tough - I've never seen it played here. 'Billiards' in Rome is going through a difficult period, many rooms have closed or moved over to card games and video poker as their way to make ends meet. I've never played one pocket but would be...

I will almost certainly be going to play on Friday evening - if you wanted I would even consider going out to Fabio Petroni's place, otherwise to my local (north of the pope's palace). If you are interested pm me and I'll give you my phone number. Hope you are enjoying Rome

When I started playing pool I used my snooker cue, played beautifully until one day the ferule came off (with 1/4 inch of shaft still attached) - I guess they just weren't designed with pool balls in mind.

'Here is to hoping you win the lag.' that must rank as one of the most amusing lines I've ever read on azb. That plus the one about Ortmann choosing to play 14.1 over 9 / 8 ball because he had to get away quickly ! I think 125 is really a little short, it'd be great if they could increase it...

It certainly was not my suggestion that the players would be fronting a million dollars, I figured television and sponsorship deals would take care of that. I believe that there are many TV / web viewers of both snooker and pool who would be interested in watching a challenge match between the...