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Ah I should have checked matchroom's rankings before posting -- looks like that was a typo in that graphic. On the site they're both listed as blue ribbon events now.

Why is the World Pool Championship listed as a "Major" but the US Open is a "Blue Ribbon" event? According to this, blue ribbon is >300K prize fund, which both of those tournaments have. Is there some other difference? And does this mean that the US open is a bigger event than the World Pool...

Winning % is not that informative if you want to know who the best/worst player in the MC is, because Shane also plays Europe's best players. That would be like evaluating how good a doctor is by comparing how many of their patients die compared to another doctor: the best doctor will likely...

The camera work at Matchroom events IMO is really subpar. For example, JJ just made a 1-9 combination with the cueball tracking right to the corner pocket after contact. Instead of showing the whole table to see if he scratched, the camera pans to the crowd. This seems to happen all the time...

Especially in this format, yes. Shaw and Filler thrive in the Mosconi cup.

He won the world 10 ball so kind of hard not to pick him.

I guess the US open last month doesn't count as a big match...

I really don't have interest in arguing about this all night. I'll just say that the situation you're describing (people saying Alex P is not Canadian because he's Filipino) really has nothing to do with what we're talking about. In Alex's case, he immigrated to Canada from the Philippines, and...

Not really sure what that has to do with anything.

Right... I'm the one in this thread taking people's heritage away...

I guess any bets on future long races like this should always have some kind of clause saying what the parties want to do in the event that the race terms change before it ends.

Of course no country is a monolith and everyone has their own opinions. The point I was making is that the ROC is not the same thing as the PRC. Just because it has China in the name doesn't mean that you should call the Ko brothers Chinese...

You know that Taiwan does not consider itself part of China, right?

Thanks for the clarification -- that's helpful to know. Still, beating two 620 players and then one 728 is not much of an accomplishment, since he essentially didn't even face a pro until his fourth round.

Winning his first three rounds in the US Open isn't really an accomplishment, though, since those rounds were basically dead money. His first match, he beat Joe Magee (FR: 367), second round he beat Dhruvalkumar Patel (FR: 411), and third round he beat Abdullah Alshammari (FR: 728). I doubt...

Yes, in 2017, Deuel, Thorpe, Woodward, Shane, and Bergman all made the final 16 (https://www.azbilliards.com/tournament/7727-u-s-open-9-ball-championship/). Please fact check yourself before posting...

SVB gambles as much as anyone. Not sure what point you think you're making here... Also I don't believe this is even true. Sky Woodward has made the final 16 in 2018 or thereabouts.

What evidence do you have that gambling is what's holding back American pros? And if gambling is so bad for your game, how do you explain why players like Dennis Orcollo, Chang Jung Lin, Carlo Biado, etc, are so dominant?

It's the ref's job to hear when the player calls an extension, not the other way around.

Damn -- Yapp has no weaknesses in his game.