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Agreed though I wouldn’t change a thing. Given how many repeat winners this tournament has, and that each of them are amongst the all time greatest, this event does a great job of sussing out the best player in the world rather consistently.

A beginner on tight pockets will be less likely to learn proper cue ball movement because they will be so concerned with making the ball. We see this with snooker players where they get fairly consistent with straightish pots, but they don’t dare try to add side or hit the ball any harder than...

It’s not that I miss, it’s just that the pockets aren’t always where I want them to be.

True enough, I must have missed your point. I think the match lengths in the world snooker championship at this point is an accepted cultural thing. I don’t think Matchroom would have much success instituting a similar format. But I’ve wondered if there is a benefit to those longer match...

Compared to the world snooker championship they are short races. The total time to complete a match in the world championships ranges from 4-10 hours depending on what stage of the event we are in. If Pool had similar match lengths we’d be seeing races to 20 in the early rounds and final that...

I know a lot of people think that everyone has a natural limit, but that’s not the way humans work. In the absence of a physical disability or a severe learning disability you should be able to continue learning and improving as long as you keep playing and practicing. It’s not like your brain...

Part of that I think is logistical. It’s probably easier and cheaper for them to produce events in the UK and Gibraltar. They have also mentioned that they are trying not siphon off someone snooker fans to watch pool. But I don’t think they are abandoning the US. Their strategy looks similar...

Can we instead make it black and the 8 ball orange? Now that will mess with some people.

Correct, in continuous pool (forerunner to straight pool), innings carried across racks. The full 15 balls were re-racked and the player continued to either do a safety break or an open break. Early in pools history players believed that a players ability to extend runs and control the table...

One thing to keep in mind that if our dreams come true and matchroom does successfully develop a world 9 ball tour with a full calendar of events paying good prize money, they won’t be able to schedule around everything. Similarly the WST (world snooker tour) doesn’t check to make sure they are...

The best thing that they are doing is elevating the way they present the tournaments. You get the feeling during this past week that you were watching the world championship and not just two guys playing pool. They did a good job giving you a sense of the outside matches and the context of any...

He has indeed. My understanding is that John took it about as well as could be expected.

He probably could have handled it better, but I’d give him a pass on that one. If I’m coming to the table and my opponent gets up and leaves, expecting me to wait, I’d be thinking it might be a move.

Can’t comment on the other stuff, but aren’t you only supposed to take restroom breaks on your turn or between games?

No matter what format you use, pool is different. You can’t influence your opponents turn (outside of what position you leave) and don’t shoot until your break or your opponent leaves the table. In alternate breaks, if your opponents gets the first break you are reliant on them making a...

If they want an equivalent of a 9 darter or a 147, they need to stick with winner breaks. There are no high runs in 9 ball without winner breaks. There is an alternate break pack, but then there would be a disincentive to win 9-0, for example, since you would get fewer break and runs.

I think the fact that these polls always seem to favour winner breaks is reason enough to have a healthy dose of winner breaks tournaments. Certainly more than what we get. It’s not a winning strategy to ignore the consumers preferences.

Yes I’ve noticed that, but I never hear anyone talk about it. It just doesn’t garner the same level of excitement as a big package. I don’t think people even notice an alternating package is even happening most of the time.

Perhaps we should dispense with 14.1 and go back to plain ol’ continuous pool. Start with safety break every rack, now that will be fair to everyone.

He’s been playing, just not in the bigger events I think.