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My description is more like......depressing.

I was wrong. Only three matches played today, not four. SkySports and Matchroom need to make sure this stretches into four days. What's weird is there was no closing commentary, no wrap up of the days event, nothing. Sky just moved on to the next show, something about the Ferrari racing team. I...

USA just won the MC! They won a match! My take on this match. Shane is a very good coach. Skyler almost dogged it off with the missed five ball, but he got a second chance.

If I'm Team USA you have to be thinking, "Oh no, not more Filler!" And here he is, the USA killer. Teamed with Shaw, another one just like him. All I can say is, good luck to Shane and Sky. They will need a lot of it here.

The highlight of this match was the great safety exchange between these two players in game eight, punctuated by the long jump shot executed by Filler to win the game.

Frankly I was surprised that Styer showed his face out there during this match. I'm wondering what the heck is he doing out there, trying to give advice or encouragement to Gorst. Gorst seemed to humor him though. For all intents and purposes this year's edition of the MC was over after Day...

Maybe four matches today. 8-0 is a distinct possibility now.

Gorst looked shell shocked in that first game against Filler. I think the whole Team USA is shell shocked after what just happened in that first match. Filler's position shot from the six to seven in rack one was twice as hard as Styer's eight to nine was, and he hit it perfectly. That clearly...

Playing two rail position was fine. Tyler just failed to hit the cue ball with enough speed. That is a nervous error. There's another name for it that I prefer not to use here. The C word.

I feel bad for Tyler. He ran out that last rack quite well until he failed to play position on the nine ball. It was not a hard shot to get from the eight to the nine and he simply dogged it. Sad!

Moritz looks like a soon-to-be major champion. He's got it all.

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Where we are today is most pool fans/players have a table in their home. They don't need to go anywhere to practice/play. That's the big market in the U.S. for pool table companies - home sales. Not necessarily the best environment to learn the game and become a top player, but it could be done...

In my day, 60's and 70's, there were literally thousands of poolrooms all across the country. Every small town had a billiard room, or two. And they were all 8' or 9' tables. Bar tables were exclusively in the bars and for adults over 21. You grew up playing on a full sized table!

In the Philippines everyone plays everyone else! No one ducks anyone. They may ask for (and get) games on the wire, but they get up there and play. The good players here do not sit around the poolroom drinking, smoking and having fun. They're there for business, which is pool, pool and more pool.

Agree! Moritz plays as good or better than anyone out there on either side. I happen to like Shaw. He talks a lot of shit but he backs it up with strong play. Kind of like Muhammed Ali used to do once upon a time. If you can do it then it isn't bragging. One last note, Filler kills! He takes no...

Early on I used to practice with pool balls on a 10' snooker table. After a couple of hours of that the pockets on the pool table looked like buckets. I was known as a shotmaker by many players in my era. That was a compliment I got quite often. Unfortunately my position play and cue ball...

His lack of practice really showed up today. He missed several routine shots. Even in the game he won he missed the seven ball so badly that it banked in up table.

A lot of chatter here about what's wrong with Team USA and what we need to do to fix it. I'm sorry but none of the above is the answer. There is a reason why Shane became Shane and not just another American player. He actually grew up playing on bar boxes but made the transition to big tables by...