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First big shocker. Max Lechner (Fargo 817) is ousted, 7-9, by German Hermann Hoyh (Fargo 738). I don't think Hoyh has ever beaten a top player. Lechner appeared to plateau a few years ago. To get better, he hired Alex Lely as coach. I could see that his safety and tactical game improved. Lely...

Pro golf wants top players play each other more often. See top of a WSJ story below. Pro pool has tried this. Matchroom had the World Pool Masters, for instance, but it has appeared to be abandoned. The PLP is an odd version of this. Perhaps WNT or Predator should create a new WPM, maybe one...

Childress was the second seeded player knocked out. He got a meager 500 Mosconi points for his trouble. The last automatic spot last year went to Styer, who had almost 40,000 points.

Races to 10 until the semis, then races to 11. Final is race to 13.

The single-elimination stage moves to races to 10 from races to 9. The same was true of the 128-player Philippines Open. First big name ousted: Alex Kazakis (824 Fargo) loses 10-9 to Francesco Candela (753 Fargo). Candela was the only seeded player to lose his first march, 7-9, to 25-year-old...

Not sure it matters to WNT, Bob, that the first few days of a big tourney are slow. I would imagine the local entries all pay an entry fee and spend some money in and around the venue to support the local economy. An Open in theory would also serve to drum up interest. Get local players, their...

The earlier start of single elimination has pluses and minuses. The good: fewer top players will get knocked out early in the loser’s bracket. There were two events last year in which SVB knocked out Ko Pin Yi in the loses side, and then Ko returned the favor in the U.S. Open. This won’t happen...

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I was more accurate hitting the CB where I wanted on long banks, using a shorter bridge and stroke. Of course, banks in real games might require something different for positioning ...

No big upsets in the tournament so far. Sanjin had scare, but all the top pros got thru to the 128-player knockout round starting Thursday. The rest of today is losers side matches involving local or regional players.

Skyler and Tyler, as I mentioned, are playing in an Ultimate Pool event in Iowa. Justin Bergman said he had already committed to the event before the date for the European Open was announced. It's possible Sky and Tyler committed early, too, but who knows. MR did not announce the date for the...

It's an interesting question - why does anyone get into pool. I've asked every regular at my pool hall when and why did they start playing? Pool players in my experience are some of the most interesting people around. It all started for me ... in the early 1970s. My dad brought home a decent...

A few days ago, was practicing long banks with the two balls (OB and CB) less than a diamond and a half off the left long rail. The banks I was practicing had slight cut angles. Repeatedly the cut on the bank would throw the OB off just enough for me to miss the pocket. I'd hit the long rail a...

I doubt MR scheduled its European Open to piggyback on the EPBF event. It doesn't seem like Predator and MR communicate much, if at all, and MR in particular has had trouble pinning down calendar dates for its big events. The European Open wasn't announced until late January. Matchroom...

WNT already has the Philippines Open and Reyes scheduled for mid- to late October. Big question to me is whether the Peri takes place again. Even if Hanoi is dropped, Peri would fill a big hole. The event seemed to be a big success last year, the prize fund as just as big as Hanoi and the field...

Hah. I have, as my wife says, an addictive personality. When I take an interest in something, I chew it over like a barking-mad dog. That's how I became a master gardener, excellent home brewer, handy woodworker, lover of jazz and classical, connoisseur of fine wines and whiskies ... I've loved...

Sanderson does like to shout a lot. Odd.

Polish people, or at least the few I know, tend to think of themselves as Central Europeans. I wouldn't want to be associated with Russia either!

Not sure I have an "American" point of view. I didn't know anything at all about pro pool five years ago! None. Nada. Zippo. Didn't even know who Efren or SVB were. I have looked at Fargoes of unseeded players in past WNT Open events, but aside from the Philippines, I don't think I ever noticed...

Lot of speculation after this CPBA post on Facebook. Matchroom recently signed a deal making CPBA its official cloth supplier. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HrGWfTf5U/ The image says CPBA is the official sponsor of all Major Matchroom events. The events listed are the UK, European, US...