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Trump v Shaw at US Open. Shaw won 11 - 1. - fluked 9 ball on the 1st - 5 B&R's, So in terms of competitive racks, it was 5-1 Rack 2: Trump lays a decent safety, but not good enough, and Shaw makes a difficult shot, then runs out Rack 4: Trump hooked Shaw twice, but on the second hook Shaw...

....and Ronnie O'Sullivan isn't playing in the Mosconi Cup this year. Of course, by the end of the day, there should be a rumor out there that Ronnie's switching to 9-ball.

I had heard of the Shootout but hadn't watched it. It has a 10-minute match with a 15 second shot clock, that goes to 10 seconds for the last five minutes. I understand it's pretty popular. For a local club to try to run such an event, either Shootout, or 900, to avoid the requirement for a...

I haven't seen it, but there's a new event called Snooker The 900 underway. Each match is 900 seconds long (15 minutes) 20 second shot clock A ball must hit the rail (or pocket) on every shot. i.e. no run-up shots etc. All fouls are cue ball in hand. Reviews so far are pretty positive. Rules...

Yup, exactly!

But there's no evidence it was the same conditions. No evidence it wasn't either. As people have pointed out, we don't really know the table setup, and if it was changed as time went on. There are some images of a pocket, but no way to know what table that's from. All we know is that...

I once heard a very laconic player who was asked by a much younger player what he should practice. The quiet guy said "Figure out what you're not good at. Practice that."

I believe that if you can't stroke straight consistently, you'll never be consistent, so I also believe that you have to pay attention to fundamentals forever. It's pretty easy for something to creep into your stroke that you'll only notice if you do some routine practice on fundamental...

It's interesting. There are well-known coaches who advise that if you want to draw the ball back, lower your bridge hand. Here BilliardsAbout talks about raising the stroke hand. There's a very accomplished Philippine player locally who uses his legs. He's aiming at center ball, and during...

Yup, I've seen it a number of times. A player asks for advice or instruction, then just argues about the advice or instruction he gets.

... continued from Part II BPI over 10 runs Ruslan made only 10 runs and performed very well. Trying to figure out a fair comparison, I computed the running average BPI over 10 consecutive runs for all players, to find the highest 10-consecutive-run-average. Schmidt outperformed Ruslan on his...

... continuing on from Part I Just break shots A run of 100 means there were eight break shots, so if we look at all break shots, not just ones that ended the run, we get the chart below. Shaw2 was the best breaker, at 96.0%. SVB clearly-underperformed here at only 92.5% If we expand the...

Introduction In March 1954, Willie Mosconi set a record by running 526 balls in an exhibition high-run. In May 2019, John Schmidt set a new record by running 626 balls. In Nov 2021, a Legends group started inviting select players to make high-run attempts on a live stream. In May 2022, Cue...

6-red snooker has both professional and amateur rules. In the official rules for the amateur game, I understand it's like professional snooker except there is no miss rule, and all fouls are cue-ball-in-hand anywhere on the table. Pretty simple.

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It was a good stream. Nice to see that the main camera and the overhead camera had matching colors. It's common to see the main camera with not-so-great color matching, and the other one with poor color matching, and makes it impossible to distinguish the 3 and 5, and if the pink 4-ball is in...

I understood the initial review noted the foul at 669, and the internal debate at BCA was whether to standardize with 'all fouls' versus 'cue-ball fouls only' If high-run records are going to be an ongoing thing, it's probably good to develop some standards.

Day 1 comparison: Shaw is playing much better in part 2 of the day, but still underperforming his runs from January. Ruslan is still highest performer in BPI followed by Schmidt, and then Shaw. There's a clear difference in the way the 14.1 players manage the patterns over the 9-ball players...

Day 1, part 1 Statistics Average BPI 44.5 Ball potting %: 97.8% Rack running %: 73.3% This is not as good as his previous run, but he seems to be stronger now than at the beginning. For comparison, and with only four hours of play on this day 1. Shaw Attempt 2 (Aug 2022), Day 1 Shaw...

Yeah, but Bobby puts his spin on things. I remember in another thread the comments during Jayson's runs were that Schmidt was supporting and encouraging Jayson and how cool was Schmidt because of it. Bobby's the one who's saying it's sharking. If Bobby would post the texts that were...