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Just when you are mentioning cushions for position reminded me one extra thing I'd say to learners. If you come of a cushion at a shallow angle, then side wont have much of a chance to take effect. If you are coming off a cushion at a narrow angle for a 1 cushion escape from a snooker you have...

Your making a valid point and maybe relevant isn't the word I should have used. But if you play a soft shot even centre ball it's going to leave the tangent line pretty quickly. Ultimately when your starting to learn position you need to know the ball goes at 90 degrees from the potting angle...

I played for longer than I'd like to admit before I realised the tangent line is only relevant for stun/stop shots. Also when I was learning I wanted to develop a draw and follow shot, but never occurred to me a stop shot would be something I'd want to practice.

I always just associated Matchroom with Rasson, but just looked back at highlights of UK Open and realised it was Diamond tables and their announcement of Rasson as their table partner says it's for single table events. TIL

Different pocket sizes and shapes make potting balls harder/easier. Speed of the cloth can make a big difference (though at pro level I think all tournaments will have pretty fast cloth no matter the brand). Ball can bounce of cushions/rails different on different brands. Personally think a...

I got the impression the players only got to see the balls for the first time in the morning of the tournament, which is a bit poor IMHO. Quite like the new blue 2 to be honest, but apparently an old Dynasphere set used that colour for a different number so maybe Jayson was familiar with that...

I think getting on the 2 is a combination of luck and skill. If you can leave your white near the centre of the table you have far more chance of getting on the 2. Personally doing the Matchroom cut break I find it fairly easy to pot the 1 of the break when I put my cue ball towards the edge of...

That's easy, it's pronounced the martian :D

So Shaw is certainly a "character", they let him commentate on a bit of the Scottish open a few years ago. Within 5 mins he'd swore live on air, tried to get the other commentator have a bet on the match with him and when the other commentator mentioned the Maldives open So Shaw replied "I was...

He must just be good at every sport. At the Scottish Open Jayson's dad challenged Felix to a game of darts and he was ridiculously good at that too. They were trying to see who could throw closest to the bullseye and Felix hit the bullseye twice.

very fair point, but it's hard to know what's a cash grab and what's a supplier producing a quality innovative new product when you haven't tried them yourself and pro players opinions aren't too trustworthy as they often have financial incentives to promote certain equipment. Was more curious...

I have no idea if what he said was like trade secrets or if he wouldn't mind it getting out, so will PM you just to be safe rather than posting it publicly

In English Pool Ultimate Pool were using Strachan cloth with Aramith balls, but they've moved to the CPBA/Dynasphere combo too. Not sure if there is any connection between CPBA and Dynasphere or if they just both happen to be making aggressive business moves at the same time. Think there are...

It's a sports and leisure centre with an events hall. Looks like they've put some tables in the sports hall part rather than the events hall for some reason. Not been but heard people that have went in previous years mention it stank of chlorine from the swimming pool. Not the most illustrious...

Just googled him out of curiosity, he beat Woodward when he was 17 in 2022 European Open and he won the junior event at the U.S open that year too. Possibly a good young player that is just starting to deliver on their potential?

was the 8 ball still black as well as the cue ball? That sounds like it would be confusing as hell. I know people don't like colour changes in general, but feel like the cue ball being white and the 8 ball being black are the 2 most fundamental colours that should never be changed. Even people...

Oliver Szolnoki beat Albert Januarta in the final. Oliver had some impressive results on his route to the final, beat Jayson 10-4 in the semis, Labutis 10-4 in the quarters and he beat Sullivan Clark 10-5 (hadn't heard of Sullivan before, but he beat Moritz Nehausen 10-1 in the first round so...

Moritz was nice enough to get a photo taken with me despite having just lost heavily in Scottish Open and Jayson was nice enough to give me advice on breaking in the Matchroom format. Glad to see both win comfortably in the first round. Curious to see how Fraser Patrick gets on. He beat...

Ultimate Pool and Matchroom both using the same ball suppliers and cloth now. Interesting they've both made the same moves. Wonder if it's because they are genuinely good products, or just companies offering them good financial terms. I suspect the latter, but don't really have experience of the...

Juanarta just taken Souto to a deciding frame after being 9-4 down. What a come back this could be!