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And the push out / 2 foul rule rewarded long shot ability. It's a trade-off.

Just hope that they don't run into an ICE agent trying to fill his monthly deportation quota. :cool: They'd probably be accused of "stealing jobs from real American players." I'm only half-kidding when I say that.

SVB, Gorst, Styer and Bergman should be there. For the 5th slot it'd be between Thorpe, Hohmann and Sky, and based on recent performance at this point I'd go with Thorpe, even if he's skanked his last few MC appearances and doesn't appear on the current ranking board.

So what separates Buddy's fundamentals from, say, Gorst's? His stroke was fluid with an easy followthrough, he kept his head down and his body still, and he was a long acknowledged master of pattern play. What am I missing?

Just out of curiosity, what exactly was wrong with Buddy Hall's fundamentals?

My political opinions are about 170 degrees the opposite of Rogan's, but that doesn't mean I can't respect his love of and respect for pool. Not everything has to have politics dragged into it.

Does anyone know who the ESPN2 announcers are going to be? I'd like to think it'd be Scott, Karl & Jeremy, but with TV you never know. And if after all the inevitable bloviated introductions and cuts for commercials, the match goes past its allotted 3 hour segment, will it be treated like a...

Great tournament so far. I'm rooting for a Pecelj-Vogel final rather than a same old-same old.

There was a teenaged player in a regional Virginia tournament in the late 90's who used to trace the exact path of where he wanted the cue ball to go before every shot, and then 9 times out of 10 it'd wind up exactly where he'd wanted it. As soon as I saw him, I started betting on him in every...

It's the same with the U. S. Open and every other live athletic event----the most expensive first Super Bowl ticket was twelve dollars. I remember when a VIP seat for the entire U. S. Open in Chesapeake was under $100, but those days are long gone. OTOH as long as the streaming is relatively...

Where will the Yapp vs Pecelj matched be streamed? Will it be on https://digitalpool.com/tournaments/2026-phoenix-open/videos? I see the Yapp match is on WNT. EDIT: Never mind, I found it on Railbirds TV.

When is this supposed to start today? WNT live is only showing this:

You think that sandstorms are bad in Arizona today? Look what we old timers had to put up with Back In The Day! And when we got to the tournament we had to brush all the sand off the tables. "The Good Old Days", indeed.

The only problem with ball returns is that on poorly constructed tables the balls sometimes never show up in the tray, and you often have to get down on your hands and knees to locate them. And sometimes that can take several minutes when you've got return rails that've mastered the art of...

Be nice to have names attached to that picture! Some of them are easily recognizable, but the focus is a bit fuzzy. Last time I actually played Ronnie was in 1980 at Guys and Dolls, even up nine ball. Wouldn't have dreamed of trying to match up with him in one pocket. We came out even, but...

Last time I ran into Ronnie was at Triple Nines in Elkridge, maybe 2 or 3 years ago. It was during one of their Saturday night 8 ball / 9 ball tournaments, but he wasn't playing, just sitting at a table near the bar in the front of the room. He must have been pushing 80, but he still looked to...

Apologies for a stupid question, but was that the same Buck who used to play at the old Guys and Dolls in Silver Hill, along with the likes of Strawberry, Lefty Joe, Jackie Robinson and Bus Driver Ronnie? I never matched up with him because he played nothing but one pocket while I played...

The late Leonardo Andam once showed up at a non-handicapped 9 ball tournament at Orange Ball Billiards in Rockville, MD. I beat him in the first round and to this day I'm sporting a 100% winning percentage against him. That was one great tournament while it lasted. Two Mosconi Cup players...

In 2010, the year before Appleton beat Shawn 13-6, he beat Corey Deuel 15-13 in what may have been the most exciting U. S. Open final ever. IIRC the rule that year was that the player had to win by 2 games. That was the closest that any non-SVB or Fedor American has come to winning since...

BITD Steve Gumphrey was the best 9 ball player in the DC area. With the break and BIH I would beat him, but without BIH I needed the break and the slop 7. This was long before the template came along, and my break has always been a POS.