since fargo is showing the speed of the players from 10 yrs ago or so i find it ok that engert is still in the rankings.......:grin-square:
World 9 Ball Championship 2017 (9-14 Dec) ,Doha- Winner $30K
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since fargo is showing the speed of the players from 10 yrs ago or so i find it ok that engert is still in the rankings.......:grin-square:
Also eliminated - Kevin Chen, Fedor Gorst,Yukio
Last 64 draw not done yet
Last 64 matches will start 12 Dec (Tue)
http://www.esnooker.pl/turnieje/2017/w9bc/en/show_drabinka.php?id_t=197
Last 64 draw not done yet
Last 64 matches will start 12 Dec (Tue)
http://www.esnooker.pl/turnieje/2017/w9bc/en/show_drabinka.php?id_t=197
Here's a list of final 64 for anyone interested....
http://www.esnooker.pl/turnieje/2017/w9bc/en/show_list_players5.php
What are your predictions?
Kaci is strong. Finishing #2 at US open and if he takes this down, would make him player of the year IMO.
http://www.esnooker.pl/turnieje/2017/w9bc/en/show_list_players5.php
What are your predictions?
Kaci is strong. Finishing #2 at US open and if he takes this down, would make him player of the year IMO.
As our closest neighbor, I always cheer for USA in the Mosconi Cup.
Since there are no Americans left in this tournament, I would like y'all to return the
favor and cheer for the two North Americans left....
Martin Daigle
John Morra
:clapping::clapping::clapping:
Since there are no Americans left in this tournament, I would like y'all to return the
favor and cheer for the two North Americans left....
Martin Daigle
John Morra
:clapping::clapping::clapping:
Morra launching out of retirement to take down a world championship!
Or
Daigle, the family man who put his head down and trained hard to rise to the top of the world.
Both have great story arcs and I'm in their corner.
It will be a crime if they have to play each other early.
Ten players from Taiwan and five from China. That's almost a fourth of the field!
Seven from the Philippines and six from Poland! Twenty one players who are 25 or younger and eight of them are 20 or younger. Zielinski from Poland is 16!
Sadly, the USA is totally out of the picture!
Brackets/ Draw for Last 64
http://www.esnooker.pl/turnieje/2017/w9bc/en/show_drabinka.php?id_t=197
Top performers have been seeded so there are no clashes of big names in last 64
Only big match of last 64 is John Morra v Chang Jung Lin
http://www.esnooker.pl/turnieje/2017/w9bc/en/show_drabinka.php?id_t=197
Top performers have been seeded so there are no clashes of big names in last 64
Only big match of last 64 is John Morra v Chang Jung Lin
That is just an error on my part putting together that list of who is at Qatar. You can see from the world top 100 list at the link below that Thomas is not on it.
To be on these lists, you have to have at least 150 games from the last two years.
http://www.fargorate.com/top-ten-lists
It's so funny for me to hear commentators here in the US saying something like "OMG he's just 20 blah blah" not knowing that that's not a rare thing outside the U.S to have major-winning caliber player around that age.
Somehow in the U.S people have the idea that pool players need a lot more years to reach that level, maybe it ties to the idea of most players here are self-taught compare to "more formal" learning/practicing pool like a real sport the way many others countries do.
Maybe go to pool school > go on the road
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Somehow in the U.S people have the idea that pool players need a lot more years to reach that level, maybe it ties to the idea of most players here are self-taught compare to "more formal" learning/practicing pool like a real sport the way many others countries do.
Maybe go to pool school > go on the road
First you have to buy all the magazines, DVDs, laser shafts, magic chalks, wonder wax, super gloves and of course you have to buy at least 10-20 godly amazing cues until you finally decide which one is the....prettiest one! Then you feel ready to really learn how to shoot pool but you realize you're 60 years old!
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Try to change the quality. It's been smooth sailing for me the last 3 days on all tables
I watched two Chinese players the other day, thought I had it set to slo-mo but it was just them.
It's so funny for me to hear commentators here in the US saying something like "OMG he's just 20 blah blah" not knowing that that's not a rare thing outside the U.S to have major-winning caliber player around that age.
Somehow in the U.S people have the idea that pool players need a lot more years to reach that level, maybe it ties to the idea of most players here are self-taught compare to "more formal" learning/practicing pool like a real sport the way many others countries do.
Maybe go to pool school > go on the road
Hoppe beat the Lion of France when he was 18.
Mizerak won at straight pool as a teenager.
....and there was a kid from South Dakota.....
Looking great for the future Reyes Cup... Mosconi Cup, not so much.
Say the U.S has three, but in the span of how many years? The argument you are making is like saying oh Vietnam has won 3 Medals in the whole history of Olympic so what they have been doing is totally fine lol.
There is actually another way, the Filipinos way: millions of players play/gamble night and day everyday, the number x the hours = some that rise to the top. It works but not really efficient. Taiwan has 1/5 of Philippines population (and for perspective 1/15 of US population), pool is super popular in both country, but they have about the same number of world-beaters.