1990 US Open Sigel & Varner - 5 Inch Pockets

[iusedtoberich]

Go to 6:45 or so. Grady calls it a "tough-pocketed table" and that Sigel's shot down the long rail was very missable.

And of course, Sigel hits it with tons of body movement and uses ALL of the pocket. Would have missed by a mile on a modern WNT table.

Weird, maybe he had a mental slip or something? Grady was used to playing on triple shimmed GC's because his main game was one pocket.

I think Sigel's shot at 6:45 would have went on Emily's Diamond tables, however, in tournament new cloth/ball conditions.

 

[iusedtoberich]

Can anyone figure out what this rack area is? Looks almost like two spots? I'm lost what I'm seeing.

 

[Billard puzzle]

Gehen Sie ungefähr zu 6:45. Grady nennt es einen „harten Tisch“ und dass Sigels Schuss an der langen Bande sehr leicht zu übersehen war.

Und natürlich trifft Sigel ihn mit enormer Körperbewegung und nutzt die GANZE Tasche. Auf einem modernen WNT-Tisch hätte er ihn meilenweit verfehlt.

Sigel on his Prime, will be the World Number 1 Today.

 

[skogstokig]

Speaking of pocket size.............

They played this match on a GCIII with 5 inch pockets. Grady Mathews mentioned how they were 5 inch pockets. And then he called them tight pockets. I couldn't believe how big they were, almost buckets!

Was this the norm for tournaments back around 1990? If they played on this nowadays would anybody ever miss???

r/DCP

i did not watch the clip but grady was known for his deadpan comedy. one time he referred to the GC pockets as "cavernous apertures"..

 

[skogstokig]

true, but that was almost 20 years ago

have you seen any contemporary gambling matches from the philippines? cloth that looks like it's been flipped ten times, talcum piles on the rails, humid as fk.