2000 14.1 championship
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Brunswick Gold Crown IV
2000 14.1
Bill is correct-they were brand new GC IV with Simonis cloth (not sure if 760 or 860).
What I do remember is they were fast and loose.
I believe there were 6 tables - the one in the front center was the TV table.(For some reason I keep thinking there were 7 tables - but I cannot figure out how they would have been laid out).
The very first matches all had a 100 ball run (except one table). it was crazy. Watched Tony Robles (aainst JA) go from 2 or 3 in the hole and have a chance at a 152. He missed after making the breakball at 148 (I think). That would have been the record.
Watched Sigel break his shaft against Schmidt. And spent a little time talking to Treadeau, who was traveling with Sigel.
My only time in NYC.
Bottom line - the tables were TOO EASY!!!!!!
Mark Griffin
Bill is correct-they were brand new GC IV with Simonis cloth (not sure if 760 or 860).
What I do remember is they were fast and loose.
I believe there were 6 tables - the one in the front center was the TV table.(For some reason I keep thinking there were 7 tables - but I cannot figure out how they would have been laid out).
The very first matches all had a 100 ball run (except one table). it was crazy. Watched Tony Robles (aainst JA) go from 2 or 3 in the hole and have a chance at a 152. He missed after making the breakball at 148 (I think). That would have been the record.
Watched Sigel break his shaft against Schmidt. And spent a little time talking to Treadeau, who was traveling with Sigel.
My only time in NYC.
Bottom line - the tables were TOO EASY!!!!!!
Mark Griffin
It's an old thread, but... Accu-stats just posted the final of the tournament
loved it! although the ralf v efren semi was better, as semis often are. i haven't seen chin's semi but his out of the blue tournament performance is a story that fascinates me.
The story about Chin at the tournament is that he practiced on 3 7/8 pockets. I see on some random website that he has "officially" run over 430 balls but it doesn't say how many more. On another random site it says "more than 500". The AZB money list shows he played in 2001 in the Japan 9-ball Open, but nothing later.
Accu-stats has another match of Chin's from the 2000 Open: Min-Wai Chin vs. Tony Robles (DVD) | 2000 U.S. Open
i'm going to have to pester mike on that match too lol. robles at that time was a very fine straight pool player.
yes, i read somewhere that chin was a 400 ball runner, which is an exclusive club. also he used some kind of wristband pendulum thing to cue straight? lou's write up of this tourney was enjoyable
Could you talk more about the wristband ? Thank You
I believe he said it was some kind of chi-balancing thing. If I recall correctly, which is highly unlikely these days.
Thank you for your kind comment on my NYC trip report.
As I recall from that event, Chin had some kind of woven wrist band/bracelet on his stroking arm with two small, dangling balls, one slightly shorter than the other.
My guess was that when he was aligned properly the two little balls were hitting his wrist -- right below where you'd take someone's pulse -- just so, to let himself know his stroke was on-line. That's just a theory but it was so unusual I spotted it right off, they must have have some purpose.
Lou Figueroa
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At 17:05 in the video above you can see one of the dangly-down things on about a 3-inch cord.
And at 24:24 you can see the thing swinging.
I think that a player can miss fouls like that if they are really focused on the object ball. The ref, however, had one thing he was supposed to be watching and it wasn't the object ball. It's hard to find good help.