Aranas vs. Filler Ten Ball

Kudos to Roy's basement for putting this match on, but it's hard to focus on anything but the safety and health of all concerned. Wishing these very fine players the best of luck in their play and in their lives. Should be a good show. As always, I won't watch a race of this length, but if it gets to 90-85 in favor of either one of them, which seems like a pretty good chance, I'll likely tune in for the conclusion.
 
Day 1- Aranas 33-27

This is first time we see Filler in long races to 33 (at least on the stream) When you stop to sleep, next day is another race) . Previously he played mostly races to 17 (where he beat top guys including recently Biado. But he lost at least once to Johann Chua). I may be wrong but he may be more of a sprinter with higher gear in tournaments /shorter races than longer races.Like an energizer rabbit :smile:
But to be fair, Aranas eats and sleep on this table and that is quite an advantage
Filler is more a frontrunner than a clutch player as I don't recall Filler coming from behind to win from more than 5 games behind. In all recent long races Chang v SVB, Orcullo v Biado, SVB v Shaw, SVB v Orcullo the winner has always been the leader on Day1 and I doubt this will be any different so Aranas is now favorite to win whole thing

Roughly how much does each player make?
Sponsors- I see about a dozen on screen . Each one $200 so about $2.5K
Donations- 5K viewers. Assuming 5% donate $10 or 10% donate $5 that is at least $2.5K
Say $5K per day so $15K for 3 days
I believe it is 25% for each player and 50% for streamer (rather than one third for each player and streamer). So about $4K for each player win or lose

It was mentioned that winner gets cut of the bets in the middle and numbers thrown around range from $12K , $20K? Let's say $15K and what is player's usual cut 10%? So another $1.5K for winner
Not too shabby for 3 days work in this time of crisis

:D
 
The difference today was breaking. Aranas was unsuccessful on only one break. Filler was dry 7 times and lost all of those games.
 
For sure Filler's 10b break isnt as consistent and predictable as Shane's.

He's smart not wanting any part of Shane in 10b.
 
sjm said:
When I once asked Irving Crane what his aiming system was, his answer was "I try to aim the same way I did last time I made the same shot."
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I think that’s a great description of how we all ultimately aim, with or without the aid of systems - recognition learned through experience, aka “feel”.

pj
chgo
 
pt109 said:
A good table isn’t much of a home room advantage.
...I believe that table had the finals of the DCC played on it not that long ago.
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Roy said it was the "TV" table at the US Open 4 or 5 years ago. Pia Filler, commentating, said she thought it was the year Kevin Cheng won, which was 2015.
 
gxman said:
For sure Filler's 10b break isnt as consistent and predictable as Shane's.

He's smart not wanting any part of Shane in 10b.
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I believe Pia indicated that a match is being set-up between SVB and Joshua....will be announced on Instagram when it's ironed out. At least that is what I think she was saying.

Filler is a really good young player who can intimidate a lot of players, but his game is not Invincible. He gets out of shape, misses shots, has dry breaks constantly just like most pro's.... there is reason that Aranas has a 6 or 7 game lead on him after the 1st day..... it's because he played better.
 
AtLarge said:
The difference today was breaking. Aranas was unsuccessful on only one break. Filler was dry 7 times and lost all of those games.
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The giant elephant in the pool world:

...that we take the rare opportunity for head-to-head competition amongst the world's best and eyes-wide-open sully it with large bias by the way we initiate the freakin games.
 
mikepage said:
The giant elephant in the pool world:

...that we take the rare opportunity for head-to-head competition amongst the world's best and eyes-wide-open sully it with large bias by the way we initiate the freakin games.
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Breaker must push out? :thumbup:

The problem has been apparent since at least the 2000 World Pool Championships (9-ball) when the rack was tight and the wing ball was dead. Now we have the second-row pair to the side pockets at ten ball.

And still some people say there is no elephant.
 
I was able to get the live version on my Verizon Android smart phone, however on my laptop I could not connect. Do I need to download a program to make the connection????

HELP PLEASE?
 
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