Bold Prediction

Here's my 6:
Archer
Hohmann
Pagulayan
Morris
Putnam
Chamat

I'll be lucky to get 3 right. It will be interesting to see who breaks through to the big time. I figure a few players that were not very serious about their games prior to the IPT have been putting in hours upon hours of good practice and have taken their game to a new level.
 
coreyh said:
Here's my 6:
Archer
Hohmann
Pagulayan
Morris
Putnam
Chamat

I'll be lucky to get 3 right. It will be interesting to see who breaks through to the big time. I figure a few players that were not very serious about their games prior to the IPT have been putting in hours upon hours of good practice and have taken their game to a new level.
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I suspect anyone picking 2 names will be lucky. Someone was right when he mentioned we don't really know and it could be anyone given the field and the stakes.
Kelly
 
Orcullo
Reyes
Manalo
Bustamante
Valle
Pagulayan
Alcano
Lining
and a couple Europeans, lol.

Dark horses:
Jason Miller
Mike Zimmerman
Mike Vidas
 
No one is courageous enough to pick a single winner?

This is what I posted in another thread...

Since there will be 6 players in the final round robin, I'm going to name my final 6 instead of 5.

Final Round Robin:
Orcullo
Pagulayan
Reyes
Manalo
Lining
Souquet

Finals:
Orcullo
Pagulayan

Winner:
Pagulayan

Dark Horse:
Edwin Montal
 
My final six would be:

Manalo
Bustamane
Archer
Hohmann
Pagulayan
Reyes


I expect alot of the UK guys to finish high defintely a couple in the top ten and maybe one to make the last six, which would prove my predictions wrong:) Not a single one of them are slouches (sp?) and they all know eight ball very well.
 
jsp said:
No one is courageous enough to pick a single winner?

This is what I posted in another thread...

Since there will be 6 players in the final round robin, I'm going to name my final 6 instead of 5.

Final Round Robin:
Orcullo
Pagulayan
Reyes
Manalo
Lining
Souquet

Finals:
Orcullo
Pagulayan

Winner:
Pagulayan

Dark Horse:
Edwin Montal
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I would take orcullo to win outright.
Manalo 2nd
 
Hello,
My 6 picks are:

Francisco Bustamante
Corey Deuel
Mick Hill
Darren Appleton
Mika Immonen
Thorsten Hohmann

"Dark horses" who could well have a great week:
Goran Mladenovic
Tom Storm
Daryl Peach
Imran Majid

Thanks,
Chris (Chrstc).
 
Mark Tadd <------ overall favorite -------------
Shane Van B.
John Schmidt
Efren (He seems to be a decent player :D )

There are just way too many good players to choose from. But, I think Mark is going to surprise a lot of people.

-Shane
 
SneakyPete said:
I think Fiejen will win the whole thing.
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That's not a bad choice at all, although I would have to consider him an underdog compared to some of the other players mentioned in this thread.
 
I'll go with these 6:
Alex Paulayan,
Cha Ching! (the current 9 Ball World Champ),
Manalo,
Cory Deul,
Mika Immonen
And....Nick Varner (yeah, I said it.)
 
After finding out from Linda Carter that the pockets are only 4 1/4" and not 4 1/2", I think I'll go All-Filipino! Dennis, Django, Marlon, Alex, Efren and Parica. Next 6=Alcano, Kiamco, Lining, Luat, Valle & Sambajon. Darkhorse=Tademy&Juva

Edwin<<<pssst Kelly, bet's still on same line-up for us.
 
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bandido said:
After finding out from Linda Carter that the pockets are only 4 1/4" and not 4 1/2", I think I'll go All-Filipino! Dennis, Django, Marlon, Alex, Efren and Parica. Next 6=Alcano, Kiamco, Lining, Luat, Valle & Sambajon. Darkhorse=Tademy&Juva

Edwin<<<pssst Kelly, bet's still on same line-up for us.
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That's an interesting change bandido. Why exactly do you think the Filipino players will dominate with the smaller pockets? Are they used to such tight equipment?

I would have guessed that the stronger shot makers (the English/Europeans) would be given the edge with the tighter equipment.
 
jsp said:
That's an interesting change bandido. Why exactly do you think the Filipino players will dominate with the smaller pockets? Are they used to such tight equipment?

I would have guessed that the stronger shot makers (the English/Europeans) would be given the edge with the tighter equipment.
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Filipino players play on some of the toughest equipment, tight pockets not withstanding.

Kelly
 
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jsp said:
That's an interesting change bandido. Why exactly do you think the Filipino players will dominate with the smaller pockets? Are they used to such tight equipment?

I would have guessed that the stronger shot makers (the English/Europeans) would be given the edge with the tighter equipment.
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Yes they have been playing on a table with smaller pockets. Specially Dennis, Valle and Ronnie who holds Bugsy's as their homebase. Dennis, by the way, has been quartered since being managed by Perry Mariano. His everyday living expenses needn't be a worry for him so all he's been doing was going to the gym, swimming, eating right, spending quality time with his family, practicing and sparring for high stakes with tremendous bragging rights. He's one that can be considered a thoroughbred in this sport. Pampered, trained and raced to the max.
 
bandido said:
After finding out from Linda Carter that the pockets are only 4 1/4" and not 4 1/2", I think I'll go All-Filipino! Dennis, Django, Marlon, Alex, Efren and Parica. Next 6=Alcano, Kiamco, Lining, Luat, Valle & Sambajon. Darkhorse=Tademy&Juva

Edwin<<<pssst Kelly, bet's still on same line-up for us.
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I contemplated picking pretty much what you list here..seriously..but I didn't want to outpick you with your own local players. :D

Maybe some of the players from around the globe will step up. I will be excited to follow the progress of our picks win or lose. :)

Kelly
 
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