Congratulations To Alex Pagulayan

cuejo said:
I think the tourney you saw on tv was the Canadian classics eightball championship....the Candian classic was a brand of cigarette :)

Benny is still playing, Still shoots good, not as good as he used to though.

There a still a bunch of shots Benny O makes, that make you wonder how!
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I always felt that Benny was both a calculating and stylish player - he made hard shots look simple, without taking unnecessary risks, which often had the effect of putting his opponent in a coma (or maybe it was just me).

Years ago, I saw him clash with Pagulayan at the Western Canadian 9-ball tourney in Prince Albert. Pag looked about 12 years old, but he got the best of Benny. I went two and out in that tournament...I'm better as a spectator.
 
I was at that tourney in pa too.
I was there the last year it happened. I think Horleifson won it.
Edmonton has a bunch of strong players, only 2 made it to the Canadians this year.... And they both made a strong showing!
Granted, Rob Phillips and Brian Butler can show strong anywhere :)


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Scaramouche said:
Alex got kicked over to the losers side in 10-ball last night: 5 - 10 to Klatt

Alex plays snooker at 11 a.m. EDT today

Semi finals are at 6 p.m.

http://www.justin.tv/albertasnooker


Final Saturday 1 p.m

http://www.cbsa.ca/
Presumably, the Alberta feed will also be running.
It has had the better picture, but no commentary
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The Lion is sighin'
The 10-ball break is still hurting his arm...Alex needs to find a soft break
that will work...or it might affect his snooker also.
 
Slh said:
they are showing Puopolo vs Finstad so Alex is not on the tv table.
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Keep an eye on Vito Puopolo jr....he started a family when very young....
..or he would have been one of the finest snooker players to ever come
out of Canada.
Doesn't play 9-ball too bad either, Ralf Souquet is one of the scalps hanging
from his belt.
 
The Lion is denyin'......
He just played his first game of snooker with John Everekian with tape
on his mouth....someone bet him that he couldn't play one game without
talking.:ignore:

Personally, I think he just misunderstood the term "taping a match."
 
Alex just had the high run of the championship, 134, to go 4-1 up....
...it's a race to 5.

The Lion is flyin'
 
Alex is leading 5-1....just discovered the match is a race to 6.
Floyd Zeigler is leading 4-3 in the other semi.
So it is favored to be the same final as last year.
Floyd has a serious sciatica problem, started two days before the tourney...
...but he's got a heart like a lion....

The lions are flyin'
 
Alex is in the final.....with Tom Finstad!
Alex won 6-1....Tom made a dramatic come-back from 5-3 down to Floyd
Zeigler...in the hill-hill game Floyd came from behind and hung a tough
final black-ball down the long rail.

Alex won his 10-ball match 10-1 over Eric Hildebrand.....
...he's in the last 8, but on the B-side.

He wants all the titles this year....the Lion is tryin'
 
pt109 said:
He weighs 140 if he has an anvil in each hand.:rolleyes:
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140 is probably not far off. He is pretty much my height (I am 5"5') and I am about 170 pounds atm. Alex is definately not as big as me but 30 pounds is a fair difference. I could not get down to 140 if my life depended on it, when I am in good shape I bottom out at about 155.
 
cuejo said:
Finstad is another Edmonton guy,
I didn't even know he was there :)
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Yeah, he won the Alberta Snooker Championship to get there, which he does every single year I think... Finstad is a monster on a snooker table, him and Alex can go either way for sure.
 
Celtic said:
Yeah, he won the Alberta Snooker Championship to get there, which he does every single year I think... Finstad is a monster on a snooker table, him and Alex can go either way for sure.
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In Tom Finstad's prime I not sure anybody in the world could have hung
with him in his home room in Edmonton. But this trip is the most uncomfortable I've ever seen him look with a cue in his hand. In one of
his come-back games with Floyd, the high run did not hit double figures.

The Lion is giving up something in experience for sure, but some of his runs
look like he's playing straight pool...never out of line...no hard shots.
And his safety game is as good as anybody's.

Tom will have to show some of his old game to pull this one off.

Alex has only lost 3 games in the whole tournament.
..the Lion is flyin'
 
Alex won the snooker 6-3 against Tom Finstad. He also has the highest break of the tournament: 134.
This year won the 8 ball, the 9 ball, and the snooker...
 
Alex really brings something to snooker...more exact position...and safeties
that leave a man welded to a ball.

This is what our old champion, George Chenier, brought to the snooker table.
It was knowledge he had acquired playing and watching the straight pool
greats at the Detroit Rec when he was a kid. The way he adapted this pool
knowledge to snooker caught the attention of the great Joe Davis, who
wondered what a world class snooker player was doing out in the middle
of no-where.
George, at one time, held the high run in the world snooker championship
and the world straight pool championship at the same time.

Alex carries on this greatness which Canada is in such a good position to
encourage.

And congratulations to Johnny Morra for ensuring that all the men's open
champions didn't have the same name.:wink:
 
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