Daz Did it Chinese 8-Ball Champion

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Just want to say congrats to my buddy Darren Appleton. He knocked off the World Chinese 8-Ball Championship. Tough game and tough field of players Well done pal.
 
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That boys hot!
 
he's sick, for the foreseeable future no american nor european nor fillipinio pool player would have a shot in hell against him in chinese 8 ball
 
Working the Predator Throne 3 to more championship. Go Daz go!

R

edit: Maybe Jason Shaw is right (its time to move into Chinese 8b events- no slop I might add),.. after watching the event being streamed live on Chinese TV, it proved to be a very 'high production' presentation. Theres NOTHING like that here in the US nor will there ever be again imo.

R
 
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guys just a phenom he is now world champ in 8, 9 and 10 ball lol
along with 2 us open, gold medalist, etc etc....
 
$100 entry fee, $300,000 in prizes. It looks like there were sponsors.
 
this is the most incredible payout I have ever seen in pool. $100 entry with $300k in the prize fund.
 
A Japanese player posted about the event on his blog and said that the mayor of the city where it was held is a big pool fan and put a lot into making it a huge event. The local people really got into it as well with gallery tickets being sold out throughout the event and everything was done on a scale he'd never seen before for a pool event. (The people he talked to said the tickets were selling at 100 bucks a pop, PER MATCH!)
 
victorl said:
A Japanese player posted about the event on his blog and said that the mayor of the city where it was held is a big pool fan and put a lot into making it a huge event. The local people really got into it as well with gallery tickets being sold out throughout the event and everything was done on a scale he'd never seen before for a pool event. (The people he talked to said the tickets were selling at 100 bucks a pop, PER MATCH!)
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would have been cheaper to enter the event and then wander around looking cool with a players pass and entry o everything - even if beat..
 
Phenomenal performance by Darren. Well done. He didn't win Englsih 8 ball or WPA 8 ball World Championship and badly wanted one and he got it. He also did it beating the guy who denied him E8B world championship

uwate said:
this is the most incredible payout I have ever seen in pool. $100 entry with $300k in the prize fund.
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And they get PAID :D

smashmouth said:
he's sick, for the foreseeable future no american nor european nor fillipinio pool player would have a shot in hell against him in chinese 8 ball
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IMHO, The top guns in C8B now would be Darren, Gareth Potts, Yang Fan, Neil Robertson and maybe Mark Selby and Chris Meiling. If there is a Master of Table with the 3 variations of 8 ball, Chinese 8 ball+American 8 ball, one of these guys would win it.
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No surprise that the snooker players (e.g. Robertson, Selby and Melling) have taken to the game and done well in this tournament. In the UK and Australia they would all have played a fair bit of E8B - and Selby went as far as "World" Champion. The big question though is how well would they do at real ("A8B") 8 ball pool. We've seen, particularly in the early days of the Mosconi Cup, snooker players have a crack at 9 ball pool. They competed well but generally came up short tactically. But they generally don't play rotation games as part of their apprenticeship. Real 8 ball pool, with real pool pockets, allows shots to be made that can't be made on a C8B table (we might like to call this "creativity"). Those shots are an inherent part of real pool. But we still don't know if the snooker players would adjust or not.

Even better than the C8B "World" Championship would be the Chinese sponsors throwing the money into a real 8 ball tourney with similar payouts and inviting the top snooker players. Then maybe Barry Hearn would get involved and we wouldn't have to watch it on a buffering stream.Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is pretty much no sample to indicate how active professional snooker players (with an E8B background) transfer their skills to 8 ball (without playing the game for some time). The final does seem to suggest that Appleton's knowledge of the game gave him an advantage over Selby's snooker fundamentals. Having said that it was a sample of one and it was close and I'd like to see how much of a difference C8B or A8B pockets really make at the elite level between the top cuesmiths.

I guess we'll never know as the money seems to be behind C8B.
 
Here is what is posted on the AZB tournament home:

$186,550 - Total
Winner's Prize - $64,440
Entry Fee - $100

Where did the $300k Winner's prize come from?
 
Bob Jewett said:
Well, except for the IPT, of course.
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The ipt had a much higher entry fee didn't it? It was also a closed system w those phoney baloney qualifiers. Was this Chinese event open to any schmoe who wanted to ante up $100 or was it also invitational ?
 
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