Deuel "Excited" About IBSF World Snooker Experience
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The details of the break is amazing!!
Boonyarit Keattikun (age 18) of Thailand is at 134 (or 136 or what have you, Allen never got to shoot) on the break and counting against Gareth Allen of Wales. Now that's a break and run!
The details of the break is amazing!!
Boonyarit Keattikun (age 18) of Thailand is at 134 (or 136 or what have you, Allen never got to shoot) on the break and counting against Gareth Allen of Wales. Now that's a break and run!
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Pathetic Shark
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Yeah, leave the ball in the middle of the table where he can't reach it.
Pathetic Shark
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Boooooooooooooo!
Pool skills
I don't really know what a safety looks like in snooker, other than a long shot, but I imagine leaving someone on the rail is effective, the same shot and mentality pool players develop to the extreme (ad nauseum?) in 1 pocket and bank pool. Where's Larry Price when you need him?
I imagine Corey's skills and experience are transferring.
I don't really know what a safety looks like in snooker, other than a long shot, but I imagine leaving someone on the rail is effective, the same shot and mentality pool players develop to the extreme (ad nauseum?) in 1 pocket and bank pool. Where's Larry Price when you need him?
I imagine Corey's skills and experience are transferring.
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Saturday
So Saturday at 11:30 Eastern Corey plays Lee Walker of Wales. This looks to be a tough match for Corey, but if he can win 2 frames he will match Vaitzman's performance against Walker.
Sunday Corey plays Zhao, the best player in Group P. Again if he can win a frame or two ...
Corey's advancing will turn on the result of the match between Vaitzman and Baldandorj, Saturday at 11:30 Eastern, and most importantly on the match between Corey and Vaitzman on Monday.
But it may well be that every frame counts.
So Saturday at 11:30 Eastern Corey plays Lee Walker of Wales. This looks to be a tough match for Corey, but if he can win 2 frames he will match Vaitzman's performance against Walker.
Sunday Corey plays Zhao, the best player in Group P. Again if he can win a frame or two ...
Corey's advancing will turn on the result of the match between Vaitzman and Baldandorj, Saturday at 11:30 Eastern, and most importantly on the match between Corey and Vaitzman on Monday.
But it may well be that every frame counts.
Long and on the rail yes, but there's a bit more to it. Good safety players will try to put you on the end rail with no route back to baulk. You will have to navigate the cue ball through a cluster of balls or simply roll up to something or take on a long pot that perhaps doesn't even have any chance of getting on a colour.
Most players when sending the cue ball back to baulk will just try to get the ball to the rail. Good safety players are looking for exactly where on the rail to make it most awkward and difficult to return the safety.
They will try to snooker you yes, but they will also take opportunities to have you shooting over a ball.
And then there are shots to nothing. Match players see all sorts long and/or tough shots that offer a route back to baulk or anywhere that's safe on the table. It can instantly take the advantage.
In a nutshell, every successive safety you have to return, it feels like there is a noose around your neck and it gets tighter with every shot. It gets worse and worse until you have to make a hail mary shot to continue.
I suspect that is what Corey has been experiencing, it doesn't matter how good you are at making breaks, if you can't get into position you will be making 5's, 10's, 15's and losing. The same thing would happens to the very best players in this competition when they make it to the pros, the top players just have their way with them.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6tZlQh1Zw4
In pro snooker you have options if you opponent does not hit the red:
Play the shot yourself where the cue ball stops
Make your opponent play the shot where the cue ball stops
Have the referee replace all balls in their original positions and making your opponent try again
HI Bob, They have one at Chris's in Chicago if your ever around there. They also have lots of heated carom tables (7 I think) as well as 10 new Diamond bar boxes coming soon. Combine that with the 20 or so 9 ft. gold crowns and you can play any game you like!
As someone who is both an American born pool player and a massive fan of snooker, I tend to disagree with your sweeping generalization. I've never been given this impression by any pool players in the States. Obviously most American pool players would love to see pool achieve the same success snooker has, and many may even look up to the sport. However I think that what you seem to be perceiving as some sort of insecurity or inferiority complex is likely just a negative reaction to your incessant stream of passive aggressive, underhanded and generally condescending comments.
Pathetic Shark
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Lol. Congratulations on not falling into the same trap.
I merely report what I see. You LIKE what you have and you will NEVER change. On one level it's understandable. On another, it's a crying shame.
Lol. Congratulations on not falling into the same trap.
Well, there you go again, immediately. I enjoy a snooty sarcasm as much as the next person but good grief man, ease up.
As did I.
You LIKE what you have and you will NEVER change. On one level it's understandable. On another, it's a crying shame.
Thank you, "we" appreciate your sympathies.
Hi Bob
I think they would also need a lot of match practice against strong players,
which I fear would be very difficult in the US
If Corey is serious at trying pro snooker he could try his hand at a snooker academy
http://southwestsnookeracademy.com/swsa-services/international.html
In the 80s, at a BCA trade show, Tony Knowles made a disparaging remark about 9-ball.
...he was fourth in the world snooker rankings at the time.
Sigel and Rempe took him to a pool table and charged him $7,000,,,,,Knowles never
asked for a rematch.
A snooker champion is not a pool champion....or a carom champion.
Pathetic Shark
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You lot don't appreciate anything - especially the truth. You enjoy your bubble.
Pathetic Shark
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Corey is not serious about pro snooker. I wonder what he wants to get out of it? IIRC he said in one of the articles Alan linked he's hoping to use it as a way of strengthening his fundamentals for pool, which is fair enough. But at 36, there's no way he's serious about pro snooker. At 16 possibly - 36, absolutely no chance.
Anyway, has anyone seen Justin recently? That ether. It's arrived again.
Pathetic Shark
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In the 80's Knowles was more concerned with bedding a bevvy of buxom beauties than playing snooker or pool. I read it in the News of the World, so it must be true.
Seriously, though, I just don't get this. Anyone taking pride in pool players beating a snooker player in a casual game of pool needs to have a word with themselves. Corey Deuell losing at snooker to a Mongolian yak milker is a different matter entirely, and very telling.
