How far will Allison go?
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I guess she will advance once more.
Her break isn´t good enough to compete with the big guys tho.
She didn´t play all that great either when I watched her match against Lohtander on Eurosport.
But it was the first match of them both and on the T.V. table, so that might have been the reason...
Her break isn´t good enough to compete with the big guys tho.
She didn´t play all that great either when I watched her match against Lohtander on Eurosport.
But it was the first match of them both and on the T.V. table, so that might have been the reason...
PoolSleuth
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Think Allison can Kick Some of the Boys Butts...
Skyline said:
Check her stats
She has exactly the same numbers as Marlon Manalo
I believe she breaks well enough
If I were her, I would have had my home table re-covered with the same felt as the IPT, and have the pockets put at the same size and rail angle as the IPT pockets, and then I would practice my break, and long shots using inside and outside english all day & night every chance I had.
Maybe invite some friends over to play 8 Ball so she could get used to all the bizare patterns that come up all the time, break up clusters, shoot combo's etc etc.
Maybe invite some friends over to play 8 Ball so she could get used to all the bizare patterns that come up all the time, break up clusters, shoot combo's etc etc.
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onepocketchump
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CaptainHook said:
How do you know she doesn't have the equipment already?
Maybe she has the same table, cloth, and balls already. And perhaps that is one of the reasons why she has advanced.
John
onepocketchump said:
Well I would hope so, she is my Wife's favorite Pool player, we love to watch her on TV. I saw in another thread she was selling her Gold Crown
and putting a Kasson in her house. But in a old 1998 Billiard Digest I found
in our "Pool Junk Drawer" I saw she was sponsered by Kasson way back then?.
For my B-day 2 years ago, my Wife bought me the Cuetec 99296 B/J,
she did some research and wanted me to have the same one Allison uses.
I voted she will make it into the top 16, after that it is anybody guess what will happen. I hope she goes all the way. I would love to see her take out the Kaiser, Iceman, delicious, D'jango and some of the other top guys. My ideal final would be Allison vs Archer (scorpion).
I still am pulling for Sigel and Earthquake to do well also. Man we should have gone on our Vegas vacation early this year.
CaptainHook said:
I would be surprised if she hadn't already either purchased or at least located IPT-like equipment to practice on. As for her break, she's been practicing her hard break technique for years. She doesn't use a very soft break in her 9-ball game. It's just a matter of finding out how to apply it to a rack of 15 instead of 9.
Also I don't think she needed a last-minute crash course in 8-ball patterns and clusters, I believe she was already an experienced 8-ball player before the IPT. Also for cluster control, you can't forget her snooker background. Every frame of snooker involves bumping balls out of a cental cluster of reds, almost like running a rack of straight pool after a soft break shot.
Anyway, she's a solid player and it doesn't surprise me a bit to see her doing well in this tournament after watching her run rack after rack of 9-ball on ESPN in WPBA events. On the ESPN broadcasts, I'm always shocked to see her get 6 inches out of line. Her game is so consistent, her pocketing is so clean, and her stance and stroke look like they were carved out of granite. Even if she doesn't have the top gear some of the men do, I was pretty confident she'd be very competitive with them.
-Andrew
I watched the match she played yesturday, this will be her last round if that was any indication. She looked totally confused, I was VERY surprised at home poor an 8-ball player she is. Still she may be able to get by on her match experience and pressure play for 1 more round, but I doubt it. I'd say Boyes/Putnik/Abood get through.
Looks like shes is done, 0-2 ans still has the top 2 in her group left.
Poolislife said:
hard to win when your opponent has 6 break and runs in a race to 8!
Andrew Manning said:
The balls weren't available until now for the players. They are lighter than usual. We heard they would be using a Super Aramith, so that is what we have been using for practice. This cueball is very light. Very hard to follow, especially on the slow stuff. And of course, it deflects more. All the balls are lighter too, which throws off the trajectory of all the breaks everyone has been practicing and thought they had perfected.
I kind of like the fact that the equipment isnt so universal and things cant be perfected before the tournament starts. It is now just like golf or and to a lesser extent bowling where the pros have to adjust to the different conditions each week. Sometimes in bowling, one lane is more favorable than another.rackmsuckr said: