Just offering snooker secrets for the benefit of pool 
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Paul Hunter was a rising star. Young, blonde, good looking and good fun, he had woken up to the fact that although partying was enjoyable, it wasn’t doing his career any favours.
His new manager, Brandon Parker, told him that he could be a top player for a long time if he knuckled down, and knuckle down he did without losing the effortless likeability that endeared him to so many.
Hunter was a player who didn’t seem to get flustered. He loved snooker and was an obvious talent.
Even so, he had to prove it and Wembley Conference Centre proved to be the perfect stage.
During the 2001 Masters he was hit by a major personal blow. Morrell Stevens, father of his best friend on the circuit, Matthew, died as the tournament was in progress. Still, Hunter reached the final and would have fancied his chances against Fergal O’Brien.
Yet it was the determined Dubliner who made the early running, winning the first session 6-2.
What to do during the mid session break? Hit the practice table? Talking tactics with an advisor?
No. Paul went to his hotel room with his girlfriend, Lyndsey, and did what a couple in love do. He would, famously, later refer to this as ‘putting plan B into operation.’
At 7-3 down he was still heading for a heavy defeat but he then started to play and the happy-go-lucky persona gave way to someone with genuine fighting qualities, reeling off centuries and producing a performance of the highest standard.
A couple of hours later he was the winner, 10-9. A remarkable comeback but, as the following years would prove, by no means a one-off.
A year later Hunter was in the final again against Mark Williams, who at the time was at his peak.
Williams led 5-0. Again, a big defeat loomed, again Hunter turned it round, winning 10-9.
And then in 2004 he reached a third Masters final, this time trailing Ronnie O’Sullivan 7-2 before hitting back to win 10-9: three finals, three comebacks, three victories in deciders.
http://snookerscene.blogspot.com/
Paul Hunter was a rising star. Young, blonde, good looking and good fun, he had woken up to the fact that although partying was enjoyable, it wasn’t doing his career any favours.
His new manager, Brandon Parker, told him that he could be a top player for a long time if he knuckled down, and knuckle down he did without losing the effortless likeability that endeared him to so many.
Hunter was a player who didn’t seem to get flustered. He loved snooker and was an obvious talent.
Even so, he had to prove it and Wembley Conference Centre proved to be the perfect stage.
During the 2001 Masters he was hit by a major personal blow. Morrell Stevens, father of his best friend on the circuit, Matthew, died as the tournament was in progress. Still, Hunter reached the final and would have fancied his chances against Fergal O’Brien.
Yet it was the determined Dubliner who made the early running, winning the first session 6-2.
What to do during the mid session break? Hit the practice table? Talking tactics with an advisor?
No. Paul went to his hotel room with his girlfriend, Lyndsey, and did what a couple in love do. He would, famously, later refer to this as ‘putting plan B into operation.’
At 7-3 down he was still heading for a heavy defeat but he then started to play and the happy-go-lucky persona gave way to someone with genuine fighting qualities, reeling off centuries and producing a performance of the highest standard.
A couple of hours later he was the winner, 10-9. A remarkable comeback but, as the following years would prove, by no means a one-off.
A year later Hunter was in the final again against Mark Williams, who at the time was at his peak.
Williams led 5-0. Again, a big defeat loomed, again Hunter turned it round, winning 10-9.
And then in 2004 he reached a third Masters final, this time trailing Ronnie O’Sullivan 7-2 before hitting back to win 10-9: three finals, three comebacks, three victories in deciders.