Ignacio Chavez vs. Darren Appleton
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Wow,thats screwed up,i wonder what happened with that....?Bigtruck said:
Viking tourney
Regarding that old Viking tourney, it was short races to 7, he and Tony matched up twice, Chavez sent him to the loser's side, and they matched up again in the finals. When it says Rossman was in the finals, that is a misprint, as you see when it goes on to talk about Watson being kept in his seat. But Tony was the favorite that day, it's only very recently that someone might favor Chavez over Little T.
Regarding that old Viking tourney, it was short races to 7, he and Tony matched up twice, Chavez sent him to the loser's side, and they matched up again in the finals. When it says Rossman was in the finals, that is a misprint, as you see when it goes on to talk about Watson being kept in his seat. But Tony was the favorite that day, it's only very recently that someone might favor Chavez over Little T.
Chavez is an excellent road player, "hustler". He played a 19 year old up at Crown Billiards last week. He was down one set and the stakes were raised. His game got much better and won 4 straight sets. He plays the kid again a few days later, giving up the 7 and the breaks. He wins 3 sets.
He does not show much in the beginning. He only plays as good as he needs to to win. He plays great lock up safes.
He does not show any emotion what so ever, totally in control. It was good to watch him play. I believe he matched up with Hopkins last week in Edison. With Hopkins winning the last set in a race to 5. They traded sets prior to the last.
He does not show much in the beginning. He only plays as good as he needs to to win. He plays great lock up safes.
He does not show any emotion what so ever, totally in control. It was good to watch him play. I believe he matched up with Hopkins last week in Edison. With Hopkins winning the last set in a race to 5. They traded sets prior to the last.
Everywhere Appleton seems to go there seems to be great action stories that follow him
I know very little about Chavez but he must be a fantastic player to be beating Appleton, even with a spot. Hopefully there will be more great stories to come from Appleton's stint in the US, kind of reminds me of when Feijen was on the road in the US many years ago.
I know very little about Chavez but he must be a fantastic player to be beating Appleton, even with a spot. Hopefully there will be more great stories to come from Appleton's stint in the US, kind of reminds me of when Feijen was on the road in the US many years ago.
Eric. said:
hey eric. nah they played some 10 ball even up.
sniper said:Everywhere Appleton seems to go there seems to be great action stories that follow him
Chavez beat him even up nine ball on tight pockets.
then wanted a spot for 10 ball and got the 9 wild. beat him again.
race to 21 and 28
so basicly chavez beat appleton a race to 49
Eric. said:
well they traded sets going to 13 back and forth. hopkins said hes tired so they played the last one to 5. and yeah it was at sharky's.
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abbassi said:
Appleton told my buddy at Masters that in his opinion, only Efren plays better safes than Chavez.
In all this the most puzzling thing is why after being beaten even up in a race to 21- then being absolutely tortured 9-3 in the tournament, why would Appleton want to play Chavez again and on top of it, now give him the 9 ball in ten ball!!
I mean, Appleton came into Masters tournament night, hung out for at least an hour and i dont think anyone knew who he was (present company excepted). He could play almost any player in the Tri State area but instead he choses to play the only guy around proven he shouldnt play. I guess it's an ego thing but he now moves down the list of Top Money Players in my view.
Nostroke said:
i agree. but i think the first day or couple of days here the first one he got into action with was with Chavez. i have no idea how that match up happened. my thinking it was probably because appleton went to the wed tournament ( i didnt go this week ). And it doesnt seem like appleton wants to hustle.. it seems more he is shooting for the best in the area, either that or wants the 5-10k action.. hence his backer posting he wanted the numbers for bartrum and corey. but i guess he got more then he can handle with chavez. plus nobody around here is gonna play for 5k with darren appleton specially coming back from the philipines and taking some names with him. plus the only ones that really gambles like that is the uptown crew and only bcause they back chavez and they knew how good he was. nobody else. except a few of course.
chavez and appleton shoulda came a couple months earlier. feijien was here for a bit, stalev. ( he will gamble anybody, except ginky i heard), a polish kid was here. whoa he can play. the only one to beat the korean for $. if feijen the polish kid or stalev was here you would see backers on both sides.
even when alex lely came thru to masters and robbed manny in banks nobody knew who he was ! LOL. WTF?
thecure said:
venture into these two threads and see who he gets the cheese from!
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=43193
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=47528
cheemagun said:
How could no one have known Alex Lely when he went through Masters? When Alex first passed through NYC in '99 I happened to be spending a couple weeks there, and we met and moved around a tiny bit. While he was ther he played at Chelsea, and he matched up with Al Lapena on a Monday night at the Golden Cue (meaning, as you know, that there were plenty of witnesses). There's no way those detectives up there wouldn't remember him! As a matter of fact, how he ended up playing Al Lapena is because one of the detectives knocked him when he was trying to trap Simon (remember Simon, the Asian guy? What's become of him?)
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VIProfessor said:
Simon is still around Masters all the time.
One point. When you see a guy only once or twice and he doesnt really have any major distinguishing features and he changes his look a bit, it's hard to recognize him and if it is 5 years later forget it. Some people dont remember 1999 at all.
I saw Leil Gay maybe 4 times but when he shaved his head and took the mustache off, i didnt recognize him til i saw him walk around the table in that floating style of his with the nose up. The guy i was with was from Ohio and he had seen Lyle more than i and he didnt ID him.
Darren Appleton i had seen at IPT events and the BCA. He was always clean shaven, hatless and dressed up, Then he comes into Masters in jeans and T shirt with a 3 day growth, longer hair, 10 lbs lighter, wearing a camo hat. He actually looked hispanic. Finally i clocked him by his ears but it's not as easy as you think. A couple of guys had seen him beat Kirkwood at the BCA just in May and they had no idea.
Road Players will tell you how they torture the same guy 2 and 3 times with just a little look change. A little tweak and a couple of years and it's easy.
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I don't understand Appleton's stratagy in this case. I heard that he lost a lot of green on side bets. In the hood of 20 bags. There is some posturing going on right now about a possible match up between Chavez and Teddy Garrahan. They could match up in thye next couple of days, possibly Thus. up at Crown Billiards. Teddy is back from Vegas for Christmas. Chavez played a decent player at Clifton Billiards a couple of weeks ago in 1P giving up 8/4 & 9/5 on the break. He won both sets for 1/2 a bag.Nostroke said:
The guy is a hustler, road player, considering that he does not show up in many tourneys. A classy well behaved player. Lets his cue talk.