IPT Weert Event Results / Discussion

Colin Colenso

Colin Colenso

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The Weert event is underway!

David Alcaide of Spain ran an 8 and out. The biggest pack made in IPT events thus far.

47 in the field. Quite a few of them had excemptions, maybe 10 I guess...anyone sure?

Event reports here: http://www.internationalpooltour.com/ipt_content/events_house_billiards_weert/sportswriters1.asp

Live scoring (doesn't seem to be working currently) here:
http://www.internationalpooltour.com/ipt_content/events_house_billiards_weert/scoring.asp#

My admiration goes out to all those who have taken part in the IPT qualifiers. A sign of confidence, willingness to have a go and commitment.

There are surely a few who have good excuses for not being there, such as the Philipinos who couldn't get visas.

But as for some long list of credentialled players...where are they? Waiting for handouts...free rides?

People forget that those who applied early committed to pay US$1000 membership, with no guarantees of prize-money, and a commitment to travel to wherever was necessary. They were later rewarded for that commitment.

I hope all that attempted to qualify receive headstarts in later qualifiers...such as byes through the first round or two. Their sacrifice, courage and commitment is highly praiseworthy.

I particularly wish Vilmos Foldes success in this event, though wish a loss upon none of the entrants.
 
What's up with the online brackets? You think by now they would have realized there was a problem? Cmon IPT web guy, get on the ball. There are desparate pool fans out there in dire need for some match results! :p
 
Colin Colenso said:
The Weert event is underway!

David Alcaide of Spain ran an 8 and out. The biggest pack made in IPT events thus far.

47 in the field. Quite a few of them had excemptions, maybe 10 I guess...anyone sure?

I particularly wish Vilmos Foldes success in this event, though wish a loss upon none of the entrants.
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Foldes made it to round three with a bye and a defeat of Mund 10-4.

A lot of great players in this field. A real shame that only two will survive.

Are players who go two and out to be considered as not worthy? Have no talent? Can't play? etc? That is one of the great problems with pool. A person has an off day, not even a bad day, he loses and people call him a bum. Hopefully the round robin format of the IPT will showcast the true talent of the players.

Only 25 qualifiers to go before the first tournament.

Jake
 
Actually, brackets are and were working ok. They just open in one large window. I hadn't waited for the whole window to download.

Tony Drago is also playing but lost his first match to Roman Hybler 8-10.

Tony's a spectacular player but it's hard to imagine he has the patience to sum up all his options in 8-ball. I imagine he'll bury himself quite often. i.e. Leave difficult shots toward the end of the runouts and sell out the games.
 
Colin Colenso said:
Actually, brackets are and were working ok. They just open in one large window. I hadn't waited for the whole window to download.
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Hehe...I just noticed that myself as well. I feel like a moron.

Good to see Santos win his two matches. I feel good about Santos getting his card at this qualifier...since there are no other Filipinos to bump him out of the tournament. :p

The Foldes/Abood match will be a good one. Hold on, it seems like they made an error saying that Abood is advancing on the winners side, since he lost his match to Takami.

I'm rooting for Foldes and Santos for this one.
 
Colin Colenso said:
Actually, brackets are and were working ok. They just open in one large window. I hadn't waited for the whole window to download.

Tony Drago is also playing but lost his first match to Roman Hybler 8-10.

Tony's a spectacular player but it's hard to imagine he has the patience to sum up all his options in 8-ball. I imagine he'll bury himself quite often. i.e. Leave difficult shots toward the end of the runouts and sell out the games.
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I was happy and a little surprised to see Drago in the event, he is a classy player and although it would be great to see him get his tour card I have to agree that his style definitely isn't suitable for eight ball.
 
jsp said:
Hehe...I just noticed that myself as well. I feel like a moron.

Good to see Santos win his two matches. I feel good about Santos getting his card at this qualifier...since there are no other Filipinos to bump him out of the tournament. :p

The Foldes/Abood match will be a good one. Hold on, it seems like they made an error saying that Abood is advancing on the winners side, since he lost his match to Takami.

I'm rooting for Foldes and Santos for this one.
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Those are the two I am pulling for too.
 
rackmsuckr said:
Those are the two I am pulling for too.
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Hey Linda,
You are correct.
IPT needs to review A-9 & revise B-5.
Gary Abood's name is/was shown at B-5, also shown on the 1-loss side as the loser of A-9.

"Have a nice day",
Lamar
 
I gotta pull for Stevie Moore and Richard Broumpton. These qualifiers are sure different than normal 9-ball tournements. In a 9-ball tournement, you can usually handicap who's gonna win, but in these things, it's anybody's guess. If the regular IPT tournements are like the qualifiers, it will make for some really good "net-sweating". I thought Stevie was taking a job and not gonna do the IPT thing...anybody have any info about that?
 
I see Steve Knight went 2 and out which is a bit surprising. Especially his 10-0 loss to Becker on the loser's side.
 
Colin Colenso said:
I see Steve Knight went 2 and out which is a bit surprising. Especially his 10-0 loss to Becker on the loser's side.
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I agree. I can't imagine anyone beating Steve at anything 10-0. I had wondered what happened to him cuz I didn't see him in the previous qualifiers (I don't think). He spent some time in Orlando a few years ago, and just played spectacular 9-ball. One of my favorite all-time matches was Steve and Charlie Williams vs Mark Gregory and Ron Wiseman, playing Scotch doubles on a real tough table. Great match, with Steve and Charlie taking it down. Had to be
one of the highest-level doubles matches in recent history.

Forgot about Robb Saez...go, Robb!
 
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Hernandez is out, Saez is still playing Beekers, Mund and Abood sill "In progress." Ulrich plays his next sset tomorrow.
 
jnav447 said:
I gotta pull for Stevie Moore and Richard Broumpton. These qualifiers are sure different than normal 9-ball tournements. In a 9-ball tournement, you can usually handicap who's gonna win, but in these things, it's anybody's guess. If the regular IPT tournements are like the qualifiers, it will make for some really good "net-sweating". I thought Stevie was taking a job and not gonna do the IPT thing...anybody have any info about that?
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After quite a bit of soul searching he finally realized this was a great opportunity and the drain of the new job, which was only part time, so he was still tending bar at night got to him...
he said to me,"I can't believe it took me so long to figure it out.." so there you go.
I know he will play his heart out and maybe just see how good he really is.
 
Snapshot9 said:
Rob Saez forfeited his one loss side match too.
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Here's the info from the website....

American Robb Saez of Florida forfeited his match against Andy Barnett this morning. Apparently under the impression that his match was to begin at 12:30 p.m. instead of 10 a.m., he discovered the mistake, arranged for a taxi, and then called in to the House of Billiards. Unfortunately, his taxi was in an accident, and the delay was too great to hold up the event. Because his match was in the one-loss side, Saez is now eliminated.


You can bet that he's just sick about this. Like anyone else, Rob has his fans & he has his detractors. I almost hate bringing up a players name anymore for fear that the a$$holes (esp the ones with less than 10 posts) will come out of the woodwork to talk badly about these guys. Eitherway, here it goes..... Rob is human and as humans we all make mistakes. The wrong start time was a mistake.

We don't what or who was the main cause of confusion for the start time. Before everyone throws Rob under the bus, remember that tournament directors and their helpers have made mistakes too. We simply don't know what the deal was. I do know that Rob is passionate about winning and especially about getting on the IPT.

Last Oct in Athens Rob lost a match (already on the one loss side) to a player that maybe he shouldn't have lost to. He was pretty upset.... He kept his composure but he was pretty upset. By the looks of this pic (courtesy of JR Calvert & the IPT website) You can tell how devastated he is.
 

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Santos is gone ...

Santos Sambajon got beat by Scmidt, 10-7, on the 1 loss side. Santos has
always been on the outer fringes as a player competing with the other top
pros, and I just wonder if the increased competition is going to be too much for him in the future. Unfortunate for him, after having an invitation for the IPt, that he is getting knocked out of all of the qualifiers.

That's a bad turn for Rob Saez too, but it is the players responsibility to find out exactly when his next match is to be played, expecially when it is the next day. Most TD's I know, tell players face to face when there next match will be played, but in a foreign land, I see how things could have bee confused.
 
It's too bad to see Steve Knight out so early, he plays REAL good and I was surprised he lost his first match. Steve hasn't played many (if any?) high calibre events for quite some time now due to personal reasons and the lack of competition likely hurt him. Does anyone know why he forfeited his match on the B side?
 
Snapshot9 said:
That's a bad turn for Rob Saez too, but it is the players responsibility to find out exactly when his next match is to be played, expecially when it is the next day. Most TD's I know, tell players face to face when there next match will be played, but in a foreign land, I see how things could have bee confused.
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They're in a foreign land but Deno is still the TD & he's still american. Again, we don't know what happend. It's quite possible Rob was given incorrect information.... maybe he was responsible and got the answer but was given the wrong answer. Odds are, Rob made the mistake but since we don't know that, it does no good to speculate and talk badly of him for something that very well might not've been his fault. ;)
 
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