Judd Trump to play U.S. Open.................
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Drago says Trump can't win 9 Ball...
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“If Judd wants to play pool, give him my number. I haven’t picked a pool cue up for two years but I could take a few quid off him!” - Drago
Drago: Trump Can't Win 9-Ball - World Snooker
Tony Drago, one of a handful of snooker players who have had success on the blue baize, is convinced that Judd Trump has virtually no chance of winning next week’s US Open Pool Championship. Drago enjoyed a successful snooker career spanning over 30 years, climbing as high as tenth in the world...
“If Judd wants to play pool, give him my number. I haven’t picked a pool cue up for two years but I could take a few quid off him!” - Drago
i noticed that trump tried his luck in chinese 8-ball some years ago vs thorsten hohmann:
toastie won 9-5. trump broke poorly.
toastie won 9-5. trump broke poorly.
selby is a different story as he used to be a pool player. mick hill, darren, melling still consider selby the best english 8-ball player ever.
That's cool! From wikipedia "Selby is also a pool player; he was the 2006 World Eight-ball Pool Federation champion and runner-up at the Chinese Eight-ball World Championship in 2015, making him the only man to have been world champion in both snooker and pool. "
Different games though. By that reasoning Albin Ouschan should be able to play in the UK Championships and get a 25th seeding. I know it’s because Snooker is a bigger game and Trump is the biggest star there. But you wouldn’t see Djokovic get top seeding in a professional Squash tournament. Or maybe you would because I’d watch that lol.
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As much as I’m keen to see Judd do well, at the end of the day (I think we all know) it’s a marketing move.
Matchroom are great at building interest, and this has certainly worked. People like me, Snooker fans suddenly now have a interest in seeing how he does. And I guess Pool fans are just as interested in seeing how a top Snooker player performs in a top Pool tournament. Creating more buzz around the tournament.
Judd can’t loose, he gets a free holiday, and probably a large appearance fee, payed by Matchroom. He plays a few games, and has some fun. If he looses it was only to be expected, if he wins the wow!!
Either way Pool will be the winner, because his presence creates interest and that means more people will watch.
But as has been said already, Judd isn’t going to switch games.
Matchroom are great at building interest, and this has certainly worked. People like me, Snooker fans suddenly now have a interest in seeing how he does. And I guess Pool fans are just as interested in seeing how a top Snooker player performs in a top Pool tournament. Creating more buzz around the tournament.
Judd can’t loose, he gets a free holiday, and probably a large appearance fee, payed by Matchroom. He plays a few games, and has some fun. If he looses it was only to be expected, if he wins the wow!!
Either way Pool will be the winner, because his presence creates interest and that means more people will watch.
But as has been said already, Judd isn’t going to switch games.
you might wanna check out tony drago's journey into pool. plenty of matches on youtube:
pockets were looser back then, but drago had some great performances after switching to pool. just as in snooker he was appreciated among fans
Astrolabus
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He was a well loved Snooker player, I remember him well. One of the fastest player I’ve ever watched.
I didn’t realise he had such success in pool, (quick glance at Wikipedia) if anything he had more title wins although not so much money.
It should be noted, though, that the "pool" he won was not exactly pool. It was with small balls on something that looked like a small snooker table.
Astrolabus
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It was English 8-ball or at least one version of the rules. Nothing like what I see in 9 or 10 ball.
It’s the problem with pool in Britain, you can go to any pub and it will have different rules.
back then the world championships in english 8-ball was played on an 8ft snooker style table. now it's 7ft i think.
they are indeed tighter than american tables, so the gameplay differs quite a bit, as does the rules (no ball in hand etc). it's a niche game for sure. but most of the big names in that niche game considers selby the goat.
yep, but i'm only talking about the WC. the televised stage of the world championship was on 8 foot tables:
not sure if the event is still played, but if it is it's probably 7 footers all the way now
Sounds familiar.
English 8-Ball throughout the years has had multiple organisations with different rules, the World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF) World Championships used (not sure if they still do) the larger 8ft tables for the latter stages, whereas the IPA World Championships don't (and I don't believe ever did).
If you think (American) pool is disjointed, English pool takes it to a whole new level!
How-where can we watch the US Open on TV so we can see Trump?
Like he needs a sponsor, he's a millionaire. He wants to Up his image for one, secondly, he loves cue sports and really wants to play. Remember when Steve Davis was down 9-1 to Efren and won?
Steve Davis finished in the last 8 in 2000, and the last 16 in 2006 (he turned up at that tournament in Manila looking like death, totally jet lagged and wouldn't have taken his spot if he had not just been knocked out of a snooker tournament). He said, and I believe him, that he never practiced pool because he was a professional snooker player. Trump has a good chance of going deep, there is plenty of dead money in the 256 player field.