Kou vs Wu

Kuo sounds like Gwo - the G maybe harder than usual English. The o is like the o in hot.

Kou sounds like Toe

Wu is pronounced as as it looks.
 
Kuo 1 vs Wu 2

Kuo breaks and makes the 7 and hangs the 8 top right. Sees the 1, but no packet as it's married with the 2. Kuo thinks long and hard. Runs for cover to hide it behind the 2.

Wu sees a small part of the 1. Shoots and nearly snookers Kuo. Kuo comes back up and runs for cover again. Not that safe.

Wu sees half of the 1. Wu runs for cover as well. Kuo sees that tiny 1 and safes again. Wu kicks the 1 to the 8 and 1 missed the 8. Kuo caroms the 8, but the 1 marries the CB makeable to left side. Kuo gets the 1 and gets a straight in 2. Fires and missed it. Boy oh boy.

Wu makes the 2 on the way for an easy run on the rack. Gets the 3 top left, 4 bottom right, 5 top left and 8 bottom left and the 9 bottom right for the rack to go 1 up.
 
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JAM said:
Does anybody know what kind of cues both Taiwanese players shoot with?
JAM
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That's the main problem I have with televised billiards. I wish they would tell what kind of cue the players use.
 
Kuo 1 vs Wu 3

Wu breaks and makes 1, 2, 5 and 6. Wow!!! What a monster of a break it was.

Has a 3 and fires away. 4 deposited. 7 bottom right, 8 top right and the 9 to go up by 2.
 
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Vonn31 said:
That's the main problem I have with televised billiards. I wish they would tell what kind of cue the players use.
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The irony of it all is that the majority of the American pool-playing public enjoy the nicely priced production cues from overseas, and MANY of the overseas players use American custom-made cues because of their beauty and excellence. Many American cue venders -- in my area, Scruggs and Black Boar -- are enjoying a very lucrative market overseas.

JAM
 
BlowFish said:
Wu breaks and makes 1, 2, 5 and 6. Wow!!!

Has an 3 and fires away. 4 deposited. 7 bottom right, 8 top right and the 9 to go up by 2.
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WOW, 4 balls on the break, Wu must be wooing the crowds! :p

JAM
 
Kuo 2 vs Wu 3

Wu breaks and makes 2 and 6. Hampered top left 1 by the 5. Wu calls push. Kuo shots and drives CB around table for a safety, but still offers the small 1. Wu attempts a fine cut to the top right but didn't make it. Wu was lucky to get a safe. Kuo kicks tenderly to hide the 1 behind the 4. Great touch.

Wu is working out the angles. Leaves CB behind the 4. Kuo misses the very tiny 1 and fouls. Kuo is still fortunate as CB kicks the the 5 to marry the 3.

Wu lines up for the 1 9 combo and horribly misses it.

Kuo runs for covers. Wu kicks, misses the 1 and fouls, but opens the cluster up 3 and 5 hanging the 9 on bottom left.

Kuo gets the 1 bottom right and then 3 9 combo for the rack.


Funny thing happened when Ms. Tabb did the rack. Ms. Tabb placed the 3 infront of the rack instead of the 1. :) (No pun intended) Even the lady ref gets nervous. (j/k)
 
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Kuo 2 vs Wu 4

Kuo breaks and makes the 8 and has a shot on the 1 with a nice spread. 1 to top right. 2 straight in to the bottom left and missed. (who said it is easy and it was the second missed straight in shot)

Wu makes the 2 top right. 3 top left. 4 bottom right. 5 left side. 6 on the same packet. 7 bottom left and 9 bottom right for the rack.
 
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BlowFish said:
Wu has a lovely Instroke Case(I guess). It's colored very american stars and stripes. It's red, white and blue.
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The case appears to be a replica of the cases I designed for the 1998 American Mosconi Cup Team. From what I can see it is a new Instroke or at least made by the same company.

John
 
Vonn31 said:
That's the main problem I have with televised billiards. I wish they would tell what kind of cue the players use.
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Wu shoots with a Southwest, Kuo shoots with a Tad.
 
onepocketchump said:
The case appears to be a replica of the cases I designed for the 1998 American Mosconi Cup Team. From what I can see it is a new Instroke or at least made by the same company.
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Interestingly, the WPC logo is patterned after the Taiwanese flag, with the 9-ball replacing the sun in the middle of 12 triangular rays.

JAM
 
Kuo 2 vs Wu 5

Wu breaks and makes 1 and 6. Not an easy 2. Wu runs for cover and marries the CB on the 5 bottom center short rail.

Kuo kicks and hits it, but offers the 2 to left side.

Wu makes the 2. 3 to bottom left. 4 top left. to go around for the 5 on the bottom rail. Draws and cannons the 8 near right side. Wu cuts this tough 5 to bottom left and makes it. 7 to top right. 8 bottom right and the 9 bottom left for the rack.
 
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mjantti said:
Wu shoots with a Southwest, Kuo shoots with a Tad.
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The players know what the best cues are in the industry, made in the good old U.S. of A.! Brunswick tables, Aramis balls, and Simonis cloth seem to be the norm for international events.

JAM
 
Pretty please

Will anyone please tell me if there's another link for live internet feed?
 
Commentators mentioned that if Wu wins, he is going to buy his Grand Ma a house.

Kuo's girlfriend (what a beauty) is celebrating her birthday.
 
JAM said:
The irony of it all is that the majority of the American pool-playing public enjoy the nicely priced production cues from overseas, and MANY of the overseas players use American custom-made cues because of their beauty and excellence. Many American cue venders -- in my area, Scruggs and Black Boar -- are enjoying a very lucrative market overseas.

JAM
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Ok, let's take Taiwanese players:
Che-wei Fu - Southwest
Chia-ching Wu - Southwest
Ching-shun Yang - Southwest
Shen-ping Pang - Southwest
Chun-chiang Liu - Southwest

Plus a couple of Josswests, John Guffey, AC, Tad and a few unknows (local) cuemakers... seems like Taiwanese players appreciate custom cues.
 
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