Mark Selby MUST enter WPC 2007

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smashmouth

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he's the English Pool World Champion (beating Darren Appleton) and just placed second in the World Snooker Championships

We all know Appleton did well on the IPT, Selby would be a tremendous addition to the tourney
 
he can play, they played a move on him by cutting the morning session from 8 to 6 games, he won all 6. That was bad for him, he should have beat Higgens, I picked Higgens to win a week ago, but so what?, after they started to play I liked Selby, apparently the promoters didnt by stopping the session when he was pitching a no-hitter in. so he comes back at night with all the pressure on him, it wasnt right, and i think cost him his name on the trophy and $440,000 for first, I dont know what he won.
 
I mentioned that bs move on the snooker thread, World Snooker Organizers are petty and corrupt mofos, they have a history of playing favourites also

They claimed the 6 frames ran too long but were perfectly willing to allow the final session to run up to another 13 frames

pure bs
 
smashmouth said:
I mentioned that bs move on the snooker thread, World Snooker Organizers are petty and corrupt mofos, they have a history of playing favourites also

They claimed the 6 frames ran too long but were perfectly willing to allow the final session to run up to another 13 frames

pure bs
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That's absolute rubbish. This is prime time BBC we're talking. You can't mess about with schedules like that. They have contingency plans for everything, and the session just overran massively. They'd already cancelled one programme. These things are decided by television requirements long before the tournament starts. If it finishes early they'll pad it out with interviews, reruns, and analysis until the next slot. You don't see the half of it watching Eurosport, they just take the live BBC table feed and provide their own commentators, not the whole slick BBC studio presentation. You must have noticed the quality of the camera work. You also miss the occasional interplay between the commentators and the audience. They're listening to the in-house BBC commentary on earphones, and know when they're being talked about individually.

I think your opinions are clouded by your experiences in pool. They always allow the final session to play out in snooker and always schedule filler programmes which nobody misses if they need to be cancelled if the snooker overruns. They will do that with every major live sporting event they cover, and their coverage of any sport is superlative. And not a single advert either.

Boro Nut
 
lol boro nut we have a beeb fan i see!

gotta be honest i don't like the bbc much but the sports coverage is good. the snooker in particular is great, can't complain. you summed it up yourself - prime time state funded coverage, as fans we can't ask for more than that.

i only wish pool had the same.
 
yeah, you're probably right about the coverage cutting into primetime

it still sucked for Selby though
 
smashmouth said:
yeah, you're probably right about the coverage cutting into primetime

it still sucked for Selby though
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It didn't show. He was relentless. It reminded me of snooker in the 80's - I thought I was watching Cliff Thorburn grinding away again. A lot more caution and a lot more safety than we've become used to. The sort of form Higgins showed in the last 4 frames has consigned that game to history.

Selby's safety was superb, both laying and escaping from snookers. There are no diamonds to help you on a snooker table. Playing 3 & 4 cushion escapes repeatedly to lay snookers of his own took some doing, especially under those circumstances. I think he's just become the player nobody wants to pull out of the hat.

Boro Nut
 
so without checking your forum history I'm gonna assume you're a big snooker fan libing in the uk

answer me this, what the hell happened to Ronnie?

is he still just out of form, or has he been passed by the new corp of players?
 
i thought the coverage was great and i can see why snooker is successful on tv in the uk and pool isn't in the us, i can see selby improve more as his confidence grows and he can get to the level of a higgins, my favorite shot in snooker is the kick safe and selby played a 3 rail kick that hit the object ball very thin and left john safe was maybe the shot of the match

from what i saw of ronnie in his earlier rounds he was struggling with his break and it was costing him some games, higgins safety play is so strong(maybe the best?) he is tough to score against and is really good at keeping anyone off the table

i would like to see selby in the wpc as long as he has a descent break and takes it seriously, also would like to see tony drago in more pool tournies, is he making enough money on the snooker circuit to continue playing it?
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Boro Nut said:
I thought I was watching Cliff Thorburn grinding away again. A lot more caution and a lot more safety than we've become used to. The sort of form Higgins showed in the last 4 frames has consigned that game to history.
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Yes, I have noticed that. Once the player gets into the balls, he better scores high enough to win the frame in that inning. A good grinding game is no longer enough if it is not backed up by outstanding potting power and cue ball control.

Selby shows a lot of heart though, and I really enjoy watching the finals. Higgins was just perfect in the last few frames, that there was nothing anyone can do.

What a treat it was to witness top notch snooker!

Richard
 
Higgins safety play is obscenely good, just ridiculous

what did ya'll think about that twenty minute safety-fest on the yellow?
 
Interesting point though about multiple champions, I beleive chris melling once said he wanted to win the snooker,8 ball and 9 ball world titles, think he's currently a snooker pro, made last 16 of world 9 ball and won world 8 ball.

Selby now has 1 8 ball win and runner up in snooker.

Other notible multi winners players...

hahn won multi cue event a few times

hohman 9 ball and straight pool of course

wu and alcano 8 and 9 ball

efren everything and snooker asian medal

drago didnt quite get therein snooker but has a pool masters title and few other titles like euro tour etc.

varner 4 poolworld titles

manalo played in world snooker amatures a few times, and has chance in all american pool disciplines if short so far.

Im still waiting for the day a player wins 3 different events including snooker, will it ever happen? :confused:
 
TheOne said:
efren everything and snooker asian medal

Im still waiting for the day a player wins 3 different events including snooker, will it ever happen? :confused:
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I told my friend, who only plays snooker, that Efren could play really well snooker. He watched Efren's stroke, and he would not believe me.:) I showed him lots of videos of Efren on the pool table, but he just would not be convinced that Efren can pot a ball on the snooker table.

Is there any video of Efren playing snooker?

May be we can add: The One: snooker, 14.1, 9 ball some day soon?:)

Thank you.
Richard
 
X Breaker said:
I told my friend, who only plays snooker, that Efren could play really well snooker. He watched Efren's stroke, and he would not believe me.:) I showed him lots of videos of Efren on the pool table, but he just would not be convinced that Efren can pot a ball on the snooker table.

Is there any video of Efren playing snooker?

May be we can add: The One: snooker, 14.1, 9 ball some day soon?:)

Thank you.
Richard
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Oh Richard!

Snooker: Fat Chance
14.1: Slim Chance
9 Ball: Anorexic Chance!

:)

As for Efren I think he would struggle on a tight match table but he has amazing accuracy. Until I played with my own z shaft on a snooker table I'd have doubted it too but Efren, well he's just Efren lol!

u off to Vegas?
 
X Breaker said:
I told my friend, who only plays snooker, that Efren could play really well snooker. He watched Efren's stroke, and he would not believe me.:) I showed him lots of videos of Efren on the pool table, but he just would not be convinced that Efren can pot a ball on the snooker table.

Is there any video of Efren playing snooker?

May be we can add: The One: snooker, 14.1, 9 ball some day soon?:)

Thank you.
Richard
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The logical explanation behind this belief is because of the unfamiliarity of your friend about Efren. Most Europeans (player or not) knows Efren as exclusively a great 9-ball player who is only knowledgeable playing on wide pockets, big balls and smaller tables.

I understand why some people think that Efren cannot shoot accurately or precisely dead on consistently as required in playing snooker. that is because Efren as we noticed when he plays, his tendency is to most often times cheat the pocket. don't let this thing fool you in believing that he's not a straight shooter. Efren is just taking advantage of the pool table or using it's full potential. why need to shoot the ball straight while you can pocket it in another way with easy CB position, right? it doesn't mean that playing good on this kind of table makes you a lesser competition in another discipline of billiards which have tricky pockets. every great player knows how to adjust and what is required to play in any condition.
 
there was something on here no too long ago regarding Efren beating Ronnie O'Sullivan in a small tourney somewhere

personally, i'm waiting for the day someone wins a MAJOR in 2 out the 3 big disciplines, that is Snooker/Carom/Pocket Billiards , to my knowledge, this has never been done since maybe Alfredo de Oro 100 years ago

Drago's pool masters win was hardly a major so he doesn't fit into that category just yet, nor has he ever won any significant snooker title

Selby still wouldn't fit into this category either even if he had won the Snooker title,

I wish Blohmdahl would enter a few pool tourney's, that guy is sick
 
smashmouth said:
so without checking your forum history I'm gonna assume you're a big snooker fan libing in the uk

answer me this, what the hell happened to Ronnie?

is he still just out of form, or has he been passed by the new corp of players?
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nothing happened to ronnie he lost to higgins inQF

they were the best two in the tourney and just met a bit early

ronnie beat ding and robertson in the first two rounds but higgins got a great start against him and ronnie just couldnt get back
 
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