I watched Bautista play quite a bit and liked his demeanor Allot. His play is up there but not quite yet at Dechanines level. He looks/is? young and I would say he's slightly better at ball pocketing than Oscar Dominguez, tho Oscar has better board play. Archer earlier had em on the hill/hill game winnners side final 8???, but missed a rolling lag on the 5 ball three feet from the pocket to hand it to em. The next day Archer was fresh and one could easily see the difference as he dismantled Vadal at 3-1 when Vidal missed a simple bump and roll to the corner pocket and lost 8-3 as johnny rolled over on him with a near perfect game from a 4-1 up advantage. What did catch my eye in another match was....during play.....one of the players, while his opponent was seated as it was the other players break, started practicing a shot that he had missed. Never in all my years of match play at this level had I seen a player start practicing a missed shot, then rack the balls for their break, while the opponent sat and watched this player practice when the Match was not over yet!!!! Pretty arrogant if ya ask me, and basically its a "BCAPL tournament Foul. The rules were BCAPL rules of play. The event was ran well on both sides with the limited number of tables at hand on the amateur side that made matters a challenge. Good job Str8shots, and it was fun watching chip Compton have his hands full with the Kentucky Colonel, the board play of nicky was grueling and wearing for the youngster/s, but great to watch.
