Shanghai Masters

[Bamacues]

This is just Round 2 at the Shanghai Masters Snooker event... pic taken 30 minutes before play starts... absolutely packed.

I would love to see kind of turnout for a pool event in the USA... this is great to see...

 

[mjantti]

I would like to see more pool tournaments in China, but it's all Heyball now. In a way, it's a shame.

 

[skogstokig]

This is just Round 2 at the Shanghai Masters Snooker event... pic taken 30 minutes before play starts... absolutely packed.

I would love to see kind of turnout for a pool event in the USA... this is great to see...

thanks for the heads up. makes my work day better trump v robbo on now.

this much crowd is unusual for chinese snooker events (minus hongkong of course), they can be quite empty at times. chinese sport culture in general seems to be more TV than live viewing

 

[garczar]

I would like to see more pool tournaments in China, but it's all Heyball now. In a way, it's a shame.

As much as i don't like it Heyball IS pool. I think its tedious at best but its still a form of pool. We'll never see crowds anything close to this in the US. Pool/snooker seems to be aligned with chinese/asian culture in a way it will never even approach in the states.

 

[pt109]

Some great snooker being played here…..Ding made his 700th century and Zhang got upset about that…so he ran a 147.

 

[pt109]

Ding won 6-5…..Zhang was on 43 and brushed a red in the pack to go in-off…..Ding ran out…very high quality match.

 

[Bamacues]

Higgins was up 5-2 over Carter... Higgins missed a ball, and Carter took over, winning 6-5.... unbelievably good play...

 

[skogstokig]

Higgins was up 5-2 over Carter... Higgins missed a ball, and Carter took over, winning 6-5.... unbelievably good play...

williams. tables are for sure playing soft, as often in chinese and saudi invitationals. but well done ali, showed a lot of heart

 

[JAM]

Ronnie O'Sullivan v. Barry Hawkins at 7:30 a.m. Eastern USA time.

 

[eastcoast_chris]

How can you view these matches? All I see on Youtube is live scoreboards.

 

[pt109]

The Rocket over Hawkins hill/hill.

 

[garczar]

How can you view these matches? All I see on Youtube is live scoreboards.

Get WST live on line. https://www.wst.tv/videos

 

[Bamacues]

williams. tables are for sure playing soft, as often in chinese and saudi invitationals. but well done ali, showed a lot of heart

Right... Williams, not Higgins... a senior moment!!!

 

[pt109]

43 centuries so far….heated tables play softer….and I think the pocket fall is kinder.

 

[skogstokig]

43 centuries so far….heated tables play softer….and I think the pocket fall is kinder.

amazing how aggressive they play with softer pockets. zhao and ronnie banking like they were at the DCC.

i've been watching the zhao match but it soon turned lopsided, the kid is too good

 

[George the Greek]

43 centuries so far….heated tables play softer….and I think the pocket fall is kinder.

Hey Paul! I wonder how the templates would be on the tables of today vs years ago. Seems like the side pockets are buckets

 

[pt109]

Hey Paul! I wonder how the templates would be on the tables of today vs years ago. Seems like the side pockets are buckets

George Chenier ran 144 …..Fred Davis declared it a World Championship record….1950 or ‘51.
One pocket was declared slightly bigger so the record was disallowed…142 was the high run until Doug Mountjoy’s 145 in ‘81.
I feel all the pockets wouldn’t satisfy the templates now….and the heated tables really help….the old damp tables were brutal.

 

[skogstokig]

142 was the high run until Doug Mountjoy’s 145 in ‘85.

you not leaving out a certain countryman there, pt?

two actually when i think about it

 

[pt109]

you not leaving out a certain countryman there, pt?

two actually when i think about it

If you’re talking about Cliff Thorburn’s maximum, that was later.
And Kirk Stevens tied the 142 in 1980….I believe.

 

[pt109]

I posted the wrong date for Doug Mountjoy’s high run..it was 1981.
Kirk Stevens missed the black in 1980 for what would’ve been the new high run of 143.