Straight rail tournament at star billiards August 23-24

[GK Billiards]

Big corners vs small corners is not a question of table size, bro. Big corners go from the 1st diamond on the short rail to the 2nd diamond on the long rail. The small corners go from half diamond to half diamond across the corner.


Aaanyway, here's Thinh's first match...250 in about 30 mintues...golly!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=473862985439131

Oh...never seen a small corners

 

[GK Billiards]

Also Johnny Dang is one of the sponsors

 

[pvc lou]

Also Johnny Dang is one of the sponsors

Who that is?

 

[GK Billiards]

Who that is?

This guy

 

[pvc lou]

This guy

Oh ok. Does he play?

 

[Texas Carom Club]

Yes, I'll be landing at 8pm today. Start Billiard owner came over ours place for a tournament so I'm visiting his place

I’ll have to get with you next time
And we can play a game

 

[bbb]

@pvc lou
corners size
why important ?

 

[pvc lou]

@pvc lou
corners size
why important ?

You are allowed to score a maximum of 2 points in the corners before knocking at least one object ball out. So big corners are for the good players.

Before you ask, I play with the small corners.

 

[Texas Carom Club]

@pvc lou
corners size
why important ?

It’s the classic traditional way of training in Europe
Smaller table has small corner lines, 8-9ft
10ft has the lines drawn about 2 diamonds up the king rail to 1 diamond on the short rail
Walking the line/turning the corner is an INCREDIBLE talent

And here at 440 you can see

 

[GK Billiards]

Place is packed !

 

[bbb]

It’s the classic traditional way of training in Europe
Smaller table has small corner lines, 8-9ft
10ft has the lines drawn about 2 diamonds up the king rail to 1 diamond on the short rail
Walking the line/turning the corner is an INCREDIBLE talentView attachment 774685



And here at 440 you can see

I only watched a little bit
But that was mesmerizing
Thanks for the link

 

[Bert van Manen]

Thanks for the tip. I watched a match by Thinh Kent and that was interesting. He has fantastic touch and a great instinct for staying on the favorable side of the third ball. The first fifty or sixty points looked more like balkline 47/2 (which he is already good at or could learn in no time) and the remainder was Serie Americaine, where he proved to be very skilled with the "ultra-short cue", sometimes both hands on the shaft! It's really sad that there have not been proper world championships for these disciplines in a long time. The reigning world champion in the free game is... Raymond Ceulemans. Not kidding.

 

[pvc lou]

Thanks for the tip. I watched a match by Thinh Kent and that was interesting. He has fantastic touch and a great instinct for staying on the favorable side of the third ball. The first fifty or sixty points looked more like balkline 47/2 (which he is already good at or could learn in no time) and the remainder was Serie Americaine, where he proved to be very skilled with the "ultra-short cue", sometimes both hands on the shaft! It's really sad that there have not been proper world championships for these disciplines in a long time. The reigning world champion in the free game is... Raymond Ceulemans. Not kidding.

It's a Janus dumb dumb thing once you can run out all day everyday at straight rail, bro. Duh!

 

[pvc lou]

Any updates?

 

[pvc lou]

It’s the classic traditional way of training in Europe
Smaller table has small corner lines, 8-9ft
10ft has the lines drawn about 2 diamonds up the king rail to 1 diamond on the short rail
Walking the line/turning the corner is an INCREDIBLE talentView attachment 774685



And here at 440 you can see

The big corners are also played on the 9 footers.

 

[GK Billiards]

As as expected, Thinh won easily, it was a race to 350 and his opponent got 50 points handicap, 20 innings. Probably no one in the US can beat him if it's that long of a match. Maybe a race to 150 points, 20 innings then others would have a chance.

 

[GK Billiards]

This was a good game, if you have facebook you can check it out below. Ran out of battery before the game ended. The older player won. There were about $50k side bet on it.

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[pvc lou]

This was a good game, if you have facebook you can check it out below. Ran out of battery before the game ended. The older player won. There were about $50k side bet on it.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/GWasZ9bVhawb36Va/?mibextid=oFDknk[/URL

That was a great final match. The older player plays very well, but Thinh is a master.

 

[Texas Carom Club]

That was a great final match. The older player plays very well, but Thinh is a master.

the match in the video isnt kent playing
it looks like tony li the partial owner for this room

 

[pvc lou]

That semi final match was very good, but I watched the finals too. It was great