I'm not sure who thinks Chohan is currently the best 1P player world, but they might want to look up the results of the last time he played Gorst. I believe Gorst won 21-9 and made it look easy. Most of those games weren't even close. You'd go broke betting against that kid playing anyone but Filler...that's a coin flip.
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Classic woofing from TR ...
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or when the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs; who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Shame on the man of cultivated taste who lets refinement develop into fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workday world.”
Sunny
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or when the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs; who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Shame on the man of cultivated taste who lets refinement develop into fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workday world.”
Sunny
For your erudite az audience who did you quote?
That would be Theodore Roosevelt my mistake. I’m getting old.
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Thank you
I wouldn't use the word "erudite" in the pool room. I would fear that the pugnacious fury of the unwashed would decend upon me. Lol
Yes, I thank her for that. After all being called a dumb-ass gets old.
Cuebuddy>>>Don't ask me how I know.
Maybe Shane should have high rolled his ass. Tell him you wanna play a set bet something motherfuck@$!
i'm all for tournaments over long money matches, but a race to 3 match is a sprint. billy thorpe won the DCC one pocket twice in fairly recent times, and he won the bayou one pocket just the other day. i doubt anyone would bet on billy against any of the contenders mentioned in this thread, even with a one ball spot. in the same line of reasoning, dennis never won the DCC one pocket but few would bet against him in an action match
23DenaliBDE
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SVB has also publicly made his dislike of gambling clear. One more reason to add to the list of reasons he may not have felt like playing the classless idiot.
kanzzo
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Doesn't quite fit to my picture of Shane in the first days of The Action Report.
It was almost exclusively Shane matching up with all the great players one after another (Reyes, Deuel, Alex, Dechaine, Orcollo, Strickland) until he undoubtedly was the best player in the world in 10-Ball.
Doesn't quite fit into the Souquet-like picture of "I don't like to gamble"
23DenaliBDE
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Perhaps you aren’t aware, but he’s made a bit of tournament money since then.
You could surely be right, as I don't know nor have I ever met, SVB. But, If you have followed SVB's facebook feed over the past decade or longer, you would definitely not say this. He has called out and woofed at dozens, offered to "bet his own" more times than you can count, and has said many times he would play anyone, for any amount, if the game is right.
I think the difference is the relationship with MR. I would not be surprised if they didn't request that he back away from that type of stuff. At about the same time the 60 minutes interview came out and he publicly disavowed gambling, thus painting himself in a corner, so to speak.
Plus, if you recall his response video to Fedor woofing at him and calling him out, he seemed so laid back and content that I think he is enjoying some of the young guys taking the pressure/spotlight off of him. I never expected to see SVB admit that he probably can't beat Fedor in a long 9 ball race.
Sounds to me like he gambles but not with his own money.
