Texas Open - Top 8 players?

gulfportdoc

gulfportdoc

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I wonder how the "top 8" were determined, in such a way as to leave out Cliff Joyner and David G.? Who is Henson?

Doc
 
David Henson is a real threat to win anything around Texas. A card carrying member of the old school, he is very well known by everyone who knows anything about Texas pool. If he's in the tournament, he's as much a lock to cash as any of those other players. He always go high in calcuttas.

I've played him twice in tournament pool. I don't stand a chance against him, but that rings true for just about anyone else in the Lone Star state too.
 
Having played in a number of tournaments in and around Texas I am pretty confident that the Top 8 were determined by their price in the calcutta.

The seeding is more a function of trying to jack up the calcutta money than anything else. It is an attempt to insure that the top horses in the calcutta don't play each other in the first round.

I don't necessarily agree with that, but it does mean an improvement of the calcutta dollars. The people participating in the buying of players feel a lot better about going high knowing that they are not going to be subject to a bad luck draw out of the gate.

I am, however, surprised that David Henson was one of the top 8 in the calcutta. He is a jam up player in all games, but some of the other players are just as good.

I would have thought Cliff would be one of the top 8.
 
McKinneyMiner said:
I am, however, surprised that David Henson was one of the top 8 in the calcutta. He is a jam up player in all games, but some of the other players are just as good.
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No suprise to me, he won the event last year...Go David!!!
 
You hit the nail on the head. Top 8 were seeded by calcutta.

Mike

McKinneyMiner said:
Having played in a number of tournaments in and around Texas I am pretty confident that the Top 8 were determined by their price in the calcutta.
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not only did David win last year, cliff is always liable to be a "risky" purchase. Cliff has been in the past, a disappointment to a few buyers for reasons only cliff knows.

Rg
 
gulfportdoc said:
I wonder how the "top 8" were determined, in such a way as to leave out Cliff Joyner and David G.? Who is Henson?

Doc
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Hey Doc, this is Kevin Welling from G Cue Billiards.

We seeded the top 8 players this year by selling 7 "picks of the litter". Those 7 got placed in different brackets of 16 in the 128 board. If the previous year's champion isn't one of those 7 players he gets the final spot, otherwise we will sell an 8th pick.

This does three things:

1> There are no ties in the bidding. Whoever wins the pick of the litter bidding picks their man and that's the guy that gets the seed. So there's no 4 way tie with guys that go for $800 say.

2> This gives the previous year's champion even more incentive to come back and defend their title. We think it is important for the sport to have the defending champ there. You never see a golf tourney where last year's winner is not present. We give a lifetime exemption to all past champions so that should be incentive enough, but with a guaranteed seeding to not play the top 7 players in the field we should see a high rate of past year's winners participate.

3> It should build the calcutta up. As pointed out, the guys bidding on players feel much better if they know they have a better chance that their guy won't play a world beater in the first couple of rounds. It can still happen with a field like this year's Open, but it decreases the odds. Plus they can buy two big-time horses and not have them play for a few rounds. The desired effect happened this year, we had around $7,000 in the calcutta pot after the picks of the litter. There's more money in 1st Calcutta than in the general prize fund.

There were a couple of objectors to this rule, but I believe it is going to make for a better tournament and ultimately help the sport. The spectators are sure enjoying the action.
 
what size tables?

TexasFight said:
Hey Doc, this is Kevin Welling from G Cue Billiards.

We seeded the top 8 players this year by selling 7 "picks of the litter". Those 7 got placed in different brackets of 16 in the 128 board. If the previous year's champion isn't one of those 7 players he gets the final spot, otherwise we will sell an 8th pick.

This does three things:

1> There are no ties in the bidding. Whoever wins the pick of the litter bidding picks their man and that's the guy that gets the seed. So there's no 4 way tie with guys that go for $800 say.

2> This gives the previous year's champion even more incentive to come back and defend their title. We think it is important for the sport to have the defending champ there. You never see a golf tourney where last year's winner is not present. We give a lifetime exemption to all past champions so that should be incentive enough, but with a guaranteed seeding to not play the top 7 players in the field we should see a high rate of past year's winners participate.

3> It should build the calcutta up. As pointed out, the guys bidding on players feel much better if they know they have a better chance that their guy won't play a world beater in the first couple of rounds. It can still happen with a field like this year's Open, but it decreases the odds. Plus they can buy two big-time horses and not have them play for a few rounds. The desired effect happened this year, we had around $7,000 in the calcutta pot after the picks of the litter. There's more money in 1st Calcutta than in the general prize fund.

There were a couple of objectors to this rule, but I believe it is going to make for a better tournament and ultimately help the sport. The spectators are sure enjoying the action.
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I've noticed that quite a few tournaments in the BIG state of Texas are played on 4x8 tables.I'm wondering what size tables are they using for this tournament.
 
TexasFight said:
Hey Doc, this is Kevin Welling from G Cue Billiards.

We seeded the top 8 players this year by selling 7 "picks of the litter". Those 7 got placed in different brackets of 16 in the 128 board. If the previous year's champion isn't one of those 7 players he gets the final spot, otherwise we will sell an 8th pick.
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Thanks very much for the detailed explanation! It makes perfect sense, and I imagine most everyone likes it. I suspect that the lesser players are happy they don't have to play a Jeremy Jones or Corey Duell in their first match!;)

Good luck in your fine event!

Doc
 
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