U.S. OPEN 2026, Frisco, Texas, August 25-30

jbart65 said:
I think shark gray is the easiest to see the balls on, but blue and green are fine too.

I doubt people would watch more or less based on table cloth color, however.
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I just went ahead and clicked on again to watch for a little bit and do it the benefit of the doubt. I have to stick with my original assumption is it's absolutely horrible. I think the gray may actually bleach out the color of the balls cuz you can hardly tell the color of the balls. It's like the 1950s I'm watching tv in black and white.

There's no comparison and all you got to do is flip on an old Accu sats video, to the vibrance of watching the beautiful colors, the green table the bright colors of the balls. Even a background in their set up looks horrible. Maybe in person it looks fine but if they're trying to sell this product on television, this ain't it.
 
jay helfert said:
Grabb showed the disparity between the Euros and us by how easily he handled Bergman. As for Skyler losing to a mid level player - Ugh!
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You can never take one match as a definitive assessment of talent and talent gaps. Bergman this year has beaten Joshua Filler, Carlo Biado, David Alcaide, Wojciech Szewczyk, Quoc Hoang Duong and Arseni Sevastyanov.

In the PLP, he also won races to 5 vs Aloysius Yapp, AJ Manas and Kledio Kaci.

Any European who ends up on the Mosconi team will be better than Bergman. But Bergman is good enough to be competitive. The U.S. just needs players 4 and 5 to hold their own.
 
Any way to get the complete scoring bracket for this "Open" event without the need for a Matchroom login?
I can usually get access to scores for other live popular sports online, but Matchroom events seem "special".
Although broadcast on ESPN this year, I don't think they have this info either.
 
middleofnowhere said:
Yes, and if you're not already a pool enthusiast this almost is like a subconscious sense of, "This is boring"
Back to my original question, why would you do anything and I mean anything that would take away from the value of your product you're trying to sell?
Was the choice of gray just arbitrary, or do they actually think this adds value to their product.
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Wasn't it because the color gray works better for the cameras? I remember someone saying that the contrasting is better than blue or green.
 
bpeacock said:
I disagree...some of the new pastel colors do...especially baby blue and pastel pink.
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don't see it, but i meant the logic could be blue has the 2-ball and green has the 6-ball at risk of blending.

i think no matter the colors, 9-ball/10-ball is difficult for casual viewers that hasn't played it. the fact that it literally needs a ball runner at the bottom of the screen and commentators saying the red 3-ball etc speaks for itself.

8-ball and one pocket are more intuitive. but they have other issues, obviously
 
middleofnowhere said:
Yes, and if you're not already a pool enthusiast this almost is like a subconscious sense of, "This is boring"
Back to my original question, why would you do anything and I mean anything that would take away from the value of your product you're trying to sell?
Was the choice of gray just arbitrary, or do they actually think this adds value to their product.
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I don't think changing the color takes away from the value of the product. I think the gray cloth looks better than the green or blue.
 
kev_eh said:
Any way to get the complete scoring bracket for this "Open" event without the need for a Matchroom login?
I can usually get access to scores for other live popular sports online, but Matchroom events seem "special".
Although broadcast on ESPN this year, I don't think they have this info either.
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Perhaps even more obnoxious than the purple 5 ball.
 
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jtompilot said:
Any consideration for Chris Reinhold?
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Positively Ralf said:
Wasn't it because the color gray works better for the cameras? I remember someone saying that the contrasting is better than blue or green.
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The grey cloth is a poor choice, as are the new ball colors. The two, four and five ball are not easy to distinguish on TV and get confused with other balls. MR has in the process made watching pool less appealing.
 
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superskippy said:
here is the full list for those interested


PlayerFractional Odds
Fedor Gorst7/1
Shane Van Boening7/1
Joshua Filler8/1
Aloysius Yapp12/1
Carlo Biado12/1
Francisco Sánchez Ruiz12/1
Eklent Kaci16/1
Robbie Capito16/1
Jayson Shaw20/1
Jefrey Roda25/1
Moritz Neuhausen25/1
AJ Manas28/1
David Alcaide28/1
Mario He28/1
Alexander Kazakis33/1
Bernie Regalario33/1
Denis Grabe33/1
Harry Vergara33/1
Albert Januarta40/1
Albin Ouschan40/1
Jesús Atencio40/1
Marvin Asis40/1
Aleksa Pecelj50/1
Jeffrey De Luna50/1
Jonás Souto50/1
Kledio Kaci50/1
Konrad Juszczyszyn50/1
Michael Baoanan50/1
Mickey Krause50/1
Mieszko Fortunski50/1
Naoyuki Oi50/1
Skyler Woodward50/1
Wiktor Zielinski50/1
Wojciech Szewczyk50/1
Alex Pagulayan66/1
Chang Yu-Lung66/1
Chris Melling66/1
Duong Quoc Hoang66/1
Hsieh Chia Chen66/1
Lee Vann Corteza66/1
Marc Bijsterbosch66/1
Michael Feliciano66/1
Niels Feijen66/1
Pijus Labutis66/1
Cristopher Tevez80/1
Lo Ho Sum80/1
Max Lechner80/1
Mustafa Alnar80/1
Oliver Szolnoki80/1
Petri Makkonen80/1
Roberto Gomez80/1
Sanjin Pehlivanovic80/1
Tyler Styer80/1
Wu Kun-Lin80/1
Darren Appleton100/1
Emil Andre Gangfløt100/1
Roland Garcia100/1
Thorsten Hohmann100/1
Andri Januarta125/1
Arseni Sevastyanov125/1
Casper Matikainen125/1
Elliot Sanderson125/1
Francesco Candela125/1
Gerson Martinez Boza125/1
John Morra125/1
Lin Ta-Li125/1
Lu Hui-Chan125/1
Nicholas Tan125/1
Phuong Nam Pham125/1
Raymond Linares125/1
Szymon Kural125/1
Vitaliy Patsura125/1
Walter Laikre125/1
Yannick Pongers125/1
Antonios Kakaris150/1
Bader Alawadhi150/1
Billy Thorpe150/1
Chang Tzu Chien150/1
Chris Reinhold150/1
Corey Deuel150/1
Dean Shields150/1
Dimitris Loukatos150/1
Felix Vogel150/1
Georgi Georgiev150/1
Hunter Lombardo150/1
Jan Van Lierop150/1
Marco Teutscher150/1
Nicholas De Leon150/1
Omar Al Shaheen150/1
Ralf Souquet150/1
Sullivan Clark150/1
BJ Ussery200/1
Boris Ivanovski200/1
Earl Strickland200/1
Fraser Patrick200/1
George Antonakis200/1
Hubert Lopotko200/1
Joven Bustamante200/1
Justin Bergman200/1
Karl Gnadeberg200/1
Max Eberle200/1
Nathan Childress200/1
Niklas Dohr200/1
Oscar Dominguez200/1
Jeremy Jones300/1
Johnny Archer300/1
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Just got to thinking how much fun it would be to make bets on FanDuel.
Make them or a competitor a sponsor and I believe they would do well, their sponsor fee could add to the purses, and more people would follow pool.
Handicapping I would look for the highest rated Fargo player with the longest odds mixed with some favorites and middle rated ones, players who are hot and those that aren’t, gut feelings. Long shots.
Looking at these odds I might take a chance on Earl or Oscar at 200,to 1 along with half a dozen modest bets. Would be similar to handicapping horses at the race track.
 
Bob Jewett said:
I'm not proposing a ban, but that's exactly what a lot of snooker players are asking for. Skids tend to cost them a lot more than they cost pool players.
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Well, skids happen, rolls happen. It just seems like some players would prefer matches be held in humidity and climate controlled clean rooms with perhaps a ref to clean the cue ball between each shot.

At what point is the line between valid expectations and peacock prima donna expectations? I’m sure many of us remember backed napped cloth, pool rooms without AC with temps and humidity playing havoc with cloth and rails that were liberally coated with talcum powder from players trying to cope with humidity & balls that’s weren’t always pristine clean and cubes of Masters all over the rails.

Yet somehow 100+ ball runners were fairly common and we dealt with conditions and it made us well rounded mentally tough players. I guess I’m just a dinosaur but it all seems to be becoming a bit prissy to me. Players dog it and reach for the excuse file instead of just owning it and focusing on making the most of their next opportunity.
 
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