World 8ball Last 32 - who's your bet?

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They have a rest day today but play will resume Tuesday. Here are the last 32 players and their corresponding matches.

Also, here is the bracket for the last 32 (single elimination) : http://onthehill.up.seesaa.net/image/DSCF1727.jpg
Based on this chart, who is your choice to win in last 32, Last 16, last 8, last 4 and who will face each other in the finals?

Lots of great matches for tomorrow. I have highlighted my choices in red.

PAIRINGS FOR TUESDAY

Goran Mladenovic vs Jason Klatt
Farhad Shaverdi vs Joven Bustamante
Serge Das vs Hisashi Kusano
Francisco Bustamante vs Thomas Engert
Marcus Chamat vs Satoshi Kawabata
Efren Reyes vs James Ortega
Darren Appleton vs Ralf Souquet
Dennis Orcollo vs Ben Nunan
Fabio Petroni vs Naif Al Jeweni
Ronnie Alcano vs Thorsten Hohmann
Hui-Kai Hsia vs Kevin Becker
Elvis Calasang vs Joybe Vincente
Niels Feijen vs Mario Tolentino
Chia-Ching Wu vs Alexander Dremsizis
Erik Hjorliefson vs Mohammed Benali
Nick Van Den Berg vs Lee Van Corteza
 
f210 said:
They have a rest day today but play will resume Tuesday. Here are the last 32 players and their corresponding matches.

Also, here is the bracket for the last 32 (single elimination) : http://onthehill.up.seesaa.net/image/DSCF1727.jpg
Based on this chart, who is your choice to win in last 32, Last 16, last 8, last 4 and who will face each other in the finals?

Lots of great matches for tomorrow. I have highlighted my choices in red.

PAIRINGS FOR TUESDAY

Goran Mladenovic vs Jason Klatt
Farhad Shaverdi vs Joven Bustamante
Serge Das vs Hisashi Kusano
Francisco Bustamante vs Thomas Engert
Marcus Chamat vs Satoshi Kawabata
Efren Reyes vs James Ortega
Darren Appleton vs Ralf Souquet
Dennis Orcollo vs Ben Nunan
Fabio Petroni vs Naif Al Jeweni
Ronnie Alcano vs Thorsten Hohmann
Hui-Kai Hsia vs Kevin Becker
Elvis Calasang vs Joybe Vincente
Niels Feijen vs Mario Tolentino
Chia-Ching Wu vs Alexander Dremsizis
Erik Hjorliefson vs Mohammed Benali
Nick Van Den Berg vs Lee Van Corteza
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This Round's Picks
Reyes
Souquet
Jeweni
Hohmann
Hsia
Feijen
 
f210 said:
Darren Appleton vs Ralf Souquet
Dennis Orcollo vs Ben Nunan
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These two matches are very interesting, two 9 ball/rotation players v 8 ball specialists from the UK and Oz.
 
Which side is the tougher draw?

In Niel's website, he is complaining about the draw in the last 32. However, looking at this link l http://onthehill.up.seesaa.net/image/DSCF1727.jpg, I think his chances are equal if not better than the other players. In fact, he will be facing an unknown player (Mario Tolentino) in the last 32. Compare it to Ronato Alcano who will be matching up with Thorsten Hohmann, Lee Van Corteza with Van den Berg and Bustamante vs. Engert in the last 32.

What about Darren Appleton who has the misfortune of matching up with Souquet in the next round? If he is lucky enough to win over Souquet, there is a strong possibility he will be facing Dennis Orcullo next.
If he wins over Dennis, he may have to face the magician, Efren Reyes. If that is not enough, he may have to match up against Bustamante or Engert next.

In your opinion,which is the stronger side: (listing only what I consider to be the top 8 players in each group.)

Side A

Efren Reyes
Dennis Orcullo
Ralf Souquet
Francisco Bustamante
Thomas Engert
Marcus Chamat
S. Kawabata
Darren Appleton

or

Side B

Thorsten Hohmann
Ronnie Alcano
Lee Van Corteza
Niels Feijen
Nick Van den Berg
Hu Kai Hsia
Chia Ching Wu
Fabio Petroni
 
I think Appleton is a good bet for his last 32 as he definately rises to big occaisions and 8 ball is probably his best game
 
Dave Mackay said:
I think Appleton is a good bet for his last 32 as he definately rises to big occaisions and 8 ball is probably his best game
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Well, good luck to him. I think he has the hardest route to the championship. If he manages to win over Souquet, Orcullo, Reyes and Bustamante (assuming the last 3 win their respective matches), then he will become my favourite to win the title.
 
TheOne said:
These two matches are very interesting, two 9 ball/rotation players v 8 ball specialists from the UK and Oz.
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If it was UK 8Ball, I'd go Ben Nunan, but on the tables and rules in use it should be Alcano.

Saw Ben play a couple of months ago, and he definately deserves his top 5ranking in UK 8ball.

Daniel:D
 
how much money is at stake here? as everyone know pot money is a big motivation, especially for the Filipinos. 10 Filipinos in the last 32, 2 matches of all filipino, a possible 8 Filipinos in the last 16.

Hmm... very interesting...

my possible top 8 finisher in no particular order and considering the draw...
Francisco Bustamante
Joven Bustamante
Efren Reyes
Ralf Souquet
Lee Van Corteza
Wu Chia Ching
Hui Kai Hsia
Ronnie/Thorsten

the last entry is a toss up, whoever wins would possibly go straight to quarter or even semis, 2 most recent 9 ball champion facing each other, but this is 8 ball (man, i'm drooling for this match)

the match for the finals i'd like to see would be Efren against Wu.
Wu as the defending champion and Efren as the.... well do i still have to say things about the "Maestro"?
 
They're both super tough but I'd have to say that bracket A may be the tougher of the two.

Although I think Thorsten faces the tougher opponent in his next match (emphasis on "I think"), I like Efren and Thorsten from here.


f210 said:
In Niel's website, he is complaining about the draw in the last 32. However, looking at this link l http://onthehill.up.seesaa.net/image/DSCF1727.jpg, I think his chances are equal if not better than the other players. In fact, he will be facing an unknown player (Mario Tolentino) in the last 32. Compare it to Ronato Alcano who will be matching up with Thorsten Hohmann, Lee Van Corteza with Van den Berg and Bustamante vs. Engert in the last 32.

What about Darren Appleton who has the misfortune of matching up with Souquet in the next round? If he is lucky enough to win over Souquet, there is a strong possibility he will be facing Dennis Orcullo next.
If he wins over Dennis, he may have to face the magician, Efren Reyes. If that is not enough, he may have to match up against Bustamante or Engert next.

In your opinion,which is the stronger side: (listing only what I consider to be the top 8 players in each group.)

Side A

Efren Reyes
Dennis Orcullo
Ralf Souquet
Francisco Bustamante
Thomas Engert
Marcus Chamat
S. Kawabata
Darren Appleton

or

Side B

Thorsten Hohmann
Ronnie Alcano
Lee Van Corteza
Niels Feijen
Nick Van den Berg
Hu Kai Hsia
Chia Ching Wu
Fabio Petroni
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LIVE Scores at World8ballchampionship.com

Well, it is supposed to be LIVE but when I started viewing 5 minutes ago, the games between Alcano vs Hohmann ang Nunan vs. Orcullo was just starting. Then when I refreshed again, Alcano already won by a score of 10 to 3.

However, I saw some previous results before the screen changed:

Goran Mladenovic vs Jason Klatt - MLADENOVIC WON
Farhad Shaverdi vs Joven Bustamante - JOVEN BUSTAMANTE WON
Serge Das vs Hisashi Kusano - KUSANO WON
Francisco Bustamante vs Thomas Engert - ENGERT WON

Right now, Orcullo is leading over Ben Nunan 4-2.

http://www.world8ballchampionship.com/livescores.html

You have to refresh every couple minutes because it is not updating automatically.
 
A day off in the middle of a pool tournament? I've never heard of this happening before. Has anybody?
 
f210 said:
They have a rest day today but play will resume Tuesday. Here are the last 32 players and their corresponding matches.

Also, here is the bracket for the last 32 (single elimination) : http://onthehill.up.seesaa.net/image/DSCF1727.jpg
Based on this chart, who is your choice to win in last 32, Last 16, last 8, last 4 and who will face each other in the finals?

Lots of great matches for tomorrow. I have highlighted my choices in red.

PAIRINGS FOR TUESDAY

Goran Mladenovic vs Jason Klatt
Farhad Shaverdi vs Joven Bustamante
Serge Das vs Hisashi Kusano
Francisco Bustamante vs Thomas Engert
Marcus Chamat vs Satoshi Kawabata
Efren Reyes vs James Ortega
Darren Appleton vs Ralf Souquet
Dennis Orcollo vs Ben Nunan
Fabio Petroni vs Naif Al Jeweni
Ronnie Alcano vs Thorsten Hohmann
Hui-Kai Hsia vs Kevin Becker
Elvis Calasang vs Joybe Vincente
Niels Feijen vs Mario Tolentino
Chia-Ching Wu vs Alexander Dremsizis
Erik Hjorliefson vs Mohammed Benali
Nick Van Den Berg vs Lee Van Corteza
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Many strong players here, in this event. Sad to say, but if there were two or three Americans here, they wouldn't have much of a chance. American pool is the weakest it's ever been right now. We have a handful of good players who are reluctant warriors at best. They pick and choose their spots very carefully. The only young player I see who is willing to get out there and mix it up with the best players is Shane V. B.

Where's Johnny, where's Rodney, where's Corey? Aren't these guys supposed to be professional pool players? Ralf, Thorsten, Mika and the filipinos seem to find their way to major events worldwide. I think the American players are discouraged, as there is currently ONE major tournament held in this country annually, with decent prize money.

When is the BCA going to jack up the purse on the enjoy.com Open in Vegas? Please make it a $200,000 event with each division having a 100K purse. It's about time! Professional pool in the United States is on it's death bed, and on life support.
 
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jay helfert said:
Many strong players here, in this event. Sad to say, but if there were two or three Americans here, they wouldn't have much of a chance. American pool is the weakest it's ever been right now. We have a handful of good players who are reluctant warriors at best. They pick and choose their spots very carefully. The only young player I see who is willing to get out there and mix it up with the best players is Shane V. B.

Where's Johnny, where's Rodney, where's Corey? Aren't these guys supposed to be professional pool players? Ralf, Thorsten, Mika and the filipinos seem to find their way to major events worldwide. I think the American players are discouraged, as there is currently ONE major tournament held in this country annually, with decent prize money.

When is the BCA going to jack up the purse on the enjoy.com Open in Vegas? Please make it a $200,000 event with each division having a 100K purse. It's about time! Professional pool in the United States is on it's death bed, and on life support.
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I'm pleased you said that, I would have got bashed (as a non American) saying it.

I just don't get it, many people have used the travel excuse but EVERY other player has to travel there also (apart from the token local guys of course). I mean like it or not this is a sanctioned world title event, win this and you have the chance to get more sponsors on board and hence go to more events.

A few of the TOP Americans that have won quite a lot of prize money over the last couple of years, why don't they reinvest it in themselves?

I don't mean to criticize here, I just don't understand why in this particular instance?
 
TheOne said:
I'm pleased you said that, I would have got bashed (as a non American) saying it.

I just don't get it, many people have used the travel excuse but EVERY other player has to travel there also (apart from the token local guys of course). I mean like it or not this is a sanctioned world title event, win this and you have the chance to get more sponsors on board and hence go to more events.

A few of the TOP Americans that have won quite a lot of prize money over the last couple of years, why don't they reinvest it in themselves?

I don't mean to criticize here, I just don't understand why in this particular instance?
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Maybe the Americans are just avoiding another middle-east conflict ! :D
 
It's nice to be back posting again. I still have an annoying slow connection though, so my browsing capability here is still quite limited. gosh, dial-up is even faster compared to this. Now let's go to where my bet is on;

Though I like Efren's chances of winning this one, I chose that Joven guy for the betting odds!
 
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