WORLD POOL (nineball) CHAMPIONSHIP (6-10 April2022), UK, Winner $60K
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no, you could hear ko saying soft break and wojchek saying i don't think i break soft etc
The heart of it is the cut break. Can you cut break, control the 1B, control the CB and not be exposed to soft breaking accusations from a player that wasn’t cut breaking?
Ko was hitting the 1B square trying to park the CB. That sent the 1B above the side pocket around three rails like this. But he was unlucky and getting all kinds of kisses and traffic.
Wojciek put two of these on him in a row successfully.
So then Ko complained and Wojciek hit the next two breaks harder and they looked more like this instead.
So it begs the question. Is a successful cut break with good control by definition considered a medium-soft break?
Ko was hitting the 1B square trying to park the CB. That sent the 1B above the side pocket around three rails like this. But he was unlucky and getting all kinds of kisses and traffic.
Wojciek put two of these on him in a row successfully.
So then Ko complained and Wojciek hit the next two breaks harder and they looked more like this instead.
So it begs the question. Is a successful cut break with good control by definition considered a medium-soft break?
Just like what happened with golf and tennis.
Not true at all for golf, as the top of a few tour players' backswings show.
There does seem to be some convergence happening but there is room in pool for idiosyncracies, at least if we aren't moving toward a (sad) world where 4" pockets are commonplace.
What's to explain? LOL
It's certainly confusing. Looks like she is a mental health therapist who once wanted to play professional pool.
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I also found her insights fairly obvious. It's just fancy title. It's almost like she's was saying this was, there first time. Dealing with a defeat. These guys are Seasoned players. I think, that part is more for people who, have never seen the game before. Making more of it, than it is. It's like that last rack with Woodward at hill, hill. The other guy, got very lucky. It's part of the game.It's certainly confusing. Looks like she is a mental health therapist who once wanted to play professional pool.
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Wolford's solid play is not that surprising given who he beat on the way to a sixth-place finish at the Derby City 9-ball event.
RD 1 Shane Wolford beat Rahul Vithani
RD 2 Shane Wolford beat Raphael Dabreo
RD 3 Shane Wolford beat Jerry Grooms
RD 4 Shane Wolford beat Naoyuki Oi
RD 5 Shane Wolford beat Danny Olson
RD 6 Shane Wolford beat Shannon Murphy
RD 7 Shane Wolford beat Demetrius Jelatis
RD 8 Shane Wolford beat Johnathan Pinegar
RD 9 Shane Wolford lost to Carlo Biado
RD 10 Shane Wolford beat Bader AlAwadhi
RD 11 Shane Wolford lost to Joshua Filler
He gave Filler a tough test in Round 11, too. Added to the fact that he reached Stage 2 at the International 9-ball in October, he's not that much of a Cinderella here. He's a fast-improving player who is starting to show very strong form. Still only 21, I believe, so he may not be ready for moments as big as the ones he's about to face, but we shall see.
Thanks for that. I didn't know.
I'm not a fan of the purple 5 and don't "like" it, but I'm over it. The fact that both Predator/CSI and Matchroom have a $60k first prize within weeks of each other is a pretty strong indication that World Championship prize money will reach 00s levels pretty soon. One side of me couldn't give a fig, but if the game has a professional status then that will rub off on folk who love the social side of the game and fewer of them will have a surprised face like a bad internet meme when someone mentions Shane Van Boening.
Let's check in on the dead money 
Among the six players with missing Fargo ratings, two of the middle eastern players crashed and burned 9-0 against top-flight competition, while South Africans Akaloo and Faul almost took down seeded opponents.
Among the players with ratings under 650, none of the matches was close.
All ten of these unranked or low-ranked folks lost. No cinderella stories today.
Code:
## p1 p2 s1 s2 p1_rating p2_rating
## 1 Eklent Kaci Mycherif Zine El Abidine 9 0 819 NA
## 2 Oscar Dominguez Dino Nair 9 3 777 NA
## 3 Omar Al-Shaheen JJ Faul 9 8 789 NA
## 4 Jan Van Lierop Kyle Akaloo 9 8 764 NA
## 5 Hunter Lombardo Mohamed Shareef 9 6 736 NA
## 6 Oliver Szolnoki Hassan Shaaz Mohamed 9 0 787 NA
Code:
## p1 p2 s1 s2 p1_rating p2_rating
## 1 Tom Staveley Pia Filler 9 2 714 641
## 2 Jayson Shaw Vincent Halliday 9 2 822 574
## 3 John Morra Adrian Prasad 9 2 786 634
## 4 Tyler Styer Kristina Zlateva 9 3 760 644All ten of these unranked or low-ranked folks lost. No cinderella stories today.
At least one of those <650 players gave us a foul of Jeremy Jones proportions.Let's check in on the dead money
Among the six players with missing Fargo ratings, two of the middle eastern players crashed and burned 9-0 against top-flight competition, while South Africans Akaloo and Faul almost took down seeded opponents.Code:## p1 p2 s1 s2 p1_rating p2_rating ## 1 Eklent Kaci Mycherif Zine El Abidine 9 0 819 NA ## 2 Oscar Dominguez Dino Nair 9 3 777 NA ## 3 Omar Al-Shaheen JJ Faul 9 8 789 NA ## 4 Jan Van Lierop Kyle Akaloo 9 8 764 NA ## 5 Hunter Lombardo Mohamed Shareef 9 6 736 NA ## 6 Oliver Szolnoki Hassan Shaaz Mohamed 9 0 787 NA
Among the players with ratings under 650, none of the matches was close.Code:## p1 p2 s1 s2 p1_rating p2_rating ## 1 Tom Staveley Pia Filler 9 2 714 641 ## 2 Jayson Shaw Vincent Halliday 9 2 822 574 ## 3 John Morra Adrian Prasad 9 2 786 634 ## 4 Tyler Styer Kristina Zlateva 9 3 760 644
All ten of these unranked or low-ranked folks lost. No cinderella stories today.
I'll add the Shane W played extremely well to win these matches, he wasn't catching people sleeping.
When I played him it was my best set of the tournament. I had him 3-0, he ran 3 racks. I had him 6-4, he ran 3 racks again. I missed safe and he ran two and out. Something like that. I really only made one blunder and played my best pool but he never flinched once and did everything the table demanded and more to take it away.
Danny Olson told me he had Wolford 7-1 and had been playing really well. Up six games he was too aggressive on a shot he probably should have ducked on. Next thing you know it was 8-4. Danny made one more error and Wolford ran out the rack, then 4 more racks to close out the set.
After what I saw of him I fully expect him to be a future great for the US.