Cazoo World Championship 2024

[PatBlock]

That's not what the bunny girls think mate.

Wouldn't know mate, JRC never invited me to any of his little soirees.

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[PatBlock]

Luca concedes the decider needing just 1 snooker? With 5 reds left? Didn't expect that.

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[fkhan]

The crucible curse is still alive. The Angry Farmer has dodged the Belgian Bullet.

[Cue crafty]

Didn't expect the defending champ to quit needing 1 snooker with that many reds left. Not cool.

[itsnoteasy]

Didn't expect the defending champ to quit needing 1 snooker with that many reds left. Not cool.

I don't think he's feeling great, probably just wanted out of there

[Cue crafty]

I don't think he's feeling great, probably just wanted out of there

The melting pot does crazy things to players minds, he was gone at the end there.

[itsnoteasy]

The melting pot does crazy things to players minds, he was gone at the end there.

Agreed, he was.

[itsnoteasy]

The pocket size discussion is interesting. No idea what the truth is. As a data point though the photos below are of an ex-tournament Star table prepared by World Snooker Services in Bristol.








Whilst these are from a 1920's billiards table.







Clear differences. Not sure i'm seeing any special bevel on the tournament table. I don't feel that i get any more 'undeserved' pots on the Star vs the antique table. My experience on both tables is provided i hit the balls in the middle of the pockets, they go in.

If anything the older tables falls look bevelled and the star is square cut.
Out of curiosity what are those star pockets across the fall? I see the rubber kind of meets the cushion, on mine the rubber is at least an eighth past the wood.
PM me if you want, I'm not after another "my pockets are bigger/smaller than yours, it is a genuine curiosity question. Robert Read looks after our table so he had his own templates and used them..

[FredDavis'Leg]

Not the Dunkirk spirit there by Brecel at all! Oh well, he mentioned being ill, which he may have been, and he is a likable chap. No doubt he will return next year, 'fitter', in his own words. Belgian beer is pretty good though. And chocolate too.

Thought Trump looked fair today, seems to have contained Vafaei well so far. Jak Jones is doing well against Anda, he seems to be not at the same level he was earlier in the season / last year, though still a difficult player to put down easily. See what tomorrow brings for day 2 of 'the marathon of the mind' as the great Clive Everton called it I think.

Is it the World Masters again straight after the main tournament?

[itsnoteasy]

Wanted to ask if you know why JRC doesn't post anymore PB? I see he's still active on eBay etc. Selling the odd cue from his collection. Nothing on here since COVID.

He loved a B&W Burwat cue.
I miss the mad man that was Byrom, me and Geordie saw he had written an answer on a youtube video a while back so we exchanged a couple of posts with him but nothing in here.

[Crucible]

Didn't expect the defending champ to quit needing 1 snooker with that many reds left. Not cool.

He is going on gardening leave and enjoy life as a gnome

[cueman]

I thought this morning Luca didn't look right, but then he started like a bullet winning the first two frames. The wheels just kept falling off though, he had little control of the match, despite the lead he had.

I also feel the same about the Trump v Vafaei match. Judd has needed counter clearances in about 5 of the frames he's won. If Vafaei was a bit more clinical and kept control of the cueball just slightly better, he could've well been going into the final session leading. That match is far from over IMO.

[trains]

Gone for a Haotian, Junxu and Lisowski 1st round treble with Bet365, 11.16 / 1.

[FredDavis'Leg]

I thought this morning Luca didn't look right, but then he started like a bullet winning the first two frames. The wheels just kept falling off though, he had little control of the match, despite the lead he had.

I also feel the same about the Trump v Vafaei match. Judd has needed counter clearances in about 5 of the frames he's won. If Vafaei was a bit more clinical and kept control of the cueball just slightly better, he could've well been going into the final session leading. That match is far from over IMO.

You could be right, but I can't help but feel Vafaei doesn't seem entirely comfortable at the Crucible. I could well be wrong.

In the talk about the possibility of the WC going to Saudi, one thing that I think would be very sad to lose, and something unique
I think to the WC at Sheffield, are the players sitting next to each other in the earlier rounds. It has always seemed so unusual that,
not entirely sure what it brings but I do know it brings something, some kind of atmosphere to the match, particularly when the players
interact sat next to each other. I think it would be a pity if that opportunity went, a bit like how players in tennis sit close to each other,
there is a intra familiarity about it, you are battling each other but close at the same time.

I hear Mark Allen doing commentary this morning on BBC2 with the Selby and O'Connor match, so that is his chance of winning it
gone ;-) I may well be wrong so someone please correct me, but I cannot think of a single player who has done live commentary during
a tournament and who was also competing in the tournament who has gone on to win it? But please as I say correct me if that is wrong.
Just doesn't seem like sense to have to use up the mental energy needed to commentate as well as the mental energy needed to compete.
Just my opinion.

[vmax]

If anything the older tables falls look bevelled and the star is square cut.
Out of curiosity what are those star pockets across the fall? I see the rubber kind of meets the cushion, on mine the rubber is at least an eighth past the wood.
PM me if you want, I'm not after another "my pockets are bigger/smaller than yours, it is a genuine curiosity question. Robert Read looks after our table so he had his own templates and used them..

Those aren't original cushions on that 1920's table as they have a modern cut to them, straight after the fall of the slate rather than carrying the curve past the fall of the pocket as they were back in the day as it was that that made them tighter than they are today. But it does look like a bevel on the edge of the middles. I'll be playing on our 1920's Jacobean tonight, the middles on that one are really tight, can't smash the reds off the blue as the blue will jump out of the pocket. It's supposed to have been reclothed this week as well so I'll be expecting that extreme cushion slide and making lots of tons
That Star looks like the fall of the slate at the corners are a bit closer to the jaws than the 1920's one, every little helps.