2019 World championship qualifiers and draw

[narl]

He's his ex-wife's sister's son.

Looks like Norman Bates

[vmax]

Interesting to see that Carter said that he thought that Jimmy wasn't getting through the ball . With this in mind , I would like to see him play a bit carefree .

He's been dropping the upper arm into the stroke for many years now, in his prime he was like Trump, elbow high on the follow through. He says he's never been coached but his technique has changed a lot, for the worse IMO.
Hendry was the same and called it a day, far too soon I think as it doesn't take a lot to keep the elbow high, especially when it's your natural technique, but if you think you're not getting through the cue ball that upper arm drop can creep into your game and it's a killer when the pressure's on because it's allied to body movement and looking to the pocket.

[narl]

He's been dropping the upper arm into the stroke for many years now, in his prime he was like Trump, elbow high on the follow through. He says he's never been coached but his technique has changed a lot, for the worse IMO.
Hendry was the same and called it a day, far too soon I think as it doesn't take a lot to keep the elbow high, especially when it's your natural technique, but if you think you're not getting through the cue ball that upper arm drop can creep into your game and it's a killer when the pressure's on because it's allied to body movement and looking to the pocket.

White has definitely been coached, he was with Del Hill and others for a good while. Though it's only relatively recently that he started doing that, early\mid 2000's.

[Stony152]

Neal Foulds watching the 16th frame of an 8-7 match.

"This feels like an important frame"

No sh*t Sherlock. At 8-8 it's a 50/50 match and at 9-7 the player ahead (assuming equal ability) has a 87.5% chance of winning.

[Mark187187]

Matthew Stevens playing well

[Stony152]

Donaldson completely lost his mind. ROLL THE FREAKING BALL IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gavpowell]

He's been dropping the upper arm into the stroke for many years now, in his prime he was like Trump, elbow high on the follow through. He says he's never been coached but his technique has changed a lot, for the worse IMO.
Hendry was the same and called it a day, far too soon I think as it doesn't take a lot to keep the elbow high, especially when it's your natural technique, but if you think you're not getting through the cue ball that upper arm drop can creep into your game and it's a killer when the pressure's on because it's allied to body movement and looking to the pocket.

He's had Alan Bell as technical coach on two occasions as well, as the second stint was the first I'd heard of Bell, who was...eccentric.

[Mark187187]

Donaldson completely lost his mind. ROLL THE FREAKING BALL IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not having much fun now by the look of it.

[Dr_Doctor]

What a battler Lu Ning is

[narl]

He's had Alan Bell as technical coach on two occasions as well, as the second stint was the first I'd heard of Bell, who was...eccentric.

I don't think coaching really helps natural players for the most part, it helped o'sullivan who cues differently these days than he used to. White and Hendry had vaguely similar flowing cue actions which altered as soon as they started getting coached. They are both players who for a large chunk of time never got coached, they only really started to around the very late 90's for Hendry and early\mid 2000's for White.

[fkhan]

It was blue first!

[Stony152]

Judgement Day Predictions

JimMalone - 12-4
Stony152 - 12-4
Mark187187 - 9-7

[JimMalone]

So for those who haven't seen it, the draw:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_W...ship#Main_draw

[Neil Taperell]

I've just had a little interest bet on Xintong at 250/1 , all dependant on him beating Dr Death in the 1st round and then Ronnie in the semi

[fkhan]

Good luck to all the players. Some tough 1st round matches to come.