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[shenmue]

Jesus christ, a new low for me. Utterly ashamed of myself mate.

[ChrisW]

Taking of Pools. Anyone watching the World Championships?

[Captain Hobo]

Taking of Pools. Anyone watching the World Championships?

Just watching the Opening Ceremony now.

Started out with a guy doing a gymnastics routine with a pool cue, who only dropped it once, went onto some shadow puppetry and now it's some kind of montage showing all the other sports that have sold out to the Saudis.

[Captain Hobo]

Been watching a bit more of the Pool in Saudi.

Absolutely nobody there of course. Also there's 10 tables in the arena and only the main table has a shot clock.

Makes sense that you can't have beeps from 10 tables at once, but quite farcical for a 'World Championship' to have 2 sets of rules.

[shenmue]

Saudi cunts mate

[Captain Hobo]

Fedor Gorst wins the Saudi Pool thing.

Snooker season starts with the never-ending Championship League tomorrow.

[The Ginge Reaper]

Fedor Gorst wins the Saudi Pool thing.

Snooker season starts with the never-ending Championship League tomorrow.

Aye the other lad fucked a safety up in the decider, was well behind in the final too and got it back to 14-14.

[Captain Hobo]

YouTube streaming Table 2, Neil Robertson first up.

https://www.youtube.com/live/uC79cU2E9f ... B4EEc0J35u

[shenmue]

Aussie cunt

[Captain Hobo]

Neil Robertson and Ryan Day through on Day 1.

Mark Williams playing today, but I assume he'll be on Table 1 which means the YouTube group will be Chris Wakelin, Rory McLeod, Ian Burns and Liam Pullen.

[shenmue]

I hate this event

[Captain Hobo]

I hate this event

Agreed, it's rubbish. Today's line-up is particularly vile.

And so many players have not entered, they've gone done to about 40th on the top-up list.

[The Thorn]

Jobberfest

[Captain Hobo]

Matthew Stevens and Ash Carty through on Day 3.

Happy to see Carty beat Elliot Slessor in the last match to go through.

[Captain Hobo]

Jobberfest

Bulcsu Revesz plays on Monday.

[The Thorn]

Jobberfest

Bulcsu Revesz plays on Monday.

Good luck to the young lad

[shenmue]

He's a good lad from all accounts.

[Captain Hobo]

Watching Stan Moody and Ben Woollaston now.

Moody is still only 17. I think in a few years he's going to be a very good player.

[Captain Hobo]

Obese Murphy is a huge fan, sees serious potential in him and has been helping him for a few years.

The game needs a young star imho.

He went to rubbish in his next 2 matches unfortunately, although he still beat Dylan Emery who was even more rubbish.

My point still stands, I think he has a solid game already, he's not just an all out attacker who'll have to learn a safety game later which a lot of youngsters seem to be.

Hopefully he can stay on tour after this season and continue to progress.

Will get my first look at Bulcsu Revesz tonight, be interesting to see his game at a similar age.

[Captain Hobo]

Group featuring Jak Kones, Jordan Brown, Antoni Kowalski and Bulcsu Revesz on YouTube today.

https://www.youtube.com/live/Gqyz--PsgF ... KavcL4U2iT