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Snooker World Championship 2019
« on: April 20, 2019, 09:54:59 AM »
At the Crucible Theater in Sheffield, yo.

It starts today and will run for a couple weeks.  BBC covers it but I'll have to fuck with a VPN to watch any of it.  I may just tolerate a one day delay and watch key games on Youtube.

I prolly oughta be starting this thread at FT since I don't know anyone but Weepy who gives the slightest fuck.

Ronnie O'Sullivan is at 3:1 to take his sixth world championship.  Some hotshot named Trump is also in the top tier, as well as last year's 2 finalists.
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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2019, 07:21:16 AM »
It's hard to fukin believe the Brits have once again concluded a stellar WSC after maybe 2 weeks of play, and there are several Brits on this forum, and not a single peep out of any of them about this important matter.

Snooker is just about the only Brit export that I value, other than the 3.4 liter engine from the late forties that powered Jaguar cars for a few decades and was the only worthwhile component of them (and is still reckoned as one of the finest examples of automotive visual art.)  The world truly is far richer for snooker, even though most Yanks play it on a slightly smaller table.

It breaks my heart to think I have more snooker playing pals in my local church congregation than you fukin Limey pole smokers can muster up here on SGz.  I make an exception solely for Reaps, of course.   
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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2019, 07:39:30 AM »
Perhaps if they celebrated a win thus



The kids might be down with it.

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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2019, 07:47:59 AM »
So, this year's champ is Judd Trump.  Not his first rodeo of course, but his first WSC title although he's been around in the top tier for nearly a decade.

The most interesting thing (for me) about his game is, while he doesn't have quite the "touch game" of his final opponent Higgins, nor the madcap flair of my hero O'Sullivan, he does have the rare ability to apply the "power cue" to snooker.  This is beyond the reach of most players because one has to be an incredible shotmaker for it to work.

Here's a compendium of some Trump power cue antics.



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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2019, 08:05:15 AM »
I used to drink in The Royal Bar in Belfast where Alex Higgins hung out.

Toward the end it got a bit sad. Every fucker bought the guy a drink when he was obviously very sick.

He'd play you for £20

How the mighty fall.

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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2019, 09:22:27 AM »
MAKING SNOOKER GREAT AGAIN !

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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2019, 09:30:34 AM »
How the mighty fall.

He was good for the sport through the Eighties because he brought a "reality tv" persona to the game.  But yeah, everyone enjoys watching a slo-mo train wreck until it's time to collect the corpses.  The fookin Irish, what can you say?

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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2019, 11:00:04 AM »
Snooker was popularised in the UK by a programme called 'Pot Black'. A half hour one frame show between the highest ranking players of the day.

Snooker was then held up with the eccentric characters like Higgins and White but had it's day and as it became more clinical with less of the overt showmanship we were used to it died on TV.

Much as Darts.

But they both seem to be coming back into fashion somewhat.

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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2019, 11:01:47 AM »
Memories -


I used to play snooker with Daz and his crew  :bawling:
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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2019, 11:20:10 AM »
2 snooker balls in a sock are handy in a bar fight.

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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2019, 11:48:12 AM »
It’s called pool here
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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2019, 12:17:12 PM »
It’s called pool here

That's a different game honey.

Do keep up.

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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2019, 12:26:37 PM »
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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #13 on: May 11, 2019, 12:29:42 PM »
Do any of you actually play ?
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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #14 on: May 11, 2019, 12:33:34 PM »
Do any of you actually play ?

Used to play a lot but I don't go to pubs anymore as the smoking ban has killed British Pubs.

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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2019, 12:37:25 PM »
Do any of you actually play ?

Before I had kids I use to be a semi-professional pool player.Meaning I played a few pro events but didn't make much money from it.When I had kids I had to quit as one couldn't really justify going to the pub 3-4 times a week.
Nowadays I just play snooker down the British Legion once a week(the play-boy life style,eh).
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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #16 on: May 11, 2019, 12:40:29 PM »
Used to play a lot but I don't go to pubs anymore as the smoking ban has killed British Pubs.

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You smoke ? Gross
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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #17 on: May 11, 2019, 12:41:20 PM »
Before I had kids I use to be a semi-professional pool player.Meaning I played a few pro events but didn't make much money from it.When I had kids I had to quit as one couldn't really justify going to the pub 3-4 times a week.
Nowadays I just play snooker down the British Legion once a week(the play-boy life style,eh).



Yes, kids tend to put a damper on things. At least until they’re around 10
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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #18 on: May 11, 2019, 12:52:19 PM »
Do any of you actually play ?

I still play.  After my cataract surgery ten years ago I got lens implants and it took me a while to figure out how to see without the thick ass glasses I'd worn my whole life.  But I'm good now.  Never liked playing in pubs because the equipment is always shit, although back in my drinking career I always played in a tavern league. 

We have pool halls here, though, and one of my neighbors has a decent table in his home.  Snooker and Billiards are tougher, I think there's only one snooker table in the whole county and maybe 2 billiard tables.  They take up more room than a pool table.

I like pool.  From comparing notes with Reaper I think American pool is easier and considerably different than English pool, but American snooker is pretty much the same as English (except American snooker tables are smaller.)

Billiards is my great love, though, especially 3-cushion.  I was snooker champ of my college 2 years running but there were too many crafty old professors playing billiards and I couldn't compete.

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Re: Snooker World Championship 2019
« Reply #19 on: May 11, 2019, 01:08:08 PM »

You smoke ? Gross

You don't smoke? Gross.

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