World Cup Phillipines
Jack Stein
things came up that have been discussed on RSB.
First, Shane Van Boening (looking up his name briefly no one seems to
know how to spell Boeing or Boening) and and Rodney Morris were partners
and they broke and ran 3 racks, then, broke and came up dry. The Chinese
team then broke and ran 7 racks, then came up dry or had no shot, can't
recall, then Shane and Rodney ran 3 racks, then broke dry and the
Chinese ran out for the win. Nobody missed a ball other than on the
break in 14 racks. Pretty cool.
Now for two interesting events. The ref called a foul on the Italian
team because the hair on his arm supposedly touched a ball! I thought
that was shaky at best.
The second was the English Team was playing someone, wish I could recall
who, but they played a lock up safe, with the CB in the middle of the
head rail with another ball right in front of it. The OB was somewhere
near the middle of the table He could barely hit the CB ball anywhere
other than straight into the corner pocket. Somehow, he managed to hit
the side rail and the CB goes back and forth several times and nicks the
OB for a good hit. Awesome shot, thousands of fans clapped for him.
THEN after the guy sits down with a big smile, and everyone settles down
after his great shot, and the ref calls a good hit, he calls a foul on
hisself. Said the Ferrel touched the side of the CB after he hit it.
This gave England BIH, and they promptly ran out, ran the next rack for
an 8-6 victory. This guy called a foul on hisself in a 6-6 refereed
match, race to 8. This cost him at least 10 big ones because 4th place
was worth 10 g's (1st place winners get 60 g's.
I might also add I recall Karen Corr playing a match, I think against
Fisher, and she called a foul on herself when her hand touched a ball.
No one saw it, but she called the foul in a 50K match.
I personally always call fouls on myself but not sure what I'd do in a
refereed match? Golf it's expected I guess because a lot happens out of
the view of anyone but the player. I think it's neat that Pro Pool
players at this level play with such honesty, when the game has such a
lousy rep. Good for the guy whose name and country I can't recall!
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reports would be cool.
I've both called and not called fouls on myself during local
tournaments. I've felt bad after not-calling so won't do that again.
But calling that foul on yourself in a major pro tournament with no
much $$$ at risk must have been really tough also.
Bob Keller
Fast Larry
wrote:
I have called a foul on my self in a UPA tourney in Vegas, its about
honor, honest, intergrity, if you have those 3, you will and you can.
It happens in golf, all the time.
And calling a foul, for a hair on the arm touching a ball, if some
chink ref did that to me, I would impall my bushka up his poop chute.
By God, that would get on the fookin hi lite tape. He would be
saying, how yo dong pow ra ta so hurt like mother fooker by round eye
hu outta here.
What the hell, I always wanted a brown wrap, instead of my pink one.
John Black
says...
> I might also add I recall Karen Corr playing a match, I think against
> Fisher, and she called a foul on herself when her hand touched a ball.
> No one saw it, but she called the foul in a 50K match.
Who ended up winning?
John Black
Jack Stein
Sorry John, I have no idea. I've watched so many of these ESPN matches
over and over, generally half asleep, they all run together. I do
remember going through the foul frame by frame and still didn't see the
ball move, so the touch was really light. I did the same with the World
Cup foul the other day and you could see where the ferrule touched the CB.
I know we had some lengthy discussions in RSB on calling fouls on your
self, and I'm happy to see some of the worlds best are honest, even when
large money is at stake, and the match is refereed. I've never shot in
a match with a ref other than when called over for a specific shot. I
know if you called a ref over to watch my shot, I would NOT call a foul
on myself if he didn't. Not sure what I'd do if the whole match was
refereed. Sort of like an ump calling a ball on a strike... part of the
game.
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