Billiards US Open 9-Ball Championship: Efren Reyes v Schmidt
BackFacing the world's greatest player in Efren Reyes, John Schmidt looked untouchable after ten racks and was shooting a .980 performance average and leading 6-4. Then, Efren tied it at 8-8, watch what happens next. What was the turning point of the match? Post your comments... Buy Cues @ http://www.billiardclub.net/shop/pool-cues-c-3.html Accessories: http://www.billiardclub.net/shop/pool-table-accessories-c-9.html Balls: http://www.billiardclub.net/shop/billiard-pool-balls-c-15.html Cue cases: http://www.billiardclub.net/shop/pool-cases-c-24.html Table Cleaner: http://www.billiardclub.net/shop/pool-table-cleaner-c-79.html
Channel: Sports
Uploaded: May 15, 2007 at 5:54 pm
Author: BClub
Length: 0:50:39
Rating: 4.70
Views: 290,241
Tags: sports 2005 open ball billiards champ efren
Video Comments:
gorizal (Sunday 16th of November 2008 12:09:12 AM)
Who do think is the BEST??
kindguy420 (Thursday 13th of November 2008 12:25:56 AM)
to cut down on 9-ball breaks they rack the 9 on the spot
fiver420 (Wednesday 12th of November 2008 12:50:06 PM)
fucking annoying guy in the background
franscitroen (Sunday 9th of November 2008 06:29:21 PM)
Isn't the rule that the 1-ball must be racked in the middle of the foot spot?
franscitroen (Sunday 9th of November 2008 06:18:27 PM)
Notice when both players were breaking, relatively many times none of the balls where pocketed? Also notice that the 1 ball was not racked on the foot spot on all times! Is that the reason why Reyes started to break even harder for balls to fall in.
Share your opinion please
Stiletos (Tuesday 4th of November 2008 11:18:46 AM)
From 2-0 Reyes up to 3-2 Schmidt breaking. There goes my interest in this video. When will the pool promoters figure out that breaking apart matches like that only make people lose interest. Keep doing this and in 20 years pool will be no more popular then it is today (and it is already hurting).
BClub (Tuesday 4th of November 2008 12:46:52 PM)
Unfortunately all we have is 48 minutes of content time for each one-hour cable show. Something must be cut. If we shorten the races, then people still complain, because the quality of the play decreases.
It's a no win situation.
Stiletos (Wednesday 5th of November 2008 05:24:27 PM)
Don't shorten the races, simply show the single match in 2 parts if you must. Poker tournaments are doing this all the time. Show the match from 0-0 until 6-4, and then show the second part later. Or you could do as the IPT tried and show parts of many matches being played at the same time, key shots, good outs, in the final 8 on the A-side you could follow each of the 4 matches showing only parts of each of those and in that regard breaking a match up does not make it so discontinuous.
Stiletos (Wednesday 5th of November 2008 05:27:52 PM)
The main key, is in this match you have Schmidt shooting poorly in the start, Efren is playing amazingly well and goes up 2-0 looking like he might run away with it, and suddenly back from break we are at 3-2 with no explanation of the momentum shift that clearly took place in between those 2 time periods. That is an issue, it is like showing a NFL game where a team goes up 14-0 in the first 5 minutes and seems to be dominating, only to come back from break at 14-14 not showing the comeback.
Stiletos (Wednesday 5th of November 2008 05:31:56 PM)
Rest assured, this can be done ALOT better. There are better ways to present the sport. In reality it would have been better to show quick clips of how Reyes got to 2-0 and then actually showing in more detail how Schmidt fights his way back into the match. You are making the same mistake that snooker did thinking that the centuries are the interesting thing to watch when the opening safety battles to start off each frame are where the true battles of skill and smarts are the most entertaining.