International Championship 2023

Hello mate.

Not seen any of this session up to now, but it's 5-2 Ding over Pang, 5-2 Ronnie over LTT.

Re Tommy Ford, yeah, he's historically been a player who would beat himself if you just stayed with him for long enough.  I think it was a match against Stan Moody earlier in the season where he would have lost his $hit in the past but this time kept it together and got the job done.  Undoubtedly getting more from his natural ability now.

6-5 Baz over Theppy - from 1-5!

Was it the Stan match where he had the go at the heckler in the crowd? Tbh I'll never be putting Tommy in my gold-plated list of clutch players to bet on but he's at least slaying one or two of the worst demons. There'll no doubt be the odd relapse from time to time.

LOL!  If he did, I missed that!    (easily done when table surfing)

1-0 Brown over Mags, Baz over Tommy Ford (after a shocker from Ford)

2-1 Mags, 1-1 Tommy Ford

Imperious Tommy Ford, barring the first frame aberration, 3-1.

2-2 Brown

3-2 Brown, 4-1 Tommy Ford

4-2 Brown, 4-2 Ford barring a snooker

5-2 Brown, Mags not interested in playing on for snookers.

4-3 Tommy Ford

Shocker, Tommy Ford

5-3 Brown

4-4 Baz

Wow!  Unbelievably miss from Brown when in to win F&M

Mags flukes the last red!

Superb yellow

Mags steals on the pink, 5-4 Brown!

1.01 matched on Brown, though I've no idea how, why or when.

(it wasn't when he was 59-0 up and cruising, which would have been the only time it looked reasonably viable)

5-4 Tommy Ford

Tommy Ford blows a decent chance for F&M

5-5 Mags

6-4 Tommy Ford.

Mags butchers a very good chance to lay the snooker he required to win, Brown slots the last red, 6-5 Brown.

1.01 NOT busted

Latalomne Joined: 20 Jul 01
Replies: 4980809 Nov 23 06:36 
LOL!  If he did, I missed that!  LaughLaughLaugh  (easily done when table surfing

You tube to the rescue

https://youtu.be/ZuVLEuz6ltw?si=0GARjcU_XPn5-bvx

LMFAO!!!!    Did WST not charge him for that?!?

I'd say they probably did. The poor ref looked totally shocked, didn't know what to do, did nothing! Bet she grassed him up afterwards though

You would think they would have to!  I'm all for being respectful to the players when they're at the table, but you can't go around threatening the audience! 

No i do not believe that is in the correct spirit of the game Can't even recall last time i saw something like that, there was the Peter Lines thing but that was after the match iirc.

Was it Xiao Lines offered "outsides" to?! 

1-0 Ali over Ronnie, Ding over Zhang

Yeah was Xiao i think and the "offer" was politely declined

Jesus Christ, Ali!

Nov 9, 2023 -- 6:00AM, gjohn101 wrote:

Yeah was Xiao i think and the "offer" was politely declined

1-1 both tables

2-1 Ronnie, 2-1 Ding

2-2 Zhang

Ali steals, 2-2.  Fair reflection

3-2 Ding

Ronnie's turn to steal on the black after Ali misses frame ball, leads 3-2

3-3 Zhang

Other game is a real slog for each of them

4-2 Ronnie.  How Ali only has 2 is something of a mystery.

4-3 Zhang

Fer cough, Ali

Ali eventually takes it, 4-3 Ronnie.  Not good from either.

Nov 9, 2023 -- 7:56AM, Latalomne wrote:

Fer cough, Ali

^

Ding now able to tie from snookers required

Is this really a QF?  It's shocking!

4-4 Ali

Ding can now win the frame

Jesus H Christ

Ali will never have a better chance to beat Ronnie than this.

Ding needs snookers again

5-3 Zhang

Ronnie whacks the table.  How often do you see that from him?!

5-4 Ronnie

6-4 Ronnie, 6-3 Zhang barring snookers

So poor from Ding

GSM Zhang

Jordan Brown steals on the black (I didn't see how Tommy Ford broke down, but he virtually had the frame won) - leads 3-0!

Tommy Ford doubles the final red and barring two snookers wins a frame himself that Brown could have won, 3-1 Brown

Another one for Tommy Ford, 3-2 Brown

3-3

That's a shocker, Tommy Ford.  Frame ball missed

Brown steals, leads 4-3

Lots of headshaking from Tommy Ford over a member of the crowd who's asleep. 

4-4 EOS

Brown BT, leads 5-4

Scruffier frame, 5-5

I've got to go out at 1500.  Doesn't feel like this is going to be done by then.

6-5 Brown

BT Tommy Ford, 6-6

"I think there are players who big pockets suit" 

7-6 Tommy Ford

Tommy Ford assuming control, 8-6.  Will it be that simple, though?!

Tommy Ford goes marching into the Top 16 and the final, 9-6.

I'm defo not here for the first session tomorrow, not sure about the afternoon.

ronnie going to lose tomorrow, been let off so fat and zhang is playing out of his skin

Good shout Pandora!

I hope you backed your opinion?

Well done, Pandora!  Good to see someone (admittedly someone who's already done it this season) have the balls to actually beat Ronnie (unlike JakJ and Ali who both should have done better jobs of beating him earlier in the week).

Not seen the first two frames of the final, but it's 1-1.

Go on, Zhang, lad, 147!  BM time! 

Desmond

3-2 Zhang.

3-3 Tommy Ford

Tommy Ford steals on the black, 4-3

4-4 Zhang, one more this session

Half way there for Zhang, 5-4 at the interval

5-5 Tommy Ford

6-5 Zhang

For the first time all day, a player has a two-frame lead.  7-5 Zhang.

8-5 Zhang

Jesus, Tommy Ford.  Start the car time.

9-5 Zhang, one away

9-6 Zhang

Wow

Shot

Brilliant.  Taken them so well.

Nov 7, 2023 -- 6:00PM, pandora1963 wrote:

if zhang anda doesn't win a tournament soon i will be amazed, he's gone up about ten gears the last year and looks like a top eight player

Great shout, Pandora.  Hope you were on!

thanks mate, unfortunately I wasn't, been kicking myself since he was 20/1 plus