Tourneys
Topic: Merseyside 9-Ball H-cap (17/11/13)

Merseyside November American 9 Ball Handicap
** SUNDAY ** 17th November 2013, 12 noon start of play.

Monthly Event in 2013 (24 as of 17/11)
Venue:

Rileys Liverpool Grand Central
Bolton Street
Liverpool
L3 5LX
0151 7078349

In between Lime St Station and the Adelphi Hotel

Car park next to venue is £10 all day, shuts at 7 on a Saturday, 4 on a Sunday.

Entry fee £10. (£5 for under 18's)

1st. £110 based on 32 entries paying £10.
2nd. £60 based on 32 entries paying £10.
Semi. £40 based on 32 entries paying £10.
Q-F. £15 based on 32 entries paying £10.

Plate event if enough time and interest £5 entry

The format is to be Double Elimination no matter how many enter. Plate is knockout

Alternate breaks

* 1 on the spot
* 2 at the back, 7/8 behind 1 (amended 11/11/13)
* Golden Breaks count
* No 3 point rule.

All matches race to 7 (plate race to 5)

Registration 11:30, draw 11:45, Prompt start 12 noon

No Dresscode for this event

Please note this will be a 1 Day Event

If you want to play in this event then either post your full name on the forum, or on Facebook, PM me or you call/txt me on 07736551771.

You can pay the £10 entry fee at the club or via paypal to tonysouthern@msn.com choose pay as a gift to avoid paypal charges as follows:

log into paypal
add email of recipient
there is a tab where it says is this a payment for goods, ebay transaction, next to that tab is a tab to send as gift
send as gift.

Or you can send a chq paypal to Tony Southern, 23 Bishop Drive, Whiston, Merseyside, L35 3SY.

Please be aware that this is an open event which will be subject to the following handicaps

Current/Former GB9 Pro players (-2)
Current/Former GB9 players (-1)
Other cue sport pros (-1) (all years)

REGISTERED PLAYERS

1. Tony Southern (-1) (paid)
2. James Bray
3. Kevin Porter
4. John Parke
5. Cory Harvey
6. Daniel Fudge
7. Stephen Patterson
8. Sam Shelton
9. Ben Phillips
10. Andy Danks
11. Darren Low
12. Andy Kuranowski
13. Marek Kosowicz
14. Phil Murphy
15. Joe Capstick
16. Gary Langston
17. Nav Hussain (withdrawn 13/11)
18. Justin Hopper
19. Navid Ahmed
20. Jamie Murray (paid)
21. James Dickel (paid)
22. Geoff Simpson (paid)
23. Zhe Shen
24. Daniel Jones
25. Phil Hughes
26. Mark Hopgood ?
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32.

Reserve List

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Andy Kuranowski and Marek Kosowicz in pls Tony.

Provisionally me and Joe please mate, back's been friar tucked for weeks but hoping it's sorted by then.

ok mate,my backs been bad to

Gary Langston in pls.

Jamie Murray in pls...ta!

James Dickel in please

if you have match balls and/or magic racks please bring them

As we have 20+ entries and lots have work on Monday (inc me !!) going to change the break to speed things up.

1 on spot 7 & 8 behind 1 and 2 at back

Tony,

I may have a crack at this if I can get up on Sunday! Just out of general interest, how does putting the 7 and 8 behind the 1 speed the games up?

If you have random you get players putting low value balls behind 1 playing soft break to leave combo on 9
7/8 behind reduces this

The position of the 1 means more balls on break but trying to avoid leaving easy combos been tried and tested

Ah right. That makes sense! When I get to practice I rack them top to bottom and left to right in the following setup - 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 6, 7, 8, 2 just to see where the balls are likely to end up with my break. When I break a ball from the rail on the line on the right hand side I often achieve a good break but only get 2 points, usually a ball but the 3 sits close to the 9. I always thought that my Magic Rack had seen a bit too much action but maybe I have what some would call a soft break when I'm trying to hit them hard! I always thought that for serious tournaments a random number generator should dictate the pattern for each rack to make it harder for the pattern rackers!

No 3 point rule in this comp so ok with your break

Well done to Navid Ahmed for beating Jack Hillan 9/8 in the final to take the trophy and £100. Jack gets £50

19 showed up out of 24 entrants so better than normal, started at 12:15 double elim, races to 7, finished final at 10:30 !!

Well done Navid and unlucky Jack. I'm sorry I couldn't get down but I had a very late night on Saturday!

:/