Efren Reyes v Shannon Daulton One Pocket Galveston World Classic

Efren Reyes v Shannon Daulton One Pocket Galveston World Classic. Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/inside-pool-and-billiards.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• pool
• billiards
• pro
• tournament
• match
• Efren Reyes
• Shannon Daulton
• One Pocket
• Galveston World Classic

[anphelps27]

Only pool players understand what is going on here. It is a shame that pool is dead. It used to be that pool halls is where you would go if you wanted to gamble a bit. Then poker became popular and pool quickly died. The amatures that play poker will fire a few hundo at a pro, but no one will bet a dollar anymore in a pool game.  Just an example of how lazy kids today are. Pool takes a lot of time and dedication and no one plays. Cards takes luck and evry1 thinks they r pro.

[searspunch]

shannon "the cannon" REYES

[ikawpipa]

what kind of a game is this ?!? ... they should play naked to make it more interesting.

[dobler132]

@searspunch you stole my comment!

[MarkDConnelly]

You have to wonder how they can be going on about the 3 ball when the 7 ball that was the first ball pocketed was sitting on the table. Reyes owed a ball and the 7 ball was spotted. Does it get any easier?

[SimpVeggie]

@anphelps27 umad?

[Eursavion]

@anphelps27 Come on down to Southern Billiards in Starkville, Mississippi. Pool isn't dead here =D

[007kclaw]

what a great match... this is about as good as it gets... i love one hole

[nsl471]

@anphelps27 Oh my. I friggen love pool hahah. My half brother who is about 20 years older than me bought me a nice fiber-glass que. I've been playin' pool for a few years now, a junior in highschool. It's fun :D I bet money on suckers (everyday I'm hustlin') :)

[realazzrealgets]

i watch this video once a night! loveit! learn it! study them!

[nman48]

The reason it takes so long is that you never want to give the opponent a chance to start a run. That is why the shots for the first 30 minutes were all defensive (putting the cue ball near the other shooter's pocket.) You want unobstructed balls near your pocket so when the other player sells out you can run out.

[mschonert7]

the commentators were going on about the ball being counted for the wrong side, but weren't they forgetting about the intentional foul that efron made and he owed a ball, or am I wrong here?

[sackerland]

This is a great match! I love the game of one pocket because it is so much more challenging for me than 9-ball or 8-ball. Anyways, it is pretty crazy to see Efren take a loss..

[bluesruley2k]

@bluesruley2k...Ok..I take that back....I have absolutely NO idea what they are doing here!

[bluesruley2k]

Watch the movie "Turn the River" for a little better understanding of the game. Although the movie is obviously made under the assumption that everybody understands "one pocket", it makes it a little clearer. After that, look up "one pocket rules" on Yahoo! or your favorite search engine. It's really not that difficult to understand....

[kevycanavan]

5 people don't understand the rules

[Palinurus99]

I'm reading Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling and I'm wondering what one-pocket is. YouTube is very useful for questions like this. It's making more sense now.

[gumaming]

@carneyfex ... Like the 8 ball IPT tour format. 9 ball is televisable because of its short races. In a game of one pocket, it could take hours.

[gumaming]

@carneyfex i totally agree with you that 9 pool is rubbish. As an amateur player like myself, I play it for the fun factor but for professionals its rather low, and winning short race 9ball tourneys isn't the basis of great skill and talent. That's why players like Reyes would sometimes easily lose. If all the balls pocketed in 9 ball, including the 9 on the break are called in, then and only then that I will have respect for the game. I'd rather prefer 8ball, long races,round robin matches lik

[carneyfex]

@gumaming Well, I consider myself a snooker fan, but I would concede that straight pool or one pocket (or many other flavours of pool!) require insane amounts of skill, as much or more than snooker. Too bad that the only pool game that gets any reasonable amount of coverage is the nine pool, which, in comparison, is child's play (and rather rubbish).

[JorickHorn]

@anphelps27 That's why you can make more money at poker if you're good at it. In pool, the suckers don't stay long, but in poker, they win often enough that they stick around despite their low level of skill.

[angellover91436]

@ljcayie if you make a ball in the same time as committing a foul, that ball spots, and you still have to spot one of your own.

a ball must contact the rail after the cue ball strikes a ball. sometimes people take intentional fouls so they do not give their opponent a shot.

[angellover91436]

@ljcayie it is called "one pocket". at break time, a player picks one of the lower two pockets as his pocket. the objective of the game is to make 8 balls in "your pocket" before your opponent makes 8 in his. a ball made in your opponent's pocket counts as a ball for them.

if a ball is made in the other four pockets, it gets spotted back.

if a foul occurs, you spot one of your balls. if you have none, you will "owe" one.

[angellover91436]

i love it when the commentator stutters (his only job is to talk and he cannot do it right) and the MC is like a mummy...it is a shame that great matches like this can be ruined by the "extras"

[bob07071985]

@ntnrocket : hahahah.. agree. battle of brains....chess of pool!

[migwombat]

Great shot at 15:00.