the rolling towards the pocket snooker championship thread

best final ever

mark should be well past his selby date already, but miraculously clinging on and now it's 9-9!

bloody hell

best final evah!

ronnie is doing the post match interview like rafa

EPIC

(was watching on actual TV, hence lack of OMG-ing here...truly two players and two performances fit for a final)

I totally missed it :-(

i dunno. ronnie was pretty shit in the final 2 frames

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Final frame needed a Ronnie comeback of sorts, and he did take on that batshit green in the penultimate one (after battling back superbly!) but he was pretty great throughout.

Stopped watching for motd= stupid.

he shouldn't have missed the easy yellow that led to the batshit green!!

also unrelated - for some reason the snooker online really zaps bandwidth cos everytime i start watching tmobile would send me a text message saying i've reached like 95% of the fair use policy or something lol

you'd think a picture that's mostly constant (green) with an occasional dot moving around is an easy stream to compress

loooooool neil robertson losing to the most amazing-looking sportsman in history - it's mark heap part 2!!

come the fuck on steve davis obv

holy. fucking. shit.

@ martin gould's performance in the final frame of the session

Especially the first 30 points of that final break in the last frame, yeah.

I keep expecting John to pass him but its not happening: 10-9

dammit I should be readying myself to play cricket but this is too engrossing, Davis digging so very deep

the plant-green-plant from Gould was one of the most sensational things I've seen

Yeah and then he followed that up with a couple of long blues, and a red red plant, too.

Lots of charismatic snooker.

Can't believe Davis will win till it happens. This is great.

oh wait that was the best bit yeah, the final plant, where I nearly fell out of my chair

watched some of gould last night. his potting is so totally next-level brilliance that he doesn't have to bother too much about position, insanely great.

oooooof

davis higgins is epic

I'm not going to see the end of this. You just know that the only time in the whole match Higgins takes the lead will be at the end of the 25th frame...

amazing

Bloody, and, indeed, hell.

Stunning double. Doubt this will be beaten for drama this year.

And, almost as amazingly, Robertson beats Gould 13-12: shame on the beeb for not cancelling a Dad's army repeat.

Robertson beats Gould 13-12

ok what the fuck

also huzzah steve davis

but srsly what the fuck at the robertson-gould game

dad's army.... uh... lol?

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FUCK

OFF

HIGGINS

this dude is a nightmare

just when you thought it was saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

and like that, you are asphyxiated

Tee hee.

That finish was fucking awesome, let's be honest. Just think how many titles he'd have if he wasn't punting frames at £75k a go.

the frame when williams went 29 up with 27 on the table was incredible.

perfect semi-finalists in this Masters

the two young British pretenders and the two most talented Oriental players

Marco Fu is a waste of talent, more like.

I <3 him, want him to win this tournament

Ding off to a good start, not really fussed who wins as both decent players.

fu shd be level :(

UK championship 2012 drinking game: every time a commentator mentions that Luca Brecel is 17 years old and/or from Belgium - drink!

Unconsciousness to follow.

Mark Selby is so painfully fucking sloooooooooooooooooooooooow it almost makes me want Graeme Dott to beat him. Almost.

For Ronnnie to make a final after being out for nearly a year really is some achievement. You could argue he hasn't had to beat anyone much however he easily beat Judd Trump.

yeah .. the final aint going to be all that though is it given at ththe other semifinalists are not exactly firing on all cylinders.

For the three frames he had to win last night I don't think he struck much above a 50 break but his positional play was a joy to watch: great brown to red in the first frame to kill that off.

Then a red to pink with his left hand in the last.

There is one weakness in his game in that if he has to pick up the rest he'll likely miss but that is only because he is so good with his left! There is no sportsman or woman anywhere who can say that this ability has actually created a weakness!!

Trump was totally bullied and subdued. In that first frame he should've gone for a cannon into the small pack of reds about two shots earlier but he was so vary of Ronnie and tried to pick as many points as possible that he then ended up going for a harder shot, missed and Ronnie took it anyway.

This could be the most underwhelming final since Hendry-Bond. You give Hawkins absolutely no chance. Only thing is you always suspect Ronnie could already be thinking the trophy is his. Its alright for us to think that, not him.

OTM. I don't think Hawkins has a chance. My estimate is it will be a one-sided affair, but that doesn't have to mean it'll be an underwhelming final. Not if O'Sullivan entertains as he did yesterday.

I didn't at all mind Ronnie not scoring high breaks, his positional play indeed was a joy to watch. Not seem him as focused, making the right decisions for a while. If he brings that to the table today I'll be a happy man.

It is a shame though that the competition seems so much worse. And that is compared to a man who hasn't played for a year.