the rolling towards the pocket snooker championship thread

Look at these two old gunslingers race to see who can totally lose it first! Hendry's winning btw, dude needs to retire asap

Body language on both sides is pretty miserable.

lollll there's a player called Higginson

SON OF HIGGINS

well done barry pinches! good entertainment.

lol hendry and williams playing some of the *worst* snooker i have ever seen

was at o'sullivan v burnett on tuesday, and it was pretty poor. there seems to be a lot of wild inconsistency in playing at this year's grand prix. o'sullivan v higgins was pretty epic tho, and i'm gutted i had a ticket but couldn't go.

also otm re: hendry v williams

Higgins vs Robertson is a great match. Higgins had 100% pot success in the first four frames yet went in 2-2 at the interval. Robertson hit three centuries and led 5-3. Higgins did the old Mr Resilient and took it to a decider.

Higgins was clearing up to take it and knocks in a quality last red but accidentally hit the pink in. 7 points in it, on the yellow, nerves jangling everywhere.

wow, that was hella drama. hoping for Ding v Robertson in the final.

Looks like you're going to get your wish - Mark can't string enough points together.

Higgins - Robertson was awesome. No matter how great their respective techniques, its wonderful to see it coming down to those scraps of luck that anyone can randomly make the most of - it simply came down to Higgins making the last mistake. Not that it doesn't happen in other sports but snooker really zones in on this aspect particularly well.

wow @ the series of long pots Ding played to go 5-1 up against Williams. Esp that Brown - the complaint that most snooker players have sub-zero personalities evaporates as soon as you see some of those.

god why do i watch john higgins play when within 3 minutes i am enraged

he is living embodiment of the argument which states that instinctive genius >>>>>>>>> ruthless efficiency

ah it's higgins vs robertson! no match-up has me more partisan.

fucksake die

CMON THE ROBBO
CMON THE DING

dennis taylor, looking at the breakdown of neil robertson's 127 break: "it's very unusual to see all the colours in a century break! really went round the table, didn't he?"

n.b. 3 of those colours were potted in the final clearance

LOLOLOLOL Higgins goes in-off TWICE IN ONE FRAME, a frame he has looked odds-on to clear up

i almost feel bad XD

h8 this guy

DECIDING FRAME

this has been epic

cmon the robbo

ohhhhhhhhhh fuckoff

...at least ding is merking shaun!

ay, who's watching-dong-ding the higgins vs o'sullivan quater final now?
great entertaining crazyness in frame 13, eh!

higgins 8:5 to the good at the mo' and seems very likely to clinch the win - at last...

i am watching it, silently hating

hatin' what or who 'xactly?

match itself gettin 'nother little twist - and then 'nother.

read more or less every post i have made to this thread! haha

a'right, did read your recent posts.

and ronnie's won his sixth!

CMON THE RONNIE

yeeeeaaah :)

gets bettah too.

teh match, i mean.

I seriously love Ronnie and if he wins tonight I will be quite, quite overjoyed

Game deserves a deciding frame.

ho-ho. i got watching this (semi, not quarter-f, surely) only when it was 6:2 already - and was rather pissed off to see such a sad score. it's taken a few great turns since.

AWESOME FLUKE

AWESOME POT

Y.E.S.

COOOOME OOOOOON RONNIEEEEEEE

dum-di-dum-di-dum!
HUH.
i need a little schnapps.

omg @ this frame

tell ,as they say, me, like, about it :/

OH FUCK OFF HIGGINS

DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE

DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

and to think that for a number of great frames the world did appear a beautifuller place. and then - bam.

I HOPE DING JUNHUI ACTUALLY INSERTS HIS CUE INTO YOUR BUM AFTER WINNING THE FINAL 11-0 OR HOWEVER MANY FRAMES IT IS

DING!!!

If John wins the last 3 frames now, I am killing.

I wouldn't be surprised if John pulls a few frames back, but the way Ding just pinched those frames must be hurting him.

higgins will get another couple of flukes at least (and fuck them up)