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Cuesports Video - over in the USA - will be showing the Jacoby Cues 9-ball Tour live online today. (Not sure on the start time)

You can watch it below via the embedded player:

Free TV : Ustream

PRESS RELEASE (02/01/2009): CueSport TV, the Internet Pool & Snooker Channel, announce an advertising deal with German billiard cloth manufacturer, Z9 Billiard Cloth, for the 2009 season.

Z9 Billiard Cloth was introduced to the UK market in 2008 when the company sponsored the GB9 Ball Tour. The advertising deal with CueSport TV was struck off the back of the excellent 9-ball video coverage that CueSport TV offered to the GB9 Ball Tour in 2008.

Designed and developed by Klaus Zobrekis, Z9 Billiard Cloth is manufactured in Germany to the highest standards and certified DIN 9001. It is a very innovative cloth that uses the latest fibre technology and is a result of 3 years of intensive research and development.

Peter Williams, MD at CueSport TV Ltd stated “an advertising deal with Z9 is the icing on the cake after a successful 2008 period with the GB9 Ball Tour. Klaus and his company have shown innovation and are the first industry company to develop a series of 30 second video adverts for CueSport TV.”

The series of 3 video adverts which feature Klaus Zobrekis himself pulling off some great trick shots are now showing on the channel.

Back in September we covered our first snooker event the 2008 Belgium Open. A host of top players were in attendance including Mark Selby. Recently I posted a 147 attempt he made in the first frame of the tournament against Kasra Kharavan. Well in that match he went 209 points without reply as he made back-to-back centuries.

The 104 in the first frame was backed up with a 105 in the second.

You can watch this break below:

Neither of these two were actually the tournaments highest break, Neil Robertson made a 142 in his first group match. I will bring you this break later.

I hope everyone had a good Christmas, especially cue sport related. I am sure a myriad of players have received new cues or a new case or the latest gadget.

If you are one of them and are reading this blog then please send me a post and let me know what you got and more importantly what you think of it!

For a little blogging celebration of Christmas I have dug outa video featuring John ‘Mr 400′ Schmidt.

For many of our British visitors and viewers Straight Pool will be a completely new ‘game’ - this discipline of pool was the championship game of choice until the 90’s when 9-ball took over and has been immortalised in the film ‘The Hustler’. The idea is to run as many balls as possible until reaching a set target (usually 150 balls in tournament play).

One of the most highly regarded straight pool players of current times is John ‘Mr 400′ Schmidt, who as his nickname suggests has run over 400 balls continuously. There is a video clip below of John in action at the Derby City Classic.

CueSport TV, the Internet Pool & Snooker Channel, announce a three month banner advertising deal with fresh and innovative cue company MoJo Cues.

The deal is a move in a new direction for CueSport TV who had until now generated revenue through agency based advertisers.

Pete Williams, Managing Director, said, “The advertising deal with MoJo Cues is important for us, a lot of the adverts served by agencies were and still are not relevant to our target audience. It was always vital for us to source advertisers from within the pool, snooker and billiards industry and now this has happened with one of the freshest cue companies in the UK.”

“What has attributed to this deal is an understanding of what the advertiser requires and a massive increase in traffic over the last 6 months, our aim is to offer great value for money so that our advertisers continue to support the channel.”

MoJo Cues, based in Leamington Spa, England, specialise in fresh, modern and funky cue designs using the highest quality composite materials. The companies cues are also making there way into the official merchandise stores of a myriad of professional football clubs. They not only offer great playability but also a pool or snooker cue that is different and exciting.

Further Reading:
http://www.mojocues.co.uk
http://www.cuesport.tv

You had probably forgotten, we broadcast the Belgium Open snooker back in September and always had plans to spruce up the videos and release them on the channel.

We were massively busy through September, October and November so have just started on these tapes. The snooker is awesome and the quality of the video files is also great,

As a little taster we have just released this 104 break by Mark Selby. 13 reds followed by 13 blacks and we were starting to sweat thinking of the maximum 147 break. What made this extra special was that it was the very first match of the tournament and none of the players had been able to practice on the tables. Unfortunately it was not to be but a great effort none the less. Enjoy!

Shaun Murphy joins Marco Fu in the final of the Maplins UK Championships in Telford. The final starts tomorrow afternoon and is live on the BBC in the UK and online.

Marco Fu has had an astonishing tournament where he has simply worked hard to reach another ranking event final, he becomes the second Chinese player to reach the final of this tournament after Ding Junhui in 2005. Fu is the consumate professional and has gone about his business almost without being noticed in this event, Murphy will be a tough opponent.

Shaun Murphy, had until this event had a shocking season, he had not won a match before turning up in Telford. Things have just got better and better for the 2005 World Champion as he has progressed in to the final. His semi-final match against Stephen Maguire was very scrappy and twitchy in places but was topped off with a 136 total clearance to put him 7-3 in front.

My prediction Murphy to win the final by 4 frames!

This week saw another alleged match fixing row in snooker. This time between two Glaswegians, Stephen Maguire and Jamie Burnett.

I am not the person to decide whether this latest case has any truth and the decision of course will be left to World Snooker, should they decide to investigate.

To fill you in if you haven’t heard the story here goes, major bookmakers cancelled betting on the correct scoreline of 9-3 in favour of Stephen after irregular betting patterns occured on that scoreline. The match itself finished 9-3 in favour of Stephen. Of course Burnett vehemently denies match fixing and has gone on record on the BBC saying the same - video here: Jamie Burnett Match Fixing Allegation.
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Through all the hullabaloo over the Mosconi Cup at the weekend I failed to mention that the UK Championship Snooker was on as well!

The second most prestigious tournament in the World Snooker calendar is being shown live on the BBC in the UK and on BBC interactive with table choice. In addition you can watch a snooker live stream also courtesy of the BBC, I believe that due to contractual issues this stream is only available to UK viewers.

Currently the live streams are:

Steve Davis v Ding Junhui

Ronnie O’Sullivan v Joe Perry

If you are outside of the UK then I am sorry that you can’t see it. However, I have posted some unofficial (I must stress unofficial) videos posted on YouTube of this years Championships. They are unofficial snooker videos but are of a reasonable quality:

Steve Davis v Ding Junhui (Part 1)

Stephen Maguire v Jamie Burnett (Part 1)

Controversy

Although no statement has been made from World Snooker yet, betting was suspended on the Stephen Maguire v Jamie Burnett match after irregular betting patterns on a 9-3 victory to Stephen. Ironically the match did finish 9-3 so more information will certainly be requested.

All of the YouTube videos above came from:

http://uk.youtube.com/user/snoookerfan92

You can find the full draw here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/7774168.stm

With Mika Immonen playing some awesome pool in the final rack he potted Europe to Mosconi Cup victory and bagged himself the MVP in the process. Some memorable performances from Ralf Souquet, Niels Feijen who were unbeaten, laid the foundations for the second largest winning margin in Mosconi Cup history.

The European Team was made up of two reigning World Champions and the reigning US Open Champion and always looked too strong for the USA.

In fairness though the USA did not get the luck throughout the tournament, but take nothing away from the European team who potted the balls when they were presented.