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6 Great Places to Watch Live Pool (When we’re not streaming)

January 24, 2012 / The_Teach / No comments

There are a number of great people out on the web providing some really good quality live streaming, you may have seen some of them but I hope that some are new to you. However, you are only allowed to watch them when Cuesport TV are not live streaming!

I have not ranked them in order of preference, the list is simply there to make it easier to read:

  1. InsidePool.TV – probably the best pool/billiards magazine on the market, they have been involved with live streaming for a number of years now, they make use of both the Youtube and UStream platforms which makes access very easy.
  2. TheActionReport – They have been doing this since 2007 (about the same amount of time as us!) and the quality has just got better and better over the years, expect multiple camera angles, live commentary, interviews and also a live podcast now as well. Probably the one website that most ‘streamers’ aspire to.
  3. Pool Action TV – Operated by Ray ‘BigTruck’ Hansen PoolActionTV have done a number of differing productions over the last 2 years. Along with regular coverage of Pro/Am events they have also covered the Ultimate 10-Ball Championships and a number of money matches.
  4. OTBNTV -On The Break News operate a number of smaller pool magazines and also got invloved with the live streaming of tournaments from their area a while back. Again utilising the Ustream platform to provide live and VOD coverage.
  5. MaxLeePool – It is great to see someone else trying to push the UK game forward and this site provides live streaming as well as a tour that they operate up in Scotland, great if you are a fan of Blackball or the UK 8-Ball game.
  6. OnTheRail TV – Established in 2008 (07/08 almost seems to be the birth of live streamed pool!) they create high quality match-ups and stream pro-am tournaments from the Arizona region of the US. Many top names have featured including Efren Reyes, Earl Strickland and Darren Appleton with One Pocket seeming to be a speciality.

This is just a small list of live streaming resources, please send me links to other live streaming websites/companies/profiles on the web and I will try and update this list over time. If I have made any glaring errors then please let me know.

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Almost Perfect Pool

November 29, 2011 / The_Teach / No comments

This video is definitely worth a watch. In an amazing match that lasted just 23 minutes one of the two players played almost perfect pool, in fact their only mistake was a scratch in frame number 5. The match was the final of the 2011 Welsh Open recorded in Sunday 27th November.

Watch it below and then please let us have your thoughts:

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A Short Lived Return

November 26, 2011 / The_Teach / No comments

It has been a very long time since I personally picked up a cue in anger. I don’t mean to use as a cosh in some bar brawl, but as the weapon of choice on a pool table.

Laughing aloud the organisers of the Welsh Open, a blackball event I am covering for Cuesport TV, told me they had put me in the main draw.

It would have been fine but for two things, I haven’t played any form of small ball game for about two years and I didn’t have a cue.

The cue problem was solved by borrowing a very nice Trevor White one piece owned by Paul Bushnell. I can’t reply you in words how nice that cue is!

Ok so we come to the second problem, not having played for a very long time.

I have to say I was strangely nervous, with no expectations I expected to be feeling quite relaxed. Not the case!

I won the lag and hit an awesome break. All the balls in situe for a nice dish, I didn’t take it out though failing on my final colour. Luckily though I got a second chance and went 1-0 up!

Second frame I made a nice clearance after my opponent failed to make his break work, and after a bit of a battle. This meant I was leading 2-0 in the best of nine match.

It went downhill from there though! He battled back to lead 3-2 even though I had a chance in every frame.

I did manage to level it in the next only to see him take the seventh frame.

The 8th frame saw a dry break from my opponent with a scratched white. I used my first shot to good effect and looked set to take out the frame only to go in off whilst getting position on the black – gutted!

I lost the game 5-3 and was reasonably pleased with my performance, may even have to start playing again now!

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A Very Good Advert for Blackball

November 10, 2011 / The_Teach / No comments

For some reason these two video files took longer than all of the others to come through our transcoding system. they were originally uploaded on the 29th September and a few errors occurred meaning they have only been made available today.

For me this was the best match and best advert for Blackball pool from the entire week of the European Blackball Championships in Ireland.

It was a real clash of styles between Darren Sterrett of Northern Ireland and Gavin Cleary of the host nation. The match was from the semi-final stage and a place in the final was up for grabs.

Darren was much more the steady player and from my experience of Blackball over the past couple of years I had him down as the favourite.

Before the tournament Gavin was unknown to me (may have missed a trick there I know!) but came out in this match with some seriously aggressive and attacking pool.

I won’t ruin the surprise go and watch both parts of this match yourself at the links below and please let me know your thoughts.

Gavin Cleary v Darren Sterrett – European Blackball Semi Final – 1 of 2

Gavin Cleary v Darren Sterrett – European Blackball Semi Final – 2 of 2

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Heaps of Videos Now Showing

October 12, 2011 / The_Teach / No comments

It has been a little over two weeks since I returned from Ireland and the European Blackball Championships, during the time I had over there James and I recorded some amazing action and it has always been my intention to make new content available sooner.

On this occasion I have pulled out all the stops to try and keep this event fresh in people’s minds. All of the content has now been uploaded to our system, some is taking a bit more time than others to come through transcoding however. What this means is that there will be somewhere in the region of 30 hours worth of Blackball Pool for you to view.

Most of the content is broken down into hour long chunks, but if that is too long then just use the skip feature on the video player.

I really hope you enjoy tucking in and watching some of this action, my favourite match of the whole week was probably the men’s semi-final between Darren Sterrett and Gavin Cleary, the match was tense, had great safety and some good aggression on the table as well. In my eyes it proved to be a very good advert for the Blackball game.

Sadly this is one of the matches that is not yet released but I will update this post with a direct link once it is.

Do you have a favourite match from the event? Please let us know

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Euro Blackball – Final Day TV Schedule

September 21, 2011 / The_Teach / No comments

This is the TV match times for the final day of the European Blackball championships in Carlow, Ireland.

Thursday 22nd September

10:00 – Team Matches

13:00 – Team Speed Pool

14:00 – Team Semi Finals

17:00 – Team Finals

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Euro Blackball – Day 4 Schedule

September 20, 2011 / The_Teach / No comments

TV Match schedule for Wednesday 21st September

10:00 – Ladies Singles Final – Sabrilla Burnet (FRA) v Nicky Correa (GIB)

12:00 – Northern Ireland v England – Men’s A (Team)

15:00 – Doubles Semi Final

16:00 – Doubles Final

18:00 – Will be a team group stage match

All times are UK time and are approximate, due to a ‘fluid’ schedule at times we cannot guarantee that these will be the actual matches shown but will do our best.

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European Blackball Final at 16:00 Today!

September 20, 2011 / The_Teach / No comments

Due to a change in the schedule the Men’s European Blackball Championships Final will now be shown live today at approximately 16:00 (UK time).

The final is between Christophe Thebault (Fra) v Gavin Cleary (Ire)

To pay for the live stream and to login visit this link: Euro Blackball

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EBA Euro Champs – Day 3 Schedule

September 19, 2011 / The_Teach / No comments

Day 3 – 20th September

There will be a slight change to our orginal schedule as the singles finals were moved to 4pm today (supposed to be 6pm on 19th).

10:00 – England v Northern Ireland

13:00 – Doubles First Round

16:00 – Men’s Singles Final – Christophe Thebault (FRA) v Gavin Cleary (IRE)

18:00 – Northern Ireland v France

the times are always approximate and are written in UK time.

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Finals – Hmmmm

September 19, 2011 / The_Teach / No comments

After spending the last 30 minutes telling everyone the start time and players for the men’s final the EBA have now announced that they have been postponed until tomorrow.

This has been caused by a team session running over by 50 minutes (so far, as there are still matches going on).

Rather than start the latest session past 8pm they have decided to postpone the singles finals until 16:00 on Tuesday 20th September.

Unfortunately we have no control over the schedule and can only broadcast what is available.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

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