On The Baize - Podcasts

Firstly a huge thank you to everyone that joined our the Cuesport TV Facebook Fanpage. We set the challenge of trying to reach 1000 fans by 31st January. I am pleased to say that we surpassed that target on January 31st.

What this means is that we will as promised donate £100 to the Paul Hunter Foundation (a video will be made to show us actually sending the money!). In addition Fabio Marcello of Italy won the £50 voucher for BilliardsBoutique.com.

Snooker

John Higgins has won the Welsh Open with a 9-4 win over last years champion, Ali Carter. The win puts Higgins 9505 points ahead of Ronnie O’Sullivan at the top of the provisional rankings. If he matches Ronnie’s result at the China Open in March then he will be confirmed as world number 1 before the World Championships start in April.

Cuesport TV

• First episode of ‘In the Frame’ has been shot and will be available to view mid-february.
• Tri-nations Blackball Tournament becomes five-nations, more details soon.
• Confirmed the University Pool Council 8-ball event as live at end of February
• Confirmed the EBA World Masters, live at end of April
• First full-length HD matches will be available starting this week with Chris Melling v James Kay

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An interesting last weekend and apologies for not having provided a podcast last week, it just got a little bit hectic and we couldn’t find the time.

It won’t happen again! In fact we will try and do an extra one at some point in order to catch up.

This weeks podcast is about the recent UPC 8-ball Pool Championships held in Great Yarmouth. A good weekend of action, just a shame it was not live!

Visit UPC-Pool for more information or there is a decent sized forum thread over at Cue Club International, I haven’t read it so can’t comment on the quality of the posts.

In addition this episode also discusses Ali Carter’s recent win in the Welsh Open snooker final where he beat Joe Swail and of course the up coming live event from Peckham.

The live event should be a cracker, John Kelly takes on Tony Halpin for some pocket money - £10,000 per man! Best of 35 frames World Rules 8-ball pool action. It is free to watch so get over to CueSport TV.

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This weeks 4th Podcast (Yes, I have now been doing it for a month!) is packed full of the latest news from the world of pool and snooker including:

China Open Snooker Qualifiers

Welsh Open Snooker (Qualifier Draw at end of post)

Back-to-Back 147 Maximum Breaks

Derby City Classic

Upcoming Live Broadcasts on CueSport TV

All relevant links from this podcast can be found below:

• The Action Report
• Accu-stats
• Ron and Jim Have 147 Fun
• Universities Pool Council

Welsh Open Qualifier Draw

Welsh Open 2009

Qualifying Format 3-6 February 2009

Pontin’s, Prestatyn Sands Holiday Centre, Prestatyn

Tuesday 3 February 2009

10am

Match 1 - Patrick Wallace v Liu Chuang

Match 2 - Kuldesh Johal v Vincent Muldoon

Match 3 - Matthew Couch v Stephen Craigie

Match 4 - Scott Mackenzie v Stefan Mazrocis

Match 5 - Jimmy White v David Grace

Match 6 - Simon Bedford v Wayne H Cooper

Match 7 - Lee Spick v Robert Stephen

Match 8 - Supoj Saenla v Jin Long

4pm

Match 9 - Peter Lines v Andrew Pagett

Match 10 - Paul S Davison v Atthasit Mahitthi

Match 11- James McBain v Aditya Mehta

Match 12- Matthew Selt v Michael Georgiou

Match 13 - Jamie Jones v Li Hang

Match 14 - Lewis Roberts v Declan Hughes

Match 15 - Rodney Goggins v Andy Lee

Match 16 - Daniel Wells v Chris McBreen

Wednesday 4 February 2009

10am

Match 17 - Paul Davies v Winner of match 1

Match 18 - David Roe v Winner of match 2

Match 19 - David Gray v Winner of match 3

Match 20 - Stuart Pettman v Winner of match 4

Match 21 - Rod Lawler v Winner of match 5

Match 22 - Robert Milkins v Winner of match 6

Match 23 - Joe Delaney v Winner of match 7

Match 24 - Barry Pinches v Winner of match 8

4pm

Match 25 - Ian Preece v Winner of match 9

Match 26 - Andy Hicks v Winner of match 10

Match 27 - Mark Davis v Winner of match 11

Match 28 - Martin Gould v Winner of match 12

Match 29 - Liu Song v Winner of match 13

Match 30 - Mark Joyce v Winner of match 14

Match 31 - David Morris v Winner of match 15

Match 32 - Andrew Norman v Winner of match 16

Thursday 5 February 2009

10am

Match 33 - Jimmy Michie v Winner of match 17

Match 34 - David Brown Gilbert v Winner of match 18

Match 35 - Michael Holt v Winner of match 19

Match 36 - Alan McManus v Winner of match 20

Match 37 - Rory McLeod v Winner of match 21

Match 38 - Mike Dunn v Winner of match 22

Match 39 - Gerard Greene v Winner of match 23

Match 40 - Judd Trump v Winner of match 24

4pm

Match 41 - Andrew Higginson v Winner of match 25

Match 42 - Adrian Gunnell v Winner of match 26

Match 43 - Marcus Campbell v Winner of match 27

Match 44 - John Parrott v Winner of match 28

Match 45 - Liang Wenbo v Winner of match 29

Match 46 - Jamie Burnett v Winner of match 30

Match 47 - Ricky Walden v Winner of match 31

Match 48 - Tom Ford v Winner of match 32

Friday 6 February 2009

10am

Match 49 - Barry Hawkins v Winner of match 33

Match 51 - Anthony Hamilton v Winner of match 35

Match 52 - Michael Judge v Winner of match 36

Match 53 - Ken Doherty v Winner of match 37

Match 54 -McCulloch v Winner of match 38

Match 55 - Dave Harold v Winner of match 39

Match 56- Jamie Cope v Winner of match 40

4pm

Match 57 - Stuart Bingham v Winner of match 41

Match 59 - Joe Swail v Winner of match 43

Match 60 - Nigel Bond v Winner of match 44

Match 62 - Stephen Lee v Winner of match 46

Match 63 - Fergal O’Brien v Winner of match 47

Match 64 - Steve Davis v Winner of match 48

All matches will be the best of 9 frames

NB: Matches 50, 58 and 61 to be played at the main event.

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