The Masters has finally started, and this is what it's all about (or at least some of it is mostly about (nevermind, I'm waffling and in need of sleep)). Longer matches, an atmosphere (zomgwow, the audience is actually ALIVE!), the best players. Ricky Walden was great yesterday, even when I only kept half an eye on the match. I only saw the ( Read more... )

Just watching the Murf - Hendry match now and got the WTF of the day (in close competition with the rest of my day, but I'll not go into detail on that) did they just fish a ferret out of the wall?!?There is no end to how wild and crazy snooker is :p ( Read more... )

Whoops, snooker - again?! :D

And how better to spend the period of extreme cold than to sit at home, with tea and the fire burning and watch snooker?

Championship League 2009

Crondon Park Golf Club, Stock, Essex

Group 1: Ali Carter, Ryan Day, Ding Junhui, Stephen Hendry, Shaun Murphy, Joe Perry, Mark Selby.

Monday, January 5
(all times are ( Read more... )

I didn't see much of the Maguire match yesterday, and so far I haven't been able to watch an entire break of this match either, but... Stephen seems to be playing like a 9-year-old girl, doesn't he? His long potting % is somewhere in the fifties, which is quite appalling ( Read more... )

Atta boy! 122 and a frame - Stephen Maguire, that's the sort of thing I like to hear!

It was quite a nice break too, albeit a bit messy with two splits that were a bit ... messy. Stephen will have to play better safeties, though, he could have been 2-0 up if not for a dodgy safety in the first frame. Actually, the longpotting isn't quite there yet ( Read more... )

Finally Eurosport has started working, after not having worked this morning - again. I am so going to complain, I don't want to pay money to perhaps be able to watch ( Read more... )

This is a bit painful to watch. I mean - I'm happy whoever wins, because I like both very much, but I didn't want one of them to get squished in the process. John is obviously player better, but he's also got the run of the ball, and absolutely nothing that Ryan does goes right ( Read more... )

I did get a wee bit excited last night - so I made a new banner. It's still not Quite Right, not with the extra text added by LJ, but I'm not going to fiddle about more with it right now ( Read more... )

SF day with John already having won (yaaaaaay! for John and yaaay! for Judd Trump too for making it to the semis!) we're down to ( Read more... )

Yay!

But I hate deciders. Hate them!

"Go on Ryan, give us a punch!" <- weird comment from camera man ( Read more... )