HAHA TIME FOR SNOOKER
Starting on BBC 1 right now
Absolutely astonishing tournament so far, it's a shame we've not had any threads for it
Our two semi finals present two very different competitions, including the lowest ranked player to reach this far into the tournament in 25 years.
First up, the battle of the minnows, as China's Liang Wenbo (rank 29) takes on Yorkshire's David Grace (rank 80).
Later on is the battle of the big boys as Australia's Neil Robertson (3) takes on the Jester from Leicester Mark Selby (2)
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>these two semis
Quite uneven
>>63997886
>it's a shame we've not had any threads for it
>forgetting mine
>Grace
i have no idea what snooker is but i'm watching this
>Liang
>Grace
>>63998051
It's elite m8
>tfw no more michaela
>tfw snooker threads on /sp/ are slow as fuck now
I hope the Masters and the WC threads will be as good as usual.
>tfw posted a picture of gould after the match last night saying JUST and nobody replied
guy looked like he was having a breakdown there in his chair
>>63998092
you have to sink all the balls before the black one right?
Sloppy start, both look nervous as fuck
>>63998051
It's quite a comfy sport to watch desu.
>>63998108
you pot a red (1 point), followed by any colour you like, including the black (2-7 points depending on which colour) the idea is to score more points that your opponent
>>63998108
Pot a red and you go for a colour afterwards
pot the colour and it comes back out and gets respotted
do this till all the reds have gone and then the colours go down in the order yellow (2 points), green (3), brown (4), blue (5), pink (6), black (7)
Yeah dodgy opener this
No real safety battle and the potting was poor at the start
Complete meme match this one though, Robertson v Selby will be great later
>>63998003
you got bullied yesterday
don't let them upset you /147/-/180/ Austria senpai
>trying to go all the way round off that pink
kek
i'm not expert but i'd say the bald guy is fucked
>>63998373
80th in the world
he's memed his way this far
Who's the money on bois?
Nice red
>>63998261
wew
>>63998408
This is the game to decide who loses to Robertson/Selby tomorrow night tbqh
Shit. Forgot the snooker was on.
First time in /147/ was at the start of this year.
>tfw holding a shit in for the final frame in the final
>>63998408
Put a cheeky fiver on Grace to win this game.
dat yellow
>tfw the bbc lose the snooker
>>63998511
>tfw Snooker is dying anyway
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>>63998511
>>63998522
>test cricket gets to its peak popularity with the 2005 Ashes
>goes off terrestrial TV
>declining ever since
>snooker might go the same way
Why can't comfy sports stay on normal TV lads?
Fuck me, good climax to what has been a shitty frame
>this blue
blue ball'd the blue ball
>Liang
THIS FUCKING FRAME
>getting blue balled by the pink
>Grace
lel
>tfw on a bus to watch City AFC batter Leeds Poonited
>no comfy snooker
>>63998093
UK and Masters are always slow, WCs are the best /147/
Threw that one away did our David
>>63998779
I dunno I'm sure I remember Masters threads at least being quicker than this one, even in the earlier stages.
this is hilarious
>that guy with the Barca shirt in the crowd
why.jpeg
>>63998812
Glad you're enjoying it
>>63998825
I always get a little annoyed at people wearing football tops at the snooker.
>>63998825
>there are still grown men who wear football shirts to the snooker
Absolutely disgusting.
>>63998093
Yeah, there used to be a /147/ for minor tournaments, now even the bigger ones are slow. It's probably because all the Ronnie babbys are gone.
>>63998847
>>63998825
this guy though
>>63998853
well they'll be back for the masters, to watch him lose it because he's not practiced for 8 months.
>>63998887
That's much more preferable compared to a football shirt. In fact I quite like that don't bully him.
>tfw based Bing has been completely exposed as the jobber he is so far this season
>>63998887
Huh...wow
You can tell these are both non top 16 players
>>63998927
It's kind of a shame. His play at the crucible was legit. I really hoped he'd turn it around and use this to take a step forward in his game, but instead we get le crucible curse meme again.
give me a week to practice and i bet i could beat grace t-b-h
That's a fucking mega shot
>>63999117
It would probably take you a week to get over how big the table actually is. They're surprisingly big.
>>63999145
TV does not do it justice at all
>>63999145
>always been told snooker tables are huge
>play pool nearly every night at local pubs
>decide to hit up Riley's while I'm visiting a friend
>realise just how long they are
Never played on a full size table though. Wouldn't want to embarrass myself in public.
>>63999145
The first time I played snooker I got winded from walking around so much and couldn't pot for shit. If you're used to playing on small pool tables in bars, you just die.
>>63999145
>When you nail a length of table pot on a full size snooker table
I play snooker every week, its more the pockets that make the difference rather than the size of the table itself.
>>63999400
Good luck later Mark
>>63999400
The middle pockets are so fucking gruesome.
>>63999428
Cheers m8, need all the luck I can get.
>>63999477
Middle pockets are the easiest on the table imo
>>63999526
I just play every other month, so it's just a shitty noob opinion anyway, but to me the middle pockets are way harder. I don't even know why.
>guaranteed literal who in the final
>semi final 2 is the final
pretty shit tournament desu
>>63999624
I'm with you. Only played pool but if it's not an easy angle or doubling it off the cushion they're the hardest for me.
It's nice being back in /147/ lads
>>63999692
Have you got the absolutely inch perfect picture?
>this literally who match
>>63999718
>>63999733
First frame had quite a climax
>>63999718
>>63999744
>mfw people remember and saved my OC
>>63999777
my sides
Nice green
i would snooker this lady's dusty minge if you get what i mean
think this is going to be a long one desu
>>64000244
It's what you get when Grace's best shot is safety, and liang is choking on every long pot
>>64000290
I want safetyfags out of my sport
>>64000354
10 second timer on every shot is the way forward :^)
>invite Ronnie to your local snooker club
>casually bangs in a 7 minute 147 to enetertain the lads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhWHOqD4lrw
>>64000576
Damn son
>>64000576
Liang getting absolutely savaged by the studio
This piece about toilet breaks is the worst thing I've ever seen
>>64000672
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTdPPiItGOQ
>>64000679
He's been fucking shit aside from that lovely snooker he played inbetween the brown and black up at baulk
>tfw no snooker medal
GRACE ON FIRE!
im going to bed
this is a good thing to fall asleep to
>>64001344
sleep tight puppe.r
>>64001344
goodnite
>>64001344
I fall asleep all the time to snooker.
>>64001393
So does the audience desu
>this table right now
dat shot
This game is so fucking shit
Who /JesterFromLeicester/ here?
Can anyone else remember a match this shitty so late in a major tournament?
This is just fucking embarrassing.
This is like justin pipe playing brendan dolan
>>64004050
lel
>>64004003
Fuck off sausage knight
>>64004003
Rooting for Robertson. Mostly because he's in my snooker fantasy team.
Snooker would be so much better with a darts crowd. In fact all sports would be better. Imagine Wimbledon with 1000s of drunk fans on centre court. None of this 'quiet please' nonsense
>>64004050
jej
>>64004129
The Davis cup atmosphere was fucking sick
People might watch tennis if it was like that all the time
was in Cambridge a couple of months ago and Neil was playing in a snooker club I went to.even said nice shot on one of my cuts
>>64004003
Literally noone anywhere ever
>>64004129
I really enjoy the darts crowd, but a silent crowd is also awesome in a different way. You can really feel the tension in the air, it's also harder on the players than if there's constant background noise.
>>64004197
I went to John Virgo's house when I was like 10 or so
Any pics of graces qt gf?
>rerack
jesus fucking christ, somebody do something interesting pls
>yfw pro Dota 2 players get about 10 mil for tornament wins
Wonderful snooker
Tournament organisers on suicide watch
>>64004306
not really, barry's happy any time a chinese guy makes a deep run since that's where all his shekels come from nowadays
The GOAT commentary team is virgo and hendry
>>64004258
Dis he complement you on your play? Didn't think so
Don't try one up me you little cunt! I'll snooker you so hard you'll be retiring the frame!
>>64004355
I prefer Dennis Taylor and his lovely Norn Iron accent.
Who was the chinese lad who missed the black for a 147 the other day?
>>64004369
same
Love when Parrot is in the comms box too
>>64004373
thailand != china
thepchaiya un-nooh, for the record
Another rerack lads?
>>64004373
HIT WUNG BALL
>>64004404
>un-nooh
yes that's it, I remember his name was so fucking ironic
>muh kick
>get bored with snooker match, go to bathroom to shave and take shower
>come back
>didn't miss anything
fuck this
>>64004673
this game has been really fucking slow even for snooker standards really
>>63998103
Repost please
The ref should give him a slap.
>Grace
>>63998093
My boy bing...
>Reading out tweets
>Those retarded twitter handles
Fuck social media.
>this whole match
gonna treat robertson - jey-chester from leychester as the final tbqh
>Grace
He's finished, thankfully. Won't have to see any more of his landwhale fiancé
Christ, this finishing is like watching women's darts.
selby v robson final desu
Has Liang got multiple sclerosis or something...
quite a few qtpies in the audience, don't remember hardly any women at all in the audience in other tournaments, let alone nice looking ones
>he's just hit it TOO WELL if anything
ken's been hanging around with virgo too much
Liang is pretty funny
That fella asleep in the audience
>>64005263
Got a pic?
When they show the path of the ball with the arrows, what do you prefer? When the ball follows it perfectly or when they play a completely different shot that's even better?
Grace plays out of the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds, one of Britain's leading clubs which in recent years has staged the World Billiards Championship and Women's World Snooker Championship. He cleans tables there too, and has vowed to be back at work on Monday.
This fucking frame
dis nigga.
>Grace
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Fucking hell, calm down Liang
I TRIED SO HARD
Based liang
>jumping higher than Warner hitting a ton
Need a jump off.
He's a bit happy.
Uncouth as fuck
>that game took nearly 5 hours
holy fuck david
How can one man be so based?
http://thethinair.net/2015/11/snooker-looping-steve-davis-dj/
Dad's Army and snooker - quite comfy.
who /Robertson/ here?
>>64006928
na
like i said on the /180/ threads
neil robertson is the kim huybrects of snooker
Ken 'tree and turd' Doherty.
>>64006928
Neil Robertson and Mark Selby
Consistent cancer.
>Robertson
>Chelsea fan
You can't make this shit up.
>jester from leicester
Is that an ironic nickname?
>>64007545
His real nickname is The Human Leopard.
>>64007545
He goes by a lot of names.
>hating selby so much you actually want robertson to win
>>64007656
>Black beater
Its wierd that they will make the winner of tonights final play the winner of the amateur event tomorrow.
Neil coming from behind
Damn, that red wasn't even close to getting in.
I take it Wenbo's game isn't worth watching the highlights of?
>that time he fluked a red, didn't see it, and sat down
>>64008219
Wenbo is the master of autistic antics, he pulls the best shit. I love that guy. The game was boring as shit, though.
Good stuff from Neil
Nice clearence.
Watching good players again now. Yay.
Nice opening pot. RIP Molester from Leicester
>Neil
This looks cozy. I want to try watching.
Is it easy enough to find a stream? Not asking for a link but I have no idea how you even view this sport if you're not in it's fanbase's hemisphere.
This championship is nothing without my boy Bing...
>>64008710
it's on bbc 2 in the UK. you'll need a uk vpn to stream it from bbc's official website, but if you google "bbc 2 stream" i'lm sure you'll find plenty.
Whitewash incoming.
>>64008798
With a follow up of losing in the decider against Wenbo in the finals.
Mark selby always looks ready to cry
dat commentator's curse
>>64008744
nice I found one
>>64008870
Nah, whoever wins this match will win tomorrow. I would like Wenbo to win but it's not going to happen.
>>64008991
Ah, come on, I wasn't being serious. Robertson has been inconsistent, but not that inconsistent.
>>64008939
Listen carefully.
wonder if Neil is rethinking his support of Chelsea
Snooker bingo where? The proper one
>>64009280
>>64009307
Much love Ausbro
someone post the zester image
Where is everyone...?
>>64009591
>>64009741
Right here
Why is Neil Robertson so unlikeable?
>>64009307
>climate shift between ebdon shots
Top banter.
>>64009836
Because he's a tall, good looking aryan looking guy who's fucking mint at snooker m8.
Envy.
>>64009908
>good looking
Bit of a stretch there m8.
>>64009908
>fucking mint
Goddamn Brits 10/10
>>64009836
unfortunate face.
personality of a soap dish.
>>64009836
>good looking
J U D D T R U M P S P E C I A L
>>64009908
t. Neil Robertson
>>64009908
But he's a ginger who dyes his hair, and has a mong/smug face constantly. muh veganism too.
>>64010222
>being a grown man, a millionaire, a successful 'sport'sperson and STILL being so insecure that you need to dye your hair
What a bender.
Selby getting BTFO
>>64010268
It never bothered Steve Davis, and he won 6 World championships.
>>64010318
And he's also a rad DJ.
England's brave Liang Wenbo will win tomorrow against the Asian robot Robertson. I can feel it.
WHO /bing/ HERE?
>>64010392
2based
Is Selby playing like this so he can get back home in time for Match of the Day?
Also, Neil Robertson spends 80% of his time playing WoW in hotel rooms.
Highlight of the championship so far?
>>64010617
Turning off the tv
>>64010617
ronnie saying he'll play in the masters
>>64010617
That Chinese bloke's celebration after winning the semi
>>64010617
The butterfly that landed on the table.
>>64010617
Un-Nooh and the near 147
Why are all Thai snooker players memes?
Just tuned in; what's wrong with the table?
>>64010617
That missed black on the 147.
I haven't watched snooker in a few years, when did all these Asian players take over? There's hundreds of them.
>these balls
>>64010771
>what's worse
missing the black or losing to pic related
>>64010887
Pls no
Robertson's safety game has been very good desu.
Is there any sport we don't get fucked in the arse by Aussies in?
>>64011025
>we
>>64011025
Darts m8
>shitlock
>asstit
LOL what the fuck was that
Would the players be allowed to listen to commentary team whilst playing/
What a sexy fluke
Fucking hate Selby, glad he's getting himself reemed right now
>>64011480
why lad
Kicks are a meme
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>6-0
BTFO
Absolutely raped
Selby won't be able to sit down for some time after this one.
>>64008798
>>64008798
>>64008798
>UK Championship
>An Aussie and a Chinaman in the final
>>64012013
First time no UK player has made the final I'm reading.
>>64000776
lmao did they really?
