Congrats

[CrapHacker]

I've been waiting for someone else to post it, but it looks like you lot are a load of old miserable sods.


So I'll be the first ( and probably only ) one to say congrats to Steve Davis on achieving the impossible in his field of expertise.

Higgins has always been one of my favourites, and his comeback over the last couple of years has been fantastic, so for Davis to beat the guy who is currently the provisional number one in the next rankings list is so unbelievable.

But he did it.

A few years ago now, when his snooker career was in tatters ( How much respect for a guy that has been at the heights he achieved for so long to still be competing even then !! ) Davis went deep in the WSOP main event finishing 579th out of 8,000.
EDIT : In 2006 he finished 579th out of 8,773 entries, and in 2008 he finished 389th out of 6,844. Not bad for an amateur .

When he was asked if snooker helped him with his poker, he said the games were similar in their mental approach : you have to get on top of your opponent mentally, and then while he is down figuratively put your foot on his throat and finish him off.
He came across as such a nice guy, and he had achieved so little success wise for such a long time, it was almost shocking to see that he still had such a competitive edge flooding out of him after all those years.

When you got it, you got it.

What do they say about form being temporary, but class is permanent.

Well, Steve Davis is class.

 

[jammydodger]

Interesting

 

[Spoff]

Good post.

Saw a lot of his game with Higgins and was willing him on, would be good if he could go further but have a fear he could get wolloped in the quarters...

I used to be a big snooker fan, but not really watched much since 2005 - really into this years tournament, O'Sullivan and Williams are having a good battle.

Not sure how the draw is looking, but a Davies Vs Hendry final would be good

 

[pokerjoke]

It would be fantastic to see a Davies Hendry final however Davies aint even playing its Steve davis,even though Davis won it was a poor standard and Davis has certainly lost his break building ability and will be surely beaten next round.But for a 52 year old even to be competing at that level is unbelievable he still has an amazing will to compete at the highest level,good luck to him.

 

[CannyFifer]

It wont be SH(afraid of spelling it wrong)

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I think it's great that he has climbed back so far but its really a testament to the drop in the level of snooker being played. There are only 6 ranking events and the top 32 are not exactly all household names. I know there is plans to try and re-market the game again to make it for appealing for a TV market but it really isn't the same as when Davis was number 1 before

 

[CannyFifer]

Agree it's not got the same TV audience as in the past but it was always just the top dozen you knew as household names. Reardons era had half a dozen decent players, Davis was similar and also Hendry in his early years but now there are about 32 who would beat each other and out of them the top 6 would be in the top 10 of any previous eras. Below is the current rankings, who would bet against any of them winning 30 years ago. I like my snooker
1. Ronnie O'Sullivan
2. Stephen Maguire
3. Shaun Murphy
4. John Higgins
5. Allister Carter
6. Ryan Day
7. Mark Selby
8. Marco Fu
9. Neil Robertson
10. Stephen Hendry
11. Mark Allen
12. Joe Perry
13. Ding Junhui
14. Peter Ebdon
15. Mark Williams
16. Mark King

 

[Spoff]

Davis is losing 4-0 to Robertson in the quarters.

And apologies to Pokejoke for spelling the Nuggets name wrong.

 

[pokerjoke]

Sorry mate just being predantic probably having a bad day,but as most of us predicted hes getting stuffed.