Billiards
Hoang Sao and the $80,000 Prize: Excavating the Layers of a World Pool Championship on Vietnamese Soil
Professional Snooker: Why Ranking-Event Kings Rarely Rule the Triple Crown
Mark Allen Withdraws from Shenzhen Open: Eight Absences and the Unresolved Ranking Gap
Billiards Is Not One Sport: Six Rule Systems Under a Single Name
Three centuries in six frames: the scoring structure that sent Aaron Hill to the Scottish OpenThis morning I reopened the scorecard from Aaron Hill's match against Antoni...
Robert Milkins Leaves the Main Tour at 50: An Audit of a Snooker CareerOn a Tuesday, in Bulgaria, a 50-year-old man bent over a snooker table. No...
Zhao Xintong Wins the 2026 Crucible: World Snooker's Skeleton Exposed Behind the LightsOn the night of May 5, 2026, at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, a...
Vietnamese Billiards: The Sediment Beneath the Ankara LightsIn September 2026, in Ankara, a cueist not yet thirty years old from Saigon...
Hoang Sao at the 10-Ball World Championship: When the Call-Shot Rule Erases Luck and Exposes PrecisionIn the arena at Phu Tho Arena, no scoreboard tells you why a cueist lost an...
Hoang Sao and the $80,000 Prize: Excavating the Layers of a World Pool Championship on Vietnamese SoilThe Opening Break at Phu Tho On the night of September 19, at Phu Tho Arena i...
10-Ball World Championship in Ho Chi Minh City: Duong Quoc Hoang and the Gap Between Expectation and DataA ball that drops into a pocket without being called does not count in this...
The Wobble of Reality at 64: Decoding Jimmy White's 6-5 Win at International Championship QualifiersThe deciding frame. Matthew Stevens stepped to the table first, knocked in...
Jimmy White's Thrilling Qualifying Win at the International Championship: What Is Best-of-11 Hiding?In the deciding frame of the 2026 International Championship qualifiers in...
Jimmy White and the Best-of-11 Equation: When Format Writes the Result, Not the CueWhen Matthew Stevens bent down for the first shot of the deciding frame, I wa...
Professional Snooker: Why Ranking-Event Kings Rarely Rule the Triple CrownAt the Crucible Theatre there is a shot that no statistics table ever records...
Yen Sinh reaches the 2026 Women's World 3-Cushion Carom Championship semifinal: a 30-20 win over Heo Chae Won built on the margin of errorHook The mid-match interval board read 15-10 in favour of Nguyễn Đức Yến Sinh...
Mark Allen Withdraws from Shenzhen Open: Eight Absences and the Unresolved Ranking GapFrame 32, a black ball in an almost unmissable position. I rewound that foota...
The Billiards Table Has No Positional Data, and Analysis Is Living on MemoryOn 6 June 2026, the WPBSA published sanctions against ten Chinese players aft...
Billiards Is Not One Sport: Six Rule Systems Under a Single NameIn the winter of 2026, during a snooker final I was broadcasting live for VTC...
European Disability Snooker Championship 2026 in Sofia: Eight Ranking Tournaments, One Challenge Cup and a Design QuestionOver five days, from 20 to 24 September 2026, at the Ramada Sofia City Centre...
World Billiards: The Shifting Power Map and the Names People Still Get WrongIn June 2026, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA...
Robert Milkins Leaves the Main Tour at 50: An Audit of a Snooker CareerOn a Tuesday, in Bulgaria, a 50-year-old man bent over a snooker table. No...
Zhao Xintong Wins the 2026 Crucible: World Snooker's Skeleton Exposed Behind the LightsOn the night of May 5, 2026, at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, a...
Vietnamese Billiards: The Sediment Beneath the Ankara LightsIn September 2026, in Ankara, a cueist not yet thirty years old from Saigon...
Hoang Sao at the 10-Ball World Championship: When the Call-Shot Rule Erases Luck and Exposes PrecisionIn the arena at Phu Tho Arena, no scoreboard tells you why a cueist lost an...
Hoang Sao and the $80,000 Prize: Excavating the Layers of a World Pool Championship on Vietnamese SoilThe Opening Break at Phu Tho On the night of September 19, at Phu Tho Arena i...
10-Ball World Championship in Ho Chi Minh City: Duong Quoc Hoang and the Gap Between Expectation and DataA ball that drops into a pocket without being called does not count in this...
The Wobble of Reality at 64: Decoding Jimmy White's 6-5 Win at International Championship QualifiersThe deciding frame. Matthew Stevens stepped to the table first, knocked in...
Jimmy White's Thrilling Qualifying Win at the International Championship: What Is Best-of-11 Hiding?In the deciding frame of the 2026 International Championship qualifiers in...
Jimmy White and the Best-of-11 Equation: When Format Writes the Result, Not the CueWhen Matthew Stevens bent down for the first shot of the deciding frame, I wa...
Professional Snooker: Why Ranking-Event Kings Rarely Rule the Triple CrownAt the Crucible Theatre there is a shot that no statistics table ever records...
Yen Sinh reaches the 2026 Women's World 3-Cushion Carom Championship semifinal: a 30-20 win over Heo Chae Won built on the margin of errorHook The mid-match interval board read 15-10 in favour of Nguyễn Đức Yến Sinh...
Mark Allen Withdraws from Shenzhen Open: Eight Absences and the Unresolved Ranking GapFrame 32, a black ball in an almost unmissable position. I rewound that foota...
The Billiards Table Has No Positional Data, and Analysis Is Living on MemoryOn 6 June 2026, the WPBSA published sanctions against ten Chinese players aft...
Billiards Is Not One Sport: Six Rule Systems Under a Single NameIn the winter of 2026, during a snooker final I was broadcasting live for VTC...
European Disability Snooker Championship 2026 in Sofia: Eight Ranking Tournaments, One Challenge Cup and a Design QuestionOver five days, from 20 to 24 September 2026, at the Ramada Sofia City Centre...
World Billiards: The Shifting Power Map and the Names People Still Get WrongIn June 2026, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA...
