Pro Billiards U.S. Open 9-Ball Immonen vs. Archer

[@crockett616]

Two legendary players, love to watch them play. Mika is so intensive and archer always focused and calm. Great stuff. I wish I had mikas competitive spirit.

[@kntautsos]

The difference is full match videos and no commercials. And there are many other excellent matches not only 9 ball, also 14.1, one pocket, ... I would consider to have a look at the catalogue if you haven't yet.

[@entronix]

Ive watched so many of these videos, they are excellent. Thanks so much for posting them!!

[@vetman1985]

aside from people always commenting about how much they hate the commentators. I actually enjoy them. Incardona, Wych, Deliberto, Hall, and Forsythe are all great and add great input. I especially enjoy this match because every time i hear Jim Wych talk i learn a new word, his vocabulary is good. in this particular match i learned "complacency" and "Lackadaisical" very good....

[@jamessquire1]

Tibi,I played A-Grade pool here in Australia for 15 years. The tables here in Oz are closely aligned with those in Britain. You need to be extremely accurate to pot. These 9-ball tables allow you to miss...and still pot. Any rail shot is a cinch if you get the ball in the right postcode. You cannot do this on proper tables. These 9-ball tables are designed for one thing - a fast game... and television.

[@inutetsaiga1]

immonen's still the coolest in my book, I watch him play in Amsterdam all the time, excellent player,always runs out, has people racking for him from start to finish

[@davids11131113]

The announcer Scott 'The Shot' Smith hangs out at the pool hall I go to Antique Billiards, I hear he's got his shit back together from some rough times and is getting back into the game.

[@alexoneal1029]

Great shooting Johnny.....and indeed 'Thank You Jesus'....and Mika --- incredible skill exhibited by you as well....(my game get's a little better everytime I watch you guy's play!...)

[@omega666ification]

@qustav37 because it's nine ball its played a bit differently than 8 ball which i assume u play but if u want to get better play nine ball it helps with positional play

[@kntautsos]

compralo en accu-stats. Al menos lo tendras entero y sin anuncios.

[@CIBERNSYT]

alguien me puede decir como descargarlo para pasarlo a dvd para mi coleccion

[@berylman]

I like how the commentator gets his english mixed up at 22:15.

[@SirNoobs]

Where was Carmine Sardo when I made that 9 on the break last week? :(

[@frontdesk6225]

ugh m.tapp i love u

[@codywilkie]

do anyone no how many tables they play on at tha u.s.

[@red88alert]

i wish i could speak nihongo just like you!!!

[@jamessquire1]

Thanks Waylo, for validating my assertion that Americans have the attention span of knats. And they need lots of pretty colours too. You're right though. Snooker only has two colours. Red and black. And the trouble with snooker is, you can't miss a pocket by 2 feet and still make the shot. What kind of game is that? Saintlumpy? You're not blind .. just dumb. I think being blind would be worse but it's a line call. Snooker needs to make the pockets way bigger and have thicker cues.

[@andregross7420]

Im sorry to say, but the argument is still going on 5 years later.

[@patstarz]

LOL i like how you sounded very inquisitive and somewhat polite, then right at the end you hit with the "You ignorant son of a bitch"

[@lemonite1]

Archer made some mistakes but his speed is so good he can get out of trouble. his mistakes were understandable though, tough situations, big room for error. Mika is great too, always there at the top. I've seemn him play, solid pocketing.

[@AllThisOverASliceOfGabagool]

... because the game isn't about potting. There are many characteristics that make up a pool player. Sure if the snooker player devoted themselves they would have more of a chance of competing, but there are so many players who can win a world pool championship that it isn't a shoe-in for a Snooker player to do well. I wish that people would accept that these games are incomparable, in the same way that Rugby League is different to Rugby Union and Showjumping is different to Horse Racing.

[@BlackSNStang]

I play both 8 and 9 ball in league. I think I'm a pretty well rounded player.

[@franktib]

there are a dozen or more billiard games played in major world events. how is playing two of them pretty well rounded?

[@dd0ck]

Mika's a class act. Johnny too.

[@lazymuthafukka7996]

Pool and Snooker are two totally different dicipline , different stance , different stroke , different mentality and still people mix em up.

[@AllThisOverASliceOfGabagool]

Snooker players may have better potting ability because they play with smaller balls on 12 foot tables. And of course some of the safety play is very intricate in Snooker. But let's consider this - American tables play very differently to Snooker and English pool tables. Pocket shape is different, the rails are totally different, the characteristics of the cloth are different and the balls are a lot larger. The are skills that snooker players will never use in snooker - Break and Jump shots!

[@yuletak]

All he said was it's great and wants to see more. LOL

[@jamessquire1]

I like how the pockets are so friggin big you can't possibly miss. What a joke.

[@Damnayshun]

The only argument I have against Snooker players being "better" than pool players is: Why aren't the snooker players beating even the lower-level pool players at 9-ball tournaments? Ronnie O'Sullivan is insane. A master snooker player -- and he's an incredible 9-ball player-- but he still loses to lower-level pool players. It's not for lack of trying. It's not for want of skill. The games simply do play differently. And lately the pro tables are shimmed rather tightly. Misses are common.

[@Zweihorne]

Lol @ 31:06. "Nice Rack"

[@lnd3005]

Are you serious? What's your friend's name?

[@ktm133]

the pocket's are still ALOT bigger than on a snooker table. and my oppinnion is that 9 ball and biljards are too easy compared to snooker. they still arent easy to play when your hammered

[@ww00_dxb]

he doesnt seem too joyful after he won..

[@MacManLtd]

36:35 XD

[@danceoutnow]

Has anyone ever noticed that nine ball players are usually amazing at eight ball but not all eight ball players can play nine ball? If you watch some of the local people closely you can tell who is built for what. Also...yea....no bringing snooker into this.

[@HS22181]

Archer looks like he could be Frank Zappa's twin brother.

[@fendermender65]

Why don't you join them .... say for a few thousand a set?

[@KnopsLPs]

because they dominate snooker :D

[@red88alert]

you get used to the tip and the size of the balls...the smaller tip goes with the smaller balls so all it is is getting used to them thats all...

[@AllThisOverASliceOfGabagool]

Snooker players break very differently whenever they play 9-ball. And of course they'll have never learned to jump to the extent that they have to jump and pot balls AND get position. And every time I've seen a player break, they keep their chin down as if they are playing a normal shot, it is impossible to generate power like this. And of course they tend to lose the cueball a little more as they don't practise the break enough. A good snooker player could not just dominate 9-ball.....

[@wasdwasdedsf]

why dont all top soccer players dominate that indoor soccer thingie?

[@cph82612]

lol 37:00 what just happened? xD

[@randydion8431]

does archer really need to take that long to shoot??????

[@thematblais]

cause snooker pays more

[@samphilipp4997]

Is Mika drinking white wine?

[@themiln]

Boy! What a rack! lol

[@angellover91436]

@MacManLtd other way around..i hate when jim talks like yoda...i hate it!

[@theverb78]

Immonen is a punk. My favorite match to watch is him getting smoked 11-0 by Deuel in the 2001 Open Finals. He looks like hes about to cry.

[@davids11131113]

What's 'soccer'? You mean that kids ball kicking game thingie?

[@franktib]

23:30 shoot 4 into 9 and take the foul. at least get the game winning combo out of play.

[@dronessential]

lol

[@samphilipp4997]

Ron Paul 2008 lol

[@timjones8166]

Both great players but at the end of the day take away the fluke luck Johnny a game is stronger than Mika a game if they played a race to 100 both in there prime Johnny would beat him pretty easily.

[@dominicrichfield]

Who is RON PAUL? Check on YOU TUBE today!!!

[@phixxwutwut]

Actually, the balls need different colours due to the nature of the game, which has nothing to do with the attention span of north americans. why are you so angry? why does it bother you so much that people play a different game than you? you do know that many different situations arise in the game of 9-ball that require the type of pockets that are on a 9 foot table? i bet if you were to try and shoot some hard positional shots on a 9-ball table youd fail horribly.

[@dominicrichfield]

I love POOL!!I play almost every day!!But if i dont GET INVOLVED and vote RON PAUL the draft`ll be invoked and in iraq all i`ll be able to do is PRAY.

[@MacManLtd]

I can't stand this commentator... not Jim the other guy...