The Snooker World Championship from The Crucible in Sheffield.
I love watching this via streaming video from Europe. The times are tricky. The afternoon sessions start at around 6 am Central Daylight Time. The evening sessions begin around 1 pm for me. This tournament is in its 33rd year at the crucible, named for the pressure cooker feeling of playing in the centre.
Nearly live scoring and elimination chart:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_World_Snooker_Championship
Here’s a handy search link. Day 6 of 17 in the biggest cue-sports tournament worldwide. This is like the Olympics or world cup soccer of all cue games.
Click on this link and browse through the live snooker streams until you find a good one. Often I’ll open 2 windows so I can watch both tables at the same time.
http://www.justin.tv/search?q=snooker&commit=Search
Top tip: Do your best to select a BBC feed rather than the EuroSport feed. You’ll have much better commentary from the BBC crew. Dennis Taylor is my favorite. Virgo, Dougherty, and Davis too.
The match beginning right now is between a 3 time world champ and a 6 time world champion and the 3 time world champion. Defending champion John Higgins is about to begin playing legend 52 year old Steve Davis. Higgins is one of my very favorite players. He is a master of shot selection, excellent break builder, and has a fabulous temperament.
Davis of course is the man. He got really fired up after getting through to the second round. He is the oldest to win a match at the crucible in 21 years. Davis has career earnings of over 5 million pounds which is north of $8.5 million US!
The matches lengthen to a best of 25 frames in the second round requiring some players to compete in 3 sessions to finish a match. Check it out and you will see why it is so compelling. You may even find your game improved by soaking up the atmosphere and incredible technique.
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