Billiards
Reading the Professional Billiards Ledger After the Landmark 2026 Sanctions
The 2026 Billiards Map: Five Non-Convertible Ecosystems, and Vietnam's Three-Cushion Position
Heartbreak in the Deciders: Crowley and Brown and the Lesson of Frame-Closing Ability at the International Championship Qualifiers
Nguyen Duc Yen Sinh and the 40-inning quarterfinal: 30-20 over Heo Chae Won, Vietnam's first women's carom medal
Reading the Professional Billiards Ledger After the Landmark 2026 SanctionsIn June 2026, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA...
The Silence Above the Table: Vietnamese Billiards and the Journey to Read ItselfOne in the morning in Nha Trang. In a pool hall tucked deep in a small alley...
Vietnamese Billiards Lacks a Data Foundation: The Lesson of an Empty AnalysisAn empty spreadsheet is not neutrality. It is a warning. Earlier this week, I...
Bali Open: Joshua Filler Wins, Mi Le's Missed 8-Ball and the Limits of a Short FormatThat shot unfolded in the kind of silence I am used to sitting inside, counti...
The 2026 Billiards Map: Five Non-Convertible Ecosystems, and Vietnam's Three-Cushion PositionThe final of the UMB World Three-Cushion Championship in Ankara, Turkey, in...
WPBSA and 45 Referees: When Invisible Infrastructure Decides Snooker's CapacityI remember a winter night in Liverpool, at a small amateur tournament tucked...
Shaun Murphy Reclaims High Ground at 2026 Shenzhen OpenThe moment Shaun Murphy sank the final black ball in the fifth frame to defea...
Murphy, 5-1, and the Shenzhen Table Equation: When Standard Data Only Solves Half the ProblemHook: A Match Broken Before the Audience Could Sit Down I watched the opening...
Aaron Busuttil and the Q Tour Upset: Malta's First Winner, and Three Numbers That Don't LieEmpty arena, money still flows, and a professional card hangs in the air acro...
Robert Milkins and the admission "I disrespected the game": The data trail of a 50-year-old leaving the main tourIn an interview broadcast on Pluto TV at the Snooker 900 event, Robert Milkin...
Jimmy White beats Matthew Stevens 6-5 in International Championship qualifying: the deciding frame, the final black and the arithmetic of best-of-11The qualifying hall has no grandstand in the way people usually picture one. ...
Jimmy White beats Matthew Stevens 6-5 in the 2026 International Championship qualifiers: reading a deciding frameIn the eleventh frame, Matthew Stevens got in first. His scoring visit stoppe...
Jimmy White Edges Matthew Stevens 6-5 in International Championship Qualifying: The Short Format Is the Real VariableI rewatched the footage of this match three times. The first time to follow t...
Heartbreak in the Deciders: Crowley and Brown and the Lesson of Frame-Closing Ability at the International Championship QualifiersThe shot happened in a corner of the table that very few spectators were...
The Silence Above the Table: Vietnamese Billiards and the Journey to Read ItselfOne in the morning in Nha Trang. In a pool hall tucked deep in a small alley...
Vietnamese Billiards Lacks a Data Foundation: The Lesson of an Empty AnalysisAn empty spreadsheet is not neutrality. It is a warning. Earlier this week, I...
Bali Open: Joshua Filler Wins, Mi Le's Missed 8-Ball and the Limits of a Short FormatThat shot unfolded in the kind of silence I am used to sitting inside, counti...
The 2026 Billiards Map: Five Non-Convertible Ecosystems, and Vietnam's Three-Cushion PositionThe final of the UMB World Three-Cushion Championship in Ankara, Turkey, in...
WPBSA and 45 Referees: When Invisible Infrastructure Decides Snooker's CapacityI remember a winter night in Liverpool, at a small amateur tournament tucked...
Shaun Murphy Reclaims High Ground at 2026 Shenzhen OpenThe moment Shaun Murphy sank the final black ball in the fifth frame to defea...
Murphy, 5-1, and the Shenzhen Table Equation: When Standard Data Only Solves Half the ProblemHook: A Match Broken Before the Audience Could Sit Down I watched the opening...
Aaron Busuttil and the Q Tour Upset: Malta's First Winner, and Three Numbers That Don't LieEmpty arena, money still flows, and a professional card hangs in the air acro...
Robert Milkins and the admission "I disrespected the game": The data trail of a 50-year-old leaving the main tourIn an interview broadcast on Pluto TV at the Snooker 900 event, Robert Milkin...
Jimmy White beats Matthew Stevens 6-5 in International Championship qualifying: the deciding frame, the final black and the arithmetic of best-of-11The qualifying hall has no grandstand in the way people usually picture one. ...
Jimmy White beats Matthew Stevens 6-5 in the 2026 International Championship qualifiers: reading a deciding frameIn the eleventh frame, Matthew Stevens got in first. His scoring visit stoppe...
Jimmy White Edges Matthew Stevens 6-5 in International Championship Qualifying: The Short Format Is the Real VariableI rewatched the footage of this match three times. The first time to follow t...
Heartbreak in the Deciders: Crowley and Brown and the Lesson of Frame-Closing Ability at the International Championship QualifiersThe shot happened in a corner of the table that very few spectators were...
