This arena doesn’t get enough love. The panoramic shot of all the tables is just cool as hell, kudos to the engineers and table movers who made it possible

They’re talking about skylar’s pace of play. This is a snail’s pace from when he was a kid. I remember playing him when he was 12-13 years old. The kid just flew around the table. Barely taking time to chalk his cue. We knew he was gonna be a good player, but no one knew just how good. He’s gifted.

Skylar is also one of the more well liked players by opposing professionals players around the world. Such a class act!

Gorst is not only a phenomenal player; whether he wins or loses, he is as much a gentleman as any player I have ever witnessed. Skylar played great those last seven racks, but he got several rolls that kept Gorst from being able to do anything. Gorst knew that he was the victim of Skylar's great playing and extremely fortunate rolls, but Gorst also knew that he has been on the other side of that many times in tournaments. That is the nature of pool, though...when you have two players of similar ability, luck is a huge factor in who wins. The sooner a competitor in pool accepts that at any time, the rolls can't go against them, indeed with great prejudice, the sooner that player can learn to be at peace with the game, other players, and themself. That peace of mind will help them elevate their game mentally to a higher level. The biggest difference between good players and great players is not their physical talent or how well they can move the ball around the table. It is their ability to manage their emotions when they experience great fortune or defeat and maintain enough composure to extract all the information available when everything seems to be working against them. Pool rooms are full of players who can pocket well and move the rock around the table with tremendous control. There is only a small percentage of those players who know how to discipline their minds to reach the potential they have physically. The amount of frustration one has playing pool is directly proportional to the gap between their physical talent and the level of their mental discipline. It is those players who will continually make excuses for their inconsistent play. When they make those excuses, they insulate themselves from the valuable information available to them in their mistakes...and victories. It comes down to this life principle, those who blame their defeats on their victimhood will miss 90+% of the lessons available to them...while calling others lucky! It is the great players who remember when they were in a similar frame of mind, yet finally understood these epiphanies, that look at those players and think to themselves, I wonder if they'll ever get it or if they'll just continue in their victimhood and remain way under their potential for the rest of their lives. By the way, Skylar has an excellent attitude and understands much of what this post was about...even at his young age.

My two favorite players in the same match. Glad I found this match.

خدایا شکرت. خیلی خوشحالم Thank God. I'm so happy🇺🇸🇮🇷🥇 God bless Skyler & SVB

That sweet mullet just made me a fan.

Love when shane watching support his dude sky

Came specifically to tell Matchroom how incredibly annoying having KZfaq ads come up every 2-3 minutes in their videos. Content providers can choose how many ads and where show up in their videos, and I guess Matchroom thinks that many ads is appropriate.

I think the mullet-like arrangement on his head gave Skyler super powers!!! Hell of a come back!!! Against Fedor too!

Cleaned his clock I love it

Two of my favorite players , too bad someone had to lose Maybe hire a pool player as a cameraman next time

Skyler looking like the lost member of Natural Child these days.

What a powerful break with very little effort.

I recall that year. The constant instant replays and close ups turned me off

When Gorst said he felt he had an advantage over Skyler cause he’s been on a main table before, I just wanted to laugh. Like does he not realize who Skyler is.

Hello everyone, Does anyone know what the "check side" means which Alex Lely says from time to time? I think he uses it for inside english when pocketing a ball but I wonder where the term originates.

amazing comeback Skyler. great game, congrats

Man, these two were playing some first class strategy throughout, fun to watch the extended safety work. The puzzle solution parts are always the best for me. Next are some of the insane shots players at this level produce, which was the lesser aspect this match, MHO. Honestly I get kind of tired of rotation, until the match is more like this one, or when it's a long spread and the player down makes a big run to tie, exceed, or at least come close to the higher score, especially when they're far enough away from the hill to make it interesting, or vying for hill hill. Some excellent matches in this tourney. Interesting, the level of intense concentration going on in this tournament. These guys and gals are seriously serious here. Kind of the opposite of Mosconi, where they are still concentrating, but the crowds tend to be a little out of control, and the atmosphere can get a bit silly, and at times, irritating, like intentionally yelping or whatever when players are down on the shot. They were really getting nice consistent break spreads here as well. If only I could break like that, and safety, and shoot, and pattern ... :-/

Now the 5 balls are PURPLE!? In the great debate, there's one thing that snooker will always have over rotation games, consistency of color scheme. Thanks for posting the match BTW.

Pockets were huge before..

Rockin the mullet!!

Does Fedor has a background in snooker or billiards? He seems to have a very textbook stance and cue action, reminding me of Neil Robertson's cue action.

Can someone explain the start for me. I dont get how they evaluate the player who gets the first break. Thanks in advance :)

​isn't it 2022 now? why is the title 2021?

53 mins I could see that coming also

is albin pass?

Waoh

Gorst has an awesome stroke delivery I to have a elbow stroke

2021？2022？

The mullet will never die.

Sorry, big fan, but the mullet was a bad idea when it was in style...

What is Gorst’s flag ?

Skyler is a bad ass

What the hell is that? A beaver pelt??

Skyler played great safety’s and broke great the entire match, will have to clean up his run out play to have a good chance to win the word championships.

What flag is Feder Gorst using? Is it anything to do with the ongoing war?

Who is the Third person in the commentator booth? 1) person with Dutch accent (Alex Lely) 2) person with British accent 3) person with German!? Accent… who is this/name?

I love how his hair just Cascades down his shoulders

Extremely biased commentary…

In the 8th rack Skyler plays "safe" on the one.....A shot he would love to get in Banks pool..... Safeties Suck...!

Gorst shoot with a cyneregy 15 k cuetec Dakota edition all black with starlight finish

I'd say Fedor is the favorite but not so much that I'd be surprised if Skyler won. Not that big of a gap but.. maybe 55/45. Something like that. 52/48 maybe.

Sees video.. clicks on it.. zooms to the end... sees my man win... goes back and watched entire match in real time. Then goes to comments ..

Of this 2 hr video I bet more than half was just slow motions with that logo flipping all over the place. Excellent players. Great commentary...for once. But the production is simply horrible.

De Ami put a sanction on de russian

1:50:20

That mickie guy commentating after rack 3 is cringe. Less of him

Gorst must be shooting with a P3

🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶

GORST GOAT

Biased commentary

SVB the king..... In the U.S. !

Nothing worse than European commentators

Kristina doesn't even try to hide her bias. Could you imagine how bad it would've been if sky was a Ukrainian...

Rusia??? Don't like showing them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

His haircut is annoying

NICE SHOOTING GO U S A