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Jayson Shaw (born 13 September 1988 in Glasgow) [1] [2] is a Scottish professional pool player. In 2010, Shaw was a WPA World Blackball Champion . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Shaw has won the Mosconi Cup seven times whilst representing Team Europe.
Jerome Keogh invented the game in 1910.. Straight pool is derived from an earlier game called continuous pool, [2] in which points are earned for every ball that is pocketed. . In this game, the last object ball is pocketed (not left on the table as in straight pool), and then racked with the rest of them when a new game begins (the player who pocketed the final ball plays the break shot in ...
During the 1940s and 1950s, the pocket billiards game most often played in competition was called straight pool, or 14.1 continuous, a form of pool considered by most top players to be more difficult than today's fast tournament game nine-ball. Mosconi set the officially-recognized straight pool high run world record of 526 consecutive balls in ...
Teams consist of four to six players, including at least one woman. A match consists of two games each in the disciplines of eight-ball, nine-ball and ten-ball. The games of eight-ball and nine-ball are played singly, while the ten-ball games are played as Scotch-doubles. One nine-ball and ten-ball game must be played by a woman.
After a close first day, Team Europe were 3–2 ahead but only lost one further match, winning the cup 11–3. Jayson Shaw won the Most Valuable Player award for the first time after winning all his singles and doubles matches.
The event saw a total prize pool of $100,000 with the winner receiving $25,000. [6] Matches for the event were held as race to 7 racks until the semi-finals, with races to 8 and 9 for semifinals and final respectively. [7] [8] The Masters is the first Matchroom Sport event to be scored by CueScore as part of a multievent deal. [9]
John Schmidt (born April 12, 1973) is an American pool player, born in Keokuk, Iowa. [2] Nicknamed "Mr. 600", specialising in straight pool, Schmidt held the record for the highest run made (626), until Jayson Shaw broke that record with a high run of 669 in January 2022.
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