Snooker Clearance Challenge Live

right hopefully everything is working can't guarantee it but what we're trying to do here today let just see bit of practice see if I can clear the table a few times just doing basic stuff nothing complicated's see Cold's pretty much gone which is good I'm hoping everything's running I haven't tried this late in the day here so this is a bit of an experiment again to see if I've still got the uh bandwidth for the uh for the stream to work at this time people comment in I see so we're definitely we're definitely online don't know if we're too blurry to see but we can queueing nicely though even if everything else is going wrong so let have a look in a minute see if it's all working it's looking good let's see if we can get back for the black oh that's good start right hi everybody L the red there is we're on cuz I keep missing shots like that as why I'm not getting on the wst tool plus I'm not playing that much at the moment right doing some basic practice again want to see if it works the stream works this time of the day so I've been a bit worried about trying it around about now cuz the uh keep losing internet keeps dying but I think I've got it sorted today I think I don't I don't know right we got a video out tomorrow that's all uh all done so I didn't have anything else to do for a few minutes so want to see how long the battery lasts for this time as well as I get interrupted by anything which who knows I think it's working okay got into that a bit much right cubble controls gone horribly wrong again at least we're pulling stuff just not getting the white see what's happening in a second right not bit far from the black but should be able to drop it in Two Reds still below it so I'm going use a bit of left hand side to avoid them there we go everything's dropping in nicely at the moment let's see if we can get through the table the other idea is um the pool at the moment had about 20,000 wats in and I don't think we're going to I don't think we're going to beat that good wouldn't it if we could get like 20,000 people watching this at once but don't think it's going to happen let's go back for the black a second right queueing nicely just got to get the white a bit more on the control not exactly where I wanted to be no still not new cloth won't be for a couple of months yet unfortunately would be good but it's not for any other reason of just the hassle of getting somebody to do it right that's not going too badly is it so we can just drop this in for the red right the one below the pink will be good next if we can get to it that's left that straight might have to be one of the ones in the middle to get on it a little bit too close there right drop this down for the black okay six Reds left I think what a miss it was going okay probably shouldn't played it with check side not yet anyway see what's up need to do an exhibition I'm I'm not sure I'm playing well enough to do an exhibition for C no one wants to see me knocking in 20 braks over and over again that's the thing which I'm sure it would be if it was just I don't know how much um so Ronnie's out in Finland isn't he I don't know how much he's getting for that but I think he's playing Gary Wilson after the time I could I could miss the balls for Ronnie for like a few quid but right let's see if um stay down on them a bit more might help but let's see if we can actually get through these really not playing too badly considering it's the middle of the summer but uh look BL there's a ghost behind me yeah that's that could be woring I don't think there's anything else in here I hope there isn't I hope I know actually cuz other than having a snooker table in it it's a fairly fairly small room just didn't pop that very straight not too bad but it's just me to lose the cube wall a little bit all right take the uh awkward one down for the black that went nice and centrally didn't it it's always good when you're pulling them at that pace cuz you means you must be queuing all right then comes this SH now we're doing all good am I on the top one not quite good angle on the bottom one just drop it in up for the black yeah seeing angles nice as well been the advantage of playing on doing a few of these recently that uh got into the flow of things a bit but uh nothing much to play in for a minute got a few things to do coming up but they're not nothing big so we just drop back for the B which has been the issue for a little bit nothing really to play for too much but well the stream seems to be working all right I think I haven't noticed it go wrong that's good cuz I I thought I was only going to be able to do it early mornings when nobody was actually watching nobody was actually awake right up the top one yeah that works when I'm not putting check side on it to keep it closer to all the Reds position's good and I'm straight on the black run through underneath we screw it back I haven't played one of these yet so this don't know what's going to happen here well that's about as good as I could hope for didn't really get the side on it but sometimes you do them and they don't even go anywhere near straight just tap this through for the black probably push that red so that still goes right I'll play this with check side there it's gone in though I think I'm getting back on the black this time we will get there with that for a minute we're just going to clear the table there a blue on the spot don't think it is weird doesn't mean I have to try and miss it I don't think it was on the spot which is OD right okay down we go just made that one awkward by the uh Pink but it's not too bad to be that one then that's well held almost too good play for the one by the pink now if we get the side right look at that she might been too much is a little bit uh I could just run it through I suppose back for the pink yep straight back then off the pink and we're good oh not too bad hasn't taken too long to get a chance to clear the table two or three those which is must mean we're doing all right you what I'm saying well I'm just using currently that's an interesting question I'm using um a normal elk Master tip at the moment because uh I was having trouble with my feral earlier in the year and the only thing I could get to stay on it was an outm tip so when I had a feral sorted out the guy said to me do you do you want to help master tip like the one you got and I said might as well for a minute so he just stuck a new one on and it's been playing all right so I just kept it but um I'm going to try one of the Mark Williams Sentry ones because I I have noticed I think I play a little bit better with a harder tip when it's softer don't go there I was trying to leave myself low that's definitely low well this is either going to work right can I play one of these Jud Trump shots I know was a bit ambitious for me but see if we can get this pace right for twice around the table got to pop the black well that's a disappointing but yeah so um what was I saying about the tips it's um yeah going to try one of them because I noticed when I was having that done that I didn't think I had to play a game but I did end up having to play a game and I just stuck a Talisman on a old been tip on a queue I had over there and uh yeah I managed to make a 50 Brak with it and it in it in a like single leak frame which wasn't bad considering uh I was struggling to do anything with that queue I just had to if had anything hard it wouldn't go in so uh yeah I was happy happy with a harder tip it felt like so I'm going to give that a go when this one wears out but I'm not you know desperate to get rid of this one because it's it's fine at the moment and I've had so much problems so many problems with the tip falling off every 5 minutes because I was struggling with a feral um that I'm just glad to have a tip on there at the moment so not changing anything the Q still feels a little bit or sounds a little bit tiny when it the B I'm not sure what it is though cuz it's definitely not the feral and it's not the it's a 3/4 piece queue but it's not the bottom part of the queue so there something else I don't think there's any weights in it so I'm not I'm kind of confused with what else can be wrong with the tip but uh yeah try to miss it other than that yeah so we're going to be trying them which I could be getting rid of quickly if I if it doesn't stay on or I don't like them but that'll be a probably a month or so but look of how much tip I got left which is still quite a bit see there's don't know if you can see that there loads on there yes it might not be for two three months yet really didn't time that very well nicely on that red though right let's get back for the black and try and leave the angle perfect here now over hit it I think cuz I was worried about missing it thick there for some reason it pretty much perfectly um I'm just going to screw back then get to this cushion leave an angle you'll be right that's pretty much all I could do there all I can do is drop this in just on and off the cushion oh that's pull should get them right got to get hold of the cube a bit better than this the other pocket of the red one in I haven't tried the senty tips before no so we go cuz I know a lot of people that have been using them the ones I was using just wouldn't cuz my feral was so bad just I was perfectly happy with them but the um I even missed that now this is going well really need to concentrate on what I'm doing but yeah the um it's not good is it the ones I have been using which was the um the qo ones because they were so hard they just wouldn't stay on and I know some people have said I think they said some of the Sentry ones have the same problem but hopefully I can get it stick to stick on my queue and then uh we'll give that a go so I think it's just sometimes if when you play a short and the tips a little bit softer I I know it's just doesn't feel like I play the shorts well I'm not sure why it just felt easier with a harder tip cuz the Talisman I I stuck on the other one they're okay but the trouble is I kept finding you know you'd get like halfway through what felt like halfway through their life and they just explode so uh I haven't really used them since I've just been looking for something that feels similar but works so we'll give it a go right concra a little bit better on this that's good yeah you just put on a g what's a what's a G1 I don't really or is that is that a senty one I'm not I haven't been paying attention for like the last two years really on that on tips right let's get on the black is this not too bad just the cuq was running a little bit too far away that's okay can talk a bit louder now Sentry tips G1 yeah okay yeah if the ones aren't working I don't like the ones I'm going to try I'll give them a go but it's not the sort of thing you can try every 5 minutes so it's over the next year or so I'm sure I just land on something that I like the feel of but so what I'm playing with at the moment feels all right it's just I'm sure I used to play be able to play shots with sort of extreme side a lot more controlled it seems to sco off my tip a lot more now than it used to so if I played this shot with a ton of the left hand side it would have been an easier shot to judge than what it is now which isn't the reason I'm not using it but would have always played that sh like that but just seems more of a challenge at the moment I'm not sure if that's just the softer tips of what it is quit on that one a little bit don't know what to do now drag it I suppose got away with that flipped off the near jeel actually held it too well got high Supply on and off the top cushion again with the next shot actually in the middle I know they do go in a bit easy down the cushions on this table but that never touch the sides right let's go the table of this that wasn't necess neily the best queuing but got away with it let's go back for the black lens starting to get the hang of these shots probably shouldn't have done that needed a ton of right left hand side that did I might get back for the black this time no point in going for anything bigger if I can't get the clearance yet but for a second as the shots are there just don't want to leave these straight cuz it makes it so much harder or this close to the cushion going play for the one by the pink so I've played there still perfect luckily but but that's just that little bit of lacking in control way we can get the black again we can miss the port what happened then I think I was just trying to pinch it a bit and H it a bit harder than I intended I did see that and I just just thought no I hit it you'll be fine get these lights up yeah can I get more views than the the pool that's on at the moment um hang on how many you up to 2,000 already I think we got to we got to get to get 20,000 to get uh to get oh we've been having some uh connection issues which isn't good but can't really do much about that hopefully there not too much it's been okay last time cuz I was doing it at a time when it was early in the morning so nobody was really using the internet I think still it seemed the the uh internet speed seemed good it's just probably dropping off of every now and again right let's right sorry about that I'm the Cold's almost gone it's not been a good uh good few days I've been feeling all right it's just just had of like a cough that wouldn't clear right hold of the queue while I say that a little bit short yeah I noticed when I played a game a few few days ago these when these type of situations wasn't really what I was struggling with I was once I got into a position like this I was fine it was just more of the medium distance shots like I was trying if you were watching last time but uh yeah with these sort of I mid these sort of you know clear brake building opportunities that you'd get on the lineup you know I wasn't really struggling with them at all which which is good it was just uh taking me way too many shots to finally get a chance to get the position was making every silly mistake I could to get there basically you know right then you get the problem of other tables feeling a little bit different I've been playing a lot of places for last few weeks most of them around here are quite E well quite generous in terms of pockets so that does give you a bit of an advantage right just nudge this in a longer cushion yeah I'm liking how Central they're going usually I'm having to wobble them in and that's not touching the sides that a bit slower couldn't I there we go I'm just a little bit further from the red than I want to be didn't mean to hit that second one go the other side I'm going to stick this side left hand side it's probably the right thing to do right I think we're just going to clear the balls for now don't worry about being bigger breaks later I hope thinking about other stuff too much them right that wasn't a good shot almost almost missed it ran horribly out of position haven't played R shot yet so this could go anywhere no next one will be all right thought we're doing all right second get this usually happens so you get into a bit where you just it's important to keep practicing these when you you just push through the bit where you're struggling to make as high break as you can every time just cuz you keep making a silly mistake of you know it takes one short where dropped out of position there another problem any if you want to place new yeah I did today that's why I started doing this right let's see when our quest to get uh more views in the pool it's not going to happen we're getting quite a few people watching this I was I was sort of surprised really don't know how it works yet because uh kind of did the first one for 10 minutes and got loads of people watching and then did the second one not as many even though I did it for about 40 minutes and the next one I got load so it like I said I don't know how it works might be better if you don't I made a thumbnail for this one it might be better if you don't make it it's pretty easy to do I just took a photo but I don't know maybe he's just showing the live bit pick up I don't know but anyway kind of want to see how long the uh battery lasts on the camera so we can I don't know CU it's on my head at the moment how much I got left so at some point about 40 minutes time it'll probably I'm just going to disappear but sort of want to know how long we have how well the internet works at this time of day as well it's sort of been all right most of the time with a few drops off of times when I move too quickly stop moving too quickly that was a bit of a hand Jump Then still absolutely fine but could done with not doing that I do worry sometimes I'm relying my left hand to sort of jump up in the air and get my uh Bridge hand in the right place as I play the shot right up the table for the Reds in the middle we go uh that one first then one is lower down a second sure one goes I can get through for the pink quite right can run this through for the blue if I miss the red only just and O that short that's another one I was talking about the other day where just never used to do that where I play a short and I sort of half stun it instead of running it through but got a mid-range pot to get back on the pink should be fairly straightforward I say that and I don't have a clue where it's going that's woring could just tell I didn't know where that was going I don't know if it's just I'm not looking at it when that happens oh this is bad we got it that's what the practice is all about right here until the battery runs out basically so let's see any I have got this but how much was the table I um it was more getting it here the way I think it was about it was I think at the time cuz it it was about 15 years ago but uh that meant it was I think it was only about £1,000 for the table but it was like I think three grand in total to get it here and like get it get it all set up basically cuz and that obviously includes having the cloth done and everything cuz he wouldn't you just it would just have been in pieces somewhere actually it was in a barn basically somebody um used to sell them around here had a had a big barn full of snooker tables and you could sort of pick them out but you couldn't get very far into the barn because it was a bit of a mess it was a yeah so just got a random random table basically but yeah it's fairly good it just uh the year where the pockets are the slates a bit rounded so it tends to drop in a bit easily down the cushion there's some tables I play on with really big Pockets that don't do that it's kind it's kind of weird because you can sort of hit play these shots slowly on the cushions you know if you and they'll go in but there's some tables you if you had a shot like this it would feel like the pockets twice as wide as it is I touch the jaw on those tables it wouldn't be anywhere near it but then you play a shot down the cushion it's tighter than this and you sort of think how was that possible but uh right but if you're play them with pain like I'm about to hear you got to be very accurate pretty happy with that shot did have a little was a little tiny bit wider than I intended but not much went it pretty clean okay down for the black we're going to get this eventually so what youed you know went about 10 years ago when I used to practice this s thing a lot you uh oh dear I'm missing blacks that's not good really didn't think I got that wrong but there we go happens when you start worrying about them that that's a good thing about practice it's um you start worrying about things you wouldn't normally worry about and then you convince yourself at missing which is exactly what you do in a game you get down on this and You' be worried about potting it and you're not really playing the positional shot you think yes it's gone in and you cubbles over by the cushion or something and you know you make it harder for yourself but yeah you practice this and it' be difficult for a day sometimes and then the next day you're just clearing the table regular sort of thing it's not not too you know normally it expect to get this a little bit quicker than that but as I said not playing a huge amount at the moment see the angle's pretty good just about having that confidence to not doubting that you're going to PO it especially on a shot you don't like the look of right for for the red see like this where I've left it a bit straight I'm not going to like this one but I'll try and play it confidently could go horribly wrong and I don't but just never doubt you're going to P it sort of thing Co I kind of did that's why I played it like that this would be good isn't it how good would this be for a double I think that's close no actually thought I was a bit tight on that I could have was still too wide but yeah that's just not quite having the confidence to put that red clean at the pace I did and wasn't really thinking about the position just literally lashed out at it right just want to not doing too bad if I take this to a game cuz you know if you making 30 30 40 brakes and that you're usually doing pretty good so especially my level so yeah then then the bigger brakes start coming quickly right just screw this one back that's what tends to happen you you have one tough shot like it could be this red down the cushion if you pted it you you difference between missing this and poting this could be about 50 points that's what tends to happen sometimes you get annoyed about it CU you're missing Miss one fairly early on but not really realizing if you get it that was a bit off the je that's what I mean about going in a bit slow down the cushions wouldn't do on some tables I play on with quite big Pockets but anyway spin oh did not play that well at all and that's that's the sort of shot I I I've um with this tip I've always you know I haven't had problems didn't have problems with that sort of shot in the past I'm sure I didn't well this one it's more uh it's more likely to become a problem sort of thing either way let's see if uh can hold that run through so I don't have to take the blue out and come back any one oh is the camera being a bit awkward it I want a thing that reads out my messages for me but uh not even sure I set it up in the right position this time because I forgot to do it before I turn the webcam on and I couldn't couldn't do it after that but I think it's roughly in the right place although it could I think the uh connection is being a little bit difficult so it keeps going blurry possibly that's what testing it's about cool might have been some side try and hold this past the red cool wasn't confident with that one uh sorry there about 10 mil tip um no just it's or at least I don't think I'm I'm hitting it fairly Central it's just the way I queue it and the angle of the camera combine make it make it look like I'm hitting it further to the right and when it actually goes through I'm hitting it a little bit different but it's possible I'm putting some right hand side when I'm not intending to on some shots but uh what I'm doing is just what's working at the moment so uh you can you can think too much about hting the ball in the middle so which is an issue especially on longer shots but uh yeah sometimes you just think it mean masses more than it does where you just get used to you know if you keep it consistent you get used to that point which isn't ideal but like I said that's what happens with it let's get rid of the last one down here then not sure if that's the right thing to do yeah felt like I had an easy position shot black left it too thin but I'm going to play right hand side across the table that definitely had right hand side on it I think the shot I was trying to get some was it left or right I can't remember it didn't work a second ago play this one for the pink yeah cuz that looks like a Ming on the right now doesn't it maybe I W but like I said worry about that some other point I'm not worried about them now cuz they're going in I don't know when I'm striking them if I'm Hing him in the middle might not be but let's go for the blue was worried about stunning that again but that's good knew I was leaving it distance but I mean not exactly going to miss that one so don't know if I should that harder probably is the answer right pinch the pocket a bit that didn't happen but spot on position really just hoping it'll be about two or three inches closer you get the angle right for the red didn't want to go too far I think that's okay didn't want to go any further than that definitely so I wanted to go up the table there's not a lot of room to land in or there wasn't we got to judge the side right here to get on the blue spin yes that was what I was afraid of doing CU now I got to get in in and out of bulk avoiding the yellow hopefully put leaving it um into the green pocket it's only just missed that yellow but it's perfect that was really worrying me it was going to just flick the yellow but we're good so on and off the cushion bit snatchy stops so can't complain right are we finally going to do it don't know feels good though I got nicely on the brown which is always my least favorite shot because uh I don't know why it's just I I always what I used to do a lot with these is just in them very fractionally too thick like rattle it thick on the Jaws I mean that couldn't be any more Central but used to happen a lot when we tried this last time I miss I just about rattle after saying something similar and missed this so we got to get it that time and what have I done right see what's happening is I'm talking about the last thing I did wrong and then forgetting I can do something else wrong that was another one I think I just hit it low I think I got this though that looks good A come on well that was it I definitely ped the black right [Applause] nearly right we can I'm not sure what I did I think I yeah I did stun it either way that's why you want to get perfect position H maybe that was a thing I didn't practice last time was clearing the colors and I realized that cuz that's another thing if you you know it's it's a really simple thing to do if you're practicing it every now and again but if you're not things like that start happening where you can't believe how simplistic the mistake you make is but uh yeah when you're doing it well it just you get to the colors and you know you're going to clear up and there it just it's not like I felt it was going to miss it's just I didn't know what was going to happen which always feels a little bit different my out slipping down a bit right okay let's play on the red top rad the good thing about this as well I'm a lot more engaged with this than I would be if uh if I was just practicing on my own so I actually want to do practice now so that's that's what I'm liking about this either way 4,000 people here already yeah I know so I actually thought I got that I thought I was going to slightly Ed it thick and I slightly overcut it I should have just been confident have played it played at the angle I thought was a pink cuz I think when I had a pink a second ago with a rest it was in the other pocket but that very fractionally thick that probably means I'm playing the rest shot slightly uh oh I was going to be on to pinch that slightly to the right and uh rather than anything else but either way whatever happens I get some good practice we're still not up to uh the TW 20,000 Mark the uh World Pools up to at the moment though so be good to good to get at least halfway wouldn't it I can't see that happening I'd have to be streaming for hours to get that number and doing something interesting rather maybe if I was playing somebody could try that eventually if anybody actually wanted to play me I know there's going to be a lot of people who would any of them I can drive to in about 10 minutes is going to be doubtful all right BL red see white wobbling along where it's Black's been poted there's a bump right where the black spot is and uh if you've uh if you watch this week's video you can see it uh it stops me a few times cuz I have to put the black quite hard and it jumps out off the table where I am over here so see if I can run this through again a bit smoother yeah that's good cuz that's not the sort of shot I'm usually confident with I'm going to be putting it all right we can actually do it eventually we will do it eventually