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Podcast #035: On the Baize Moves to Video

Welcome to the new look On the Baize. I say new look as we are now in video! In this week’s edition Pete Williams from Cuesport TV talks about recent news from the World Snooker Championship Qualifiers, including wins for Steve Davis, Ken Doherty and Graeme Dott plus one major shock! Also, GB9, the tour that Cuesport [...]
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Podcast #034: John Higgins Consolidates Top Spot in Snooker

Firstly a huge thank you to everyone that joined our the Cuesport TV Facebook Fanpage. We set the challenge of trying to reach 1000 fans by 31st January. I am pleased to say that we surpassed that target on January 31st. What this means is that we will as promised donate £100 to the Paul Hunter [...]
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Podcast #033: Facebook Fanpage Challenge plus Potts v Bale

Facebook Challenge We set fans of Cuesport TV the challenge of helping us reach 1000 Facebook fans by 31st January 2010. The response so far has been very good, when I checked this morning we had 798 fans signed up. If we reach the target then we will donate £100 to the Paul Hunter Foundation and one [...]
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Podcast #032: Happy New Year and Thanks for Your Support

Firstly, A massive thank you for your support of Cuesport TV and On the Baize throughout 2009. It was a big year for us and without you listening, watching, rating, downloading and reviewing there would be no Cuesport TV. 2010 will be even bigger with some huge plans in the pipeline for some great content and [...]
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Podcast #031: USA Defy the Underdog Tag on Day One of Mosconi Cup

Well if Europe were favourite’s for this years 16th running of the Mosconi Cup someone forget to tell Team USA. A great performance from the US team meant they took a commanding 4-1 lead after the first session. The only European player to pick up a point was the stalwart that is Ralf Souquet (ironically picked [...]
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Podcast #030: Mosconi Cup 2009 Live

The Mosconi Cup returns this weekend (10th-13th December) and is live in the UK on Sky Sports Extra starting at 7pm on 10th December, Team Europe is captained by Alex Lely and is made up of a host of World Champions: Darren Appleton (making his debut for us Brits!), Niels Feijen, Mika Immonen, Ralf Souquet [...]
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Podcast #029: News Roundup - Snooker, Pool & More…

Cuesport TV visited the Welsh Festival of Pool at the weekend and spent three days broadcasting live, videos available on demand shortly. This event would be well worth a visit next year! Pukka Pies UK Championship qualifiers will be broadcast on Eurosport this Thursday between 12:45-14:45 it is a two hour highlights show from the 110sport [...]
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Podcast #028: Kappa Women’s World 9-Ball Championships 2009

In this edition of On the Baize, Pete Williams discusses the Kappa Woemn’s World 9-Ball Championships which started yesterday. 64 of the best female players in the world are competing in this one, a tournament that in recent years has been dominated by Asian players. You can find results and news related to the event here: > [...]
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Podcast #027: Shanghai Masters Day Two - Seeded Players Fall

The Shanghai Masters started on MOnday of this week and it started off with the Wildcard rounds, most of the pro’s came through unscathed to reach the first round proper of this event. However, the first round saw a number of ’shocks’ as seeded players fell at the first hurdle. Neil Robertson, Peter Ebdon and Mark [...]
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Podcast #026: HD Snooker Streaming Demo

[display_podcast} Today Cuesport TV have launched a short (1 minute) HD Streaming demo. The video clip is a snooker montage originally recorded at the TCC Snooker Pro-Am in July. HD web streaming is relatively new yet there is more and more of this style of content popping up around the Internet, this particular clip is encoded at [...]
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Podcast #25: UK Challenge Match Events a Huge Success…

Darkside Promotions had their first evening of challenge matches on August 8th, the matches featuring Phil Burford and Mark Gray were shown live on Cuesport TV via the subscription system. Although a late finish the evening was declared a success. In addition American Pool TV (A new sister channel from Cuesport TV) held it’s first live event [...]
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Podcast #024: Another Chinese Snooker Invitational…

I found out from ProSnookerBlog.com (thanks Matt) that there is yet another Invitational event happening in China next week. The Beijing International Challenge features 8 top snooker players, no details have been announced about the format or possible media coverage. But I will try and find out. Pro Snooker Blog is becoming a very good snooker [...]
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Podcast #023: Raj Hundal Interview Part 2 of 2…

Part two of the extended interview with Raj ‘Hitman’ Hundal, recorded in one of his families restaurants in Hounslow, London. One of pool best players and someone that has a very exciting future ahead of him in the games of 9-ball and 10-ball, not only does he play pool for a living but he is already [...]
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Podcast #022: Interview With Raj Hundal Part 1 of 2…

Back in May Cuesport TV interviewed the ‘Hitman’ in his home town of Hounslow, he gave his own insight into the world of pool from his beginnings to his professional career and the governing body. A number of the channels viewers have asked for this to be released as an audio file as well hence this [...]
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Podcast #021: McInnes Lifts Second Legends Title…

Ross McInnes who was playing on a minus 1 handicap throughout the tournament came through undefeated to lift the Legends Tour event in Leicester last weekend. His opponent in the final was John Day. Raj Hundal v Ricardo Jones takes place on 20th June at 7pm British time and will be featured live on PPV over [...]
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Podcast #020: Mark Allen lifts First Professional Snooker Title…

Northern Ireland’s Mark Allen has lifted his first professional title in four years as a professional. He picked up £20,000 after demolishing Ding Junhui 6-0 in the final. More information here: http://www.worldsnooker.com Cuesport TV return to live entertainment this weekend with the second addition of the Legend’s Tour. This over-45’s event features Ross McInnes, Pat O’Kane, Maltese [...]
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Podcast #019: Pool World Round-up…

Dennis Orcullo of the Philippines beat Ralf Souquet to lift the Predator International 10-ball title. The two semi-finals, that also included Orcullo’s countrymen, Kiamco and Pagulayan, along with the final were recorded for later TV distribution. Unfortunately it will not be available in the UK, as far as I am aware. I have already seen the [...]
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Podcast #018: Jayson Shaw Wins in Dublin…

Jayson Shaw lifted his first major title at the weekend beating Andy Lucas 10-4 in the final of the CueSport TV £50,000 Pool Series over in Dublin, Ireland. Find out about all of the latest live events from CueSport TV over the coming weeks, especially an early heads up on the Raj Hundal v Ricardo Jones [...]
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Podcast #017: Higgins Wins Third World Snooker Title

John Higgins won his third World Snooker title on Bank Holiday monday to lift him to the echelons of the greats, is he playing for the money or the accolade? The CueSport TV £50,000 Pool Series returns this weekend live from Dublin, Ireland, watch the best Blackball action exclusively at CueSport TV over the 9th-10th May. [...]
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Podcast #016: World Snooker Quarter Final Preview…

Get up-to-date with the latest World Snooker Championship news including a very interesting match between Jamie Cope and John Higgins that was shrouded in a bit of controversy. You can watch the World Snooker Championship live on the BBC and BBC interactive right up until the final ball is potted on Monday night.
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