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I’ve been snookered!
#green lantern#kyle rayner#snookered#uh oh#lying#spiky#Benjamin raab#Ben raab#rick burchett#dc comics#comics#00s comics#legacy heroes
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been around this road so many times feel like it’s skin is part of mine, this taste of milk is almost gone, still got my shame but not for long! been wrong so many times before but never quite like this…
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pool player jeanette lee. best kubrick stare in the game.
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Billiard players, 1925. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
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Isaku Nakagawa
- Guran masse
1933
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a bit of lighting practice
also just wanted to play barbie with sephiroth so i put him in a suit + monocle and had him play snooker 😂
#sephiroth#playing snooker in a monocle bc why not#maybe he meets cute bartender!zack and romance ensue???#final fantasy 7#ff7#my art
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Yet another case for SheWon.com. Not just any case, one where a grown ass white dude was allowed to compete against an 11 year old girl of color in the name of inclusiveness.
By Amy Hamm February 22, 2024
A trans-identified male is set to compete against women as the reigning Women’s Snooker Champion at the English Women’s Snooker Championship on May 24 in Walsall, UK. Jamie Hunter, 27, became the top women’s player following a semifinal victory against a young girl last year.
Hunter first rose to prominence during the English Women’s Snooker Champion finals in 2023 after he came out victorious against Mary Talbot-Deegan, finishing 3-1. Hunter had managed to make it to the finals after he beat out Ellise Scott, an 11-year-old rising star in the snooker world, taking 2-0 against her in the semifinal grouping. The event had been Scott’s debut in the tournament, and, prior to her match against Hunter, she had achieved three match victories against experienced female opponents.
Hunter had been participating in women’s cue sports since 2021, just one year after he “came out” as transgender.
Prior to transitioning, Hunter played in a mixed-sex amateur league for five years. Speaking with Snooker Zone in 2021, Hunter admitted that he had no intention of competing professionally until he discovered that there was a women’s tour.
“Until this year, cue sports was just a hobby, something I done once, maybe twice a week, but now finding out about the Women’s snooker tour, I believe that will change,” he said at the time. “They make out as if I played snooker as a man, I was rubbish, so decided to do it in the women’s instead. I changed my gender for my wellbeing and my life, not for anything else.”
Hunter received significant backlash after his 2022 US Women’s Open win, when former women’s world champion Maria Catalano criticized the policies enabling males to compete against females. In an interview with The Sportsman, Catalano argued that women’s snooker should exclude males from female categories, as some rugby leagues have, to ensure fairness for women.
“We have fought so hard for our rights in the past – myself, Reanne Evans and others got people to write letters to allow us to play in leagues and clubs that banned women. I don’t believe that women can compete against men on a level playing field in sport. We are wired differently, we think differently. We are mentally different,” said Catalano.
The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) publishes a mixed sex international ranking of players. The highest-ranking female on their current list, Mink Nutcharut, is listed at 119.
In response to the criticism of his wins against women, Hunter has framed the backlash as transphobia.
“Everybody’s human. Regardless of what choices you make. You should treat everybody with respect,” said Hunter speaking to a BBC journalist last fall. Bizarrely, Hunter was interviewed while he sat in a gaming chair in a dark bedroom — which he refers to as “the dark girl cave.” The room has a transgender pride flag pinned up on the wall behind him.
The upcoming English Women’s Snooker Championship is set for May 24, 2024. It is being organized by the English Partnership for Snooker and Billiards (EPSB), which is the national governing body for the sport in England. They describe their goal as creating a “structured coaching environment that will inspire all regardless of gender, ability, or ethnicity to fulfil their potential in our sport.”
The EPSB has a diversity, equity, and inclusion policy with a lengthy section on discrimination, including a ban on any “condition, rule or practice [that]… particularly disadvantages people who share a protected characteristic.” As for their list of protected characteristics, the EPSB includes “gender, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, race, colour, nationality, religion, age, disability, HIV positivity, working pattern, caring responsibilities, trade union activity or political beliefs.”
The English Women’s Championship is set to take place at the Landywood Snooker Club in Walsall, UK, on May 24.
This is not the first time a male has dominated women’s cue sports, sparking backlash from players and fans.
Last November, a female pool player refused to compete against a trans-identified male opponent at a women’s championship in Wales. Lynne Pinches received an outpouring of support as video began to circulate showing her walking away from the table after being matched to play against Chris Haynes.
Days later, two more female pool players refused to compete against Haynes in solidarity with Pinches during the Ultimate Pool tournament in Blackpool, UK.
In January, Pinches headed an effort to launch a lawsuit against the World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF) and Ultimate Pool Group (UPG), accusing the governing bodies of subjecting women “to direct sex discrimination and harassment on the grounds of sex.”
What does he have to gain from this?
ENTRY FEES AND PRIZE MONEY
Entry: £30
Winner: £200
Runner-Up: £100
Semi-Finalists: £50
#UK#England#Walsall#the English Women’s Snooker Championship#Jamie Hunter is a 27 year old man who won by competing against an 11 year old girl#The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA)#English Women’s Snooker Championship#The English Women’s Championship#Landywood Snooker Club
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the urge to write a snooker au where james and regulus are in the snooker world championships but james spends every frame just staring at regulus' arse when hes playing and he ends up throwing the whole match just so he can watch regulus play is strong
#ive been watching the world championships with my dad#ive never been so invested in a sport(?) before#snooker#snooker world championships#james potter#regulus black#jegulus#starchaser#sunseeker#marauders era#marauders
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Hi sorry this is random but are you and unknownteapot irl besties? I always see you guys interacting on the dashboard and I love the chaotic energy hahah
@unknownteapot LOOK HOW CUTE THIS IS 😭
funnily enough we actually live on opposite sides of the world and have never met,,
but we are besties online!!! we talk off of tumblr and not always smosh related lmao 🫶🫶
#crying i wish#smoshblr#international billiards and snooker federation#smosh#shourtney#personal kind of
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Snooker-ov time! Yuri watches Makarov play some snooker, except his attention isn't on the table, it's WHO'S on the table ;)
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This will sound dumb to people familiar with snooker and groundbreaking to newcomers like me, but turns out the point is not just to clear the table (and more importantly to be the one clearing the last ball). You have red balls that are worth 1 point and you can only shoot once, and you have balls in other colors that are worth more points and will keep magically reappear as long as there are still red balls on the table. The objective is to keep the hand and for as long as possible and to shoot as many non red balls as possible to accrue the most points before you run out of red balls.
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The signs as Louis Tomlinson and a pool table
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#louis tomlinson#pool table#playing pool#snooker#billiards#astrology#zodiac#the signs as#1d as#aries#taurus#geminic#cancer#leo#virgo#libra#scorpio#sagittarius#capricorn#aquarius#pisces
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How professional snooker players flirt 😏😂
#I don’t even like snooker but where can I get a man like this#amidst a snowstorm of love#my latest cdrama obsession
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