Danny beat Justin 7-3.
Justin was not himself in this tournament... at least he was below what I have seen of him previously. He won his first match against Cliff, but played sub-par after that.
I was listening in (ok, eavesdropping) on a conversation taking place right behind me between Justin and someone I don't know. From the way Justin was talking, I think he expected to win this tournament with only half trying. According to what he said, though he has lost to Danny a time or two in the past, Danny could not hang with him because of his banking ability. Well, it doesn't matter, as Justin found out, how good you bank if you don't ever get to bank anything!
By what I heard in the conversation, I think Justin was just way overconfident, and when he found out he needed to try a little harder, just didn't have the heart to do it. That's the way I saw it...
The guys with heart are gracious when they lose. Josh, Tony, Danny, they all spoke highly of each other, not to say the others did not, I just didn't hear them, except for Justin who gives the impression that he is bored out of his mind if he's awake.
While standing outside during a smoke break, Josh was actually giving strategy advice to Dennis! Josh explained to Dennis why he lost the matches he lost. At first, Dennis thought Josh was feeding him a pile of scat, but then realized Josh was telling him the truth! That was an interesting conversation, to say the least!
Danny is a good friend of mine, so I will always be in his corner at these events. The more I get to know Josh Roberts, the more I'm liking him both as a player and as a person as well. He seems to be a stand up guy and as I was sitting next to him during the Smith/Hall match, I could hear some of his commentary on the stream.
I was there for only the first and third days of the event, so I was unable to see the finals. I saw some really good one pocket while I was there, and missed some while I was absent!