Mosconi Cup

[ian046]

strickland will never be picked as a wild card as he aint a team player most of the places have to be earned through the year as there are tournements around the world that give you ranking points for mosconi, chris melling one of the best natural cuiests in this country out of any1 and every1

[Dave Walton]

strickland will never be picked as a wild card as he aint a team player most of the places have to be earned through the year as there are tournements around the world that give you ranking points for mosconi, chris melling one of the best natural cuiests in this country out of any1 and every1

Chris Melling is awesome, huge miss to UK 8ball, great snooker player too!

[ace man]

If you have played both games for a few years, as I have, you begin to see that the only difference between two games is that snooker requires a much much better technique. Everything else is "the same". Still, having a good technique can be an advantage at 9ball with big pockets too, as Brit players demonstrate.

That shot by Van den Berg was low percentage yes and extremely rare in pro ranks, but really jump shots are the easiest to learn in pool. They may look alien to guys who only play snooker, but with a specialized jump cue they are quite easy to perform. There's nothing to it. I have seen total amateurs perform VdB's shot many times, even not using spider rest, but normal bridge hand using some kind of silly darts style shooting down on a ball technique. In fact, we have a few players in our pool league who practically only specialize in silly shots like that, but can't really play all that well.

The real art of 9ball is push out strategy, the break, safeties and escaping from snookers. I think anyone who could play century break standard at snooker should be able to play decent 9ball and should not have any major problem with position play. But then again, if he is not used to super slick napless cloth, particular cushion style, larger balls, different cues, different feel...etc...then it would take some practice time before he would be able to play 9ball at his own full potential, whatever it may be...

9ball is a great equalizer, it is such a game where a high level amateur who has a normal 9 to 5 job could on his day beat a pro player in a tournament. That could never happen in snooker. Some think that this is bad, while others think that that is exactly what pool should be like. Each to their own.

And I think Mark Selby would make a brilliant US pool player...he would probably use the 3 foul rule more than everybody else...

[craigslater]

Mosconi Cup

I used to like watching ronnie o'sullivan playing 9 ball, think if he'd stuck at hit he could have been one of the greats!

Heres a link or the van den berg shot who didnt get chance to see it last nite...

http://youtu.be/Pvozx5VaTBY

Enjoy

[mythman69]

Thanks for the link . . . nice jump shot . . . is a jump shot bridge like a spider/swan neck ?

: )

[ian046]

that rest that he used was made orginally for wheelchair players

[NorthWestJunior]

Is there anywhere around the Preston area where you can play 9 ball with decent equipment and tables in good condition? The only places I see are the tables they have at the Bowling/Cinema complexes where the tables have stained/ripped cloth and the cues are about as useful as broomsticks.

I wouldn't mind giving it a bash.

[narl]

strickland will never be picked as a wild card as he aint a team player most of the places have to be earned through the year as there are tournements around the world that give you ranking points for mosconi, chris melling one of the best natural cuiests in this country out of any1 and every1

Strickland is usually good for entertainment purposes, Barry Hearn once said he wishes Strickland would be there every year because of how unpredictable he is. Id imagine he would have enjoyed this playing with the shot clock as well. Seems hes more into the 10 foot table 10 ball at the minute anyway.

[ian046]

he isnt gd enough t qualify in his ow right anymore so he would need to be a wild card pick from usa cpt, lets face it would you take a risk on him? fk that lol

appleton showing why he is the worlds best and melling showing how gd of a cueist he is, its retty much over now EUROPE!!!