Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Aiming/Sighting Consistency

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • It think everything is difficult at the very top end level.

    Comment


    • TAR podcast 32 Darren Appleton & SVB you can find it on youtube.
      Around 17 mins Darren says his highest break was 145 at snooker
      He considers pool more skilful and snooker more technical requiring more practice.

      But i guess he would say that.

      Comment


      • Originally Posted by DG GIBERT View Post
        To be fair Chris Melling did say something like that in an interview , which I saw .
        however i think it was in the context that it was tougher due to the higher luck element in pool, you can lose to people with less ability.

        Thats why pool is tougher
        Well no disrespect to either player both very very good at pool and snooker - Chris Melling and Darren Appleton have won major honours and lots of prize money and both have been world champions and ranked very high in the world at pool and 9 ball - great players undoubtedly - and both can also play snooker to a great standard more so Chris Melling who is probably the better all around player - but work it out yourselves if reading this - what have both of them won at snooker by comparison to their fantastic exploits at pool and 9 ball? - if snooker is such an easier game to them - which I don't think they would have said or meant - then would their records at snooker not match their records at pool or better it?

        I think their comments are slightly taken out of context by people who play pool and favour the game over snooker - no snooker player who understands the game would say that pool is harder now would they?

        I am not being snobbish in the arguments over snooker and pool and have respect for all players who play both games but facts are facts - in snooker the table is bigger - fact - the pockets smaller fact - and there are more balls - fact - its not rocket science - snooker demands better technique and more consistency and the depth of standard of players in snooker is very tough - a pool table has bigger pockets less balls and a game can be decided on the break or luck as has been said and so it is more of a levelling game - a number of snooker players reading this could break off and clear up at pool against a great former world pool champion like Chris Melling - fewer snooker players could do it against a great snooker player like Chris Melling at snooker.

        Snooker is therefore the tougher game surely?
        Last edited by Byrom; 27 December 2014, 12:37 AM.

        Comment


        • Efren Reyes says his high break in snooker is 132 against Ronnie O'Sullivan [aged 15] in Thailand in 1991 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFEp0-mbE1g

          Comment


          • yep he really was a legend - maybe the best ever pool player? I remember Steve Davis once beat him at his game though didn't he?
            Last edited by Byrom; 27 December 2014, 01:15 AM.

            Comment


            • Originally Posted by DandyA View Post
              Efren Reyes says his high break in snooker is 132 against Ronnie O'Sullivan [aged 15] in Thailand in 1991 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFEp0-mbE1g
              I saw that interview, still think its bs and irrelevant (if true) Ronnie wasn't even a pro until 1992. I wonder why there isnt a single video of Efren playing snooker, I find it very hard to believe he can knock in centuries with that stroke...but then again he is the magician!

              Comment


              • Hard to believe some legends played snooker with there stroke too - some are just natural born potters.

                Comment


                • Originally Posted by Byrom View Post
                  yep he really was a legend - maybe the best ever pool player? I remember Steve Davis once beat him at his game though didn't he?
                  he still is a legend I think Byrom ... I didn't post that to try to prove pool players are better than snooker players or vice versa ... I just thought it was interesting his HB is 132 in snooker and that he'd played Ronnie in Thailand in 1991 ... for the record, I think they are very different games - plus also I think Efren Reyes is a master of all pool disciplines ... I guess 9 ball is popular because it makes good TV whereas the harder games such as 14:1 or one-pocket are far more testing ...

                  I've certainly seen Steve Davis make a 50 something break at 14:1 and he was quite rightly over the moon - Efren was saying in that interview his high run at 14:1 is 27 ... however Steve was 50 something balls (3 racks and a bit) ... Efren is talking 27 racks (ie just over 400 balls) ...

                  Originally Posted by OmaMiesta View Post
                  I saw that interview, still think its bs and irrelevant (if true) Ronnie wasn't even a pro until 1992. I wonder why there isnt a single video of Efren playing snooker, I find it very hard to believe he can knock in centuries with that stroke...but then again he is the magician!
                  you believe what you like mate ... however Efren said some very specific things ( he could just have bluffed "errr, my hb is 147") so, given the reputation he has to lose, I doubt he would bs ... obviously Ronnie in 1991 in Thailand must have been an exhibition of some sort, so no need for 15yr Ronnie to be a pro ... but yes, strange I can't find any record of it on Google ...

                  Efren also mentioned the 1987 South East Asian Games in Indonesia - that is on Google and Reyes won a gold medal in snooker (which he didn't mention in the interview) although I can't find any details - whether team/individual and match/frame scores ...

                  and yes, it is surprising there's no Efren Reyes snooker on Youtube - except we're talking the late 80's early 90's and he probably hasn't played it since then and everyone's VHS recorders had probably gone wrong by the time Youtube came along ...

                  Originally Posted by Byrom View Post
                  Hard to believe some legends played snooker with there stroke too - some are just natural born potters.
                  that guy stands no chance ... with that cue action and shot selection might I respectfully suggest he'd be better off playing Crazy Golf than cue sports ...

                  Comment


                  • I feel it is hard to gauge which is tougher to play as both have their strengths which requires hard practice. But potting wise, it is definitely snooker as the length and width of the table is definitely bigger and the pockets much smaller. With pool, you can even aim at the cushion just above the pocket to pot a ball. It doesn't have to be dead centre of pocket. And playing with side for position, this pocket size and length of table definitely makes positional play so much easier.
                    Hope i do not offend anyone with this assessment.

                    Comment


                    • When asked why he hadn't had a go at Pool Stephen Hendry's response was something like 'why play draughts after you'd been playing Chess all your life'
                      It's hard to pot balls with a Chimpanzee tea party going on in your head

                      Wibble

                      Comment


                      • Originally Posted by GeordieDS View Post
                        When asked why he hadn't had a go at Pool Stephen Hendry's response was something like 'why play draughts after you'd been playing Chess all your life'
                        I believe Earl "the Pearl" Strickland once won $1million for running 10 racks in a row in a winner breaks match ... it probably took him 10 minutes or so ... if I were Stephen Hendry and had his skill, and his desire to win, I'd definitely want to have a pop at that - it could easily be set up as an exhibition ...

                        So I think Stephen's answer is a "standard media answer" - the real reason is he know he's amazingly good at snooker but may not be that good at pool ... probably that and also his manager (name?) was probably very antagonistic towards Barry Hearn who seems to control (very well in my opinion) most cross atlantic cue sports ...

                        Comment


                        • Originally Posted by DandyA View Post
                          I believe Earl "the Pearl" Strickland once won $1million for running 10 racks in a row in a winner breaks match ... it probably took him 10 minutes or so ... if I were Stephen Hendry and had his skill, and his desire to win, I'd definitely want to have a pop at that - it could easily be set up as an exhibition ...

                          So I think Stephen's answer is a "standard media answer" - the real reason is he know he's amazingly good at snooker but may not be that good at pool ... probably that and also his manager (name?) was probably very antagonistic towards Barry Hearn who seems to control (very well in my opinion) most cross atlantic cue sports ...
                          Earl never got the million and everyone knows you need pure luck to make 10 racks in a row....for him to have broken 10 times and have a shot on the 1 every time, almost any pro would run that out. But id like to see him or any other pool/snooker player do it again..even give them 20 trys each.

                          Comment


                          • I know Efren plays ( played ) 3 cushion billiards to a respectable level.

                            Love to see some snooker players apply themselves to that.

                            Could throw up some interesting names who just adapt to it better than others.

                            Comment


                            • Stuart Pettman held the world record 117 break at 14-1 pool on a 10 foot Diamond table

                              Pretty much as a newbie if you believe the commentry

                              Comment


                              • Originally Posted by OmaMiesta View Post
                                Earl never got the million and everyone knows you need pure luck to make 10 racks in a row....for him to have broken 10 times and have a shot on the 1 every time, almost any pro would run that out. But id like to see him or any other pool/snooker player do it again..even give them 20 trys each.

                                Earl took the lump sum settlement of $650,000 instead of $50,000 per annum over 20 years from the underwriters.

                                Comment

                                Working...
                                X