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Originally Posted by Terry Davidson
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I thought I would just ignore this thread but I think there are just 2 questions we need to ask to resolve whether snooker or pool is the most difficult discipline.
The first is this...when Alison Fisher, Karen Corr (and a third I can't remember the name of) went from playing woman's top-level snooker in the UK and moved to the States to play on the US Woman's Pool Tour they dominated the circuit for over 5 years, winning virtually every tournament they entered.
The second is this...the money available to players on the pro snooker tour is one hell of a lot more than is available on the world pro pool tour, of that there is no doubt. If, as Big Shot says, pool is a lot tougher than snooker then why don't we see more pool pros entering Q School to get their pro snooker ticket. As far as I know only Cory Deuel (sp?) and Alex Pagulayan have tried it. Cory is a top pool player however in Bulgaria at the IBSF World Snooker Champs he managed to win only one match in his round-robin group and that was against a very young player from the Ukraine. Alex, on the other hand, started with snooker and became a very good snooker player and then switched to pool where he has won the World 9-ball and I believe the world 10-ball a little more recently. He has also won the Canadian Snooker Champs twice.
We see a few snooker pros move to pool and usually do well but I've never seen a pro pool player switch to snooker and do well. Way back they used to allow the well known pool pros compete in the World Pro Snooker Champs as I remember Steve Mizerac (sp?) did once or twice and he didn't even win a preliminary match and in fact lost by a very lop-sided score.
The proof is there...moving from top level snooker (or even mid-level snooker) to take up pool is something that has been done by a number of players successfully but there has never been a top or medium-level pool player take on snooker and being successful. So which is the more difficult discipline?
Terry
The first is this...when Alison Fisher, Karen Corr (and a third I can't remember the name of) went from playing woman's top-level snooker in the UK and moved to the States to play on the US Woman's Pool Tour they dominated the circuit for over 5 years, winning virtually every tournament they entered.
The second is this...the money available to players on the pro snooker tour is one hell of a lot more than is available on the world pro pool tour, of that there is no doubt. If, as Big Shot says, pool is a lot tougher than snooker then why don't we see more pool pros entering Q School to get their pro snooker ticket. As far as I know only Cory Deuel (sp?) and Alex Pagulayan have tried it. Cory is a top pool player however in Bulgaria at the IBSF World Snooker Champs he managed to win only one match in his round-robin group and that was against a very young player from the Ukraine. Alex, on the other hand, started with snooker and became a very good snooker player and then switched to pool where he has won the World 9-ball and I believe the world 10-ball a little more recently. He has also won the Canadian Snooker Champs twice.
We see a few snooker pros move to pool and usually do well but I've never seen a pro pool player switch to snooker and do well. Way back they used to allow the well known pool pros compete in the World Pro Snooker Champs as I remember Steve Mizerac (sp?) did once or twice and he didn't even win a preliminary match and in fact lost by a very lop-sided score.
The proof is there...moving from top level snooker (or even mid-level snooker) to take up pool is something that has been done by a number of players successfully but there has never been a top or medium-level pool player take on snooker and being successful. So which is the more difficult discipline?
Terry
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