Slow player problem

[leonardcan147]

I find the easiest way to rattle slow players is to refuse almost every opportunity you are presented unless it's a 100% nailed on chance...

Make 8 and run away, 16... whatever...

When you play safe, make sure they're tucked behind colours, tight on the cushion with no clear escape...

You'll soon find that you don't care how long your opponent takes when you can see that you're rinsing their confindence everytime they come to the table...

That's when the snooke sadist in me comes out a bit and it makes me smile... Just like when someone plays on needing 3/4 snookers with no hope of getting them... I instantly refuse all pots and play nothing but safeties... Highlights the absurdity of grinding out to oblivion.

The way you play a slow player you play slower than him that will drive him nuts
what do you think about that

[Shockerz]

The way you play a slow player you play slower than him that will drive him nuts
what do you think about that

I've actually seen that once. I play in a 1 frame league which is hard work. The guy who has a reputation for being the slowest of all the slow players played a guy a couple of seasons ago.

He decided to make a statement and play slower than the guy that normally takes an hour to an hour an a quarter. He decided to not go for a shot unless the other guy gave him a sitter.

This really put the slow player off completely and the normally slow player was getting a major amount of stick from watchers whilst they went on to break a new record of an hour and 3/4.

I found the whole incident funny and the story will last for a while where we are.

[Tommykiid]

I find the easiest way to rattle slow players is to refuse almost every opportunity you are presented unless it's a 100% nailed on chance...

Make 8 and run away, 16... whatever...

When you play safe, make sure they're tucked behind colours, tight on the cushion with no clear escape...

You'll soon find that you don't care how long your opponent takes when you can see that you're rinsing their confindence everytime they come to the table...

That's when the snooke sadist in me comes out a bit and it makes me smile... Just like when someone plays on needing 3/4 snookers with no hope of getting them... I instantly refuse all pots and play nothing but safeties... Highlights the absurdity of grinding out to oblivion.

The way you play a slow player you play slower than him that will drive him nuts
what do you think about that

Emm my pratice partner is straight outa Ebdons scrotum and always slows me down must try slowing him down and see if it works how do you keep yourself from losing your mind when playing slow though ??

[itsnoteasy]

I find the best way to deal with slow players, is just to keep missing and leaving them sitters, that way they win and it saves you the next hour and a bit of torture,just to lose on the black anyway, works for me .

[Tommykiid]

I find the best way to deal with slow players, is just to keep missing and leaving them sitters, that way they win and it saves you the next hour and a bit of torture,just to lose on the black anyway, works for me .

I hate them black ball games alright

[alabadi]

I hate them black ball games alright

it happens so often, i think it would be best just to put the black on its spot, and play a black baller. would save a lot of time....

[Big Splash!]

I find the best way to deal with slow players, is just to keep missing and leaving them sitters, that way they win and it saves you the next hour and a bit of torture,just to lose on the black anyway, works for me .

Refuse to practice wiv em. There's no good reason why they can't play with better pace and rhythm, it would do wonders for their games but they refuse. Going slowly and making the game look hard results in the game being hard for them. It's exhausting to watch, painful. Pros who do this should be penalised. They can all hit maxis in good time, Ebdon included. It's just cheating.

If folk are retired, they will take a bit longer but there's no reason for anyone to not take a shot every 20-30 seconds. Frames shouldn't go beyond 20-30mins without good reason. If the game doesn't feel natural and flowing, you're doing it wrong.

Or, use a shot clock!

[itsnoteasy]

I'm not sure Splasher I don think some if them do it on purpose, one lad I used to play with( gone to pool now but that's another story ) was at best very methodical, but that was just him, he is a right good lad, good laugh , just his natural game is quite slow. One thing though he played the same pace in practice as in a match that's why I think it was just his natural pace, it wasn't gamesmanship.

[Big Splash!]

Fair dos to him INE. However, some of em say that's their natural pace but you don't see em driving at 10mph just to be methodical and careful or working twice as slow as the next guy. No, they simply want to make sure of every pot and win. Trying to win is fine but when it wastes your partners time and drags a league night into utter boredom, it helps put another nail in the snooker coffin. I know so many lads and guys who've given up because of farts taking ages to play shots. It's a killer. So many kids won't play because of the these players; the game is dying and leagues are full of geriatrics. We have to remember that places at the Crucible aren't on the line. This is local league and practice stuff; these slow and average players won't make county or above. I know one old guy who deliberately slows people down in practice, he's so desperate to win and he's near the top of the HC scale. He'll tuck up all day. It's pathetic. If you're a quicker player or a rhythm player out there, just swerve the snails, let em play with other snails. They can waste each other's time.

[itsnoteasy]

Ha! I get that, yes that lad was a winner, every shot meant everything to him, but again he was another that the frames wouldn't be overly long even though he was slow, he was good enough to knock in very regular fifties and sixties so even if that took him half an hour the frame was more or less done, but he wouldn't give you a point, he scrapped for everything even in practice, if you beat him you bloody well earned it.

[Big Splash!]

Ha! I get that, yes that lad was a winner, every shot meant everything to him, but again he was another that the frames wouldn't be overly long even though he was slow, he was good enough to knock in very regular fifties and sixties so even if that took him half an hour the frame was more or less done, but he wouldn't give you a point, he scrapped for everything even in practice, if you beat him you bloody well earned it.

Yeah, that's ok, at least he's actually hitting some numbers. It's the 20 breakers who slow down the universe I can't stand. I just won't play with them now, not in practice anyway. I love the game and want to enjoy it and they just spoil club time for me. They're usually bad losers as well. And beating em is no biggie. I used to like to play fast and natural and wipe em out but that got boring. Nothing to gain. The other thing they'll do is go to the toilet twice every frame. I'm like, dude, get a colostomy bag or summat, or don't drink before you come here. Then there's the mobile phone and ice drinks shaker and chalking during my shots. It was ****ing awful mate! I am not kidding. I considered these types the height of bad manners and selfishness around a snooker table. And...........breathhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

[alabadi]

i don't understand how a slow player effects anyone else rhythm.

while they are at the table you are sat down , it doesn't matter if they play fast or slow, its their table time and you can't effect anything they do.

so why not just relax and when you come to the table make the most of it. what difference would it make if the player made a winning break in 10 minutes or 30, he still won.

i understand that those players that just stand for 2-3 minutes pondering over every shot when its obvious what the shot is. i just don't let it bother me anymore.

i am no fast player myself , however i do play at a reasonable pace, a bit more methodical you might say. at my age the eyes take a wee bit longer to focus.

[pottr]

To be honest, speed of player tends not to bother me too much...

I get more annoyed when opponents play what I consider the wrong shots, or miss simple positional opportunities when they're in the balls...

A silly thing to get annoyed over but I'm a silly man.

[jrc750]

i don't understand how a slow player effects anyone else rhythm.

while they are at the table you are sat down ... .......

Not if you are playing against someone without a ref you ain't !

[itsnoteasy]

To be honest, speed of player tends not to bother me too much...

I get more annoyed when opponents play what I consider the wrong shots, or miss simple positional opportunities when they're in the balls...

A silly thing to get annoyed over but I'm a silly man.

That's what I have based my whole game on