Alex Pagulayan going to UK to try pro snooker

I'm impressed. He is winning matches 4-0 against guys who have played tons of snooker on proper tables and are sticking up $1000 for a shot at playing pro snooker. He's given himself three years to do it and it looks like he will do it within that time frame. Hopefully this year, if not he's still done very well.
 
Swighey said:
I'm impressed. He is winning matches 4-0 against guys who have played tons of snooker on proper tables and are sticking up $1000 for a shot at playing pro snooker. He's given himself three years to do it and it looks like he will do it within that time frame. Hopefully this year, if not he's still done very well.
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He's always been a quick learner, his nickname is just another type of Bata.:D
 
Sounds fairly simple when you put it like that!
Its more like 36 ball rotation than running 36 balls in 14.1.

Personally taking everything into account its around about the same as running 150 in straight pool.
 
Pidge said:
Sounds fairly simple when you put it like that!
Its more like 36 ball rotation than running 36 balls in 14.1.

Personally taking everything into account its around about the same as running 150 in straight pool.
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150 in straight pool on a 9ft table?
 
Pidge said:
Sounds fairly simple when you put it like that!
Its more like 36 ball rotation than running 36 balls in 14.1.

Personally taking everything into account its around about the same as running 150 in straight pool.
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Set the 9-15 up on a 9ft table like the colors in snooker. Set the 1-8 up 9 ball style behind the 14 without the back ball. Go ahead, knock the solids down (they stay down) each followed by the 15 (which gets re"spot"ted) and then pocket the 9-15 in order. More crowded table but bigger easier pockets.

It's nothing remotely like running 36 balls in 14.1. Equivalent run? I dunno but it isn't fairly simple.
 
My original post sounded right in my head, but didn't when i writ it down! I meant to say that a 150➕ ball runner is the standard of player it takes to make a 147, given that they are equally skilled at both sports.

I didn't want anyone with a high run of around 36 to assume they have a 147 within them.

To put it into context, I've ran 150 plus tens of times but have only made a 147 12 times. And i play snooker probably 5 times as much as i play pool.
 
Fair enough. But it isn't fairly simple. Otherwise everyone would be doing it. Which makes it.... fairly difficult!
 
Swighey said:
Fair enough. But it isn't fairly simple. Otherwise everyone would be doing it. Which makes it.... fairly difficult!
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Never said it was fairly simple, just that saying you have to pocket 36 balls in a row makes it sound that way. Its friggin difficult, and a lot of luck is usually involved.
 
I feel a hundred run at snooker or straight pool to be about equal.
...and a 10 run at three cushion also.
 
pt109 said:
I feel a hundred run at snooker or straight pool to be about equal.
...and a 10 run at three cushion also.
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Pretty close a century in snooker and straight pool. But the 10 run at 3-cushion is much easier, it's easier because you only need to shoot 10 times, so the test of consistency is not there, otherwise the skill demanded to be able to do it is quite equal.
 
HelloBaby- said:
Pretty close a century in snooker and straight pool. But the 10 run at 3-cushion is much easier, it's easier because you only need to shoot 10 times, so the test of consistency is not there, otherwise the skill demanded to be able to do it is quite equal.
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'course it could be just my subjective appraisal...the difficulty seems equal.
I've never made a formal count, but I think a major 3-cushion tournament
has about the same amount of 10-runs as snooker and 14.1 has hundreds.
 
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