Which time zone cat? Norwegian? Thats the important one......
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Alex Pagulayan going to UK to try pro snooker
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Which time zone cat? Norwegian? Thats the important one......
http://snooker.org/res/index.asp?player=1504
11 CEST (Central European time) is 10 am Western European Time, or Coordinated Universal Time, or Greenwich Mean time (aka Zulu Time), that is, English time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time
Most importantly, it is 5 am Eastern Daylight Time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time
Most importantly, it is 5 am Eastern Daylight Time.
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Heres a vid of John Sutton doing training drills for PJ Nolan
His fundamentals are just about flawless.
Notice the laser beam test at about 2:35 into the video. I guess the idea is the
laser light needs to disect his face.
John Morra coulnt pass that test and especially not Earl Strickland....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJdFhFa3IRE
Heres a vid of John Sutton doing training drills for PJ Nolan
His fundamentals are just about flawless.
Notice the laser beam test at about 2:35 into the video. I guess the idea is the
laser light needs to disect his face.
John Morra coulnt pass that test and especially not Earl Strickland....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJdFhFa3IRE
I guess that's why Einstein said time was relative.....
...it keeps making me say 'uncle'
My original post sounded right in my head, but didn't when i writ it down! I meant to say that a 150ball 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.
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Not even close. A 147 is comprised of a lot of relatively short shots directly to the pocket. The biggest requirement is holding the cue ball in tight position as a fraction of an inch difference can ruin a run.
3 cushion you shoot at target less than a ball's width to send the cue ball three or more rails into another ball which could be anywhere on the table.
Making ten in 3 cushion is way harder than a 147.
147 just happens to be the score for clearing the table a certain way. It is a fantastic task but not harder or even equivalent to high runs in three cushion.
If you wanted to have a harder task clear the table by going through all the colors as many times as it takes. Then you have to move the cue ball a lot more.
Snooker has statistics and many videos.
Does anyone else have evidence to present?
There have been 105 147s in World Snooker competition.
http://www.prosnookerblog.com/147s/
Four players account for about one third of all 147s
Ronnie O'Sullivan - 12
Stephen Hendry - 11
John Higgins - 7
Ding Junhui - 5
Does anyone else have evidence to present?
There have been 105 147s in World Snooker competition.
http://www.prosnookerblog.com/147s/
Four players account for about one third of all 147s
Ronnie O'Sullivan - 12
Stephen Hendry - 11
John Higgins - 7
Ding Junhui - 5
I like definitive statements from people who could never do any of those three tasks (150 straight, 10 3-cushion, 147 snooker). I've made well over a hundred centuries and have never achieved a 147. There is nothing easy about such a feat.
How many of those centuries did you have any realistic chance of getting a 147?
I ask because to me it's about being in position first and then achieving it. Statistically most frames are ruined for a 147 early on.
How may 147's would there be IF the starting position were always such that you COULD run a 147?
In three cushion the starting position is almost always hard because it's the same task every shot. There is almost no such thing as a three cushion hanger except once in a while when the second ball is "big" in the corner. Then it only stays there for a few shots at best.
Now, if you want to tell me that there is nothing easy about a 147 I will disagree. 147s are played mostly on the bottom four pockets and the shots are all fairly short by snooker standards. When you get to the colors they are planted and the patterns to run them are well known. Still it's not easy, lots of concentration, incredible precision. To me the cue ball control needed to not let it get away and settle into very tight lanes is the most awe inspiring part of a 147. Sometimes I watch them and think there is no way that ball passes and yet it does.
I think though ultimately it's not really productive to compare the feats. A 147 is a great achievement. Winning the tournament without a 147 is a better one IMO.
" if you want to tell me that there is nothing easy about a 147 I will disagree." Do it and then come back and tell me it was simple and easy.
Don't put words in my mouth.
I didn't say simple and I didn't say easy.
I said NOT as hard as running 10 in 3 cushion. Having played all three I will stand by that as my opinion.
The 9-ball through 15-ball would be 7 balls. But snooker has only 6 "colors" other than the reds.
So, for your snooker-with-pool-balls game, you could just leave the 9-ball out of it entirely and use the 10-ball through 15-ball for the "colors" and the solids for the "reds," or add the 9-ball as one of the "reds."
To give your record the credit it deserves, I think the centuries you've ran
are worth at least 500 under normal 6x12 conditions....the pockets you
were shooting at were usually tighter than world regulation, I'm assuming.
And it's harder to get the 7-ball going early on a cluttered 5x10.
...an example of tighter pockets affecting centuries....
There was an old club in England that had an old English Billiard table....
....the pockets were 3.25...
They had one century on it in 70 years...as of the mid-eighties.
Alex Higgens fundementals werent that great and he has titles,wth yall are smokin some good stuff if you think Alex Pagulyons fundamentals arent as good as his or anyone elses out there. Are we going to have to send Earl Strickland over there to prove to yall he can drill half of the snooker players at there own game...Sheesh!
Alex won 4-0
Go Alex......