O’Sullivan and Hendry Talking about pool

gregcantrall said:
I just came across this on YouTube. I see it is a year old.
O’Sullivan and Hendry talking about Efren Reyes and pool.
I was really surprised at the discussion of 8 ball and planning from the 8 ball backwards.
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O’Sullivan has said the first time he played in the Mosconi Cup against Strickland, he didn’t plan anything on the table other than shooting the next ball in. He talks about watching the match later and how the commentator were commenting on his strategy but says he didn’t have any.
 
Geosnookery said:
O’Sullivan has said the first time he played in the Mosconi Cup against Strickland, he didn’t plan anything on the table other than shooting the next ball in. He talks about watching the match later and how the commentator were commenting on his strategy but says he didn’t have any.
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I also believe that Jimmy White was scheduled to play, and had some problem, and O'Sullivan was a last-minute fill-in.
 
Somewhere in my early development I learned to work the pattern from the eight ball back, then forward from the one ball before ever playing a shot. I played a lot of chess too so it didn't take too long to see patterns.

While it is nice that Ronnie respects pool players, lets not kid ourselves about him seeing patterns when he tries. He stopped a snooker match to find out what a maximum was worth, with nineteen balls left on the table and bearing in mind that the seven had to be pocketed sixteen times, fifteen more! Ronnie is no slouch at reading patterns himself. After confirming it was worth his while he proceeded to shoot a 147.

A 147 is usually worth 25 thousand pounds or euros or whatever they are playing for. When the bonus for a 147 was only ten thousand he very deliberately shot a six in the middle of a run to score a 146! Again, he knew exactly what he was doing for the entire run. Some amazing people on the tables with no holes and I am certainly not up on every form of pool but Ronnie is or was a few years back probably the best to play on a table with pockets. Aside from that, he has matured into an entertaining guy to listen to.

Hu
 
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ShootingArts said:
Somewhere in my early development I learned to work the pattern from the eight ball back, then forward from the one ball before ever playing a shot. I played a lot of chess too so it didn't take too long to see patterns.

While it is nice that Ronnie respects pool players, lets not kid ourselves about him seeing patterns when he tries. He stopped a snooker match to find out what a maximum was worth, with nineteen balls left on the table and bearing in mind that the seven had to be pocketed sixteen times, fifteen more! Ronnie is no slouch at reading patterns himself. After confirming it was worth his while he proceeded to shoot a 147.

A 147 is usually worth 25 thousand pounds or euros or whatever they are playing for. When the bonus for a 147 was only ten thousand he very deliberately shot a six in the middle of a run to score a 146! Again, he knew exactly what he was doing for the entire run. Some amazing people on the tables with no holes and I am certainly not up on every form of pool but Ronnie is or was a few years back probably the best to play on a table with pockets. Aside from that, he has matured into an entertaining guy to listen to.

Hu
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At one time, the prize for running a 147 was 147,000 pounds, ($250,000?), but after it happened a couple of time too many, they reduced the prize to something like 5,000 pounds, and it would increase at each tournament until someone won it.
 
gerryf said:
I also believe that Jimmy White was scheduled to play, and had some problem, and O'Sullivan was a last-minute fill-in.
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Alex Higgins and Jimmy White matched up to play one time. Jimmy crisp spin with his Snooker cue. Both were just having fun and drunk most of the time. Watch the last 5 minutes.

 
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