Recent content by uk_9_ball_convert

much thinner than pool players, Gary mentions his snooker tip is 9mm in that video. But they are also hitting smaller balls so not sure it transfers, he uses an 11 mm tip for pool. He also mentions needing a longer cue for pool than snooker as you need more power. So not convinced you can say...

They all use wood, think a lot of them are wooden cues made by John Parris, but he has something ridiculous like a 10 year waiting list if you want to buy one of his cues. Snooker has been very traditional, but there has been a recent trend of players moving to titanium ferule to reduce...

Is that not just tracking his winnings in America? He has won loads in the UK (though I can't find any site that puts a monetary value on it). Hell he won £30k just for his money match against Ceasar Chandinga (one of the top African players). Still is a bit embarassing for Bergman, not because...

Filler would smoke a lot of people. Not sure how Tom would cope with 9ft table, not sure if he's played much snooker. He definitely wouldn't be phased by 4 inch pockets. U.S pool balls are 2.25 inches so they still only take up 62.5% of a pocket, which is the same ratio of ball size to pocket...

if the pricing wasn't punitive of smaller groups I'd love to take my girlfriend to something like this as it's the only hope in hell I've got of ever getting her to play pool with me. She was interested in going to a digital darts thing with her friends when she would never play darts. Someone...

I don't like that idea as it gives the organisers too much power, they could definitely influence results depending on where they pick the spot. Even if it was truly random it adds a bit of luck as I'm sure each players would have their own strength and weaknesses around where they were good at...

I agree with your first point, but I think the alternate break would lead to less situations where a match you would expect to be even ending up one sided and the type of match you walk away from. It may lead to more one sided matches when there is actually a big difference in ability though

Some of these players only have invitational places on the tour rather than having earned them. Also think a list of the age of winners would be more informative rather than just being on the tour. The class of 92 were very successful until the recent influx of Chinese players, but that might be...

that's really interesting, but it can't be every rack as there are only 25 cue balls there? Was it maybe every Fedor break from the first day?

The club I play out of is 4 inch pockets and has break boxes. I found I could pot the 1 fairly consistently when I put the cue ball towards the edge of break box, but I had the issue you said about no shot on the 2 as I'd always end up with the cue ball near the bottom of the table which pretty...

and according to the stats on the other thread out of SVB's 30 breaks 7 of them were dry, so even with bigger pockets only 1 player found the cut break easy.

Thought Stephen Hendry's latest video was a good watch. For those that don't follow snooker he's long retired, but has joint most world championship wins (7), now commentates and has his own youtube channel. This video he plays 3 times world snooker champion Mark Williams at hey ball. They are...

Played in the same Blackball rules 8 ball pool league as Jayson Shaw before he took up 9 ball and it seemed like he finished every time he visited the table, even when it really didn't look like a finish should have been possible. You would have to have been blind to not notice his talent, was...

I don't really care what people call it, just amused me that Scott was annoyed Fedor was calling it an exhibition and when I came on here everyone else is calling it that too. Think they are trying to promote it as a king of the hill event as the winner gets to stay on and play more people/have...

Scott Frost (who I think is involved in promoting these matches) asked Filler on the Boom and Freezer podcast if he'd play the winner and Filler said yes. Scott also got annoyed that Fedor had called the match an exhibition