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Here's another gauge of snooker vs. pool popularity. Ronnie O'Sullivan, arguably the most popular star in snooker history and one of the most popular sportsmen in the UK. His most viewed vid on youtube clocks in at 3 million. Efren's most viewed vid clocks in at 3.5 million. And going down...

I missed your integrated red posts. I'm not putting Appleton down at all. But tournament pool has a bit of variance and I like those players over him in, say, a race to 1000 over 3 months or something, playing all variations, even Chinese 8. But Appleton is the hardest working player in the...

:D Brits, specifically the English, can shoot straight but they sure as hell can't kick straight.

I don't have an insular view at all. Facts are facts and stats are stats, and they show that American pool is the most popular participation cue sport in the world, due to our population size and the population of other countries that play it. The Philippines, where pool is the 2nd more popular...

I also bumped with a reply since the OP has been banned for like two months and I never had a chance to reply. I know Europe plays snooker outside of the UK, but (correct me if I'm wrong), I think pool is taken more "seriously" in most European countries. It seemed after Souquet, Ortmann, and...

In the spirit of the 4th of the July, time for a bump. The UK is indeed a top 5 cue sport country/nation, especially in tournaments, but I think the Filipinos are still the overall best. They can play 3 cushion (I don't like to penis measure the difficulty of cue sport games against one...

Hi, Colin. Nice to see you again. We used to talk way back when in the Non-Pool section. Do you know if there's a full length video of Rempe's win anywhere? Youtube brings up zilch.

That wasn't an exhibition Rempe won. It was the World Championship. You obviously know English 8 ball can be slow and the Final took near 3 hrs. They just weren't banging balls around to put on a fun show for the crowd. Skip to 1 hour 40 min of this vid...

Not to bump an older thread, but I find this debate interesting. The reason for the vast variety of styles in the older days is because pretty much all of those players were self-taught learning from other self-taught players in pool halls. There might've been certified instructors in those...

Since you're now unbanned, gonna have to comment on this. Uh, yea, breaking is an important skill unto itself, much like the drive in golf. British players coming from snooker are basically golfers who have good short games but can't drive the ball further than 200 yards nor do they have the...

Oh, it's you. The pool hater. I agree about the exhibition part, but the same can be said of short race pool tournaments, like the Mosconi Cup and such. If professional pool had money and a strict Q school qualifying process, which would bring more Asian and Filipino players out into the...

Oh yeah. Great power strokes. But that style is usually the exception in snooker much like Hopkins' is the exception in pool with that strange style of his.

Compared to the smooth loose power strokes of Earl, Archer, Bustamante, Reyes, SVB, and the top 9 ball players throughout history, yes I do. You don't see a lot of wrist action in snooker strokes and long bridges. Even Steve Davis commented on the differences I should've been more clear that I...

Another thing worth mentioning is that I think another reason snooker players have seemed to make a decent transition to pool is because their stroke mechanics can now work in pool given how much the equipment has "improved," from the cloth, rails, etc. That tight, punchy snooker stroke...

Here's the vid. (the situation I'm talking about starts at 9:25). Fascinating stuff. The commentators had no idea until Ortmann cued it up, and then one of them compares it Jean Van De Velde, as if Ortmann was going for something impossible, improbable...

Not necessarily. Straight pool and one pocket aren't built around "accurate" potting in the snooker or even 9 ball sense of the word. Very little long shots and such (though being accurate always helps, of course). Those games are centered on strategy and imagination (which is why old pros like...

There's zero snooker scene in the US. Most rooms might have 2 tables at most, and even if an American pool player wanted to take up Snooker full time, it'd be tough to find the competition stateside to improve their game and take it to the next level. They'd have to move to the UK and spend a...

Can this ever be a reality? G.W.'s lax immigration policies lead me to believe that illegal labor is too important to Corporate America, especially the farming and construction industries, for there to be any substantial change. If we woke up tomorrow, and all businesses suddenly employed 100%...

I posted this a few months back under the title "The next great pool movie can be": "The Color of Money." No, not a remake of Scorsese's film, but a film that remains faithful to the book. For those who haven't read it or might not know, Scorsese's film is a completely different story...

For his role in Magnolia, Cruise worked for scale, which came out around 10-15K, if I remember correctly.