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So we simply grant greatest player status to the most recent champions (20 years from now, someone will come along that will exceed Ronnie), since for all intents and purposes, they're superior in a vacuum due to the fact they were born later and had the advantages of whatever modern training...

I think we have to assume the 2 doesn't pass the 6.

Yeah. The 4, 3, 5, are scripted here, but after that, you can play it a variety of ways, imo. Depending on the angles, the shots you're comfortable with, etc.

I thought about a similar pattern involving the 1 as the last ball, per 8 ball strategy (you know, the last ball you shoot is the one that gives you the easiest position for 8). What gave me pause is the precise position required on the 2. Very easy to land yourself on the rail, which would...

4 in the side. Shoot with follow and a touch of inside. Need to take care of that 3 ball right away since it's in a tough position. Try to get a slight angle on the 3. That would give a lot options and three backup balls (the 3 in the middle of the table) if I get funny on the 5. Ideally, I'd...

Agreed. Check out this bastard of table from an 80's match between Buddy and Earl. Skip to 7:40 and watch Earl slam that force follow and only get about 3 feet of roll. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqlbpCxxOW4 Now you hit that shot with a light-medium stroke. That said, the above table...

Not letting you off that easy. If you're going to call something nonsense, you should at least have some kind of counterargument. Ronnie isn't even the best snooker player of all-time. That'd be Joe Davis. He raised snooker's standard of play more than any other player during their respective...

Ronnie burnt out on snooker in '05, and tried his hand at American 8 ball and got beaten pretty good. And yes, he did "practice" leading up to the IPT. We can theorize about Ronnie's peak in other games all we want (only if he "practiced" he'd run a 1000 balls!), but the facts are that Efren...

Who's ever said that? Poll the site, and I think close to 100% would say Efren is the best ever to pick up a cue, and we can include snooker and billiards stars in that comparison. Harold Worst could also be considered, but he had a short career since he died young.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jvN612nDgU 3 consecutive misses by Breedlove and Earl in the 2nd rack. Lol.

Indeed. Check out the 1994 PBTA World Championship on youtube. Played on a Diamond with 4.25" pockets and slow (by today's standards) cloth (funny enough, the table was playing "too fast" by yesteryear's standards). Table was brutal. Maybe the hardest 9 ball World Championship of all-time.

Congrats to Shane. Nice payday for like 3 hours of work. :)

Does Oscar still work with his dad? For that matter, does Ernesto still work as a mechanic?

Yes, exactly. I don't think aiming systems are infallible by any means, but we can "comfort" ourselves with those visual cues, and know, consciously, that we have a good chance of making the ball if we can align ourselves to and hit that visual cue (for me, I visualize a half ball hit as the...

Of course. But once you get to a certain level, your ball pocketing consistency doesn't suffer as much as your positional consistency, and speed control indeed becomes the "final frontier" as far as getting you over your next plateau. I'm sure this is relative to the player's own abilities...

It's definitely the "final frontier" in my opinion, and the mastery (or lack thereof) of it is what separates A players, shortstops, and champions. As others have said, you don't need to have millimeter precision to become a solid player and playing zones is what all good and great players do...

Exactly, which is why 9 ball tournament pool is kind of disrespected, unfortunately. As Eddie Felson said, "Now everything is 9 ball. Good for TV, good for a lot of break shots." Hate to beat a dead horse, but tournament pool was entirely conceived for television, so the race to 7,9,11 format...

This. Joe can play some. An APA 5 would botch that run halfway through.

:D Thread is satire, mocking Shane haters who use these short race tournies to knock Shane's lack of success in other tournaments abroad. That said, Ko would steamroll Gray in a race to 100, probably win by 30 or more games. 10 ball would be even be worse. I wish rotation tournaments would do...

Not to diminish those accomplishments, since Earl is pretty much the Nicklaus of tournament 9 ball, but (probably going to sound like a broken record) I'm just basing my perspective on how old school players felt about tournies vs. the "backroom." Parica was never really that dominant in...