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Alex played snooker growing up - he does not represent pool players, or pool players' fundamentals. His fundamentals are closer to a snooker player's than any other (American) pool player because of this, but they are still a long way from a top snooker professional's. You are completely...

I think people are looking at this all the wrong way. The following video seems relevant: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4361995/derren_coin/ Take a very good player and a large number of attempts, and this kind of thing is not all that unlikely. Also, this is not superseding O'Sullivan's...

Good to see that he's still playing! Here's a nice century break from Alex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oekjq8nbSgQ Fun to watch!

They are the only examples that appear to exist, and they don't show near-misses. They show a total failure to compete with anything like a top snooker player. That is significant. That's what's being discussed...

This is so wrong it hurts.

The Scottish snooker player you mention was John Rea. His career highlights can be seen here: http://www.snookerdatabase.co.uk/PlayerDetails.aspx?playerKey=233 Is this your definition of a top player? The Efren story is an anecdote that changes with every telling, and almost always involves a...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cppkHSIJdII I haven't mentioned the Mosconi Cup since the races are so ridiculously short, but if we're going to pick and choose...why not choose Ronnie beating Strickland? I don't think either result really shows anything, but the point remains that snooker...

Ahh, so you are just a troll! :) The name was a bit of a giveaway. Until you actually respond to a reasonable argument/question, I'll have to bow out. I actually thought you believed the nonsense you were posting.

Quinten Hann won the same world title. Peach won in 9 ball. Drago has won tournaments, and in other events players like O'Sullivan, Davis, White, and now Pettman have competed with and on rare occasions beaten big-name pool players like Immonen, Reyes, Bustamante etc. Snooker players are not...

More recent results to consider: http://www.cuetracker.net/pages/players.php?ID=5369&year=2013 Corey played in the World Amateur Snooker Championship and was eliminated at the first stage. He played five best-of-7 matches against amateur snooker players and won a total of 7 frames. 4 of those...

To be clear, these results were not in the final stages of the tournament. Rempe won two deciders in the no-hope end of the qualifiers, before falling at the first hurdle to two nobodies in his next two attempts. Scraping into the last 128 once in three attempts is hardly worth shouting about.

Fact check time! The video is posted online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDiO5SS3RnI Mizerak won a single, low-scoring frame, 59-43. His high break of the frame was 25. As with all the other challenge matches, the pockets were pretty generous. Davis played the snooker match in the...

And it will never be settled! :) I think Ronnie's chances in your game are pretty slim. Just better than Shane's.

Hardly the best example - in the results that you posted he lost by very small margins to two of the best players in the world, on tables that broke crazy tough. Remember the thick napped cloth on those tables? Losing by one game to Corey, and two to Bustamante isn't exactly the most convincing...

I appreciate the clarification - always helpful in these discussions - but I understood you correctly and have to disagree. If the table breaks easy, Ronnie runs out like water in 8 ball. I actually think it would be one of the better pool games for Ronnie. For pro players it's mostly about...

So within a week Shane will be about as good as Ronnie was when he was 10. In the intervening years he's improved a fair bit. All snooker pros make hundreds for fun all day long - the difference between making a century break and being pro standard is massive.

Yep - Ronnie won 4 matches in a field containing only the top 16 players in the world, and lost only 7 frames in winning the title. Having won these two tournaments already this year, winning 28 frames to 7 against only top players, and 36-10 against other pros, it's nothing short of insanity...

Just to clarify, since there are people out there who seem to think that Ronnie is somehow better at pool than Shane - I am not one of them. Shane would be a massive favourite in any pool match, no question. But in terms of fundamentals, there isn't the same barrier for O'Sullivan to at least...

This is an excellent point, but actually not quite doing it justice. Ronnie went: 4-1 4-1 4-1 4-1 5-1 (Against 4 time World Champ John Higgins) 6-2 9-3 In 7 matches, against professional snooker players, Ronnie dropped a total of 10 frames. Anyone who can even imagine Shane beating Ronnie in...

"Snooker players use their stance because Joe Davis used it." This is an exact quote of what you said, despite the fact that the vast majority of top players stand nothing like Joe Davis. This makes what you said, as you've written it, demonstrably false. Ronnie O'Sullivan, who won the Masters...