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Last post in the thread, getting a headache. I know that snooker balls are lighter. I live in a country where I'm never more than half an hour away from a Rileys pool and snooker club, with proper full size snooker tables as well as American pool tables. Also a country that has enough snooker...

Another example of a kick on a screw shot, by another player with a rough idea how snooker balls behave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgirjCosDxE

Well that's perfect, good post. Shame I had already started uploading another example before I saw this! I'll post the link when it's done anyway, might as well now. These snooker professionals have more experience of playing the game at a higher level than anyone in this thread (If we have any...

The shot you're talking about involves elevating the cue, not a miscue as you originally said. If your point is that the object ball cannot jump from a straight draw shot without a miscue, I know that's not the case! And the different games and conditions are a factor. Kicks in snooker far...

You're forgetting these other people that play the game and commentate on it for a living - you are telling them that they are wrong! If this was a snooker forum in the UK there would be no one arguing this point, we've seen it a million times. I haven't said anything about what can or can't...

I can find and upload other videos of kicks on screw shots, in snooker anyway. Kicks happen a lot in snooker. Higgins knew it was a kick, the pro that was commentating knew it was a kick. Ex-pro Darren Morgan sitting beside him in the commentray box knew it was a kick. These people play and...

Not a miscue, 100% kick. This is why the commentator (professional player Dominic Dale) says so right away, and why Higgins immediately has the white cleaned. If you watch enough snooker you'll know that you can absolutely get a kick on a straight screw shot in this game. The sound the balls...

Thanks for the negative rep, it's my very first! I'd return it if I didn't think you were too stupid to actually understand the discussion, and you've probably had your share already. I didn't say the game being more difficult was a fact, just that your admission that you could not POSSIBLY be...

Everyone should give up trying to educate this guy - he's officially declared that he is not interested in facts, evidence or reasoned arguments. Just let him think he knows something about pool, with his fearsome 22 ball run and eyewitness accounts of 80-ball-runners who can't get out in 9...

42 behind with 27 on means four snookers and a clearance are needed to win by a point. The frame can continue if the player wants to try for the snookers, but this would very rarely happen in professional events. If there was one red left there would be a chance of getting a "free ball", which...

http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2010/05/03/revealed-the-tal-behind-the-snooker-sting-that-leaves-higgins-in-the-fight-of-his-life-030501/ More details on the whole set-up.

Mizerak and Rempe tried qualifying for the World Championships a fair few times, but neither made it to the first round at The Crucible.

So because there are other completely unrelated cases where people were found guilty of completely different things, Higgins must therefore be guilty of throwing the Davis match? That is your argument in this post, it seems. And if you'll look at what I've posted, it's only the Davis match that...

In bold - not the words of a rational person. As soon as someone says they have no doubts, or that there's "no way", they've shown an unwillingness to consider the actual evidence. Still, I'll make the case one more time. In the video they're talking about non-ranking, insignificant tournaments...

Higgins was talking about losing single frames in the World Series of Snooker. These events are essentially exhibition matches played across Europe against local players, to small crowds and with little prize money. To make the jump that Higgins would lose a match for a place in the quarter...

Yep. Some people are confusing "unlikely" and "difficult." Tossing a coin and getting 10 heads in a row is unlikely - it's not difficult. If you spend enough time tossing coins, a string of 10 will show up eventually. This is something like what you're relying on to get a clear shot at the 1...

If you think anyone ever ran 200 shooting the balls in random order, you really are a lost cause. If an 8-pack in 9-ball is tougher than running 200 in 14.1, then a 4-pack must be tougher than running 100? This will put your assessment of things into better perspective for the people that have...

Is the Pope a Catholic? Do bears make twosies in the woods? Are your posts repetitive and dim? Of course it's a game. You're probably useless at it, too. That you thought any pro could run 400 if they wanted shows you're pretty clueless about pool. If Larry really said that he could run...

Snooker players' techniques are generally much more similar than pool players' techniques. In pool there's a lot more variation. One example from pool would be Buddy Hall standing much more upright. All snooker players on the Main Tour have their chin on the cue. Stances for the most part are...

Players like Sigel and Mizerak played 14.1 all their lives and didn't run 400. To say any top player could do it if they wanted to is not just demonstrably false, but pretty disrespectful to John.