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The Higgins vs. Williams final has got to be the best match at the World Championships since 2002. You've got to give credit to John Higgins though. From being 14-7 down he managed to claw all the way up to 15-15. If that is not a testament to Higgins' mental fortitude, then I don't know what...

Ronnie O'Sullivan is, in my book, the best player in the world when it comes to playing opposite handed. The guy can make century breaks with his left hand! Here's a few Youtube clips showing his ambidexterity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrfLch52g4Y - left-handed century break...

I'm a left handed player like him, and on bad days I tend to apply accidental left-hand side on the cue ball. I think the same thing happens with Judd, and he is fully aware of it. But instead of trying to eliminate that problem of applying unwanted side, I think he worked around it. So if he...

Imagine that sometime in the future, cue sports is enjoying the same level of mass appeal as golf, football and baseball. A new TV network called The Billiards Channel is in the works. As a TV network executive, what kind of original content/shows (that is, excluding regular tournament coverage)...

I might accidentally disembowel myself playing with that monstrosity.

There's more than one way to skin a cat. It all depends on your anatomy. I'm a natural elbow dropper, but that doesn't mean I have to drop it for every shot--it is silly to drop the elbow for a soft roll shot and the like. The important thing to note is that dropping the elbow requires good...

Just want to share a very good insight by John Parrott during the O'Sullivan vs Murphy match at the recent 2017 UK Championship on how the difficulty of a shot can affect the number of feathers: https://youtu.be/L0NW2cTjFIA?t=2200 A lot of the top pool and snooker players have a unique and...

Retiring from tournament play, maybe. But I don’t see him stopping from playing money matches well into his 70s. He started as a hustler, and he will end as a hustler.

Pool, much like golf, is a sport where you should not have a hundred thoughts in your mind when down on the shot. Having a good set-up would allow you to concentrate better because you would not be bogged down by the thought of your technique breaking down, especially when the going gets tough...

This is his first 9-Ball World Championship final.

I can definitely respect the sheer amount of logistics and manpower required to run this event. No shortage of capable and passionate men and women behind this noble effort to keep American pool alive to the American public. But I'd be hard-pressed to call this a "World Pool Championship"...

For the first time in this tournament's history, we're gonna get an all-Filipino final. And how fitting, given that both Roland and Carlo were under Efren's tutelage during their early years of competitive pool. Whoever wins, it's a victory for us Pinoys ;) Time to bring back the World Title to...

The only person that could stop Ronnie from winning more World Championships is Ronnie himself. He's in the kind of form where you have to play exceptionally well (and get a little lucky) in order to beat him. Guy's the best overall cueist right now. He himself admitted that he is a better...

Most of today's pool and snooker coaches advocate on keeping the cue as parallel to the table as possible. The idea is that if you accidentally applied sidespin, keeping the cue as parallel as possible will minimize the error, so to speak. But if you watch some of the top modern day players...

Snooker. Whether you like it or not, snooker is the current dominant cue sport, and compared to rotation/8ball pool: - it has a way better TV coverage and more lucrative sponsorship. - it has a PROPER governing body. - most, if not all, snooker professionals are subject to its governing body's...

There is an article way back in August 2005 by Billiards Digest which discusses what killed straight pool: http://billiardsdigest.com/current_issue/aug_05/

American ingenuity at its finest alright! 😂

As both a pool and snooker player, I could not help but observe a notable difference in the way playing equipment has advanced in both cue sports. In pool you have magic chalks, LD shafts, gloves, phenolic tips, Cyclops pool balls etc. You compare all that to what we have in snooker, and it...

He can still play decently now, so certainly his stroke has held up quite well. In addition to Earl's obvious natural talent, one also has to give credit to him looking after his health.

The snooker stance provides better alignment and hence greater accuracy because it "locks in" the relevant body parts and allows better sighting down the shot. As far as how the snooker players look like when they are down on the shot goes, they are far from what you think they look like. For...