allison fisher vs earl the pearl strickland

I would be interested to hear of ANY matchups where a WPBA star beat a top touring male pro. I'm not talking about one race to 9, but a money matchup where it was something like 10 or 15 ahead. Anyone care to share any stories, you dont have to mention amts but lets hear who has played who for the dough and how it turned out.

My money would be that Earl could drill any of the ladies, probably even giving them the 8 or maybe even the 7.
 
I heard Kelly Fisher beat a male pro in ten ahead last year at the Nash tournament. I'm not sure if this is true. Maybe someone was there? johnnyt
 
Johnnyt said:
I heard Kelly Fisher beat a male pro in ten ahead last year at the Nash tournament. I'm not sure if this is true. Maybe someone was there? johnnyt
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She beat a shortstop if I remember correctly, but Kelly Fisher can play. Against a top male pro she would get drilled, so would Allison.
 
Don't let Earl's performance against Gerda fool any of you. He is a streaky player, he has 3 different gears. When he is in top gear there is hardly a top male player that can beat him. When he is in low or medium gear, he is beatable, even by the women.
 
cuetechasaurus said:
Don't let Earl's performance against Gerda fool any of you. He is a streaky player, he has 3 different gears. When he is in top gear there is hardly a top male player that can beat him. When he is in low or medium gear, he is beatable, even by the women.
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Thanks for the new avatar saurus, I’ll just donate all that extra Pepto-Bismol to the homeless shelter. I won’t need it now.
 
breakup said:
Thanks for the new avatar saurus, I’ll just donate all that extra Pepto-Bismol to the homeless shelter. I won’t need it now.
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Thanks, but you have the best avatar on this site...I smile every time I see it.
 
uwate said:
I would be interested to hear of ANY matchups where a WPBA star beat a top touring male pro. I'm not talking about one race to 9, but a money matchup where it was something like 10 or 15 ahead. Anyone care to share any stories, you dont have to mention amts but lets hear who has played who for the dough and how it turned out.

My money would be that Earl could drill any of the ladies, probably even giving them the 8 or maybe even the 7.
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had a long post typed out, but the long and short of it is.. I agree with this.

DJ
 
sniper said:
I can't think of another way to say this but your wrong on the snooker part. I don't recall Earl ever playing snooker before in his life, he would have no idea whatsoever of the pattern and strategic part of the game, Allison might be a bit rusty from playing pool all these years but she wouldn't forget the pattern play. Earl would have a great chance at beating her playing pool, but snooker? Not IMO at least.
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Why do people think that if Allison has a high break of 140+ that she is close to MALE snooker players? Just because her stroke looks as solid as that of Davis, IT IS that good? Oh no, it is not. It is nowhere near as powerful and precise as male players. Wonder why ladies snooker is payed so poorly? Because it is not of much quality...they rarely make breaks over 40. Forget about high break or high runs...it's about how many you score on average.

I know that Earl, as brilliant as he is, is not a snooker player. I wouldn't match him up against O'Sullivan (that would be sad), but I do believe he has enough natural potting ability to beat those lady players. I cannot back this up with facts, it's just a feeling. At the very least, it would be an interesting matchup, you have to admit. In any pool game on a 9ft he would own her...it wouldn't be pretty to watch if you're not an Earl fan.

So Earl never played snooker? I don't believe that there is one serious pool player who hasn't tried it for a while. Some european pro pool players use snooker sometimes as their practice routine. I don't think 9ballers are all that one dimensional, that they play one game all their life.
 
good point predator.

i'm not one to bash the women's game or anything like that, but teh fact is women's snooker is not of a very high standard.

and when u have arguably the greatest pool player of all time here, i have to think that to a certain extent, he's definitely capable of playing snooker to some sort of standard. u cant be that good at pool and not have dveloped some real potting ability, in general, which you can bring to any game.

Having said that, i'm not bashing Allison because you can only beat who you play. and she has consistentluy beaten every woman pro in her career. what i'm saying is maybe she does have the talent to compete with the men, and maybe if in some way she had of been competing with them all her life, maybe it would of brought the ultimate best out of her. she's just never had to be as good as the men for starters. we'll never know.
 
predator said:
Why do people think that if Allison has a high break of 140+ that she is close to MALE snooker players? Just because her stroke looks as solid as that of Davis, IT IS that good? Oh no, it is not. It is nowhere near as powerful and precise as male players. Wonder why ladies snooker is payed so poorly? Because it is not of much quality...they rarely make breaks over 40. Forget about high break or high runs...it's about how many you score on average.
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Predator, I dont believe anyone said that Allison would beat the top male snooker players because we know she wouldn't, she would get embarrased by O' Sullivan or Davis. Can you point out where someone said this within this thread? I have no idea what your getting so worked up about.
 
pharaoh68 said:
And if you really think that Earl would destroy a 7 time snooker world champion, than you should really stop posting here and return to your duties as president of the Earl Strickland fan club.
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Sniper, the comment from this guy above suggests that he doesn't know the difference in game quality between male and female world snooker champions. This is why I had to bring it up.
 
Last time I looked, a snooker rack has a possible 36 balls, that is, four racks of 9 ball.

The last eight, red, colour (preferably black), and six colours in order, have considerable similarities to a nine ball rack, except:

Balls are smaller
Pockets are smaller
No diamonds to help with banks
Larger playing area
Can't fluke a ball to prematurely end the rack
No jumping balls

Run those eight balls and you may still have lost the match because you didn't score enough points earlier in the game.

Lots of snooker players play good 9 ball: Alex Pagulian World & US champion , Tony Drago World Masters, et al.

Despite the poor pay for 9 ball play in the U.S., no American has accomplished anything in snooker, where the prize money is far higher. :D

Superiority of 9 ballers over snooker players has not been proven. Superiority of snooker players over 9 ballers has been proven repeatedly.

Let the attacks begin:p
 
What about Karen Corr? Hasnt she matched up and played some of the guys on the East Coast of the USA in some challenge matche$? Anyone know who she played?
 
Scaramouche said:
Lots of snooker players play good 9 ball: Alex Pagulian World & US champion , Tony Drago World Masters, et al.
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Pagulayan a snooker player? Perhaps you should go back and double check your research, Pagulayan played pool long before he ever picked up a snooker cue. He has played some snooker in more recent times, he actually competed in the Canadian Snooker Championships three years ago and had a little success eventually losing out to former world snooker champ Cliff Thorburn (IIRC) But your above post seems to give the indicaton (to me atleast) that Pagulayan is a snooker player first and pool player second, I don't recall him ever participating in a top flight international snooker championship.
 
mike seigel

:) the one person that allison has not faced in the ipt tournaments is mike seigel i wonder if he could beat allison fisher in 8 ball he is a fast shooter you know on the table

thanks
 
sniper said:
Pagulayan a snooker player? Perhaps you should go back and double check your research, Pagulayan played pool long before he ever picked up a snooker cue. He has played some snooker in more recent times, he actually competed in the Canadian Snooker Championships three years ago and had a little success eventually losing out to former world snooker champ Cliff Thorburn (IIRC) But your above post seems to give the indicaton (to me atleast) that Pagulayan is a snooker player first and pool player second, I don't recall him ever participating in a top flight international snooker championship.
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Most people just say that Alex has a 'snooker background', so perhaps he interpreted it that Alex was a snooker player first. Either way, Alex is easily in the top 10 9ball players in the world.
 
As much as i like the dutchess, she would have no chance to beat Earl. The most important advatage earl would have would be the break! I think in a short race to say 8-11, allison might win 2 outta 10 times, but in a long race to say 100, she would lost 100 to 35 something like that
 
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