Better money in snooker

[BJTyler]

Why...

snooker players can become successful pool players, but not the other way around.

If I remember round 814 of this debate correctly, here is what I gathered:

1. Snooker relies heavily on abilities that are based upon a deep foundation of precisely honed fine motor skills.

2. Pool is not nearly as dependent upon these fine motor skills but much more so on knowledge (of games, positions, patterns, tables, banks, cuts, etc....)

3. While fine motor skills are much easier to develop when one is very young, knowledge can be acquired even when one is older.

Therefore a snooker player with exceptionally well developed fine motor skills can acquire the knowledge to play great pool later in life. However, a pool player with insufficiently developed fine motor skills (at least needed to play snooker) will find it incredibly difficult to acquire them later in life.

Q.E.D.

 

[9andout]

I thought Karen and Allison came to the US for the $$??

 

[church66]

Terry Griffiths Snooker player in the early 1980's etc ! Coach to the current day sta

Here are some of the numbers

Stephen Hendry is the highest-earning snooker player in the modern history of the game. During his professional career which lasted from 1985 to 2012, he accumulated career prize earnings of £8 million. (About $13 million ) Hendry became the youngest professional snooker player in 1985, aged 15, and in 1990, he became the youngest-ever snooker World Champion, aged 21. He has won 7 World Championship titles, a record in the modern era. Overall, he has won 36 ranking and 38 non-ranking tournaments. The 45-year-old was the World Number 1 for eight successive years between 1990 and 1998, and again in 2006-07. His highest break to date is 147, and he has compiled 775 century breaks during his career.

That is after a 27 year career.

Now drop to the tenth all time highest.

Alan McManus is a Scottish professional snooker player who turned professional in 1990. He is ranked 41st in the current Snooker World Rankings, and his highest ranking to date is 6th (in 1993-94 and 1996-97). The major achievement of his career was the 9-8 victory over Stephen Hendry, in which he claimed the 1994 Masters title at Wembley. The 43-year-old’s highest break to date is 143, and he has accumulated 167 century breaks. In his 24 years of professional play, McManus has gathered career prize earnings of £2 million.

These are the best of the best. I cold not imagine a American pool player going there and finishing well enough in a enough tournaments to make anything even close to what would be a great living. At best they would struggle along just like they do here at pool with far less chances of winning.

I have been to Europe and been to a number of Snooker tournaments including at the Crucible. To win one of these tournaments is no fluke. They don't play like US pool short sets where anyone may win, these are long grueling tournaments and the winners are truly the winners. The commitment that would be required for a pool player to switch to snooker and go there and compete would have to be incredible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Griffiths

Back in the early 1980'2 my then Father-In-Law (R.I.P. George.) asked me who my favourite Snooker player was & of course I replied Alex 'Hurricane 'Higgins.So george said his favourite players were Steve Davis but he also liked Terry as he always seemed to get to the quarter finals & that would guarentee his next seasons ticket.

Wise words when you think about it nowadays ! :thumbup:

 

[Slasher]

I thought Karen and Allison came to the US for the $$??

The woman's game never had any money and they were never even close to competitive in the open game.

 

[church66]

It's All About sponsorship !

US Pool.

Over here in the UK it just seems like more & more top Sports tournaments are getting sponsored by Da Bookie's & I don't mind if my losing bet's get re-invested on Snooker or sports because I helped make it happen with my losing bets.

I've read that you can't gamble in the U.S.A like we do here in the UK so that needs looking into the next time you go to vote !

I follow a Cheech & Chong Facebook page & these dudes tell me that Marijuana is legal in Colorado but the banks wont handle the cash & Washington are looking into this as they wanna sell the dope legally .

So this is my solution , vote for the Government that makes it legal to open up U.S.A. betting shops or Marijuana stores & they can re-invest their profits into U.S.A. Pool & Snooker but hey I bet a buck that that's too sensible for U.S.A. politicians to understand ! :wink::thumbup:

 

[Snuden]

SVB playing snooker...ehm?
I can easy find 100 AMATEUR players in Shanghai that he would NEVER be able to beat.

 

[onepocketron]

I played a lot of snooker when I was young back in the 60's. You could find at least 4-6 snooker tables in any hall. Now days you have to hunt just to find one hall with a 6X12, and it is usually not in the best of condition. A great game that takes extremely precise cueing. Though pool and snooker are both cue sports, that is the only thing they share in common in my view. Snooker, to play well, is 100 times more difficult than pool.