Can male snooker players dominate mens pool?

In reply to point 2, it is not a case of preferential treatment. Over here it is so easy to play on the pro 9-ball tour, to play on the pro snooker tour you must first qualify.

1. Play in the Open Tour. Finish in the top 8 at the end of the season.

2. That qualifies you on the Challenge Tour. Finish in the top 8 of the season.

3. That will then qualify you on to the Main Tour (Pro Tour), but even then you must stay high enough ranked to avoid relegation back to the CT.

There are wild cards onto the MT, but they are very scarce and you have to understand there are hundreds of snooker players fighting to climb the rankings and stay on their tour. so you can understand the backlash if World Snooker just opened up a couple of spots for any Tom Dick or Harry.

Besides pool players could never compete against the snooker players!!!!
 
No, the best snooker players would not dominate men's professional pool. As someone pointed out, the women's tour is a world away from the quality and depth of competition in men's pool. Allison and Karen are great players, and Lee is very good when she's on, but after just a handful of players the quality of player on the women's tour drops dramatically. So the comparison is not really a good one.

I think it is true that pocketing balls in snooker is more difficult than in nine ball, and yes there have been top pool players like Rempe and Mizerak who have tried their hand at snooker and not been able to be as competitive at that game as they are at pool. I suspect it is more difficult to make the change from pool to snooker at the top level, than from snooker to pool, mainly because of the extreme accuracy in pocketing balls required in snooker. But I think it is just false to believe that the top snooker players would ipso facto be the best nine ball or pool players in the world if they just concentrated on pool instead of snooker. What reason is there to think that snooker players are for some reason better cueists than the rest of the world? I see no reason to think that. And if playing and excelling at snooker really did lead one to the top of the pool world, then every pool player would be focusing their practice time on snooker to improve their pool game. O'Sullivan is an amazing talent, but he loses like everyone else. He might be a force in men's professional pool if he switched over, but the more general claim that the top snooker players would dominate the pool world to me is unreasonable.
 
snooker players will pocket better. i don't think there's an argument there. however, pool players will not be playing on snooker tables,,,snooker players will be playing on pool tables, where all the pros shoot well, so i don't think the pocketing skills will be a factor, at least not in the top ten.

i think pool players will have to change their safeties because snooker players will pocket anything.
 
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