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mnorwood said:
I posted this a while back, it's a great collection of videos but it's not updated very often at all unfortunately.
It's kinda reassuring to see professionals playing snooker and not making centuries every frame.
Cameron Smith said:I posted this a while back, it's a great collection of videos but it's not updated very often at all unfortunately.
It's kinda reassuring to see professionals playing snooker and not making centuries every frame.
Well with the exception of a couple of Pro-Ams featuring lower ranked players, those videos all show amateur competitions!
DangerousDave said:
Pontins are amateur competitions in so far as none of these guys are on the main tour. However the Pontins tournaments are a qualification system to make it on to the main tour, much like the nationwide tour. So it's not as though your watching guys with high breaks of 65 or 70.
They're not top players, but the winners are century break runners. There is a big difference between the guys in the top 30 on the main tour and the rest of the players in world.
Cameron Smith said:
The top 8 players on the PIOS join the 96 man professional tour, so the top amateurs are competing but they are still amateurs nontheless.
All of the players on that tour make centuries very regularly, but even good club players will run hundreds every now and again when the balls are there. There are plenty of amateurs with a 147 to their credit too!
You're exactly right about the world's top players, though. The difference is that they can make the breaks when the balls are not so obviously placed, and then of course Ronnie O'Sullivan is at the pinnacle. He clears up from the most ridiculous positions with phenomenal cue-ball control, and immaculate shot-selection.
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DangerousDave said:
Very true, I'm used to pool where the definition of pro is so loose.
I'm heading to play a snooker tournament which will probably feature some top Canadian professional players, however by definition they are all technically amateur players. It's an interesting observation.