Could Ronnie O'sullivan do it

7forlife said:
Everyone agrees that running 527 is insane, no question there but I still say that keeping "this guy" within his element and using the power of imagination to go back in time I think this man with nothing else to practice for and in his prime could put up staggering numbers. Looks at some of his matches when he's in dead punch and showing off how he hammers the balls into the pocket.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98wtcD9cx88
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And in his tournament career, Ronnie has a record total of....13 times scoring 147. That means he's only cleared the table of ALL the balls....ran the whole rack out....13 times, ad that's the world record. All those racks added together still don't amount to 37 plus racks in straight pool.
 
Ronny is a great player at snooker no doubt. How did he fair playing 8 ball or 9 ball on american equipment?

The equipment must be factored in and Ronnie has to spend time on it, to get used to how things work on a pool table vs a snooker table.

JMHO
 
realkingcobra said:
And in his tournament career, Ronnie has a record total of....13 times scoring 147. That means he's only cleared the table of ALL the balls....ran the whole rack out....13 times, ad that's the world record. All those racks added together still don't amount to 37 plus racks in straight pool.
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Yes it's rate and he holds about 10% of all the 147 recorded ,, it's about as rare as a 250 plus run in 14-1 ,, one of his runs was under 6 mins

I believe he could easily be a world class straight pool player in very little time ,, much quicker than any pool player would be a world class snooker player

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I don't know about very little time, but I do agree that it would be faster than a pool player becoming a world class snooker player.



one stroke said:
Yes it's rate and he holds about 10% of all the 147 recorded ,, it's about as rare as a 250 plus run in 14-1 ,, one of his runs was under 6 mins

I believe he could easily be a world class straight pool player in very little time ,, much quicker than any pool player would be a world class snooker player

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one stroke said:
Yes it's rate and he holds about 10% of all the 147 recorded ,, it's about as rare as a 250 plus run in 14-1 ,, one of his runs was under 6 mins

I believe he could easily be a world class straight pool player in very little time ,, much quicker than any pool player would be a world class snooker player

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I have no doubt he could be great at playing 14.1 but there have been, and still is many great 14.1 players today, some of which have high runs over 400 points, yet the 526 record still stands.
 
realkingcobra said:
And in his tournament career, Ronnie has a record total of....13 times scoring 147. That means he's only cleared the table of ALL the balls....ran the whole rack out....13 times, ad that's the world record. All those racks added together still don't amount to 37 plus racks in straight pool.
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Not sure how you meant this, but the way it's written is certainly misleading: a 147 is not the only way to clear all the balls on a snooker table, it's just one kind of total clearance taking only blacks. Here is a 128 total clearance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgxWd0djt5I

He still pots all the balls, as many as in a 147 (36 shots), just taking different colours. I'm not sure if anyone keeps stats on total clearances, but Ronnie makes those all the time. I can think of him making consecutive total clearances at least a couple of times. Total clearances under 147 are much more common than 147s are.

Still, the idea of Ronnie or any other human running 527 on a regulation snooker table is insane. The huge increase in difficulty of balls down the rail on a snooker table alone would make this game a form of torture even for pros. It's hard to guess what Ronnie could do with this game, but safe to say that a run of 527 is not in the ball park.
 
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Ron Swanson said:
One thing people tend to forget about O'Sullivan: he misses.
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Yep. I don't see Ronnie coming close to this record, regardless of how many what ifs people throw in.

Hendry, however? You take a young Stephen Hendry and get him playing straight pool, and I could see him going way past 527.

realkingcobra said:
And in his tournament career, Ronnie has a record total of....13 times scoring 147. That means he's only cleared the table of ALL the balls....ran the whole rack out....13 times, ad that's the world record. All those racks added together still don't amount to 37 plus racks in straight pool.
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lol
 
A 147 which is a significant accomplishment is a run of 36 balls if I'm doing my math correctly. About once a year Ronnie runs a 36.

If Ronnie abandoned snooker and started playing 14.1 on a standard 9 foot pool table he would become a good 14.1 player but that won't happen because there is more money in snooker. Could he beat Mosconi's record? No. Not on a snooker table, not on a pool table.

If Ronnie took bets on whether he could run 100 on a snooker table I'd bet against it.
 
pt109 said:
I don't think we disagree here...
...I think Ronnie could run a hundred on a pool table also ....within hours.
The original poster was talking about a 6x12 snooker table......
...that's 100 balls playing straight pool.
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Ok, sorry thought you meant on a pool table.
 
DangerousDave said:
Not sure how you meant this, but the way it's written is certainly misleading: a 147 is not the only way to clear all the balls on a snooker table, it's just one kind of total clearance taking only blacks. Here is a 128 total clearance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgxWd0djt5I

He still pots all the balls, as many as in a 147 (36 shots), just taking different colours. I'm not sure if anyone keeps stats on total clearances, but Ronnie makes those all the time. I can think of him making consecutive total clearances at least a couple of times. Total clearances under 147 are much more common than 147s are.

Still, the idea of Ronnie or any other human running 527 on a regulation snooker table is insane. The huge increase in difficulty of balls down the rail on a snooker table alone would make this game a form of torture even for pros. It's hard to guess what Ronnie could do with this game, but safe to say that a run of 527 is not in the ball park.
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I'm talking about scoring a 147 8 tournament play, he holds the world record with 13 times during his tournament career. 2 consecutive 147s back to back is a world record to, one of the players to do that was Henry:thumbup:
 
DangerousDave said:
Not sure how you meant this, but the way it's written is certainly misleading: a 147 is not the only way to clear all the balls on a snooker table, it's just one kind of total clearance taking only blacks. Here is a 128 total clearance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgxWd0djt5I

He still pots all the balls, as many as in a 147 (36 shots), just taking different colours. I'm not sure if anyone keeps stats on total clearances, but Ronnie makes those all the time. I can think of him making consecutive total clearances at least a couple of times. Total clearances under 147 are much more common than 147s are.

Still, the idea of Ronnie or any other human running 527 on a regulation snooker table is insane. The huge increase in difficulty of balls down the rail on a snooker table alone would make this game a form of torture even for pros. It's hard to guess what Ronnie could do with this game, but safe to say that a run of 527 is not in the ball park.
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But the highest points ever scored in snooker is more than a 147:eek:
 
realkingcobra said:
But the highest points ever scored in snooker is more than a 147:eek:
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The highest possible RUN is 155.
The highest points SCORED has no limit.....
....you opponent's fouls are added to YOUR score.
There is no negative scoring at snooker, unlike 14.1 where you can be minus.
 
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