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[tomatoshooter]

I'm cocksure any penis jokes are accidental.

Yeah, we're have a serious conversation about balls and stroking shafts and the third graders in the room keep giggling.

 

[tomatoshooter]

Snooker requires at least 38 strokes per game.
Snooker is vastly more popular than 9-ball and 10-ball {TV showings, purses, ...}

Thus, you can blame pool's lack of TV presence on the fact that the games pool puts up for viewing require fewer than 39 strokes per game/frame.

I do feel that pool would be a better spectator sport if there was a greater sense of the players trading progress through the individual games. As it is, they trade racks instead of balls. I watched a straight pool match, Melling-Immonen I think, and the high run was maybe 40. Seeing each guy get 4 or 5 opportunities at the table made for a very exciting match.

 

[Quesports]

There are several things I miss since I moved from the Chicago area. My friends, the food, the museums, and Chris’s Billiards. Playing carom pool on heated 5 x 10 Verhooven tables was very, very special. I used to get there around 11am and leave around 3pm. The carom tables were always in use and probably kept them in business during lean times.

Carom billiards is on a whole different level than pocket billiards. It is just that way and has been for a long time. I do miss it dearly!

Congrats to Mr. Jaspers he certainly is deserving, a true gentlemen of the sport!

 

[Black-Balled]

Player A breaks off. Player B plays 15 reds with 15 colors and clears up the 6 colors. That takes 37 strokes.

Or... Player A smashes into the reds, pocketing all of them on the break-off, followed by black, yellow and green for 27 points. Player B forfeits as he now needs snookers. 4 strokes. (Alternatively, 10 reds with 10 blacks gets you to normal forfeit territory.)

I think he is referring to stroke types, not a count.

And stop showing off with your numbers. It makes my head spin.

 

[Black-Balled]

Carom billiards is on a whole different level than pocket billiards. It is just that way and has been for a long time. I do miss it dearly!

It is pretty incredible that such a 'simple' game isn't so simple at all.

 

[Bob Jewett]

,,,

The real question is what happens in practice at real snooker tournaments ?

There are many frames at the pro level with a total of 37 strokes between the two players. And many more with fewer strokes when the winner breaks down with few reds left.

 

[Bob Jewett]

.... And stop showing off with your numbers. It makes my head spin.

That's the point....

 

[Island Drive]

It was hard, for sure.

In fact, the article says he played uncharacteristically poorly in the event's foreplay stages.

Obviously, when he needed to score he did though.

I think I mixed em up with a recent high run in the 30's by another player.

 

[FunChamp]

Nobody in snooker ever tries to make a red on the snap.

Have video evidence that this ever transpired ?

Also note if you make a red and pocked a color your inning is done. Making the above even less plusible.

The real question is what happens in practice at real snooker tournaments ?

I bet Corey Deuel would try to make a red on the snap......

 

[Bob Jewett]

I bet Corey Deuel would try to make a red on the snap......

Quinten Hann smashed the reds and made one in a pro tournament. He also got banned from snooker. Quite the character: