Fisher 21 Years At The #1 Spot, And Still Going!

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Like I said, her brain wins more matches for her than her talent.
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Are you kidding, Snapshot? While I do not obsess over Allison Fisher, she has INCREDIBLE talent. I am not an expert on Snooker, but I do believe that many snooker pros never run a perfect game in snooker. Alison has. Do you have any idea how difficult and how much shotmaking, cueball control, and TALENT that takes???

If you don't, pick up the rules on Snooker, go to a Snooker table, and try to imagine it. To me it seems like the equivalent of running 275 balls in straight pool or 18 points in 3-cushion. In 9-ball, I can think of no equivalent.

You gotta give Allison some credit for talent, here.

 

[Snapshot9]

if you noticed ..

I said she had good talent, but not what I would call great. Never seen her string more than 3 9 ball tables. How many do you think Archer has strung?

I have played over 42 years, and played many semi-pro and some Pro players, like Jimmy Montaya, Danny Medina, and Mosconi (in an exhibition game).

David Matlock has strung 28 9 ball tables on a barbox. I watched him string 10 9 ball tables on a big table in a ring game with 8 players, and David mostly plays semi-pro although he played in the pro ranks for awhile, but he is a heck of a money player. Used to have backers in OKC up to half a mil.

Women pro players have come a long way, and the competition is more intense today, excepting for Jean Balukas. Allison is partly responsible for that. She is a better woman competitor than most before her, and she has helped redefined competition for women. Karen Corr and Jeanette have also helped in that area.

She is a great woman player, but not a great player when men are included, only a very good player. Women don't play money matches with men because they have no balls, and there is a reason for that....

I beat the #1 woman champion (the one right after Balukas) in Houston when I was in my 20's on a big table (and I did not play much big table because I am only 5'7" and I don't enjoy using a bridge that much). She got $300 stuck and quit.

P.S. I played snooker when I was young, quite a bit, played 3 cushion, played about everything I could, played a lot of straight pool, but didn't play one pocket until later on.

evidently you missed another post by me telling of the greatest snooker player I ever saw in person, running 2 straight racks of snooker using only the 6 and 7 as point balls. His name was Monty Nuss, from Jetmore, Ks.