Pool Competition on a Snooker Table?

[victorl]

Only a handful of pool pros would be able to consistently runout on a 12 x 6. I've done it and watched it and even with good players, a lot of times it just ends up becoming a back and forth with players shooting long two way shots over and over again.

 

[The Renfro]

Not looking to start a war or anything just want to clarify. Wych was never top tier and was pretty much done by the end of the 70's.

The Canadians is an amateur event there are no pro level players in Canada currently, none.

And Alex is full of shit on the pool is harder nonsense :smile: maybe it's harder to win cause of the luck factor but it aint harder to play. Snooker has had many players dominate over the years because the rolls are not a big factor, the best player almost always wins.

No war... But get the dates right at Least......

Jim Wych (born 11 January 1954) is a sports announcer and former Canadian professional snooker and pocket billiards player. He reached the quarter-final of the Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship in his debut year of 1980, a "first" for any overseas player[1] and duplicated this feat again in 1992. A two-time Canadian snooker champion, he retired from professional snooker in 1997 and now works mainly as a television pool and snooker commentator, principally for Sky Sports, with whom he has had an association since 1990.



Chris

 

[Mike_Mason]

Once upon a time...

I visited Montreal......Expo '67...and played quite a bit in a room on the second floor on St. Catherine St...in the middle of downtown.

It was a big place...about 20 snooker tables...and I played some snooker...and held my own...but then found out they had what they called "Boston balls" - same size as snooker balls but cue ball and balls 1-15. From then on I played a ton of 9-ball on those big tables.

That was a great summer.

 

[naji]

And I doubt any of the lower tier snooker players could hang with Alex playing pool... They are different games after all....

If i am dedicated pool player and my income is based on wining, and on the road all the time, one would think they would hang around the big $$$ tournaments (snooker), i understand if pool is a hobby then it is different subject.
Snooker players will very easily adapt to pool and master it (Darren A, Mulling..others) since pocketing balls is easy for them, in general snooker players would not touch pool though, not much money there... The other way around is nearly impossible for pool player to reach high levels in snooker without dedication and really high level of focus for long time.

 

[lfigueroa]

(bringing this over from the golf thread)

How about we start seeing pros play pool with regular balls on a 12 (or 10) foot snooker table?
Same playing rules, just on the tougher table.

TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR CHALLENGE:
Would any tournament directors out there try this venue out?
You could get quite a lot of players with a single game match format - single or double elimination.

Might even attract some advertisers over from the snooker world?

IMO, nobody wants to see this.

All kinds of things change when the size of the equipment is altered. Basically, playing pool on a snooker table is creating a gaffe game. Pool on a snooker table, or an excessively tight table for that matter, ceases to be pool and becomes something else. IOW, it changes things so much that it is no longer pool. At pool you need to be able to work the CB and that means the pockets cannot be too tight.

To me, and I think most people, the essence of a gaffe game is one where the equipment changes how a game must be played to win. It is not unlike going down the midway and shooting baskets or throwing darts -- at a carny game the basketball is over-inflated and non-regulation size, and the dart points are ground down and the balloons are under-inflated. It's not like shooting real baskets or throwing real darts. By the same token, pool on a snooker table is not real pool.

Lou Figueroa

 

[Fatboy]

i know the intent of this thread was good, but its getting dumb,

the L shaped cushions are taller than K66 on pool tables or K55 which ever it is, a ball 6" from the cushion won't go in the pocket.

i had a proper Riley 12' table at home we put pool balls on it, it lasted 10 minutes.


new thread, please.....

 

[smashmouth]

it is dumb

futhermore, it's been proven that snooker players adapt far better at pool than vice versa

no pool player has ever ever ever been anywhere near pro level on a snooker table...INCLUDING Efren {insert Efren beat Ronnie and Hendry comments here}

 

[Black-Balled]

i know the intent of this thread was good, but its getting dumb,

the L shaped cushions are taller than K66 on pool tables or K55 which ever it is, a ball 6" from the cushion won't go in the pocket.

i had a proper Riley 12' table at home we put pool balls on it, it lasted 10 minutes.


new thread, please.....

I agree...I tried pool balls on a 6x12 and it was damn near impossible to make the OB go into the pocket. If it was on the rail, it was impossible.

Nothing wrong with brainstorming, but reality has to factor in at some point.