Ronnie O'sullivan
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I'll get right on that.....as soon as I finish working out the ultimate value of Pi.
...glad to see the Rocket win
Poolplayer2016
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Not in 9 ball.
Ya that's a good point...if he were a 9 ball player. He's a snooker player and it's incontestably a harder cue sport. If he spent his talent on a pool table instead of snooker he would've been head and shoulders above all.
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I totally agree. I don't think the top pool pros are reaching anywhere near the level of play the top snooker guys are. Impossible to compare it but if we could somehow I bet that's what we'd find. In fact, if the snooker crowd could somehow all morph their talents over into pool, it may have made efren look like a soft match. I'm totally serious too.
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If he spent time on 9 ball he might become competitive. Snooker players only only use 1/3 of the table anyway...so essentially they are playing on a 4x8...the big boys play on a 4 1/2 x 9 or a 5 x 10.
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And experience a pay cut of about $100k+ per year.
But you keep practicing that 9 ball
Lmao this guys understatement of the year. In the past he's played 9 ball at a competitive level by just spending a minute amount of time learning it...how do you think 9 ball players will fare if they tried their stroke on a snooker table. Just like these guys said about the pay cut, if pool players could play snooker I think they would have already...
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Poolplayer2016
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Efren Reyes learned to play snooker in a few days.
he won a gold medal (snooker) in a SEA game's event in the 80s, after learning how to play the game few days before.. and http://www.9ballpool.co.uk/interviews/daryl_peach_240604.html you shld read this.. according to darryl peach, efren won jimmy white and ronnie o'sullivan with his pool cue..tt's something..
Efren is a genius. If this is ur argument that all pool players can play snooker...but look at all the examples of snooker players doing well in pool, Chris, Steve Davis, ronnie, drago...
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Poolplayer2016
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Well it looks like we are 1 for 1.
Which recently banned troll reincarnate are you?
Id be interested to see what the fargorate would look like in snooker. My guess would be there would be more distance between the players since lower tier pros very rarely beat top tier players. Even amongst the top players, the commentators were saying how Marco Fu hasn't beaten Ronnie in 8 years!
If I remember correctly from what was posted, in 9 ball an A player would expect to lose something like 10-3 or 10-4 to a pro (no idea what the actual number is) based on Fargo rate. The same level of player up against a top pro in snooker would be lucky to lose 10-0. So I'd be wonder how fargorate would handle that, since most amateurs would be lucky to pick up a single frame against pros. Would the number range be higher with a larger gap between groups of players?
If I remember correctly from what was posted, in 9 ball an A player would expect to lose something like 10-3 or 10-4 to a pro (no idea what the actual number is) based on Fargo rate. The same level of player up against a top pro in snooker would be lucky to lose 10-0. So I'd be wonder how fargorate would handle that, since most amateurs would be lucky to pick up a single frame against pros. Would the number range be higher with a larger gap between groups of players?
Fargo for snooker should be calculated by points won not frames.
I've seen handicaps that kind of work that way. But the problem is points scored is dependent on the level of player you are up against. A top amateur may regularly get 80 odd points per frame against me for example, and I would be able to manage an 80 odd aggregate against lower level players consistently. But perhaps an algorithm can be programmed to allow for that and weight scores based on competition.
I think fargorate would work well for snooker since you do have a very well defined pecking order within the game.
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Efren would not play in the liability snooker game at Hard Times in Bellflower until he spent several days practicing and still would not play in the $50 a point game we had regularly in the early 90's. To say he learned in a few days is a stretch.
And Ronnie played for Europe in the Mosconi Cup At least twice. If he wanted to play more nine ball he would be a great player.
Players like Efren and Ronnie come along once in a lifetime. They would excel at any pool game they were dedicated to.
Ronnie got lucky, too:
https://youtu.be/OAG1kKaI67E?t=16499
He really did ...
I believe that those players are just fricking amazing on any type of Billards Equipment ...
Here another cool display of ability from Ronnie ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7U3_9V0R2Y
https://youtu.be/OAG1kKaI67E?t=16499
He really did ...
I believe that those players are just fricking amazing on any type of Billards Equipment ...
Here another cool display of ability from Ronnie ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7U3_9V0R2Y
And experience a pay cut of about $100k+ per year.
But you keep practicing that 9 ball
For Ronnie I think you'd need to add at least one 0 to that 100k!!!