The torments of Ronnie O’Sullivan, snooker’s greatest player.
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If only I could get my chimps in order
Was that an agreement ??? (I think I can see why you keep Thaiger confused)
I consider ghostball, to be the easiest way to begin teaching a newbie, short of putting a mark on the ball, where you want him to hit !..Call it an 'aiming system' if you want ! Almost anyone of average intelligence, can figure it out !
Thaiger is easily confused about a lot of stuff, hence why he must use several screen names.
Ghost ball is an aiming system, and yep, it is the easiest way to teach a newbie. We are in agreement. And yep, most folks can figure it out, but many cannot "imagine" where the ghost ball goes.
So, if ghost ball doesn't work, or you want something else, there are other things. Most of them don't cost a dime. Some cost more than a dime. Choice is theirs, really.
Also, the proposition was for The Thaiger anyways, so why would you care either way?
Yeah, I'd say 3 times is a bit of a stretch, but a Snooker table, 12x6 has twice as much playing surface as a 9 x 4.5 pool table.
12 x 6 = 72 square feet
9 x 4.5 = 40.5 square feet.
Twice as much playing surface as a 9 foot would then be 81 square feet.
This is still an approximation of the actual playing surface, but it's clear a snooker table's playing surface is not even twice the size of a 9 foot table.
OK, ALMOST twice as big
5,832 inches of playing surface (pool)
10,368 inches of playing surface (snooker)
That's still HUGE difference
barbox = 3528 inches, which puts snooker at almost 3 times bigger than a pool table
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Originally Posted by trob View Post
No .. close minded people like you should be banned from the forum. People like you are the real problem. Everyone plays the game different and not all have the natural ability and feel. If there happy with aiming systems good for them.
Great article. He's truely the. Greatest English pocket billiards playerof all time.
Ronnie plays snooker
English billiards looks like this - First three shots - rest is a monologue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwCCJ0uA-xM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67uzDHvZNsg
English pocket billiards - an unknown term signifying nothing :grin:
No .. close minded people like you should be banned from the forum. People like you are the real problem. Everyone plays the game different and not all have the natural ability and feel. If there happy with aiming systems good for them.
Great article. He's truely the. Greatest English pocket billiards playerof all time.
Ronnie plays snooker
English billiards looks like this - First three shots - rest is a monologue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwCCJ0uA-xM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67uzDHvZNsg
English pocket billiards - an unknown term signifying nothing :grin:
Do you think he uses an aiming system?
And as for the problem with this forum, it's this: 99% are american and simply cannot play (OP not included). But if you want to continue on the path of absolute humiliation, be my guest.
Just posting this show your bias and ignorance. Please go start a forum that doesn't allow American posters. I'm sure it will be a hit. Luckily, I can just skip your posts in the future.
Ron Swanson
Banned
Consider the source
Dave
Lol.
Yappy gets more stalkery by the day. I'd be quite scared if he wasn't a midget.
It was well written but he obviously doesn't know much about the game. I had to laugh when he wrote that there tables our 3x larger then ours lol they must use the bridge a lot to play on a 27x13.5 foot table lol great to see a magazine like that doing a piece on any form of pocket billiards no matter what the knowledge of the game the writer has.
OK, ALMOST twice as big
5,832 inches of playing surface (pool)
10,368 inches of playing surface (snooker)
That's still HUGE difference
barbox = 3528 inches, which puts snooker at almost 3 times bigger than a pool table
By the bolded text, we can say that they're almost 3 times as big as an American pool table, since this is barbox country. The international variant is 4.5x9, almost 1/2 a snooker table, both with significantly larger pockets.
Really? A simple link to a great article on Ronnie and you had to bring the aiming debate into it?
I am going to say this one last time with you. LET IT GO!!! (or we can let you go)
Mike
I am going to say this one last time with you. LET IT GO!!! (or we can let you go)
Mike
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooker
The actual size of a standard full-size snooker table is 11 ft. 8.5 in. by 5 ft. 10 in. which means it's 9,835 square inches, which is significantly less than 12 by 6 which is 10,368 square inches.
Bar boxes vary in size between 6 and 7 foot, and there are a lot of 9 foot tables in America.
You could confidently say that a snooker table is over 3 times the size of a 6' bar box table because they are approximately 2,592 square inches.
