This is one awesome snooker frame.

[JC]

Given pretty much all of that post it is evident you have little to no experience shooting on a 6x12 snooker table like that. The snooker that Ding played to get behind the black there was an extremely tough shot and a kick on a shot like that pink on a snooker table that size with the smaller balls and the way snooker rails tend to play is WAY harder then the same shot on a 9-foot pool table. They are not even on the same league.

Moving the pink up table like he did made the safety WAY tougher and if he bobbled the pink and leaves it closer to the black the chances of him actually getting hooked go up exponentially. Ding got into a crazy good spot on the safety to not just hook Fu but actually remove the kick off the long rail nearer to the pink.

I know snooker is harder than pool and the players are way more skilled. That's why they come and dominate the pool scene like they do. Oh wait, nevermind. I guess that's the theory, not real life.

Sorry if I oversimplify it, but Fu is short for Fubar on that frame. Don't know any other way to say it. He made a stupid shot and paid for it. We've all done it.

 

[pt109]

I know snooker is harder than pool and the players are way more skilled. That's why they come and dominate the pool scene like they do. Oh wait, nevermind. I guess that's the theory, not real life.

Sorry if I oversimplify it, but Fu is short for Fubar on that frame. Don't know any other way to say it. He made a stupid shot and paid for it. We've all done it.

Actually, I think he played a good shot but didn't get the result he wanted.
I think he tried to follow off the pink and knock the black to the rail.....
...if he had succeeded in doing that, Ding would have been a 100 to 1
underdog.
The trouble with dead-weighting the pink to the corner is that nap cloth
is unreliable...the bridge hands are always roughing it up.
I've seen dead-weight table length shots missed altogether by great
players.