Top Level Snooker vs Pool?
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Which top snooker players have become 8ball/9ball champions?
I only know of one, Mark Selby, who won one division of a fractured sport in one year (beating Appleton in the final). English 8 Ball.
An extensive list then...
I don't know many, but I do not know of any 8ball/9ball players that have learnt snooker and then become a world champion. But there have been snooker players who have become 8/9 ball champions.Even if it is only one or two.
not going to debate pool and snooker, because i firmly believe they both emphasize different skill sets in both physical mechanics and strategy. to me, the pockets and the felt are what set the games apart, more so than the length of the table.
the one thing about a pool table is that players often play multiple games on the table in one day. 8 ball, 9 ball and 1 pocket are common games on a pool table. snooker players generally play only snooker on a 6x12. this may be why pool players have a difficult time keeping up with snooker players on their table- because thats mostly what snooker players play. to me snooker can get rather repetitive in play, and strategy. with the strong break in 8 ball and 9 ball, layouts are constantly and drastically different from game to game. snooker you play the pack, like in straight pool or 1 pocket.
dont get me wrong now, i love, and get the craving to play some classy snooker. but overall if i have a table in my house, its gonna be a pool table. (10x5)
the one thing about a pool table is that players often play multiple games on the table in one day. 8 ball, 9 ball and 1 pocket are common games on a pool table. snooker players generally play only snooker on a 6x12. this may be why pool players have a difficult time keeping up with snooker players on their table- because thats mostly what snooker players play. to me snooker can get rather repetitive in play, and strategy. with the strong break in 8 ball and 9 ball, layouts are constantly and drastically different from game to game. snooker you play the pack, like in straight pool or 1 pocket.
dont get me wrong now, i love, and get the craving to play some classy snooker. but overall if i have a table in my house, its gonna be a pool table. (10x5)
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Aha, floods fo snooker players then.
Goddam, let us hope they never all flood to our game and make us all look incredibly silly..
Dont worry,not many snooker players are interested in pool career as there is WAY less money in pool than in snooker.
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Yes of course. The money. That is absolutely why all of them play snooker and not pool.
Makes you wonder why there are so many different sports and not just one super sport that all people play - that has all the money.
Golf anyone?
TheThaiger
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'Top' snooker players are never going to become pool players. No incentive to. The only evidence you can take from the pool Vs snooker debate is how they have done in each other's disciplines, and there is little to debate there.
FAILED snooker players have become TOP pool players, that's all you really need to know.
It's a silly argument. A more pertinent point is the one someone raised earlier, about which sport is the most difficult to succeed in. I know the likes of Melling says pool is, because ANYONE can win a rack of pool, but that cannot be said of snooker. In short, the best snooker player ALWAYS wins, which is why SVB will NEVER beat O'Sullivan at snooker, whilst O'Sullivan WILL beat SVB at pool sooner or later.
But anyone thinking the current top snooker players wouldn't be dominating pool today if they switched to it as a teenager is a fool.
the real question as mentioned is how top carom players would compete against snooker guys in a mixed battle
TheThaiger
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With all disciplines, it really comes down to who can cue the ball the best. Can the players of other cue sports compete with snooker players on cueing?
Complete and utter rubbish.
Pool is an awful lot harder to become the best at for one simple reason.
Maths.
There are many many many times more pool players than there are snooker players. Possibly (probably) MILLIONS more, therefore, to achieve the status of a "top player", say, the top 10, is proportionally far more difficult.
What a ludicrous statement that is beyond the ridiculous and deserves nothing more than ridicule..
By that logic, it makes you wonder how O'Sullivan has ever lost a frame of snooker ever..
Only in your opinion.
"Fundamentals" as the colonial chaps call them (cueing as people from the mother country call it) is less important in pool than snooker.
TheThaiger
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A match, of course, and I was thinking along the lines of best of 17, with a pool player, obviously. After all, It is kind of what this thread is about...do keep up!
TheThaiger
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I disagree. SVB is god around here but I see him miss easy ball after easy ball - why does he do that? If he could cue a ball as well as the top snooker players he'd never dog an easy ball.
Cueing is all. Everything else flows from there. Good cueing is why snooker player can immediately become at least semi-proficient pool players and poor cueing is why pro pool players get mullered by amateur snooker players.
Poor cueing is the American disease.
It is not cueing that makes snooker hard, it is focus endurance, in another words, a pool player will do great when fresh, and after an hour or two, the concentration goes way down; it requires a lot of hard work and practice to master focus endurance, and how to be at best shape for it, what to eat and drink.IMO a player has to have some kind of special ability, not found in all, to be a master in snooker, and consistently mastering the sport.