why are the british the best in the world?

Yes....pool players have to park whitey on a dime, often.
Snooker players parking whitey on a manhole cover is often good enough.

Our old North American snooker champion, George Chenier, went to Merry Olde in 1951.
He became known as the master of position play.....had a 144 in the world championship..
....but his long distance potting was his weakness.
George was also the first player to run 150 and out in the world straight pool championship..
...in that game, his forte was known to be accuracy, but his cue ball control was considered
his weakness.

See the pattern here?
Because of modern communication, the difference is not as wide...
...but accuracy remains a major concern to snooker players...
...as does cue ball control to pool players.

I do see the pattern. It's commonly known as grasping at straws.
 
It's easy to say bullshit....you can say bullshit to one and equals two.
...but hardly a legitimate response.

Oh PT, you are in a battle of wits with an unarmed man. At least give him a healthy spot of some sorts ;)
 
I see this (that pool professional players have better cue ball control than professional snooker players) said a lot on here and it always baffles me.


There's only one Ronny O'Sullivan, let's not pretend you all play with such control
 
Well,not all:):):)
I know a few Scottish who actually doesn't speak British at all.
At the same time there are few in Irish community who are hardly understandable:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

I was watching a live stream of a "blackball" match with a Scottish guy playing an English guy. One commentator was English, one Scottish. In the chat I said I was having trouble understanding the Scottish guy and he replied "I'm talking as slow as I can".

Funny thing is, my ancestry is Scottish. I can't understand my own relatives.
 
Something nobody mentioned yet is how many bookie shops are all throughout England, Scotland and Ireland. Huge betting on snooker, horse racing, etc. Also, look at the payouts in snooker compared to
here. I have a cousin in Northern Ireland who went to pool school five days a week for four years when he was in his teens. Schools are big in Germany, too. Hard to compare to that when places to learn are so
few and far between. The money difference in tournaments is laughable.
 
There's only one Ronny O'Sullivan, let's not pretend you all play with such control

I wouldn't pretend that for a second, but the level of cue ball control shown in your average professional snooker match dwarfs that shown in your average professional pool match.

It's hard to watch a pro snooker match without being blown away at some point by a positional shot - I can't say the same of pool, sadly.
 
I wouldn't pretend that for a second, but the level of cue ball control shown in your average professional snooker match dwarfs that shown in your average professional pool match.

It's hard to watch a pro snooker match without being blown away at some point by a positional shot - I can't say the same of pool, sadly.

Yes, because Earl, Johnny, Efren, SVB, et al, never come with a "shot" many, many times for some crazy position. How the heck to you win 9b US Opens and World Championships without bringing it ??
 
Yes, because Earl, Johnny, Efren, SVB, et al, never come with a "shot" many, many times for some crazy position. How the heck to you win 9b US Opens and World Championships without bringing it ??

Who said they didn't?

The best pool players have unbelievably good positional skills. I'm not debating that. I just think that pro snooker players have better ones than their pool playing counterparts.
 
Who said they didn't?

The best pool players have unbelievably good positional skills. I'm not debating that. I just think that pro snooker players have better ones than their pool playing counterparts.

Actually, you did.

And no, snooker players don't play better position. Would not some low level slob on the snooker tour just come and steal the US Open money? Or at least a 9b or 10b world championship money. Not the biggest prize pools, but surely enough to buy a cup of tea and a biscuit ;)
 
Where?

I said it's a common occurence in snooker - i.e. almost every match. It's not in pool.

No, never in a 9b or 10b match ?? You cannot run racks without it being a "common occurrence" in either of those games. Every see Earl on a 10 foot table ? Or Johnny? Of many others?
 
The best ever at ENLISH billiards.....
...undisputed by anyone who is not blinded by patriotism....
....and Austalian named Walter Lindrum
 
Aussies are practically british.

So are Canucks, but heavily influenced by pool.
At least five years before Thorburn won the world snooker title, he was know by his peers
as the best 'six by six' player in the world....his weakness, long shots.
Cliff learned a lot playing many forms of pool and also 3-cushion billiards.


I can't believe I misspelled ENGLISH !!! :o
My Yorkshire relatives are going to kill me. :eek:
 
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