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Efren Reyes, in his prime could probably expect to lose 2 out of 7 'racks' to the likes of Jimmy, Davis and Ronnie.
I don't know why the snooker fan on here is 'bigging up' the skill-difference/s between pool and snooker, and how pool is being legitimised as a difficult sport on its own merits.
No doubt it is, but there are a lot of similarities between both.
Take that 2 out of 7 (off the top of my head) example above. Now ask yourself: "Would an Efren Reyes in his prime even get within 35 points in two out of seventy frames, let alone have a chance of even winning one?"
Logic says no, and common sense says we'll never see a pool player even attempt to play against a snooker player. This could easily be done on a half-sized (9ft by 4 1/2ft) snooker table; which would be close enough in dimensions to a larger pool table.
EDIT: I did not notice that last clip that gdg posted, as because of the amount of video links posted on this page, there was a lot of buffering.
I don't know why he even posted it. So , according to Efren, and it may or may not be true, henever beat Ronnie fair and square in a proper game of snooker - 7 balls, with handicaps etc..? Even if I had noticed it, I would still have presumed before watching it that it wasn't kosher, and I would have been proved right.
Tony Knowles, at 65 would hammer an in his prime Efren Reyes at snooker, absent any 'handicaps'. I've never seen Ronnie or Jimmy get any 'handicaps' when playing Strickland, or Reyes at 7 ball, or 8 ball, or any form of pool.
One can appreciate the difficulties of pool at a higher level, Masse - bank shots
etc.. but don't fool yourselves.. It's night and day... Not even Chess and Checkers, as one would not learn how to play chess in a day having just played draughts all their lives. Could even take out the 'miss rule' , and any other rule/s from snooker that could be used as an excuse by the 'pool pros' for losing.
And no mention of Mark Selby either
A lot of the snooker pro's on both sides of the channel may have played little or no pool when growing up, although they would have had access to both pool and snooker tables in pubs/clubs growing up. Nowadays, with the younger generation even less so, with a lot of pubs doing away with pool tables.
Even a billiards player would demolish most of these pool professionals in a game of snooker 19 times out of twenty.
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Deleted User wrote: »Efren Reyes, in his prime could probably expect to lose 2 out of 7 'racks' to the likes of Jimmy, Davis and Ronnie.
I don't know why the snooker fan on here is 'bigging up' the skill-difference/s between pool and snooker, and how pool is being legitimised as a difficult sport on its own merits.
No doubt it is, but there are a lot of similarities between both.
Take that 2 out of 7 (off the top of my head) example above. Now ask yourself: "Would an Efren Reyes in his prime even get within 35 points in two out of seventy frames, let alone have a chance of even winning one?"
Logic says no, and common sense says we'll never see a pool player even attempt to play against a snooker player. This could easily be done on a half-sized (9ft by 4 1/2ft) snooker table; which would be close enough in dimensions to a larger pool table.
EDIT: I did not notice that last clip that gdg posted, as because of the amount of video links posted on this page, there was a lot of buffering.
I don't know why he even posted it. So , according to Efren, and it may or may not be true, henever beat Ronnie fair and square in a proper game of snooker - 7 balls, with handicaps etc..? Even if I had noticed it, I would still have presumed before watching it that it wasn't kosher, and I would have been proved right.
Tony Knowles, at 65 would hammer an in his prime Efren Reyes at snooker, absent any 'handicaps'. I've never seen Ronnie or Jimmy get any 'handicaps' when playing Strickland, or Reyes at 7 ball, or 8 ball, or any form of pool.
One can appreciate the difficulties of pool at a higher level, Masse - bank shots
etc.. but don't fool yourselves.. It's night and day... Not even Chess and Checkers, as one would not learn how to play chess in a day having just played draughts all their lives. Could even take out the 'miss rule' , and any other rule/s from snooker that could be used as an excuse by the 'pool pros' for losing.
And no mention of Mark Selby either A lot of the snooker pro's on both sides of the channel may have played little or no pool when growing up, although they would have had access to both pool and snooker tables in pubs/clubs growing up. Nowadays, with the younger generation even less so, with a lot of pubs doing away with pool tables.
Even a billiards player would demolish most of these pool professionals in a game of snooker 19 times out of twenty.
/ Rant over :pac:
I don't agree still. Because Knowles (65) would have to learn pool shots instead of snooker shots. Good point on Selby though. He plays in a pool style at times when playing snooker. He mixed the styles. However you say that as snooker player would destroy a pool player. In the two pool finals Selby was in he won one 11-7 and lost the other 21-19
If you look at Dennis Taylor playing pool this year against an Irish pool player Tierney
recently Dennis lost 4-0.
Plus Tierney struggles when he plays top pool players outside Ireland.
If you want to see Ronnie O'Sullivan being beaten by Earl Strickland look at this:
Pool and snooker are different games simple as that!Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.
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