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World Snooker Championship

Gilbert.. said:
I heard stephen hendry say a few weeks ago that he thought snooker was the hardest game in the world. I scoffed at it first. But then i thought at that level osullivan plays. To control the cue ball so many times to that precision. Maybe it is.
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Was thinking golf is prob a lot harder technically, due to the massive variation of conditions when playing a shot. But golf isn't really man v man, it's man v course. Snooker matchplay is like playing a difficult golf shot, then your opponent gets to pick up your ball and launch it into the bushes, and you have to take your next shot from there. Both hard as nails games tbh.

Darts prob easier out of the three IF you have the nerve for the big stage and alehouse boo-ing.
 
Black Belt Jones said:
Was thinking golf is prob a lot harder technically, due to the massive variation of conditions when playing a shot. But golf isn't really man v man, it's man v course. Snooker matchplay is like playing a difficult golf shot, then your opponent gets to pick up your ball and launch it into the bushes, and you have to take your next shot from there. Both hard as nails games tbh.

Darts prob easier out of the three IF you have the nerve for the big stage and alehouse boo-ing.
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I find both tough and my level is as average as you can get. Hendry is a golf nut aswell and it was on one of his podcasts with jimmy bullard that he mentioned it. I would have said golf aswell straight away but the more i and thought about it the more i can see a case for snooker. Players at hendrys level are often calculating 3 shots in advance.
Its an interesting one.
 
Black Belt Jones said:
Was thinking golf is prob a lot harder technically, due to the massive variation of conditions when playing a shot. But golf isn't really man v man, it's man v course. Snooker matchplay is like playing a difficult golf shot, then your opponent gets to pick up your ball and launch it into the bushes, and you have to take your next shot from there. Both hard as nails games tbh.

Darts prob easier out of the three IF you have the nerve for the big stage and alehouse boo-ing.
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Thankfully I'm rubbish at all 3. Connect 4, now that's a game of skill.
 
Rita_Poon said:
Sean Murphy battered John Higgins just 4-0 in 41 minutes flat. Average shot time 14 seconds. What was it, 'kin dinner time?
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Somebody shouted "Buffet's open lads, sausage rolls and vol-au-vents, first come, first served".
I'm finding the fall out from Sunday night high amusing, if not slightly sad and by no means unexpected.
 

Both Ronnie and Carter should be banned for a few months for their part in what was/is an absolutely unedifying spectacle.
The second most important tournament in the calendar and these two tosspots are acting like it's night out in Romford.
Both of them are unpleasant in their own very special way.
Ronnie is basically an Idiot Savant who knows no better and Carter is thoroughly unpleasant by choice because he's a strutting little turd with a Napoleon complex.
 
Black Belt Jones said:
Was thinking golf is prob a lot harder technically, due to the massive variation of conditions when playing a shot. But golf isn't really man v man, it's man v course. Snooker matchplay is like playing a difficult golf shot, then your opponent gets to pick up your ball and launch it into the bushes, and you have to take your next shot from there. Both hard as nails games tbh.

Darts prob easier out of the three IF you have the nerve for the big stage and alehouse boo-ing.
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Opening paragraph golf & snooker both hard games all about straight lines in action @ what action of spin you can put on the ball - most golf clubs the course professional iI found if a snooker table was there they would 9 times out of ten if they played snooker were the best players in each clubhouse on a snooker table as they had a full size table or tables to practice on in their leisure time .....
As they knew all about straight lines stance in golf & snooker & most had phenomenal white ball control I saw one hit a 130 break moving balls of the cushions etc to extend that break .....he taught me a lot watching him & playing a snooker game against him - if their was no shot on he told me to walk around the full size table & to ask yourself - where would you not want the white to be if you were to take the next shot ...
After all it's not called potting it's callled snooker .....
Also you need bottle in a match playing in the league - he improved my game playing matchplayy - told me never practice on matchnight put the effort in the night before....
So you saved your best shots in your matchplay both games can become addictive.....
 
Handball said:
Both Ronnie and Carter should be banned for a few months for their part in what was/is an absolutely unedifying spectacle.
The second most important tournament in the calendar and these two tosspots are acting like it's night out in Romford.
Both of them are unpleasant in their own very special way.
Ronnie is basically an Idiot Savant who knows no better and Carter is thoroughly unpleasant by choice because he's a strutting little turd with a Napoleon complex.
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Parrott alluded to it at the end of the first session, the crowd had been on the pints all day and were very loosened up. Carter had the right to be unimpressed because it was continually his shots being disturbed by calling out and even phone flashes. O'Sullivan got far less mither. I reckon there were a few with bets on happy to have a nibble. O'Sullivan has had a go at the standard of the competition before, and that's all well and good, though he's never said it out loud like someone else did 'I am the greatest' goes a long way to drawing the audience in, and you bet he knows full well he is. Carter has come through personal difficulty and at the same time has lost 18 out of 19 to O'Sullivan, having O'Sullivan troll the entire field of competition just to have a go at you to your face I reckon isn't easy to laugh off. Ron has always been his own worst enemy, and that's why he hasn't won double what he has.... and he's still the record holder for titles, centuries and money earned.

[on a side note, I thought it'd be Higgins that got to 1k centuries next, but it seems Trump is just over 40 away and is most likely - he turned pro in 2005, Higgins in 1992 (double checking, Higgins needs just over 30 centuries) gonna be a good race this to who gets second, both could do it at the Worlds]
 
Joey66 said:
Opening paragraph golf & snooker both hard games all about straight lines in action @ what action of spin you can put on the ball - most golf clubs the course professional iI found if a snooker table was there they would 9 times out of ten if they played snooker were the best players in each clubhouse on a snooker table as they had a full size table or tables to practice on in their leisure time .....
As they knew all about straight lines stance in golf & snooker & most had phenomenal white ball control I saw one hit a 130 break moving balls of the cushions etc to extend that break .....he taught me a lot watching him & playing a snooker game against him - if their was no shot on he told me to walk around the full size table & to ask yourself - where would you not want the white to be if you were to take the next shot ...
After all it's not called potting it's callled snooker .....
Also you need bottle in a match playing in the league - he improved my game playing matchplayy - told me never practice on matchnight put the effort in the night before....
So you saved your best shots in your matchplay both games can become addictive.....
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I suppose there are different challenges in different sports. You stuff a pot or a snooker up, all you give up is a chance for a reply. Flying round the TT at a record average of 136.358mph sees a little more jeopardy involved. Racing on the IOM has claimed over 250 lives since it began in 1907.
 
Rita_Poon said:
I suppose there are different challenges in different sports. You stuff a pot or a snooker up, all you give up is a chance for a reply. Flying round the TT at a record average of 136.358mph sees a little more jeopardy involved. Racing on the IOM has claimed over 250 lives since it began in 1907.
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Motor cycling is dangerous, but it is far away from straight lines - skilful with more danger - definitely .....
 

Rita_Poon said:
I suppose there are different challenges in different sports. You stuff a pot or a snooker up, all you give up is a chance for a reply. Flying round the TT at a record average of 136.358mph sees a little more jeopardy involved. Racing on the IOM has claimed over 250 lives since it began in 1907.
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Yeah but being a blert of such proportions to travel in motor bike circles must be the toughest challenge
 

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