Thread: Snooker

I'm a fan of Ronnie O' Sullivan. Anyone else here a fan of his?
I have been a fan since the first time I saw him play. When he is at the table, there is an air about him... Kinda like al pacino or robert de niro.
He just won the German masters tournament with an absolutely brilliant cliffhanger of a last game.
My wife thinks it is boring, but I like watching snooker late at night.
I am not much of a player though. I played for a bit while I was in college, and I was good enough that my game was merely 'bad'

It is a great game but I have as much talent as you and dont bother with it anymore.

I enjoy a good snooker game on telly.
The first time I watched it was back in the early 80's, and so my fav has always been Steve Davies.
Nowadays I seem to favor the faster players, Ronnie definitely being one of those

Never played snooker. Played a fair bit of pool, 8 ball or 9 ball.

Jeff

when I was younger, I spent a lot of time in a pool hall in montgomeryville pa. the proprietor had a snooker table in the front room. it got to the.point that my friends and I enjoyed playing that more often than regular pool. damn challenging game, especially with the longer table

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I love the commentary, one time Dennis taylor started talking about a particularly good looking row of ladies in the front row "we've get some lovely ladies here at the Crucible, don't they look fantastic" In his Irish accent, he may as well have ran out of the commentary box and licked they're faces

My dad was certain about two things when I was a kid:

1) I must learn to drive standard before I could take the automatic car (which resulted in me actually only ever wanting to drive the standard....)

2) I must learn to play snooker, because that was a gentleman's game. Solid's and stripes or 9 ball were fine, but they were to be left for the college pub.

I'll admit I have no idea who the major players of the game are, but I love watching it and playing it. It's a tad more tactical that "just whack 'em and hope something sinks".

Originally Posted by Maxi

I must learn to play snooker, because that was a gentleman's game. Solid's and stripes or 9 ball were fine, but they were to be left for the college pub.".

In college I used to be very good at solids / stripes pool. There was a pool hall next to the college building, and I skipped class at least a couple of hourse per day (on account of the material being too easy / boring to attend). I played daily, and at the end of the year, I was pretty good.
2nd year was much harder, so I started going to every class, and my pool skills dropped significantly.

When I was good at pool, I was merely bad at snooker (which I also played).
When I became mediocre at pool, I stopped playing snooker altogether

I never heard of the game before reading it here.
I had to look it up. I'd like to find a place to try it out.

I do not watch it from TV but i've played some back then. Not so much these days. When i was younger i spent a lot of time at local pool halls playing 8 ball, 9 ball and Snooker, also played at the pub league for few years.
Nowadays my skills are in rust but i play every now and then either with my work mates or with my kids and my wife.
Same goes with bowling although i lost most interest in it once my wife learned to bowl much better than me