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pig · 20 Feb 2005, 18:55

O'Sullivan or Higgins, im rooting for O'Sullivan as hes a local lad, but its a damn interesting match and has been a good tournament so far, there was a young chinese kid 17, who looked amazing, anyway enjoy

Demon Dave · 21 Feb 2005, 01:23

i don't know anything about snooker (except the names of some the good players) and don't usually watch it, but i find myself strangly hooked on this game. My money's on Ronnie

pig · 21 Feb 2005, 01:33

Ronnie won it 10-3, all I can say is hes the standard in snooker, an absolutely amazing player, can play with his left and right hands etc.

Demon Dave · 21 Feb 2005, 01:36

you mean it's finished? bugger

pig · 21 Feb 2005, 01:38

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you mean it's finished? bugger

ye about 3 hours ago :P

Gary · 21 Feb 2005, 10:05

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Originally Posted by pig

Ronnie won it 10-3, all I can say is hes the standard in snooker, an absolutely amazing player, can play with his left and right hands etc.

Yep. Just a matter of how long he can keep himself interested as to how many world championship titles he wins for the rest of his career. It doesn't even look as though anyone can challenge him on an average day, let alone one of his best days (yesterday)!

JC · 21 Feb 2005, 11:28

Nobody, except Hendry a few years ago, has the same break building ability as O'Sullivan, its remarkable. If he gets 1 chance thats frame over where as most other players will make a 50 break than give you another chance. Now he's decided to play some excellent safety as well he is undefeatable when he wants to be.

Deepflow · 21 Feb 2005, 13:28

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Yep. Just a matter of how long he can keep himself interested as to how many world championship titles he wins for the rest of his career. It doesn't even look as though anyone can challenge him on an average day, let alone one of his best days (yesterday)!

i think the bit about him being interested is a bit off... firstly he could remain interested and lose his form. None of the 'great' snooker players (and it looks like ronnie officially is one of them now) who could beat everyone else when they played as well as they should managed to keep it up their whole career. I don't think its possible to predict when, but i highly doubt that Ronnie will remain number 1 "until he loses interest". Something will go wrong, or someone else will push their game up.

it doesn't look as if its going to happen for a while yet though

although, that 17 year old ding dude could very possibly be the next superhuman player, in a year or two.

pig · 21 Feb 2005, 13:30

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although, that 17 year old ding dude could very possibly be the next superhuman player, in a year or two.

I heard that china are really producing a lot of amazing players, my local snooker club in birmingham the past 12 months has seen an influx of chinese players, all of decenet quality, but the 17 yr old will be someone to watch indeed.

Deepflow · 21 Feb 2005, 14:12

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Originally Posted by pig

I heard that china are really producing a lot of amazing players, my local snooker club in birmingham the past 12 months has seen an influx of chinese players, all of decenet quality, but the 17 yr old will be someone to watch indeed.

ah, a local snooker club. I have dabbled with the game in the past, but come to the conclusion that i'm absolutely terrible at it

which is quite a shame, as its about the only sport i like to watch on telly.

still, one day when im a multi millionarre with my own snooker room... aah, i might become average.

pig · 21 Feb 2005, 15:53

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Originally Posted by Deepflow

ah, a local snooker club. I have dabbled with the game in the past, but come to the conclusion that i'm absolutely terrible at it

which is quite a shame, as its about the only sport i like to watch on telly.

still, one day when im a multi millionarre with my own snooker room... aah, i might become average.

it sounds corny but its all about practice, I go to two snooker halls, the main one I go to is the century in birmingham, has about 40 tables, and you can buy a pint for £1.20, and a cheese and onion bap for 80p. Its a real smoky old fashioned place, with old men in, but the best place ive ever played at, nice and quiet etc.

But practice is it, I play when back in Birmingham 5 days out of 7 id say, and my game dramatically improved when I got my own cue, I got a half century once too. I play for fun though, and my best m8 and I play for £5 a game, normally the games end at like 5-4 or 5-5 so you dont really lose much money.

Snooker has helped me at uni though, in the first year i got quite a dab hand at hustling people for money in the college bars and could earn anything between 20-50 pounds on a friday and saturday night, unfortunately people now know not to play me.

I also won the pool leage (english that is) at my uni, but its a good sport to play, cant wait to go back home and play again.

Deepflow · 21 Feb 2005, 15:56

yeah, the thing is, ive played a fair amount of pool and im bloody awful at that too... I think im one of the worlds natural 'bad pool players', hence snooker also.

if only i could hustle people at street fighter, all would be well

Stew · 21 Feb 2005, 16:01

I'm with you on this Deepflow.
I really enjoy playing both pool and snooker but no matter how often I play (and I was a member of a snooker club last year) I still remain fairly poor and continue to make the same mistakes, like always potting the god damn white, whatever shot I play.

Boogster · 21 Feb 2005, 18:09

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Originally Posted by pig

it sounds corny but its all about practice, I go to two snooker halls, the main one I go to is the century in birmingham, has about 40 tables, and you can buy a pint for £1.20, and a cheese and onion bap for 80p. Its a real smoky old fashioned place, with old men in, but the best place ive ever played at, nice and quiet etc.

But practice is it, I play when back in Birmingham 5 days out of 7 id say, and my game dramatically improved when I got my own cue, I got a half century once too. I play for fun though, and my best m8 and I play for £5 a game, normally the games end at like 5-4 or 5-5 so you dont really lose much money.

Snooker has helped me at uni though, in the first year i got quite a dab hand at hustling people for money in the college bars and could earn anything between 20-50 pounds on a friday and saturday night, unfortunately people now know not to play me.

I also won the pool leage (english that is) at my uni, but its a good sport to play, cant wait to go back home and play again.

Ever tried the snooker club in Selly Oak? I've been thinking about trying it for a while now...

pig · 21 Feb 2005, 18:14

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Ever tried the snooker club in Selly Oak? I've been thinking about trying it for a while now...

nope, I just go to rileys in chinatown and century in walsall wood, I used to be a member at Break as well in kingstanding, but century is by far the best imo.

Ive heard its quite good