Crazy Snooker

[Skybird]

Could it be you need both? Potting skill and positional, tactical skill?

Potting on a norma bar table in 8 ball pool, is one thing. Potting on a snooker table is something very different.

It gets even worse if you have bad eyesight and your eyes differ by 3 diopters, like mine at that time. Already a handicap on small tables - on a snooker table: much worse, the brain messes it up, since both images in both eyes differ significantly in size, and when aiming along a queu and at distant balls, you notice it. - Today both eyes are equally bad. Also, I lacked the needed hand preicison. Small errors you get away with in pool and on small and medium tables, will not be forgiven on a snooker table.

Anyhow, I do not miss the pain in my back so often, so I'm quite happy with how it is. No pool in my life anmyore. And where for exmaple table tennis in VR can work superbly, recreating pool/snooker/billiards in VR does not work. You get some kind of gameplay and nice looks, yes: but it has nothing to do with billiards. Pinball, on the other hand, also works excellent in VR.


However, if you have never tried Virtual Pool 4 (not VR it is, 2D), try it. Its very good, and if the mouse gets correctly set up, you will dose power pretty much like you do in real life with a queu, you need space on your table then. The physics are outstanding. Its one of my all time favourites.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Could it be you need both? Potting skill and positional, tactical skill?

Those are the people who are most proficient at the game, some even becoming professionals.

[Skybird]

Yes, but any player needs them both. Positional understanding and seeing where and how the white ball should be placed, does not help you if you cannot realise it in your practical play, which means you must be able to continue, which means you must pot. Potting alone leads you nowhere if the white balls strays all across the table and you cannot continue.

You need both: potting skill and knowing where and how to place the white ball.

Its one of my regrets that I cannot play Snooker better, and never could (if I could play it at all..). Only my loss of earlier chess competence in my young years I mourn more. I paused in chess for too many years, over a decade, and when going back to it I found that I had forgotten so much, lost so much routine and memory skill and ability to visualise, it translated into a serious loss of playing strength. I never recovered that. It really itches me. I was very good at it, won correspondence chess tournaments and qualified in the shortest possible time to master class in the German federation in it. Also played club chess, and some tournaments there as well (without enthusiasm, however, tournaments never interested me that much), in Berlin our team was one of the two or three strongest in town in those years, mid-80s. With the school team, two times winner of the Berlin yearly school competitions.

Sorry for the boasting, but that were good times! Better feel of life. Things could still fascinate, there was magic in stuff. But I stray off, sorry.

[Jimbuna]

No need to apologise, your obviously feeling 'snookered'

[Jimbuna]

Here is a young 14 year old Ronnie O'sullivan - first tv appearance

[Jimbuna]

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

If somebody struggles with the concept of snooker (the game element I mean), then let him watch this video. It should teach him!

[Aktungbby]

which means you must be able to continue, which means you must pot. Potting alone leads you nowhere if the white balls strays

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

No need to apologise, your obviously feeling 'snookered'

...WHEN HE SHOULD BE FEELING WELL 'POTTED'JEEZE! I HATE IT WHEN MY WHITE BALLS STRAY