Snooker is pure pocketing skills at a level much higher than pool. Comparing these games would be like comparing sniping skills 1 mile away with fast draw with a pistol!
9 ball pool is a mixture of skills but without specialisation: blasting break, some positioning and some putting skills. This is why they get nailed at snooker or at three cushions: these sports need extreme specialisation which the pool dudes do not have. (Reyes is a good 3 cushion player though)
Any decent professional snooker player could play pool to a high standard. There is no way that a pool player could ever compete on a snooker table, a pool player against a snooker player on a snooker table, the pool player would be destroyed. The difference between pool and snooker is vast, pool is like a kids game in comparison to snooker. Snooker is the best game ever but pool is nothing more than a big joke of a game.
After playing snooker on a 12ft table with tight pockets, you come to a pool table and it looks and feels like a kids' toy. Almost impossible to miss a shot. A snooker player with almost no experience of pool can come very close to beating a pool champion who has played the game all his life. Pockets like buckets.
@555pontifex Though the table is considerably larger you have to realize that most shots are relatively straight forward short to median distanced shots. That or short to median sized cut shots. And these are not all that difficult. From what I've seen snooker takes considerably less strategic play and involves much simpler shot-making than say nine ball.
@HalloFusilli That's exactly right. Every cue sport is enjoyable in its own right, and for different reasons. continental billiards is all about very subtle effects of spin and reaction with cushions, snooker is all about rigorously accurate cue action and aim, and pool is all about strategy and shot making.
@HalloFusilli then you havent played it on a proper table...firstly the pockets are only just big enough to take the ball..you cannot steal pockets to make angles like you can on a pool table. the ball is much heavier and played with a much smaller tip so precision is very very important..because the table is so big it makes 1mm mistake make you miss the pot. i have played a lot of cue sports and on all tables 8 ball 9 ball and snooker..and snooker is by far the hardest game out of all of them.
@HalloFusilli that is why players like davis and drago and jimmy who are way past their best on a snooker tasble can still compete at the top level in pool. If you put earl on a snooker table with ronnie o'sullivan, ronnie would make him look very very silly indeed...and that is not dissing anyone its just a simple fact.
@widebody123 Money is spot on, 44,000$ (or something like that) for being world champion at pool, snooker its £250,000 (about 400,000$ ) Americans who argue that pool players could compete with snooker players are fucking clueless, FACT
@TheDalziel In all my years playing pool around the world I have yet to hear an American claim that he could compete at snooker. Not that they would want to as while snooker is a very skilful game it is intensely boring
@Traderwick I'll tell you what I find intensely boring, ppl who send me messages as if they actually think I remotely care about what they think or have to say, All the best doodle
@TheDalziel Doesn't even realise that his retorts are blunter than the ball of a hammer. Go on kid, hit me with another and give the lot of us a snigger at your expense. :))
@Yanksrcunts I think we've all only gotta look at your comments on other videos, mocking a cancer patients death, homophobic comments, plus the HATRED of Americans. Oh dear. Go on my son, delete them. =)) Thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule (.....) to message me and in future I'll try to put more time in to thinking about how to make my 'retorts less blunter the the ball of a hammer' . Cheers cunt :))
@TheDalziel Oops I am American. Oops I mocked a piece of garbage who just happened to have cancer. Oops I have a low tolerance for outspoken queers. Oh golly gosh maybe I should apologise......but maybe not
@555pontifex Hardly a complex game to understand. It is boring because there is now a generation of robotic, characterless zombies who do not care about providing entertainment to the public. Snooker has completely lost the publics imagination and without players of the like of Alex Higgins, Jimmy White, Tony Drago and Ronnie O'Sullivan it will continue to die a slow painful death
@widebody123 Why is it then that Ronnie O'Sullivan, Steve Davis, Tony Drago, Stephen Hendry, Jimmy White have had so little success at winning pool competitions and lose to average pool players?
lmao....that was funny, read earl lips, he called ralph a fu***** bi***......lol, gotta love it, we need ppl like earl in the world, who else would provide a stir, in seemingless boring situations, such as a gay pool tourney....most ppl dont even have guts to be themself, pearl never disappoints
The point is snooker players have beaten pool players in pool tournaments. Try putting a pool player in a snooker tournament, they would get annihilated. Snooker is a far more skilful game so your point is a nonsense. Probably another ignorant American who's played snooker about twice in his entire life. FACT!
@TheDalziel I've never played it and I promise I never will. Next thing I'll start sounding like ye english pricks...just the thought of sounding like ye makes me wanna vomit
Drago's a class act and a legend of snooker, Earl Strickland hasn't got an ounce of class in his entire body, I'd like to see any top pool pro play even an average snooker player on a snooker table, they would get completely destroyed, FACT
@OmniMarketing The point is snooker players have beaten pool players in pool tournaments. Try putting a pool player in a snooker tournament, they would get annihilated. Snooker is a far more skilful game so your point is a nonsense. Probably another ignorant American who's played snooker about twice in his entire life. FACT!
A top pool player will stand his ground on a snooker table against a average player.
Not against the top snooker players off course .
And a top snookerplayer will never beat a top three cussion player in his game.
A FACT is that you must not compare these games just because they all use balls and a cue ;) the hours off practise that they put in their game makes this impossible.
sure pool is the easy game butt that's what it makes difficult ;)
Ralf Souquet he's such an amazing pool player and he showed good sportsmanship as he always does like a top pool player and he did that towards Earl Yet Earl (as always) has to be a wanker over it, so see why Tony Drago had a go at Earl
Earl has always been a jerk, nothing new here. I would have laughed if Tony had decked him. He is always arguing with a fan or player. He is an embarrasment to the sport.
@homer30 my guess is that Earl didn't like all the celebrating before shaking hands. Earl wanted to shake hands and Ralf was cheering with his team. Also, Earl was talking a lot during the match and I think Ralf's team was heckling Earl during the match aswell. But I'm not sure though...
FUCK STRICKLAND! He's a fukin asshole! I love when he loses cuz he gets all pissed off! Strickland has rubbed in other people's faces too so you get what you give, Earl!! HA HA! POS!
wow, sorry, but even as an American, Earl's behavior there was downright embarrassing. I don't care if they started it first or if he was just mad he lost. You never, ever, ever shake hands like that or cuss your opponent out. Just pure bad sportsmanship on the part of the pearl.
@danceoutnow dont matter what earl does. he is a great person. how the fuck would you yourself be embarressed about what earl does?he is a great player. downright entertaining and the best to watch and to learn from.
Snooker is pure pocketing skills at a level much higher than pool. Comparing these games would be like comparing sniping skills 1 mile away with fast draw with a pistol!
9 ball pool is a mixture of skills but without specialisation: blasting break, some positioning and some putting skills. This is why they get nailed at snooker or at three cushions: these sports need extreme specialisation which the pool dudes do not have. (Reyes is a good 3 cushion player though)
jceepf 1 week ago
Any decent professional snooker player could play pool to a high standard. There is no way that a pool player could ever compete on a snooker table, a pool player against a snooker player on a snooker table, the pool player would be destroyed. The difference between pool and snooker is vast, pool is like a kids game in comparison to snooker. Snooker is the best game ever but pool is nothing more than a big joke of a game.
Davewise1965 3 weeks ago
This is what happens when you put a US pool player on a snooker table! ''/watch?v=e3Vu0iCRuYw'' :3.
CloudysGuitarChannel 3 weeks ago
does anyone know the name of the song?
vo111111 4 weeks ago
HOT REF!
redirected0 1 month ago
@redirected0
Michaela Tabb
dinaltable 1 month ago
who cares..this is like watching minature golf.
doowopdiddler 1 month ago
has anyone punched him out?,what a fuckwit
boogie8ball 1 month ago
He should have directly gone to shake his opponents hand. It is pretty disrespectful otherwise. Earl had every right to scoff at that disrespect.
HalloFusilli 1 month ago
haha earl is legit! its funny to see him mad like that thats the real2 emotion of sports
ewanthug 1 month ago
The Brits need something to be happy about
ShayneCT 1 month ago
Earl Strickland sports biggest arsehole !
karl040474 1 month ago
Strickland you bell-end.
6anatolyy4 1 month ago
Drago's got nice tits
PhatElvis7 1 month ago
After playing snooker on a 12ft table with tight pockets, you come to a pool table and it looks and feels like a kids' toy. Almost impossible to miss a shot. A snooker player with almost no experience of pool can come very close to beating a pool champion who has played the game all his life. Pockets like buckets.
555pontifex 1 month ago 2
@555pontifex Though the table is considerably larger you have to realize that most shots are relatively straight forward short to median distanced shots. That or short to median sized cut shots. And these are not all that difficult. From what I've seen snooker takes considerably less strategic play and involves much simpler shot-making than say nine ball.
HalloFusilli 1 month ago
@HalloFusilli That's exactly right. Every cue sport is enjoyable in its own right, and for different reasons. continental billiards is all about very subtle effects of spin and reaction with cushions, snooker is all about rigorously accurate cue action and aim, and pool is all about strategy and shot making.
555pontifex 1 month ago
@HalloFusilli then you havent played it on a proper table...firstly the pockets are only just big enough to take the ball..you cannot steal pockets to make angles like you can on a pool table. the ball is much heavier and played with a much smaller tip so precision is very very important..because the table is so big it makes 1mm mistake make you miss the pot. i have played a lot of cue sports and on all tables 8 ball 9 ball and snooker..and snooker is by far the hardest game out of all of them.
mrbarleymob 3 weeks ago
@HalloFusilli that is why players like davis and drago and jimmy who are way past their best on a snooker tasble can still compete at the top level in pool. If you put earl on a snooker table with ronnie o'sullivan, ronnie would make him look very very silly indeed...and that is not dissing anyone its just a simple fact.
mrbarleymob 3 weeks ago
chun li laugh
sk8bow 2 months ago
Any pool player that tried to play snooker would look like an 8-yr old beginner.
widebody123 2 months ago
Any average snooker player would easily beat any of these 'great' pool players at pool. Why don't they do it? MONEY. There is no money in pool.
widebody123 2 months ago
@widebody123 Money is spot on, 44,000$ (or something like that) for being world champion at pool, snooker its £250,000 (about 400,000$ ) Americans who argue that pool players could compete with snooker players are fucking clueless, FACT
TheDalziel 2 months ago
@TheDalziel In all my years playing pool around the world I have yet to hear an American claim that he could compete at snooker. Not that they would want to as while snooker is a very skilful game it is intensely boring
Traderwick 1 month ago
@Traderwick I'll tell you what I find intensely boring, ppl who send me messages as if they actually think I remotely care about what they think or have to say, All the best doodle
TheDalziel 1 month ago
@TheDalziel hahahahahahaha. Methinks I struck a nerve on mommy's little diddums. Sorry sweetpea! LOL
Traderwick 1 month ago
@Traderwick Doesnt even realise when he's being mocked, dry lunch.
TheDalziel 1 month ago
@TheDalziel Doesn't even realise that his retorts are blunter than the ball of a hammer. Go on kid, hit me with another and give the lot of us a snigger at your expense. :))
Yanksrcunts 1 month ago
@Yanksrcunts I think we've all only gotta look at your comments on other videos, mocking a cancer patients death, homophobic comments, plus the HATRED of Americans. Oh dear. Go on my son, delete them. =)) Thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule (.....) to message me and in future I'll try to put more time in to thinking about how to make my 'retorts less blunter the the ball of a hammer' . Cheers cunt :))
TheDalziel 1 month ago
@TheDalziel Oops I am American. Oops I mocked a piece of garbage who just happened to have cancer. Oops I have a low tolerance for outspoken queers. Oh golly gosh maybe I should apologise......but maybe not
Yanksrcunts 1 month ago
@Traderwick In all your years of playing pool. I bet you couldn't
hit a bull in the ass with a banjo.
silfossy 1 month ago
@silfossy Does your mummy not keep any secrets from you? BTW she doesn't like banjos but she loves a good cueing!!
Traderwick 1 month ago
@Traderwick It is boring... to you... because you don't understand it.
555pontifex 1 month ago
@555pontifex Hardly a complex game to understand. It is boring because there is now a generation of robotic, characterless zombies who do not care about providing entertainment to the public. Snooker has completely lost the publics imagination and without players of the like of Alex Higgins, Jimmy White, Tony Drago and Ronnie O'Sullivan it will continue to die a slow painful death
Yanksrcunts 1 month ago
@widebody123 Why is it then that Ronnie O'Sullivan, Steve Davis, Tony Drago, Stephen Hendry, Jimmy White have had so little success at winning pool competitions and lose to average pool players?
Traderwick 1 month ago
hahhaa 1:22 "ARSE!"
Henry1993bc 2 months ago
@Henry1993bc you talk complete and utter shit, NEXT
TheDalziel 2 months ago
ida slap him for being all big and bad thinkan he won... for now... till i come back and show him with ma gun!
SuperMDemon 2 months ago
this game is a show, snooker is an actual sport
AjLeapz 2 months ago
Show your opponents no respect............try and do it with a bit of class tho!!!
scratchgolfer40 2 months ago
That one was amazing. The Americans called out Drago as being a poor player at the start of the week and then he almost singlehandedly destroyed them.
It's always funny when the snooker players take a little bit of time out of their sport to hammer to pro pool players.
djlovesyou 2 months ago 2
@djlovesyou i think only earl is a great american pool player.
ireallyhatenoobs 2 months ago
lmao....that was funny, read earl lips, he called ralph a fu***** bi***......lol, gotta love it, we need ppl like earl in the world, who else would provide a stir, in seemingless boring situations, such as a gay pool tourney....most ppl dont even have guts to be themself, pearl never disappoints
nae8man87 2 months ago
what a bad loser! the baby must have needed a nap.
75freeman 3 months ago
Go On Tony!
MrWepsa 3 months ago
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too much for them!
swammpwatter 3 months ago
Earl is a cunt.
themanitasdeplomo 3 months ago 32
you just have to love tony drago, what a man!!
jonnyf147 3 months ago
mappa botti fo fo snooker!
TEDOVSKY 3 months ago
tony drago is the best ... malta is always behind you tony !!
tim999iyfuygv 3 months ago
i hate tony and the way he plays.
MrNewerastars 4 months ago
earl is bastard..
zyeromox 4 months ago
The point is snooker players have beaten pool players in pool tournaments. Try putting a pool player in a snooker tournament, they would get annihilated. Snooker is a far more skilful game so your point is a nonsense. Probably another ignorant American who's played snooker about twice in his entire life. FACT!
TheDalziel 4 months ago 16
@TheDalziel couldnt agree with you more mate!
djdanadams 4 months ago
@TheDalziel
Agreed.....
Americans are clueless about the difficulty of snooker!
hearts76100 4 months ago 2
@TheDalziel I've never played it and I promise I never will. Next thing I'll start sounding like ye english pricks...just the thought of sounding like ye makes me wanna vomit
plmijnygcrdzwaquyijo 2 months ago
3:00 they looked like brazilians
j3ff1nho 4 months ago
Drago's a class act and a legend of snooker, Earl Strickland hasn't got an ounce of class in his entire body, I'd like to see any top pool pro play even an average snooker player on a snooker table, they would get completely destroyed, FACT
TheDalziel 4 months ago
@TheDalziel I'd like to see a Pro Football player get in the ring with an average boxer.
I mean, that's just a ridiculous statement, they are 2 completely different games!
FACT!
OmniMarketing 4 months ago
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@OmniMarketing The point is snooker players have beaten pool players in pool tournaments. Try putting a pool player in a snooker tournament, they would get annihilated. Snooker is a far more skilful game so your point is a nonsense. Probably another ignorant American who's played snooker about twice in his entire life. FACT!
TheDalziel 4 months ago
A top pool player will stand his ground on a snooker table against a average player.
Not against the top snooker players off course .
And a top snookerplayer will never beat a top three cussion player in his game.
A FACT is that you must not compare these games just because they all use balls and a cue ;) the hours off practise that they put in their game makes this impossible.
sure pool is the easy game butt that's what it makes difficult ;)
gremlinco 2 months ago
dragos a nutter
JalandharShere 4 months ago
Earl Strickland is the classic example of a sore loser!.
Ry42Back 4 months ago
Earl - such an idiot.
SheilaHS9 5 months ago
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SheilaHS9 5 months ago
Ralf Souquet he's such an amazing pool player and he showed good sportsmanship as he always does like a top pool player and he did that towards Earl Yet Earl (as always) has to be a wanker over it, so see why Tony Drago had a go at Earl
MrMikeJkay 5 months ago
Earl has always been a jerk, nothing new here. I would have laughed if Tony had decked him. He is always arguing with a fan or player. He is an embarrasment to the sport.
dv713 5 months ago
you can see what Earl said about that handshake /watch?v=o9JEySBTvhI 1:25
Bilijar9 5 months ago
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It just goes to show how immature and messed up Earl Strickland is.
KymcoScooters 6 months ago
It just goes to show how immature and messed up Earl Strickland is.
KymcoScooters 6 months ago
earl is a douche - he needs meds badly
jasminetomcat 6 months ago
hahahaha :D Drago is King of pool for sure, you just must love him
Bilijar9 6 months ago
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Bilijar9 6 months ago
Tony and Earl are "professionals"? They acted like children.
mosconiac 6 months ago
@mosconiac its just a show
genipool14 6 months ago
@genipool14 listen here motherfucker if u keep trolling im send ur I.P. to YOUTUBE cetral HUD so stop it or else
amun6416 4 weeks ago
@amun6416 you have no idea what his i.p is...so how you gonna do that???
mrbarleymob 3 weeks ago
@amun6416 Consequences will never be the same!
TNF 3 weeks ago
@mosconiac
tony is a proffessional...earl is a piece of crap. you didn't see how he shook
hands with ralph???? Tony should have given earl a backhander.
silfossy 1 month ago
Tony Drago from Malta is the King!
drunner78 6 months ago
Why hate all when its one that messes up? It goes both ways just remember this, please
Grummgore 6 months ago
HA I FUCKIN HATE AMERICANS!!!!!
pistolpeeroy 6 months ago
Why is Strickland angry at Souquet here?
homer30 6 months ago
@homer30 my guess is that Earl didn't like all the celebrating before shaking hands. Earl wanted to shake hands and Ralf was cheering with his team. Also, Earl was talking a lot during the match and I think Ralf's team was heckling Earl during the match aswell. But I'm not sure though...
NationalMan 6 months ago 8
they are both assholes :p
BartjeOstend 6 months ago
Souqeut has way too good manners to get into a fight with teh girl.
Tehbrainlessone 6 months ago
tony sucks earl aresome!
wolf0531vf5 6 months ago
earl sucks, tony is the best
Anonomousxxx 6 months ago
Earl "The Girl" Strickland
paloco70 7 months ago 4
FUCK STRICKLAND! He's a fukin asshole! I love when he loses cuz he gets all pissed off! Strickland has rubbed in other people's faces too so you get what you give, Earl!! HA HA! POS!
poolvato 7 months ago
got so much respect on ralf souquet, always calm and sportive, talking to him in a real life, he's very respectful
dagdigdug1 7 months ago 15
Ha Ha
jumaelynp 7 months ago
How can you even like Earl Strickland? He dis-respected everyone he played, worst loser I've ever seen.
MattGollop 8 months ago
is my idol...tony drago
mahalkosialm 8 months ago
tony drago is an asshole
MrNewerastars 8 months ago
Tony Drago is dumb.
o0J4Y0o 8 months ago
cut strickland some slack u dumbasses.
if you look at the video you can see the europeans are rubbing it in earl's face. there is such a thing as being a good winner too you know.
shtstirrer 9 months ago
Tony "The Belly" Drago
Daputaka 9 months ago
DRago is god
TR1PPER85 9 months ago
Earl strickland does not deserve any involvement in sports, or for that matter, civilization.
visionaire08 10 months ago
@visionaire08 dude go play in traffic
xowreckageox 8 months ago
wow, sorry, but even as an American, Earl's behavior there was downright embarrassing. I don't care if they started it first or if he was just mad he lost. You never, ever, ever shake hands like that or cuss your opponent out. Just pure bad sportsmanship on the part of the pearl.
danceoutnow 11 months ago
@danceoutnow dont matter what earl does. he is a great person. how the fuck would you yourself be embarressed about what earl does?he is a great player. downright entertaining and the best to watch and to learn from.
BibleBurnr 8 months ago
Drago, the most stupid cueball
9ballalex 11 months ago
2:53 Bunch of HOMO'S!
albert333pool 1 year ago
2:33 Straight out bitch hand shake!
albert333pool 1 year ago
I love drago
theone225 1 year ago
easily the best video on youtube
DRAAAGO
graemegraemegraeme 1 year ago