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  • Clearly they;re only playing half-serious. C'mon.

  • GO RONNIE ! FUCK THE PEARL !

  • id like to see them play snooker,

    strickland would die

  • ya know. seeing Ronnie beating Earl makes me respect Ronnie a lot. he is used to a game that gives u like 20 options in the early game plays a game in which he has 2 think how to get from 1 to 9 and he beats 1 of the best 9 ball players in the field.

  • some unreal misses, the game is way better now adays

  • Earl the Pearl,

    Ronnie the Rocket,

    Trying to bury the balls in the Pocket.

  • DId you guys notice the way Ronnie played the winning 9 ball. Showing off to earl how good his cue ball is while getting as closed to the side pocket. Go Ronnie!!

  • earl is a dick shit, efren reyes is the best.

  • @000jason000 you're just saying that because Earl doesn't show respect to his opponents.

    I'm not one of his fans , but u must admit he's a very good 9 ball player, one of the best ever.

    Efren is regarded as the best all round pool player (8 ball, 9 ball,one pocket,etc).

    Maybe he is , but pool players aren't as good as snooker players.

    Ronnie would probably have a chance against Efren at pool, but Reyes would have none in snooker.

  • What did someone in the crowd say at the beginning to make ronnie laugh?

  • I'm a huge Ronnie O'Sullivan fan, and I was rooting for him the entire time, but I can't deny that Strickland's shot at 2.20 was amazing

  • this is best metaphor I can give about snooker and pool players.....tiger woods is best golfer in world, mr joe bloggs is best at crazy golf for kids. joe bloggs is likely to beat tiger woods at crazy golf, but whos the best golfer?

  • strickland got some bad rolls here.

  • On the contrary, snooker is a much more challenging game, tighter pockets, bigger, more Cue ball skill required, there is no argument that ronnie is the more skilled player... but you can compare the two because 9 ball/pool was after all derived from snooker/billiards. Snooker is harder, 9 ball requires half the skill of a snooker game.

  • @Robsinsane333 I disagree. They are completely different games. Potting balls wise, snooker is more difficult. But the patterns are different. It's like comparing badminton to tennis. Ronnie is my favorite snooker player but on the pool table, I'm not as amused. Steve Davis is my favorite snooker player who plays pool.

    Davis always talks about how different the games and how you really can't compare the games together.

    It's harder to pot in snooker, but pots aren't everything.

  • @TheStrokeofGenious And I disagree with you. It's wrong to claim they are completely different games. Otherwise snooker players wouldn't be able to compete at the very top level in pool. Clearly, Ronnie was able to beat the very best at pool. Snooker is harder on all levels, and for that reason being a snooker player enables a much smoother transition from snooker to pool. That means positional play as well as potting. And yes, pots are significant otherwise how do you win -.-

  • @Veneratio10 Of course pots are significant but snooker/pool players know there's more to the game than just potting balls. Ronnie won and lost at pool just like snooker. The reason he won was because he's a great cueist.

    It's really like comparing tennis and ping pong.

  • @Veneratio10 technically, snooker is harder on all levels. But what the realistically means is that the game is just more defensive. If you take a long shot on a snooker table, a lot of times the smart thing to do is play safe. Whereas if the same shot was on a pool table, a player would take the aggressive option.

    This is how the games differ. In style.

  • @TheStrokeofGenious You've conveniently altered your initial statement by insinuating that they now differ in 'style'. You've also failed to provide a credible point, with little intent, and you've attempted to mask this by listing irrelevant bouts of information.

    You've made a further analogy that it's like 'comparing tennis to ping pong'. Actually, tennis players wouldn't be able to beat a ping pong player in ping pong, and vice versa.

  • @Veneratio10 Sorry I can't be more concise. I hate typing and don't explain my thoughts well. No point in arguing anymore. You have your opinions and I have mine. I have solid thoughts in my head and I'm sure I'd be able to get them across better if we talked in person. Oh well...

  • @TheStrokeofGenious Conversely, a snooker player is capable of consistently beating a pool player in pool. And not vice versa. You've claimed that 'pots aren't everything' - thus suggesting that they're of little importance, which I'm sure you're now aware that you've said something very fallacious.

    I too play snooker and pool, but so what? You can play neither and understand the differences in difficulty just by watching them on TV.

  • @TheStrokeofGenious And by the way, in pool a player wouldn't necessarily attempt to pot a ball from distance. It depends on the circumstances. You've contradicted yourself by claiming that snooker is 'technically' more difficult on all levels (although technically, it is subjective as opposed to 'technical', but whatever). And now you're saying they differ in style. Again, how convenient.

  • @Veneratio10 BTW, my point was that they are completely different. Pool is easier to learn and get decent but at the professional level, they are equally difficult. That's my point and will always be my opinion. We're all free to have our own. I'm sure you and i are tired of wasting time trying to convince each other. We're obviously not going to agree so good bye.

  • @Veneratio10 I never said pots are insignificant. I've been playing both games for quite some time now. My opinion is set. You can disagree but the complete difference in styles make the games harder to compare than most snooker youtube commentators make it out to be. Pool is made so you can run multiple racks in a row. It's fast. Snooker is slower and for me, centuries don't come too often. Because it's a slower game. To be great at pool by today's standards, you have to be freaking good.

  • Some mistakes done by both players are unacceptable! I would like to know the opinion of Ronnie and Earl nowadays!

    Of course the game is hard to play and their progress the last years is really great!

  • Stricklands a douche.

  • i wish more people would just be glad that two of the greatest of our (if not all) times played against each other instead of getting into a pissing contest. Small minded people love the US vs. THEM mentality. They're both human beings, trying as hard as they can. I tip my hat to both of them.

  • @fastlenny69 u think that earl is the best 9 ball player that ever lived?? ire completely wrong my friend watch again 1:31 of this video i pot that ball with a broom stick !!!

  • 2:28 kick shot win :)

  • didn't Ronnie say after this match that he learned the rules of 9-ball in the back of a taxi on the way to the venue? hahaha.

    Play 10 frames of snooker and 10 racks of nine ball and the snooker play would come out on top 14-6. the pool player wouldn't win one frame of snooker.

  • @11ellsbells One might think so, but: remember the results of the televised challenge matches in St. Moritz, in which Steve Mizerak, another pool legend, played against Steve Davis one year, and Jimmy White the next? The Snooker pros did win games of 9-Ball and at one time even one of Straight Pool, just as Mizerak won games of Snooker. Now guess who the overall winner was, two years in a row?

  • I have all of the challenges. The overall winner suggestion isn't really fair since there were always a couple of different pool disciplines and only one snooker.

    Looking at actual tournament results you would have to say snooker players have fared better. Mizerak and Rempe competed in the World Snooker Championship a few times each. I'll post a summary of their results if anyone's interested.

    The person saying Strickland couldn't make 25 is clueless, though. Pool is not an easy game.

  • @nugget147 I agree and disagree: it's easy to do fairly well in pool within short order, provided one has good technique - one doesn't need to be a Snooker player to prove that point, by the way: Torbjörn Blomdahl adapted well enough for a comparable challenge match of pool and Three Cushion carom. However, learning great technique needs considerably less time and genius than e.g. to learn how to improvise with precision in pool, since there, one can't play safe using distance.

  • @nugget147 Note I like all cue sports. It's just enervating that Snooker players believe pool is easy because potting any given shot is easy - as if they overlooked the fact that pool players don't miss in pool either. Thus, the problem with staying on top of the hill and defending it for true pool geniuses such Efren Reyes is what one might refer to as "opportunity-getting" - that is the reason Snooker players, on average, don't do well in pool unless their competition plays bad and let's them.

  • @nugget147 It's more of a historic curiosity that Mizerak and Rempe participated in the Snooker WC - anyone knows they practiced the game less than any club player in GB and had no serious competition where they came from. Like all pool pros, they were attracted by the comparatively stupendous price money - but they'd always rather play pool. And not, mind you, because it's simpler - because it's more challenging to be the best at pool: "Pool is like putting on the green", as Mike Sigel noted.

  • @LeonFleisherFan Putting on the green in golf - for those who don't know the expression. What he meant is that one is eternally doomed to make a fool of oneself. A silly little mistake and one is liable to lose against an absolute beginner - that would be impossible in Snooker. Ultimately, it's the sheer wealth of knowledge and experience that makes pool fascinating on the top level - simply because there is no easy way out, in particular: no passing on or shuffling off of problems.

  • @nugget147 Everyone knows that any decent snooker player should walk pool, namely because the table is smaller which makes the shots a lot easier, not to mention the size of the pockets. Basically, pool to me is 10x easier because i've played snooker a lot. They are both hard in their own rights but snooker is the top level of cue sports.

  • @11ellsbells I seriously doubt Ronnie O'Sullivan didn't know how to play 9 ball before this match. Hit them in sequence, if you don't or if you foul it's ball anywhere. Not that difficult to grasp. These are my two favorite players but putting down one doesn't put the other over. I find this match inspiring, and can appreciate Rocket and the Pearl for their respective genius. I mean no disrespect to you or your comments. Thank you for letting me voice mine.

  • ronnie is a genius with a cue, earl stricland is still a prick with a cue. end of.

  • It's like watching Tiger Woods play mini golf with a 10 year old.

  • Tiger is American by the way just like earl. Oh good luck in the 2010 Mosconi Cup because 2009 Europe got crushed.

  • haha, a snooker player beat the master 9 baller at his own game. That's quite funny. I'd like to see how Strickland does on a snooker table.

  • @Cenot4ph Guess what the chances are of a specialist in another cue sports related game beating Earl in 9-Ball if the fans were NOT allowed to throw him off concentration. If you want to know what he's made of, watch the Hong Kong Challenge - even though he loses against Efren Reyes there, just count the number of missed balls in a race to 120, then find a Snooker player who could do the same over a three day period on a pool (any!) table. Then again, Earl should really keep his nerves in check.

  • @Cenot4ph Strickland wouldn't be able to make a break of more than 25 in a single snooker frame in my opinion.

  • @Cenot4ph Doesn't say anything about the two games. Just the players.

  • listen all you american retards. pool is a game of luck. the american who sawed the snooker table by 40% into a pool table and enlarged the pockets by 100% was a genius - he knew that all his countrymen would be morons who could only play primary school level games of luck.

    the reason why you lamefucks can't understand this is because you all share the same DNA as earl strickland: clueless, classless, brainless, crass, rude wanker DNA

  • agreed! v well-said.

  • Right that's why MIka, Ralph, Thorsten and all the European greats play pool . So talk about all the great players from Europe when you bash pool your only discounting yourselves which is disrespectful and unwarranted.

  • @trinomialtree pret nice;d

  • well im from europe and you sound like total idiot...pool is played here also and its a definetely a great game - snooker is probably harder (i wont discuss that the size of the table can be also an disadvantage, no point talking that deep to you) but that has nothing to do with pool being an amazing game

  • stfu u czech homo, who the fuck cares what you think.

  • nice try, kid, but not even three FUCKs would be enough ;) and after this comment of yours definitely nobody cares what you think :D

  • three fucks, you mean you fucking your father and mother and them fucking you. go ahead by all means you incestuous czech cunt.

  • Great upload... TERRIBLE MATCH!!!! Both of them played like $hit!!! You Think 9 ball is luck? Watch Efren or Bustamante or Earl for that matter ...when he's not so frazzled! Any of those guys can put 7 racks together on any given day. And that ain't luck. And oh yeah, Ronnie is great at snooker, maybe the best, but he seems to suck at everything else!

  • I admit Ronnie played crap in this game, but do you know what the circumstances were that put him in this match? He got a call on the evening asking him to fill in for an absent player. This was his first serious game of 9 ball ever! And he beat a master! Ronnie could definitely play better than this given a little time practising

  • stricklands bad position and jump lost him the match

  • Thanks for posting the match! Fun stuff to watch!

  • great upload !!

  • Good match... Ronnie got some rolls near the end which made the difference. He also hit a few Hail Mary's earlier on that worked out well... Thanks for posting!

  • I think they played 14 games, and O'Sullivan won 8-6, so it's fair enough.

    I'd like to see Ronnie play straight pool,though. I think that's the game he'd really excel at on a pool table.

  • Thx for posting these full matches!

  • I'm a big fan of Ronnie, but by all rights he should have lost this match. This format is practically a coin toss, and despite dogging the last game Strickland outplayed Ronnie the whole way.

  • he lost. get over it. It is a game of luck more than anything.

  • 9-ball is a game of skills.

    Anyone who knows how to play this game would testify to that.

    If you think it's a game of luck, you are sorely mistaken.

  • lmao! have you seen how earl strikes the cueball! that is so unprofessional! he wouldnt stand a bloody chance at snooker!

  • He plays pool,not snooker,Ronnie plays snooker and not golf,so everyone has their game,Ronnie is King of Snooker and Earl is the best 9 ball player that ever lived.

  • @fastlenny69 Lmao, you can't compare snooker and 9ball like football and golf. It's like telling Michael Jordan to play basketball in a field with more rims, or different rules.

  • @fastlenny69 I agree %100 with you.

  • @fastlenny69 earl was def not the best to ever live... efren has beat him many times and has way more titles in 9 ball.. dont ever forget the magician

  • @fastlenny69 I'd love to see Earl play Ronnie in Snooker.

  • @fastlenny69 Best pool player? Earl? Have you ever heard of "The Magician" Efren Reyes? he'll fuckin' destroy your Earl "The Dirt" Strickland

  • @fastlenny69 lmao ronnie isnt even the king he is just a flashy snooker player who is one of the greats but isnt he still has long way to go. snooker an golf totally different pool and snooker are both cue sports. the pool players just cant grasp it, must be somethin in the water

  • @fastlenny69 Efren Reyes is the King of Pool!

  • @fastlenny69

    watch?v=e3Vu0iCRuYw

    this is how much american n00bs know about snooker. go back to your kiddie pool which is 2ft deep and stop bothering skilled adults, yankee moron.

  • @GoldenBoyHendry You are a god! I've always wanted to see a pool player play snooker! Epic Hendry!!!

  • have you seen how earl strikes the cueball! that is so unprofessional! he wouldnt stand a bloody chance at snooker!

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    what do you want to say? Because he use a closed bridge?If yes you dont understand anything of billiard

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