He needs to see Ronnie clear the table faster than Top Gear's Stig drove Ronnie's Mercedes around the track. That was entertaining.

I want to see this as well! 😁

@Thunderhawk51 to be fair, it wasn't a full set of reds but it was still hugely impressive, considering the Stig did the lap in Ronnie's car in about one minute forty. It was 4 reds and all the colours. It's probably on KZfaq.

@Thunderhawk51 I've just checked and it is. Search Ronnie O'Sullivan Top Gear and it's the third video in the list.

I was thinking that myself. I think he would be impressed.

That's a 'Murray Walker-ism' if ever I heard one 🤣

😂

My favourite Murray Walkerism was "Excuse me while I interrupt myself".

pot black days

That reminds me of how they used to fill the whole Sunday afternoon on Belgian TV with black and white broadcasts of Snooker and bumper pool, in black & white. Usually these competitions were played in actual billiard bars, and the commentator tended to be drunk by the end of the afternoon.

For the most part, you should see O'Sullivan and Ali Carter having beef, or Mark Allen in general 😆

@@Stephens_Rocket Ronnie is well renowned for his character, I'd say. 😂 I was talking about the general attitude of respect towards an opponent, which I like very much, and I think you'll grant to me, that snooker has a different level on that topic than any other sport, generally speaking. 😉

Golf is supposed to be the same but at casual levels there’s some despicable people who lie and cheat all the time. But at competitive level it’s usually very honest.

Cricket used to be the same, but these days some players will claim catches they haven't taken, or not walk off when they know they've edged it...

And also apologizing for a fluke. That'd be crazy in any other sport

Yeah the tables are genuinely about the size of my room during my first year at Uni 😂

When I first saw one in person I had an urge to climb up on it and start kicking a ball around.

Combined with the smaller dimensions of the balls and rounded corners.. I compare it to marksman style shooting compared to shooting clay disks with a shotgun. Playing billiards after snooker feels like shooting boulders on a coffee table.

The first time I played snooker I thought to myself what is this aircraft carrier of a table?

Yeah it’s basically pool x10 difficulty bigger table white ball a lot more reactive to spin a lot less room for error etc, it’s great game honestly while having a few beers in snooker halls with mates

That's called shape, and I always sucked at it.

That's why it's so difficult. The size if the table also makes a long pot fom corner to corner seam like a sniper shot.

​@GWNorth-db8vn me too. Hence my highest break of 14.

I was just going to say that, indeed the pockets are much smaller than on a pool table and need very high accuracy. You're absolutely right.

Not many people have a full size table at home, so you would generally play at a club. Reduced size tables are also available for home use. The game was started by British Army officers in India, where space in the Officers' Mess wouldn't have been such a problem.

After a few drinks it is really hard to see the balls at the other end... A frame could go on for hours then.

Yeah comparing snooker to pool is like comparing chess to noughts and crosses.

@@nbartlett6538 actually 0&X gets extremely complex once you increase needed length and the size of the playing field.

And pool supports short attention spans 😂

@@ileana8360 chemicals and sugars in all food, mass ADHD and autism

​@@papalaz4444244 OK Mr tinfoil hat man it's time to take your meds

Is it "Played all over the world", though? Coming from Norway, who generally loves the UK and absorbs your culture, it's not a thing here at all. I've never seen a snooker table, no game has ever been aired on tv as far as I know, no one ever talks about it. Out of the million things we where thought about the UK and history of Britain at school, it was never mentioned.

@@basstrammel1322 Well me locale pool hall hasn't any snooker tables anymore either. Wich is a shame casue it was nice to play it every now and then. Doing acouple of hours practising on a snooker table makes playing on a pool one like you are doing a kids game.

I have always said that, a good snooker player is a good pool player by default.

this is like saying every drummer in metal genre is a good drummer

@@autohmae no it isn't.

12ft x 6ft table

​@@autohmae you could say that, if indeed you know little or nothing about drum kits or playing the drums

So is football 😂

How is that surprising lol.

I’d like if it was bigger here.. it looks so intriguing 🎉

To be fair though it's only really been well known globally in nations with a colonial link until recent decades, and after America kicked our arses and sent us packing they tried to eradicate as many British influences as possible, as is natural, but in recent decades with it's popularity in China and Thailand it may appear to be a more global sprot than it actually is, I'd say it's popular in specific areas but still largely unknown in many counties of the world.

@@markjones127 Rubbish. The British influence over America is still vast. Snooker has only been around for a century and a half, and just didn't get to the US.

I remember when he was on Top Gear and had to clear the table faster than the Stig could drive Ronnie's Mercedes around the track, and he did it, just.

​@@paulgee1355it was 6 or 10 red tho

@Loczek531 yeh, I've just had a look and it was 4 reds plus all the colours. Still impressive, considering he had to try not to take much notice of his car getting hammered round the track at the same time.

Ronnie's a legend. 😀🇦🇺

Look up the Aussie Walter Lindrom, they had to change the rules to stop him.

It is very British i.e. it's perfidious rather than brutish.😝

In many ways it's like chess.

RoS tried US 9 ball and got smashed.

@@DaveByrdUK How come? Did they tase him there in the US or something?😂

​@@DaveByrdUK the pure potting ability of a snooker player far outweighs that of any pool player. Snooker tables are larger with much smaller pockets compared to ball size. 9 ball is incredibly dependent on the initial break which is it's biggest differentiator to snooker as the snooker break is a defensive tactical shot not an aggressive whack trying to keep the cue ball open & central.

In england we as each other ,...where were ya wen taylor v Davis happened

35 frames were played. Not 34.

Thanks. I go more in depth with all my videos (even more so than this one usually) I’m not one of those “wow, cool, ok like sub and by my merch” KZfaqrs.

Note that it’s SNOOOKER like Snoopy and not snooker like Snookie

unless your name is peter ebdon, than you go on for 15 minutes on 2 balls :P

He has won world championships many times.

And the sequence of a well-struck cueball, cueball contacting object ball, object ball hitting pocket. and after a while, you realize the sound of the ball hitting the pocket is different depending on the player.

My grandad used to fall asleep regularly on a Sunday watching snooker and I happily carry on the tradition!

"Ohh and that's a bad miss."

I think Murray Walker did a spoof commentry for the Snooker many years ago. Much better!

@@wsmith101 both cricket and baseball are based on rounders

Happy that us Aussies were gifted cricket, rugby and snooker by the Poms 😉 All great games.

​@@waggafletcher- You're welcome, we just wish you'd stop taking the Cricket so seriously though...😊

Obviously you don't concede if your opponent is on for a 147 break as there is often separate prize money for that.

@@paulmidsussex3409 You wouldn't have any chance to concede during a 147 break. You can only concede when it's your turn at the table.

@@paulmidsussex3409 pretty sure you can only concede on your turn.

Yes pot black & Eddie Charlton what a legend. 🙂👍

Pot Black was a fascinating show. I became absorbed in it and I know next to nothing about snooker. I wonder if it is on You tube.

In the UK Pot Black was huge in the 70's, pool was already very popular here then though, I had a 6' table in my bedroom with both snooker and pool balls, and a dotted white for billiards of course, Eddie was a great player as was Ray Reardon my fellow countryman who is still considered one of the all time greats.

Ray Reardon, a great player, often referred to as "Dracula" because of the widow's peak hair and the slightly demonic smile. I'm sure he used to play up to the name on occasion just to try and put his opponents off.

Steady Eddie.

Idid what you did and watched pot black

@@kevinwall8893 In the UK pretty much all social and ex-serviceman clubs still have a full size snooker table, but I fear the social clubs at least aren't as popular as they were for my parents generations and many are struggling to keep afloat.

Yeah my mum got me into it 😅 there's always loads of ladies in a snooker audience 👍

@@Camberwell86 - glad I’m not alone! 😂👌🏻

😂I would say completely snookered is not only a tricky situation but impossible to get out of

@@thomasflaherty3959 - ah, well…I did say “a tricky situation to deal with” ….I never said that you could’ve ever got out of that situation! 😜

It's an American trend I have found.

They are taught phonetics, not learning the words. I hear things like sWord and paLm all the time nowadays. They are just sounding out all the letters.

except for 'herb'

@@572Btriode Have realised that myself. Funny, They pronounce pool correct but not snooker. Why?

SUPERFLY

This is the rule I hate the most since it is unfair towards smaller guys like myself.

1 foot must touch

😊😅 Just like the old b/w films which had married couples in bed together - the husband had to be laying so that he had one foot on the floor and the wife was completely covered up by a buttoned to the neck nightdress, or bedsheet, whilst the husband could show a partly bared chest - but nothing more !! Husband was always "snookered" in his bedroom scenes that way!!😊😅 Poor bugger!!😂

@@fawkesmorque wait until you find out about basketball.

​@@24magiccarrot Actually I played basketball for some time and my size (1,7m) wasn't that bad. Sure, I wasn't that good in the defense, but very nimble during attacks. ;)

...and his intentional 146, where he took a pink just to avoid getting the 147 and make a point.

Correct. I am a pretty average club snooker player (not particularly good or bad, but I play regularly). I went to live in the U.S. a couple of years ago. Walked in to the local town's pool hall, pulled a cue pretty much at random out of the rack on the wall, and could easily beat every other player in the place at 8 ball. I never lost a match in 2 years. 9 ball is a different matter because there's more to it as a game, but I still won way more matches than I lost. 8 ball though, nobody could touch me or even get close the whole two years I was there. By the end I struggled ti get a game because nibody wanted to play me. I repeat, I'm someine who pkays a fair bit of snooker but don't consider myself a good player. Not even top 10 at my club. A good way to think of it is, pool is like checkers & snooker is like chess.

Yep, I noticed that too when I was over there, the balls are slightly larger too.

@@finbarrsaunders Do average American players understand sidespin? I think they call it english, but snooker is so much more complex than pool.

@@judithrowe8065 To be honest, the balls are so large & there are so many of them compared to the size of the table, there's not really much scope for using side. More so in 9 ball, becausr there are fewer balls on the table, and just one object ball (so a safety game is more of a factor). They do call it 'English' tho 🤣 and generally most players don't understand it. Asymmetric shots off the rail, mild swerve shots & using side to adjust potting angles were things most American players had never come across. Oddly enough pots along the rail were the same. Many American players would never take them on unless right behind them. I'd be knocking in long balls down the rail from wide angles, easy 9/10 shots for any competent snooker player (even more so with the huge balls and even huger pockets), and they thought it was some sort of witchcraft. I'd put a ball on the centre line tight on the top cushion, then put the white in the centre of the baulk line. Play up the table with pace & pot the ball along the top cushion by catching it fine off the rail with side. They'd never seen anything like it.

@@finbarrsaunders Did you see Judd Trump play Jayson Shaw in the US Open? Shaw destroyed him 11-1, I'm sorry but as a Snooker and Pool player myself I think you're being a little disrespectful and feel you've never ever actually played a half decent American pool player, I can go to my local pub and stay unbeaten on the pool table all night, but I once entered the Golden Cue Pool comp in England and had to play Mark Selby in the first round, that didn't go so well but was a great experience, beating people in random games in pubs or bars really means nothing.

more like dtm , or some national turing champ XDDDD indy more like 3 ball billar .. snooker is in another level . just the size of the table, and the size of the pockets... insane :P

@@sidekick4 indy is more dificult thant dtm , but not as F1... in billars... in my opinion the most dificult is snooker, then spanish billar ( 3 bands) , then the others.. thats the analogy

@@duduoverburn1777 i play snooker but do not even attempt driebanden=spanish billiards. the weight of the ball(possible momentum) the wear and tear of the table in driebanden are circumstances next level

@@josvercaemer264 im friends with one of the best in my country... is just amazing watch these guys play..

Pool may feel easy but it has its own difficulties, just look at Judd Trump at US Open 9-ball a few years back (2021 I think). He did alright against amateurs, but the moment he played a pro he lost quite spectacularly

In the UK more people play pool than snooker, but more people watch snooker on tv than pool.

That's a great channel, not least because it shows just how brilliant an amateur can be while still being a million miles short of professional standard.

@@john_michael_white haha yeah, I long to be half as good as the guy that is nowhere near as good as the top players.

It's played all over the world. It's just not as popular as pool or snooker. ❤

50% more balls than in my love life, same amount of holes though.

@@Covenantt666 In Sweden it is called Carambole, the French name I think.

3-cusshion billiards or dreiband.

In English it's just called billiards, it's a difficult game to play.

I'd be surprised if that is ever beaten, Ronnie was sublime.

I was looking for someone to comment this. Pot Black was also shown in New Zealand and was for many years. I remember watching it with my family regularly. I think it ran from 1969 to 1986.

I always used to refer to a table as full size, 1/2 size or 3/4 size. The poor man's table was the 1/2 size at 6' x 3', 3/4 size 8' x 4' and full 12' x 6'. I didn't realise the American pool table was 9' x 4.5' though, I just assumed it was 8x4.

Rail rules have been In force in English pool since 2000.

@@mattf9406 Came in late 90's really

@@markjones127 came Im with world rules, which while was released late 90s, they didn't get taken up in English pool (league/pro play) until 2000.

@@mattf9406 I know man, I was playing right through that period 👍

Efren played pool.

@@darkiee69 yeah, forgot to add that :)

Yes even tiny dogs play it

@@papalaz4444244 This is true, I have a pup who adores playing darts.

Sorry to tell you this (as it's a lot of fun in english pubs!) but darts is actually pretty small time in most countries.

@@suicidalbanananana Suicidal Banana the sad wanker

That rarely happens on big games because of the unwritten rules where you're supposed to give up.

@@XtreeM_FaiL Tell that to John Spencer who cam back from requiring 6 snookers against Jimmy White in 1987 (I've never heard of this unwritten rule, if you have the ability to come from behind requiring a snooker or two you take it, the only unwritten rule around that that I know of is you dont concede until you require snookers to win the frame)

Yes, I recall how tricky it was telling the brown ball apart from the reds in those b&w days. Colour broadcasting began on BBC2 in 1967 and the _Pot Black_ show was launched to promote the new technology. Controller of BBC2 at that point was the famous naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough.

he was a cheat

That's what I like ,a man with a sense of humour🤣 unfortunately I also remember Charlton and along with the rest of the players of his era almost killed the game as a spectator sport and did not become watchable until players like Spencer and Higgins and then Davis came along.there were still players who did their best to drag it back to the dark ages like Thorburn and Griffiths but thankfully over the years it evolved into a more fluid game.

Not by choice.. I hate it. I absolutely love finding out about awesome things I never knew of from across the world 🎉

@@IWrocker great answer my friend 👍

Maybe they are bit in fairness it’s a big bubble

Indeed, but even though the balls are smaller, the pockets are much smaller relative to the balls than in pool.

@@kimmern999 That, too, so tripple the difficulty factor. 😅

English 😉

British. First played by British army officers in India in the 1870s. Many professional players and champions have been Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish. Other champions have been Australian, New Zealander, Canadian, South African, Irish and Belgian.

He's the guvnor

I believe world championship final lasts up to 35 frames (18 required to win).

@@FlankerB3 They do - you are right. I don't think the US gets the concept of long games (test cricket, snooker etc) because TV & Adveristers rule the roost. It's a shame, because long game format bring out very different tacktics.

Nah, it's Eurosport that made it popular because its free channel.

You should try Virtual Pool 4 / Virtual Pool online. THE best billiards simulator ever. Realistic, helps your real game, Snooker is as almost as hard as IRL.