He's a great character as well, emotional guy.

Earl was in the booth with that English announcer on one of these mosconi cup vids and he lost his temper. I think this interview he put on his best behavior. Lol

He never wastes a chance to boast about himself though

@@magiller2010 that’s what’s missing in todays pool

Welcome aboard, buddy! ;-)

I know nothing about Snooker what makes you love it more?

the more i watch snooker, more i like pool. but i enjoy both

I like snooker but the format is so long and boring. I do like watching highlights of it more than pool though. Pool is also stale but atleast it's fast-paced

@@samme79 What format? Some matches are races to five some matches are races to 35. It's just like any other tournament. And it varies with every combination in the middle. How can you say the format is long?

not even close... the only magician in this game was Efren Reyes

​​​@@stv8361we all know Efren is great. We don't need an army of his fans spamming every pool video to remind us. Go watch and comment on some Efren matches if that's all you're interested in.

Negative nick wouldn't cut it

In year 2000 i saw Nick playing, he had a tremor in his right arm but still playing good.

Well Ronnie won worlds in 2020 so I’d say he’s still at the top of the game

ronnie is world champion in 2022(oldest world champion) and 2020 . Id say hes had the longest career for any snooker player ever

safety clearly fluked, but a good one indeed

didnt even read the comments, i double checked myself, called foul, and looked through comments. So the legends cheat too.... wow. that sort of doublehit you can feel!.

The cue ball immediately drew “screwed” back. Impossible on a double hit.

@@justachristian4072 nope it didnt. If you cant see that it goes about 2 or 3 mill's forward first, then u sir, should never be a ref in pool or snooker :D

Nope, CB stopped. Double hit would mean some sort of forward momentum after that (and there could never be enough draw to cancel that out from the way he was shooting)

@@frederiquerijsdijk I think you are referring to a push shot. Here there is no push for forward momentum. The cue ball leaves cue, touches object ball, draws back and touches the cue again.

Agreed

Brunswick table pockets are smaller than diamond table pockets

​@@shayne.7770no, it's the other way around.

Me too !!

Why on earth do u want to see a whitewash. Think theres only a handful of pool players that can even make a 50 break. Varner would get destroyed

Totally pointless, it would just be like watching Ronnie practice, as Nick would just be sitting in his chair. All snooker players can play pool but very ,very,very few pool players can play snooker to any standard

Fanny heead haircut, white baggy tshirt , those were the days! (Shit days, but still days!)

In snooker, the cushions play way less square so ronnie was struggling with getting out of them. On a snooker table, ronnie would murder him 15 0 in 15 frames

Played ronnie at a time he only just won a few trophies. Ronnie is early 20s here. Nick is an experienced pool player who has played pool double as many years as double Ronnie's age in this video! As I comment ronnie is 7 time world snooker champion, and notably the best natural cue player snooker has ever seen. Jim rempe was AMAZING in pool against the snooker players!!! Now look at Jim rempes snooker record as I believe he's the only American born player to play on the Pro circuit of snooker, 120 I believe his top rank was. Last match was against Stephen hendry and lost 14-7 or something like that. 👍:)

@@muzakiryounis8893 agreed maybe even left handed

@@muzakiryounis8893 exactly! you cannot see any pool players trying to compete in snooker, but you can see snooker players beating pool players in their own game

@@stv8361 it's not because they can't compete...it's because they don't want to because they don't find snooker any fun.

Yeah I wasn't sure about that, but now I believe my ears :D

Varner's errors in the second set have me stunned. Yes the first error might have been a miscue, but two miscues in a row? It seems to say Varner's cuing off the rail with high ball cuing is deficient

If you listen to what was actually said I think you'll find it makes sense. The commentator said the word bounce then said to Earl or boing as you call it. Then he started talking about dry tables and how they react BUT that had nothing to do with boing, they said the different terms that English and Americans use,English say bounce,Americans say boing

In the league i played in there were many unwritten rules but understood by everyone.on your shot Picking the white ball up after a foul even if its to hand to your opponent in sportsmanship(it should be your opponent to pick it up), stopping the white from going down the pocket even if its 100% going down, cracking the thread or unscrewing a 2 piece cue and leaving your chalk on the table will all result in you forefitting the match and accepting the loss on the scorecard. This was Traditional English on a 6x3 table

I know what you mean it really winds me up when Snooker players delicately pocket the chalk like its a mint

Communal chalks are/were part of pool, no reason to be bothered about it, this is not snooker.

It drives me nuts when euro players are always putting it their pocket like a knob

@@heginschristianstrong7707 how dare they make the table convenient for their opponent

He is not wrong at all tho. He is the best shot maker of that era hands down.

@@TRANC3ak47 yeah, I completely agree. His attitude is a little off putting. But his skill on the table especially with his speed makes him one of the most fun to watch in my opinion

@@michaelsalama6631 When I met SVB, he was openly confident like that too. I figure he's earned the right to be confident with all the work he's put in.

strickland was still a better player than Varner at all

USA is always gonna win 9-Ball? From Wikipedia: “Team Europe beat Team USA 11-3 on 4 December 2020. By ending USA's two year run, Team Europe evened out the overall series record at 13-13, with one tie.”

@@mm9773 Touché. ... It's good to learn this. Teaches me to stop regurgitating just anything you read on here.👍👍

Europe has so many top 9 ball players. America has no decent snooker players. It would be interesting but not very competitive.

kinda shame at that level... trying to win using 3 fouls rule with an open table

Any snooker player in there game I think would wipe any American.. even svb!

@@martinchavez9252 any player playing their own game would win...

The balls wouldn’t fit in the pockets

lol

Having played snooker for 12 years, and then moving to america 2 years ago. Id like say that both games are very different. In my opinion it is easier to transfer snooker fundimentals to pool than pool to snooker. Snooker demands alot more from a person on a mental and physical level. I am by no means the best at either game but i had taken my pool team to a billliards hall and it had taken 5 hours before someone knocked in a convincing 40 break.

Of course snooker is superior. Get the pool players on a snooker table and they won't win a game. No chance.

Snooker is MUCH HARDER than pool and that's a FACT . I play pool and I'm quite good but I can't even get a 30 break on a snooker table. All snooker players can play pool but very few pool players can play snooker. Only people that have never played on a full size snooker table think different

That was when Ronnie was a little kid

@@Neto808 I dont believe that story. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b5aoasR8ntm2qXk.html this is Reyes playing snooker, does he look like he's capable of beating even O'Sullivan as a kid? Legendary pool and billard player but he's not the standard to trouble a decent snooker player without a pretty big handicap. I think Daryl Peach is the only person ever said that Reyes beat Ronnie at snooker and I just don't believe that story.

@@jimmynich4791 ronnie confirmed it on twitter but didn't give any details mobile.twitter.com/ronnieo147/status/1112759965549281281 Some article says O'Sullivan gave Efren a 25-point advantage before the match started. That supposedly happened in 1991 when Ronnie was 15 years old.

Total rubbish. Ronnie had a century aged 10. The other guy wouldn't even know how to play.

He beat a 14 year old kid and he had a head start,if they played as adults then he wouldn't win a game if they played for a week. Efren is the king of pool but he wouldn't stand a chance at snooker against an adult Ronnie without a head start

If its that ez, how many world championships have u won?

@Hassan Ahmad is that the reason your greatest snooker player, Ronnie osullivan got his ass handed to him when he tried to participate in a major pool tournament. Do a search on KZfaq, the ipt 8 ball tournament. U will see what i am talking about. Einstein, in pretty much every bar got a pool table to play with. Hardly any snooker table anywhere. Don't you think if snooker tables were easily accessible, pool players could make that transition easily. Got news for you, snookers derive from 14.1 straight pool.

@@seandesir7272 as it is in every other pub, that's the reasons it is a peasantry sport. If you want to see ball potting everyother second, follow pool. Snooker is way more positional that pool. And i don't talk about accuracy and precision, that will make pool players hang there head in shame.

@@seandesir7272 accept the fact, to pro pool players pool is a profession. To snooker players, pool is a joke. Ronnie and Davis crossed the bridge and gave pool players their run for their money. Every seen a naturalised pool player make a transition?? ( don't say selby, selby was coached in snooker willie thorne and then he went to pool to make pool more miserable).

@@infamousroy4421 just stop acting like a butthurt bitch Both games are awesome to watch and play,there is no need for comparisons Just enjoy both games,they both are interesting and great for there respective reasons

That's because most americans don't care about snooker...they don't enjoy the game. That's why you don't see a bunch of snooker halls in the US. I can't even watch the thing it's so boring.

does not even make sense

Do you mean chew? I know it's an extra letter and all.