The other day, there was a post showcasing an in-browser snooker simulator. I tried it, and it was really good! It seems that the post has been deleted for some reason though. Does anyone remember the URL? I stupidly forgot to bookmark it. Thanks.
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Headline says most of it -- My youtube algorithm apparently knew I would like snooker and has been bombarding me with O'Sullivan and Hendry videos. I played with a set of snooker balls on a standard American pool table the other day and it was great but I would love to experience the real thing without driving 2-3 hours. Hoping some brave snooker..er? out here knows of someone in the area Albany, New York area with a table or has a lead on a cool spot that is not otherwise advertised.
Edit: if you're reading this in the r/pool or Billiards subreddit sorry for burying the lead that this is a snooker post that I cross-posted for max chance of finding someone
Goes and wins the World Championship, then drops off the face of the planet and is now... *checks notes* ranked 43rd in the world.
Is he struggling with anything?
Did you enjoy watching Yan Bingtao when he was on tour?
On the latest podcast from Alan McManus, someone asked him if Yan Bingtao will be coming back after the end of his ban. McManus didn't know, and then said "I'll be honest and say I wasn't that big a fan of Yan Bingtao. I'm not talking about as a person as I didn't know him. I thought he was quite a dour kind of player, in the nicest possible way. I mean, I just, I never enjoyed watching him. Maybe it just yeah, I mean, he was really good. He hit the ball really nice and of course he had a good safety game and he could score as well. Of course he could. He was a Masters champion, but I was never that big a fan of him personally."
A snooker legend and a trailblazer across all cue sports. Very best wishes to Allison in her fight against this horrible disease.
How common are such big scores in a losing cause? Inspired after seeing the final frame score in the Yuan Sijun vs Jimmy Robertson semi-final at the Shenzhen Open - spoiler, Robertson lost 94-83. The frame total is just 18 points below the 195 record, too, back when Mark Williams vs Ding Junhui finished a frame 101-94 in the quarterfinals of the 2023 UK Championship. Williams conceded 12 fouls (value 53) to Ding's 3 (12). I don't know what the fouls split was for Yuan Sijun vs Jimmy Robertson but presumably high! Those 83 points for Robertson aren't far off Ding's 94, which I believe is the record losing score in a frame.
https://www.wst.tv/match-centre/fb90dac4-83c3-47c0-8414-70040a6d0dc3
https://www.snooker.org/res/index.asp?template=22&event=2761
https://www.snooker.org/Plr/records.shtml
https://www.reddit.com/r/snooker/comments/9j08l0/whats_the_highest_score_by_a_single_player_in_a/
Funnily enough Jimmy Robertson does hold a great all-time frame-score record himself: his 178-6 victory in the final frame against Lee Walker in the first round of the 2021 Scottish Open (7 Dec 2021) was the most points scored in a single frame.
I'm looking around for other cases of 80+ in a losing cause. From that reddit link: "Peter Lines (England) won 108-84 in a frame versus Dominic Dale (Wales) in the fourth round of the 2012 Wuxi Classic qualifiers. Dale conceded 14 fouls (value 60) to Lines' 8 (36)." Then there's also "Sean Storey defeated Graham Cripsey 93-92 at the 1992 Asian Open" and memorably the "deciding frame of the semi-final between Wilson and McGill at the 2020 World Championship ended 103-83, with balls still remaining on the table".
Any other big scores ending in defeat that people can remember? Is there is a list of highest losing scores out there somewhere? Presumably Robertson's 83 would be well up there.
Context:
I went for a laminated tip with a Kamui M/H tip, because I wanted something super hard and reactive too.
I had it a few months and probably my most consistent tip.
Now this is where I ruined my own game, and had a triple crown laminated tip fitted.
It was extremely hard, made an awful sound but I played well with it. Why did I change it? Because I’m stupid and always flick about with tips.
I went for a grand hard, an ADR147 but they all felt awful
I couldn’t play with them, and went back to the Kamui which feels soft now even though I had the same one before.
The Triple crown tip, that’s out of stock in most places, and I’m absolutely stuck.
Everything now feels way too soft, I can’t feel the cue ball can’t even use side or anything I’m hit and hoping.
Main point:
Now I’m thinking to break the bank on a custom G5, I want something super hard, I like the tinny sound that everyone else hates.
My game is currently ruined as a result of the mess I have created.
If you made it this far with my essay, please recommend me the hardest tips on the market.
I’ve got a titanium ferrule on my cue, but regardless I want a hard tip even if it makes an awful sound because that’s actually what I like.
(Disclaimer: yes I know this game a lot if not most of things are just a mental thing, but when I’ve got no feel and I know what I want from my cue tip striking the ball, it’s an issue beyond mental resolve and needs a physical solution)
The other day I broke off the usual way, second last red, lots of right, and somehow a ball went into the right middle.
White came back down behind baulk, under green ball.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before. Anyone else had similar?
I don’t mean a smashing break to open them all up but. Standard “safe” break and somehow pot a red?
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