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Ronnie O'Sullivan vs American Pool Player?
Whoever says Ronnie would dominate pool if he took it seriously doesn't know what it takes to play really good pool. Ronnie is a great shot maker and he controls the cue ball well, but there is nothing he does better than the top pool players already do that will make a significant difference.
Sure he can laser in 10 ft+ shots better than just about anyone else, but in a game of professional pool, those kind of shots only rarely decide the outcome of a pool game, much less an entire match and the top pros aren't bad at those kind of shots themselves.
What wins in pool is a good break and making as few unforced errors as possible, both of which the current top pros already do about as well as is humanly possible. They also are well versed at pool safeties and kicks, both of which are very different than their snooker counterparts.
No doubt he would make a very good pool player, possibly even become a top pro depending on if he can get the break down, but to think he would become decidedly better than Ko Pin Yi, Shane Van Boening, Alex Pagulayan, Darren Appleton, etc. in a relatively short time is laughable.
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Ronnie's profile written for Inside Pool Magazine
The Snooker Genius
Kevin Fontaine
He appears to possess nothing special – you wouldn’t look twice. He is above-average handsome with jet black hair cut in a pseudo-Beatles style, marathoner lean with a pleasing angular face and sharp eyes. Yet in the parts of the world where snooker is the king of cue sports – he is a god – a man who could not walk down the street without recognition. Think Tiger Woods, think U2’s Bono, think Tom Cruise.
He’s Ronnie O’Sullivan – the man snooker historian Clive Everton called, “the most extraordinary natural talent the game has ever known.” A cue in his hands, it is said, is like a brush grasped by Picasso. His 5 minute and 20 second maximum 147 (a 147 is when each of 15 pocketed red balls is followed by a black ball and then the remaining 6 colored balls to total 147 points) during the 1997 World Snooker Championship is regarded as the single greatest feat in snooker history – the snooker equivalent to Roger Bannister’s sub 4-minute mile.
O’Sullivan was a child prodigy. Born in Birmingham, England in 1975, he was introduced to snooker at age 7. A wisp of a boy with tar black eyebrows standing in bold relief against his skin, extra pale from the gray weather of Southern England, the snooke
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The Guardian
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