I have a friend who is also very tall as is Massey and he plays the same way. I asked him about it once and he told me his height allows him to see the table from a higher elevation than shorter people and he can see exactly where he has to place the cue ball on the object ball instead of having to envision it as shorter players do. We played a couple of games and I used a milkcrate as a stand to get my height up to his. It didn't take long to figure out what he was doing and he was entirely correct. When playing from a taller position it was more akin to looking straight down on the table and you could see the lines better. The very size of a 6 x 12 snooker table negates this advantage so you have to sight on the cue. Having said that, never play a tall guy on a 4 x 8 8 ball table because he will kick your ass........lol
I would like to see all these American Pool players try out snooker for a change! We have smaller pockets, bigger tables, and loads of balls! We should make an invitational series with all the top pool players from the US!
I watch the Earl match and I don’t know what it is but people seem to miss some easy shots from Ronnie. He’s a great player for sure and the best at snooker no doubt but he didn’t play well in his matches.
The much missed Sid Waddell. Son of a miner, went to Cambridge university and an absolutely bonkers commentator. Some favourite lines include this one commentating on 80’s rotund darts legend Eric Bristow: "When Alexander the Great was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer … Bristow's only 27!!!!!!!!” And “It's the nearest thing to public execution this side of Saudi Arabia!!!!!”
Just goes to show what a great equilizer pool is, playing on tiny tables and huge pockets. Massey couldnt beat Ronnie 1 single game to 100 on a 6x12 playing Snooker
That is why the likes of massey cannot win world championship of 9, 10 and 8balls against efren reyes or django bustamante or dennis orcollo and alex pagulayan. He is missing simple shot, cue ball control and simple kick.
All of the snooker champions that played 9 ball kept their snooker cues and did just fine a couple of the ladies like Allison Fisher and Karen corr switched to pool cues
It's a standard 9 foot pool table, nothing short about it. Of course you are comparing it against a guy like Massey who is on of the biggest pool players out there.
A champion snooker player, having only played a couple of 9 ball games, doesn't even bother to learn the rules & beats Earl the Pearl Strickland. What a joke this game is. The guy he plays here has no idea where the cue ball is going & still somehow wins, shows how stupid this game is.
Massey rarely used inside or check, all running English. Pocketing the two in the 4th he used running again and out of position on three, on playing of which he scratched. Had he used inside he so easily could have come back up for three in the bottom right corner. I'm surprised because I'm sure many of Massey's trick shot lessons are about just that kind of use of English
I hate people acting like Americans can't play Snooker..I never liked the game of Snooker but I did used to gamble by playing 9 Ball on a snooker table...
It is a foul to hit the 9 ball in after your opponent pushes out. It respots and your opponent gets ball in hand. Mike pushed out, so its ronnie's decision to hit the 1, give the shot back, or take a foul on the 9.
Mizerak went over to England and tried. Got his backside handed to him. Alex Pagulayan developed a pretty decent Snooker game and won the Canada title a couple of times. But obviously, the U.K. Snooker is the elite tour and on a whole different level.
@@carlgois8579 I have seen Earl Strickland and Efren Reyes play left handed pretty well. And I am sure a lot of professionals can actually do it to a reasonable standard... but still they are not confident enough in it to play critical shots.
@@carlgois8579 You dont have to tell me that, because I am first and foremost a snooker fan and a Ronnie fan. I watched him play almost full tournaments left handed because he was not happy with his right hand.
Impossible to compete in professional level if your break is trash. I love to watch Ronnie play snooker but pool is about spins and cue ball control with various speeds etc so there might be a reason why not too many professional snooker cueist haven’t gone to far in pool. Apples and oranges
@@SamuL147 Ronnie plays with a snooker cue because frankly the game of billiards is beneath him. If he gave a shit he’d use a pool cue and get the same break power as the rest of the players. They very fact he beats world champions and barely makes an effort is amazing. I guarantee you none of the pool dorks would be beating any snooker world champions on a snooker table.
@@hang-the-93 hilarious..it’s okay to like 9 ball it’s akin to playing checkers while snooker is like chess ...I realize it’s hard for the yokels to grasp the game of snooker what with all those balls and small pockets requiring accuracy and skill
Feel like Ronnie beat himself here. Winning his first couple of games, then winning the first set so easily, you can sense him become complacent. He then misses several pots after not even checking the potting angle, plays a few loose positional shots, and of course forgets/is ignorant of the rules. Massey was playing badly and had no right to win this.
HTF has Massey made a career in this sport. His stance is truly awful. "USA legend"??? [Edit] ... and WTF was the rule they pulled out of their arse at 39:10?? You can't play the cue ball off the cushion first? What if Ronnie had fully snookered himself? Would the rule still apply??
Ronnie gave him this. This was during Ronnie's drinking days. You can tell how inconsistent he played. Massey is a great guy and a legendary pool player, but not in Ronnie's league. Earl strickland or efren Reyes, in their respective primes, could compete with Ronnie.
Who would like to see Ronnie play a mosconni now in 2021
👍
Not me. Williams in his prime got creamed - it wasn't even close. Trump too. Ronnie wouldn't have much of a chance either
I would love to see ronnie and Reyes head to head. Pool 1 series, snooker another
Id pay big for that in 23
I’d love to see it
May I suggest not just naming the video by years but also in order of the match so 1996 01, 1996 02.... so we can watch in proper order.
OMGGGG THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More please :) From 1994, and rest of 95.96.97.98.99....... :DDDD Awesome!!!
Holy hell, it’s just ads now. UA-cam is truly taking the piss.
Try youtube Vanced. Takes the ads completely out. Otherwise youtube is unwatchable.
@@josephdouglas2783 I went with uBlock Origin - perfect.
Whoever uploaded this deserves the biggest raise.
I notice Mike has his head way above the shot line where Snooker guys chin is touching the stick to sight straight down the cue.
Yeah I don't get that, how does he line it up properly??
I have a friend who is also very tall as is Massey and he plays the same way. I asked him about it once and he told me his height allows him to see the table from a higher elevation than shorter people and he can see exactly where he has to place the cue ball on the object ball instead of having to envision it as shorter players do. We played a couple of games and I used a milkcrate as a stand to get my height up to his. It didn't take long to figure out what he was doing and he was entirely correct. When playing from a taller position it was more akin to looking straight down on the table and you could see the lines better. The very size of a 6 x 12 snooker table negates this advantage so you have to sight on the cue. Having said that, never play a tall guy on a 4 x 8 8 ball table because he will kick your ass........lol
@@oh8wingman haha. Thanks for sharing this, I never thought about it when I played against taller dudes.
I'm average height and I have shot both ways all my life, depends on the shot I'm shooting as both provide advantages in my own game.
Leaving chalk all over the place bothers me way more than it Probably should
Crazy game. you can pocket all the balls except the last one, and if your opponent gets that one ball he wins the frame. It's nutz!
You can actually win by pocketing the 9 at anytime but it must first be off the present object ball
You can also win by pocketing the 9 off the break it is a bullshit game
@@markpugh6808 that is why you should play a boX series and doing that break is insanely hard
Completely right and unfortunate as well but it really appeals to the amateur/ beginner level players and fosters an awesome community IMO
Good god mike is a big dude
Great match thanks for uploading 😊❤
I would like to see all these American Pool players try out snooker for a change! We have smaller pockets, bigger tables, and loads of balls! We should make an invitational series with all the top pool players from the US!
I have seen Earl Strickland and American pool female player Alison Fisher play snooker.
Alison being the better of the two!
Love the intro/presentation!! Back in '96 (:
Mike Massey reminds me of a slightly thinner Orson Welles in this
What a close match! Even my wife was on the edge of her seat!
I watch the Earl match and I don’t know what it is but people seem to miss some easy shots from Ronnie. He’s a great player for sure and the best at snooker no doubt but he didn’t play well in his matches.
@@marcuslarwa9098 Took it to lightly, this was pretty much an exhibition event until around the turn of the millennium - then it got serious.
Seems like Ronnie played every single match
I was just about to comment this 🤣🤣
Ha ha you lose...best out of 3
Is this the Mosconi cup or Apa league night?
Mike Massey's form throws me off so much... like what
that was a nice bank corner 9ball by Mike!
Anybody else confused by the scoring structure during the Mosconis Cup?................I still dont have a clue.
great match!
Incidentally Mike Massey is a born again Christian. Such a nice guy.
what cue is Ronnie holding in the intro ? Looks like a pool cue but he used a snooker cue for pool
Is that Jeff Stelling speaking during the first rack?
What a effortless ronnie..
Ronnie missed some uncharacteristic shots that he wouldn't normally have..
Good match none the less.
any match with this commentator that yells at the drop of a hat is pure gold.
The much missed Sid Waddell. Son of a miner, went to Cambridge university and an absolutely bonkers commentator. Some favourite lines include this one commentating on 80’s rotund darts legend Eric Bristow: "When Alexander the Great was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer … Bristow's only 27!!!!!!!!” And “It's the nearest thing to public execution this side of Saudi Arabia!!!!!”
Why turn sound off and on in the beginning
pool aside....the hand touching the hi fives.....seeing from now gives me cringes 😂 it will never be the same 🤭😂
Watching Ronnie play this would be like Lewis Hamilton taking on the Karting championship again 😆🤦♂️
LOVE RONNIE !!!! X
Is there an echo in here?
Funny commentary; great sayings; Canadian Geordie?!
God look at the tilt on the lags
Quicker than anything that ever left Cape Canaveral....
Just goes to show what a great equilizer pool is, playing on tiny tables and huge pockets. Massey couldnt beat Ronnie 1 single game to 100 on a 6x12 playing Snooker
Pockets do look very large..
It’s interesting we never see these guys playing snooker. That would be hilarious. It’s like connect 4 V chess
Ronnie is just Ronnie.
That is why the likes of massey cannot win world championship of 9, 10 and 8balls against efren reyes or django bustamante or dennis orcollo and alex pagulayan. He is missing simple shot, cue ball control and simple kick.
All of the snooker champions that played 9 ball kept their snooker cues and did just fine a couple of the ladies like Allison Fisher and Karen corr switched to pool cues
Ronnie is effortless..
Who's the commentators please?
Sid Waddell and Jim Wych
If only 500 spectators turned up to a snooker tournament Barry Hearn would crap a brick.
Upload the 2019 Mosconi Cup matches and i will share the crap out of those vids. I will help your channel.
Matchroom is a really big sports promotion company dude i think they’ll be alright either way
They uploaded them didn't they.
They should bring back the speed on the break
Why this pool table so short
Just like your...
It's a standard 9 foot pool table, nothing short about it. Of course you are comparing it against a guy like Massey who is on of the biggest pool players out there.
the Chinese 8ball tables have snooker cut pockets..tough to run out!
A champion snooker player, having only played a couple of 9 ball games, doesn't even bother to learn the rules & beats Earl the Pearl Strickland. What a joke this game is. The guy he plays here has no idea where the cue ball is going & still somehow wins, shows how stupid this game is.
Pockets the size of buckets compared to snooker
40:19 Ranny Think the rule of safety of Pool was same as the rule of safety of Snooker.
Massey rarely used inside or check, all running English. Pocketing the two in the 4th he used running again and out of position on three, on playing of which he scratched. Had he used inside he so easily could have come back up for three in the bottom right corner. I'm surprised because I'm sure many of Massey's trick shot lessons are about just that kind of use of English
I hate people acting like Americans can't play Snooker..I never liked the game of Snooker but I did used to gamble by playing 9 Ball on a snooker table...
The commentators are quite cringe. Being a snooker player, any of those pool shots are potable, especially the ones faced by both.
Play him again on a snooker table
When you are used to playing snooker, pool is so easy.
Not in this case.
47:44? did the rule change or were they wrong? Ronnie could push out and pot the 9 and it'd just be respotted and it wouldn't be a foul.
It is a foul to hit the 9 ball in after your opponent pushes out. It respots and your opponent gets ball in hand. Mike pushed out, so its ronnie's decision to hit the 1, give the shot back, or take a foul on the 9.
@@axlrollz Thank-you for that, as i was unsure about it myself👍
Ronnie slightly overscrewed. Dont worry about it Jim.
Looks like cartman from when he was a hall monitor
The guy with thickk eyebrows needs to work a bit on his break... but, i mean he seems a good player, i'm sure he will improve....
Lol. Lovely comment
I'm sure your joking.
You really want to see the world burn dont you?😂
Good one
looks like he'd be a good player under pressure
Anyone can win playing pool, as was just shown.. let's see the US team play snooker against a European team..
I would like to see the American 9ball players try playing snooker..
I’d like to seem them try playing left handed like ambidextrous rocket Ronnie.
Mizerak went over to England and tried. Got his backside handed to him.
Alex Pagulayan developed a pretty decent Snooker game and won the Canada title a couple of times. But obviously, the U.K. Snooker is the elite tour and on a whole different level.
@@carlgois8579 I have seen Earl Strickland and Efren Reyes play left handed pretty well. And I am sure a lot of professionals can actually do it to a reasonable standard... but still they are not confident enough in it to play critical shots.
Ronnie O’Sullivan made a century break of 120 I think all with his left hand.
@@carlgois8579 You dont have to tell me that, because I am first and foremost a snooker fan and a Ronnie fan. I watched him play almost full tournaments left handed because he was not happy with his right hand.
2022 Ronnie has collected over £12 million in his career (= $17 million) in snooker prize money.. so 9 ball was played for fun..
If Ronnie cared about 9 ball he’d be the best ever given 6 months practice. The pool dorks wouldn’t sniff the top 16 of the snooker world.
Impossible to compete in professional level if your break is trash. I love to watch Ronnie play snooker but pool is about spins and cue ball control with various speeds etc so there might be a reason why not too many professional snooker cueist haven’t gone to far in pool. Apples and oranges
Not saying it would be impossible for him but 6 months.. Never
@@SamuL147 Ronnie plays with a snooker cue because frankly the game of billiards is beneath him. If he gave a shit he’d use a pool cue and get the same break power as the rest of the players. They very fact he beats world champions and barely makes an effort is amazing. I guarantee you none of the pool dorks would be beating any snooker world champions on a snooker table.
I'm sure the snooker players appreciate your excuses for them as to why they don't win pool tournaments.
@@hang-the-93 hilarious..it’s okay to like 9 ball it’s akin to playing checkers while snooker is like chess ...I realize it’s hard for the yokels to grasp the game of snooker what with all those balls and small pockets requiring accuracy and skill
Oh man, Seems like the Worst match massey ever played in his life 🙄
i cannot understand anything the british commentator is saying
Why do pool players hold the cue so far from their face and snooker players right on their chin?
Cos pool requires little accuracy
They do put it on the chin, this dude obviously just cant get down to reach that @@J5X7
39:07 thats not a foul 😂
Of course it's a foul
Feel like Ronnie beat himself here. Winning his first couple of games, then winning the first set so easily, you can sense him become complacent. He then misses several pots after not even checking the potting angle, plays a few loose positional shots, and of course forgets/is ignorant of the rules. Massey was playing badly and had no right to win this.
HTF has Massey made a career in this sport. His stance is truly awful. "USA legend"???
[Edit] ... and WTF was the rule they pulled out of their arse at 39:10?? You can't play the cue ball off the cushion first? What if Ronnie had fully snookered himself? Would the rule still apply??
WHERES JUDD????
EXACTLY !!!!!! WHOPPER&
Ronnie gave him this. This was during Ronnie's drinking days. You can tell how inconsistent he played. Massey is a great guy and a legendary pool player, but not in Ronnie's league. Earl strickland or efren Reyes, in their respective primes, could compete with Ronnie.
He play Earl in this tournament
Technically skill less AV Dept.
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massey has a horrible stroke, good thing he isnt playing competitively now cause he wouldnt be able to compete with todays shooters.
Brilliant Memories here Bring this back Am sure Judd trump one day will become another people’s champion
Pool players on there tiny tables with huge pockets have no chance against a pro snooker player.
Jesus...Mike's technique is so bad it is painful to watch :)
Massey is a bum, can shoot something but overall game understanding is so fkn poor for a pro player.
Ronnie a great legend in snooker. Pool, not so much
Rubbish Pool players wouldn’t qualify for low level snooker tournaments
Good one