Saw Stuart Bingham down my snooker club today
Join Date: Jun 2010
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My friend had a day off work today so we decided to go down and play some snooker in the early afternoon when it's less busy. So we went in and only 2 other tables were taken up and on one of the luxury tables was Stuart Bingham (world number 6 ranked) and another guy playing.
They seemed pretty into their game so I didn't say anything but watching his play was pretty remarkable, I didn't see him make one mistake. I've never seen a professional snooker game before so it was quite strange seeing someone control a cue-ball like that down my local club in real life.
They played about six games to our two lol.
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Steve Davis was playing on the next table to me about 25 years ago in my local club. Likewise, he didn't make a single mistake and it was very impressive to watch. At one point he had to wait for me to take my shot before he could carry on as I was cueing with the white on the rail, and his was close to his rail. He said " good shot!" and not just to be kind. It actually was a really good shot - lucky for me he didn't witness my other shots, most of them were embarrassingly bad.
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Met Paul Hunter and Joe Swail in an exhibition game a few years back. Also met John Higgins and Jimmy White separately at different exhibitions where they played local people.
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Similar to OP, I played on the next table to Tony Drago once.
He made a perfect 130+ break, without ever losing position in about 3 minutes and ****ed off to the bar.
To be fair club pockets are a deal easier than pro tournament ones.
Still amazing to watch.