i think mine has to be bustamante. he is so loose a easy going when he shoots. it is always fun to watch him shoot.



who are some of your favorites?

Bustamante has a great break. No idea of the context here--maybe he needs to sink the 9 on the break--but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvoAMx6kAdY

that he does. the crazy thing about him is he is he has such a long bridge even on normal shots. that usually makes it more difficult to be accurate on striking the cue, but he is precise with a really long bridge.

For entertainment value I used to like to watch Tony Drago and Luc Salvas because they play so fast.

Drago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_pZdzfNGrY#t=5m48s

Luc Salvas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DrGViK409A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV-wbGrvP9o


Johnny Archer otoh is a great player, but you have time to play a turbo SNG in between his shots.

Drago also made a 149 break in snooker.

John Higgins......oh wait.

fastest 147

probably the female players

EDIT: and mike massey is good, i heard about him after my friends and i bought a cheap poolset at walmart

Well, the most entertainment I've ever gotten was seeing a trick shot show put on by Tom "Dr. Cue" Rossman. Guy works the crowd well and is fun to watch.

I used to watch so much of the ESPN coverage, which meant that I loved the black widow because she was on every show they did. Also loved the ESPN Trick Shot championships. Do they those anywhere on ESPN's site?

dr cue is super fun to watch too. not so much for the shots he makes, but for his personality. he gets so excited.

Efren Reyes - pool just because he plays some insane shots sometimes that I can't even visualise.

Ronnie O Sullivan - snooker. The most talented cueist.

I have an old video here that demonstrates his sense of humor as well. Give it a watch. It's short.

vn. that is pretty funny.

Bustie got elected to the BCA Hall of Fame this year! A very big honor in pool.

Ronnie in snooker and it's not even close

Surprised no one has mentioned Mccready. I think of "fun to watch" as not euro-mechanical, souquet etc. (no disrespect - he rules, etc and is a great guy, but to watch? . . . ), so maybe Raphael Martinez. I like Grady too.

ronnie o sullivan, the way he doesn't think for ages on end for each ball like most other snooker players

Earl 'The Pearl' Strickland

She's a killer.

I'd rather watch Ronnie in snooker than anyone else in any cue sport.

I totally agree, he is a master in the snooker game, a joy to watch.

Haven't seen a lot of pool so can't comment on that too much but yeah, Ronnie is fantastic to watch on his day. Really good break builder and I could just watch his 147 time and time again. I think Ding Junhui is good to watch too, very attacking and think he'll have a great future. On a personal note, gotta love Jimmy White

Here is the future btw

http://www.brecel.com/

Luca Brecel is a Belgian snooker player, was born on 8 March 1995
He is considered as the most promising snooker talent
In April 2009, he became the youngest European U-19 champion at 14 years of age.
In May 2009, in the Grand Final of the World Series of Snooker in Portugal, he reached the final eight, the only unranked amateur player between 7 top-32. He beat Jimmy White 4-3 and former World Champion Ken Doherty 5-3 on his way to the quarter-finals where he lost narrowly 5-4 to Graeme Dott.
In August 2009, he beat Joe Perry, then world #12, at the Paul Hunter Classic.
On January 8, 2010, Luca Brecel beat 7 times World champion Stephen Hendry 4 to 1 at an exhibition game in Bruges, Belgium.

Belgian ftw!

Snooker: Ronnie ainec

Pool: Alex Pagulayan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Pagulayan

I hung out/worked in a few pool halls in Scarborough (just outside of Toronto) from around 96 to the mid 2000's. There were regular weekly tournaments at a bunch of pool halls in the area, so me and some friends would go from one hall to another during the week, entering and watching 9-ball tournaments. Everyone from 5 handicaps (the worst a male can get) to local pro players would enter these tournaments and that included Alex.
I got to know him pretty well and he always had the biggest crowds watching him when he played. He was a born entertainer and seriously one of the funniest people to hang around. However, when he was playing matches against people, he was pretty much all business.

A few stories:
- He showed up to the pool hall drunk once, he was pretty straight-edge so people were surprised to see him like that. He entertained the whole room for hours until he passed out drunk on a chair. One of his friends tossed me some money and asked me to take him home after he woke up. Instead we went and ate chinese food at like 3am and then he had me drop him off at a back-door poker game where he ended up losing like 15k.

- Playing in one of the local tournaments, he was getting destroyed 8-1 in a race to nine. He had a bowl of spaghetti in front of him that he was eating between shots. After his last bite, which correlated with his opponent winning his 8th frame, he turned to me and said "now i'm mad.. this guy doesn't sink another ball". Sure enough, he went on to win 8 straight games and take the match.

- He can do some of the best trick shots you have ever seen, a lot of them are his originals. I don't remember the exact details of this one shot he does, but i know he gets half up on the table and kicks a ball for the finale. He had the entire room around him while he was working on his routine once and finished with this shot, I don't know a person in the room that wasn't crying from laughing so hard.

He also has this shot where he sets up a long pot on the 8 ball, the 9 is frozen to the rail down the table where the 8 ball is going to be pocketed. The white is frozen to the 8ball. Instead of jacking up on the shot (it's illegal to double-hit the white with the cue tip, so most people jack-up on this shot), he keeps a level cue and strikes the cue-ball really really hard near the bottom to put draw spin on it. The white ball chases after the 8 and then about halfway down the table the backspin takes over, so the white comes racing back and goes three rails for perfect shape on the 9-ball. Unreal.

One other thing I remember about Alex was his breaking. Long before 9-ball players starting using the finesse break they would do their best to smash the living **** out of the break. There were lots of pros in the Toronto rooms with strong breaks, but I have never seen anything like Alex breaking balls at full power in my life. I don't even think he's 5 feet tall, but when he broke balls you'd have thought someone just fired off a canon in the room. His breaking was of course very unpredictable, he often lost the ball off the table, but when he learned to control the power and the cueball his breaks were something else.