Is Snooker A Game Of Chance?
I am going to write about the elements of luck which I have been witnessing whilst watching this years world snooker championship.
I am not a snooker player myself - I actually work with a DVD replication company and I also offer Mobile Phone Voucher Codes on a part-time basis. I have however played the game of snooker for over thirty years now and it is certainly something that has helped me to reduce stress at times; especially when I was younger when I had a stuttering speech impediment.
A kick
I am sure that most snooker players are aware of what a kick is, in snooker. Basically the ball lifts from the bed of the table and can cause the shot to go offline which can easily cause a missed attempted pot, the positional side to go astray or the safety shot to go wrong.
Many experts have being trying to work out why these kicks happen, to attempt to remove them from the game. Thus far they have been unsuccessful.
A ball drifting offline
I watched a match last night where the player attempted a pot into a middle pocket. He played the shot quite slowly and it was heading into the heart of the pocket. At the last moment is seemed to roll offline and it hit the jaw of the pocket, his opponent then cleared up the rest of the balls to win the frame.
The player looked in disgust as the table for whatever reason had not played true, the commentators were also at a loss to explain it and even said that it had been a problem all week. We were told that once the snooker table and cloth had been set up it had been through rigorous checks to ensure that everything was in order. The commentator commented that with the large crowd in the arena and the atmosphere, that this could affect the roll of the table.
A dodgy bounce off a cushion
Some of the players have played a shot at what they believe is the correct speed or strength only to see the ball bounce off one of the cushions at an irregular speed. This again can affect their safety or positional play, which again can result in them losing a frame.
It can be very soul destroying to have a series of these bits of “bad luck”. Snooker can be one of the most frustrating games at times in any case as a player battles with the demons in his head and these unfortunate kicks and bad bounces off the cushion do little to improve the situation.