Karl strikes me as a very pleasant, humble guy. He took Stephen's competitive spirit very well!

@seanscanlon9067

5 ай бұрын

If he took this seriously and had wanted to, Karl could have beaten Stephen in his sleep. And vice versa if it was snooker.

@C4rl0s-_-4R

5 ай бұрын

Karl is a good lad. Also has his own KZread channel. Does a lot of behind the scenes videos at pool events and so on.

@peterf08

5 ай бұрын

Hendry seemed like he didn't wanna be there to me

@AD-kv9kj

5 ай бұрын

@@peterf08 He fundamentally doesn't like 9-ball, and neither do I tbh. I still like playing a casual few racks now and then but as a sport it is terrible, the rules need serious revision. Although I got the impression he went a lot more sour after there being no rest to use 😂

@leemcqueen500

5 ай бұрын

​@@AD-kv9kjWhat do you think of 8 ball?

Has there been a video released yet where Stephen doesn't, at some point, say "If I was in commentary, I'd say that was clumsy"? 😂

@babygravey

5 ай бұрын

It would be clumsy if he didn't say it

@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff

5 ай бұрын

I was watching STEPHEN LEE in a pie eating contest a few years back… fatty was trying to eat so fast he dropped one of the pies… “if I was in commmentsry I’d say that’s clumsy”

@babygravey

5 ай бұрын

I hope he keeps saying it just for the meme now

@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff

5 ай бұрын

@@babygravey you got any STEPHEN LEE memes?

@LCFCV9

5 ай бұрын

Yes

I have never seen this man play pool....or heard him speak. This is, genuinely, one of my favourite episodes you've done Stephen. What a nice, genuine, humble man, Karl is. More of this content please 🙏🏻

@UKWEED

5 ай бұрын

G E N U I N E L Y

@C4rl0s-_-4R

5 ай бұрын

He was a bloody good pool player. Played all the time with Chris melling Darren Appleton and Jayson shaw. He also has his own KZread channel.

@gavinotoole2864

5 ай бұрын

Karl is great. He was a really good player back when he was competing. And a genuinely great guy

@filipivan5125

5 ай бұрын

Karl is a commentator for 9ball competitive matches. He is my favourite one actually.

I think watching Hendry and Selby playing English pool would be a great episode.

@fuzzy1237

5 ай бұрын

Shelby being a former pool world champion would make it an massacre

@jasonparker6138

5 ай бұрын

@@fuzzy1237 Exactly. Judging by his Ultimate Pool performances, he still plays at a very high level. I'd still enjoy watching if Hendry played him though.

@dhammarosi

5 ай бұрын

Yes 😀

@smrriles5668

5 ай бұрын

I do not

@EpicOwen9968

5 ай бұрын

@smrriles5668 Thanks for sharing your opinion 😂😂

Despite his diminished skills, Stephen's still a competitive animal. He seemed genuinely frustrated the table had no bridge. I suspect for a moment he was thinking, ‘yeah, a carbon fiber cue. That’s my ticket back to the Crucible.’

Karl was very generous to Stephen here with some of these shots!

@dhammarosi

5 ай бұрын

Yup 😀

@andrewverrett568

5 ай бұрын

Karl could definitely beat Stephen if he was trying. He wasn't trying hardly at all. Just a talk and some striking. Never once got into his actual stroke or stance. Stephen was in his stance and stroke on every shot. That being said Karl doesn't play hardly as much anymore.

@billybigballs196

5 ай бұрын

​@@andrewverrett568if you think any pool chump could hold a candle to a top snooker player you're a clown pool is a boys game snooker is a man's game. Fact

@Woody991

5 ай бұрын

Bullshit excuses

@chriscolabella880

5 ай бұрын

Yes. Especially when he was about to play the 1, then the 2-9 combo and Stephen was like: "Just shoot it" not realising the obvious pool play, and thinking he intended to run a difficult rack, so Karl gets down and tries the ridiculous 3 ball combo, knowing he was handing the frame to Hendry on a plate.

Don’t know anything about 9 ball or this fella but can just tell he’s top bloke and genuine Great episode 👍🏻

11:00 he's fuming and actually cannot hide it 😂😂😂

@YlL-ji2sl

5 ай бұрын

Haha yes. It was a half joke i guess. 😂

@seanscanlon9067

3 ай бұрын

While he did still mean it, he is also playing it deadpan for effect.

@Gobbbbb

2 ай бұрын

@@seanscanlon9067 I don't believe so, that's just the competitiveness in Hendry, that's why the likes of him and Ronnie absolutely dominated the game.

@seanscanlon9067

2 ай бұрын

@@Gobbbbb Yeah I have said he means it, but still think that he is playing it up a bit too.

"That's why this is a Mickey Mouse game" 💀

@M.Akasha

2 ай бұрын

😅

@user-rk4xk2be6n

Ай бұрын

He's Scottish 😂😂 tell it how it is 😮😂

Be interesting to watch the reverse & Karl try a frame of snooker with Stephen

@seanscanlon9067

5 ай бұрын

Unless Karl was respotting the colours, he would need to take a comfortable cushion with him.

@hashtag_thisguy

5 ай бұрын

@@seanscanlon9067 not so much that I expect him to win or do particularly well but it'd be interesting to see how transferable the skills are from pool to snooker.

@andyburgess7424

5 ай бұрын

Karl is quite a handy snooker player, I think he used to play in the local leagues. Sure I've seen something on his KZread of him playing snooker

@CertifiedSlamboy

5 ай бұрын

@@andyburgess7424 In the video he said he’s barely played

@ezekiel763

5 ай бұрын

@@CertifiedSlamboywhen your talking to Hendry you probably downplay considerably

Karl seems a cracking bloke 👍 Sweet banter and chemistry between them both, good watch this 🤘

Karl's a great commentator and pundit...and I reckon if he wanted to be could still be a top player

@johnsmith-cz1ty

5 ай бұрын

100% he could still be a top professional

As an American pool player (and a huge fan of both pool and snooker), I was surprised that the topic of the pocket structure was not addressed. On an American pool table, the pointed pockets are so much more receptive of the balls when they are being shot from near the rail. In pool, those are relatively simple shots. In snooker, players will try to develop a ball that is on the rail or simply play safe because the precision level needed to pot a ball is so high in snooker due to the rounded corners. I thought that would've come up at some point.

@paulgreen758

4 ай бұрын

I agree with that, im mainly a 9 ball player I couldn't pot in snooker in the same way with a ball on the rail

Stephen seemed very keen to try the jump shots

@z01t4n

5 ай бұрын

It's the one thing that snooker doesn't have. (Or they do, but it's always a foul.)

@juchetony1910

5 ай бұрын

Scotland is famous for its jumpers.

@mihaU1

5 ай бұрын

He could finally try it not bothering with tearing up his own cloth lol

Years ago, Karl came to an Open Tournament in Greece. He was awesome. First of all, what a guy, we was super nice to everyone. Second of all, the dude knows how to have fun. He drunk all day and all night, and still played amazingly. He ended up playing in the final, God knows how many drinks he had, he barely could stand still, but still played good. Unbelievable talent, he could clear up with his eyes closed.

Very pleasant surprise to see my favorite pool channel and my favorite snooker channel make a video together. I loved this episode. Like all of the other episodes, I just wish it was twice as long 😂. Karl is awesome. I've been a fan of his since I started playing pool(for about 7 years) Stephen should go on Karl's channel and have a frame of snooker.

You've had snooker, 8 ball and 9 ball. Time to get Chris Melling for a 3 in 1 video.

Stephen seemed ultra competitive this episode haha

@seanscanlon9067

3 ай бұрын

Every episode.

the fact that i can clear up on a pool table and not a snooker table shows which is the harder of the two to be honest.

@adamski101

5 ай бұрын

Harder to pot on a snooker table and more power is needed but why do the top snooker players always get beaten by the top pool players when they try to play pool? That shows there is considerable skill needed in pool.

@TicTac2

5 ай бұрын

no one was saying that pool is harder

@seanscanlon9067

3 ай бұрын

@@adamski101 They don't. Steve has beaten Efren 9-8 coming back from 8-2 down and Ronnie has beaten Earl. And Jimmy took Efren all the way, losing 10-9 I think, having obviously gone hill-hill. In general though if pool is easier than snooker, and it is and that is not just snobbery, then it is easy for both the pro-pool player who has a lifetime of playing the game and easy for the snooker playing, novice pool player. Yet who do you think will win most of the time if they played each other?

Never seen Karl play but what a nice down to earth fella he is and I always like seeing pool stuff on this channel.

The back screw Stephen played at 9:40 show's how good he's cue control is. Lovely video mate

It's hilarious how competitive Stephen is for absolutely no reason 😂 great episode!

Really enjoyed this one! Two great cue sport ambassadors

No rest !?!...that really pissed him off 🤣

@AD-kv9kj

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, he should have had Karl place his hand down as a bridge 😂

@seanscanlon9067

3 ай бұрын

Karl should have said 'no rest for the wicked'.

I have been eagerly waiting for this cross over!

@ronz91

5 ай бұрын

And here I was just thinking it would be great for Stephen to have you on the show 👍

I'm looking forward to the Earl "the Pearl" Strickland episode

Been loving these videos recently, Karl seems a very nice, pleasant and interested guy. He was asking lots of questions and giving advice. Brilliant episode

Stephen's competitiveness really comes out in every video he does 🤣 no wonder he won so much when he was at the top of his game and fancied himself to win.

best Mosconi was White/Higgins thrashing the Yanks while completely pissed. On the way out after, Jimmy scored a top up pint to take with him. Class.

Snooker is chess. Pool is checkers. Hendry knows it, we all know it

Quality video! Let’s see more of these please!!

That was a lot of fun. Great to see.

Love these pool/snooker videos

Loved this one, could watch this for much longer

Would there be any chance of mark allen or ding junhui coming on the channel??

@williamlekstakaj5892

5 ай бұрын

Allen or Ding would be very fun!

@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff

5 ай бұрын

What about STEPHEN LEE??

@Tomkim1995

5 ай бұрын

@@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff don’t know about you but I enjoy this channel. Don’t want to see Hendry being eaten for the sake of a video

@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff

5 ай бұрын

@@Tomkim1995 yeah I suppose STEPHEN LEE might confuse him for Scottish shortbread 🤣

@fallios

5 ай бұрын

Ding can barely speak English so that's unlikely.

Ahh yes waited for this collab! 👍

thank you both for this video, i learnt a lot

"Chinese 8 ball is huge in China" - Stephen Hendry. What a pearl of wisdom that is 😂

@jonridyard6899

5 ай бұрын

Well spotted 😅😅😅

@gavinotoole2864

5 ай бұрын

I didn't realise that's what he said. 😂😂😂

@gordoncockfield

5 ай бұрын

Good old Henry

@AD-kv9kj

5 ай бұрын

Tbf though, for example, English pool isn't huge in the UK. Just because a sport comes from a certain country doesn't necessarily mean it's really popular there and drawing big money tournaments.

Nice video! I have a carbon fibre low deflection cue, but I have found it very difficult to adapt to because I have played snooker and pool with a conventional cue most of my life. I think a player that has been brought up using a conventional cue can do just as well.

Great Episode. Everyone loves Karl

5:29 can't believe that is an actual way to keep the bridge hand. In high-school that was done by people who had no idea how to play

@elhamfahim1925

2 ай бұрын

It’s a loop bridge lol

Great video, I've been watching Karl over on his channel for some time, also enjoy his commentary on the Matchroom 9 ball events. I am a huge snooker fan and love to play, but i think i prefer playing 9 ball when there's a few of us and having a laugh, it's a great game that can be very challenging, but very quick and get through a lot of racks

Hendry's played 9-ball before, in the St Andrews cup, it's on KZread and he looked pretty good.

17:05 Stephen...Correction! Like snooker pro's, tennis pro's "do not" use the racquets they endorse which are sold to the public. (Roger Federer's racquet; the RF 97 "may" be the closest to what he uses, but I'm still sceptical of that) The racquets the pro's use are generally the racquets they grew up using in the juniors, and once they turn pro and become a top player, they will sign a deal with one of the major racquet companies (Wilson, Head, Yonex, Etc) and they will crerate a line to sell to the public, while the pro will still use what he used to use ( a special racquet mold for them to make custom racquets for them) but they will paint the racquet to match the one they now endorse.

@Seaby41

5 ай бұрын

Kinda. They use 'Pro Stock' special moulds, custom made, unavailable to the public. And yes. All the manufacturers have clones of the other brands 'pro stock'. I wouldn't say they are copies of racquets they used as juniors. Perhaps a bit like saying the subaru old mate won the World Rally Championship is the same as the one you can buy at your local dealer. As I understand it anyhow.

@jordancox8280

5 ай бұрын

Tiger Woods used custom Miura irons stamped with the Nike logo. Do people really believe that someone whose livelihood and millions on the line are using off the shelf products... 😅

@AD-kv9kj

5 ай бұрын

@@jordancox8280 Well...Hendry won 7 world titles and all the rest with a 20 quid off the rack cue with a bend in it. Maybe the pros who think they need all that super specially made custom stuff are deluding themselves. There is also billions of dollars to be made by companies out of flogging "special" gear to pros in sports.

@jordancox8280

5 ай бұрын

@@AD-kv9kj and then once it broke could never win again, despite paying the best custom cue maker in the world to try and replicate it... Bet he'd wished he'd started from a custom cue that could be actually reproduced! 😉

Loved that. Karl seems to be a bloody good sport too! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

the pool content is great, would love more if possible

@juchetony1910

5 ай бұрын

next week, Stephen tries a swimming race vs Adam Peaty.

@GeorgeWebb-uq4us

5 ай бұрын

T

Great video as always. Seemed more like Karl was interviewing SH. 😊

I love 9 ball. And have got a few friends into it, although American Pool tables are not always that easy to find. Always seems to level out the playing field when there is a difference of skill between players.

9 ball pool is a fantastic game….went to vegas to watch it…..fantastic experience

I love this. Hendry can play all games. Two cool cats sharing some wisdom nuggets and having fun!

“I’m guna break your heart” loses the frame next shot 😂😂😂

I love your channel, Stephen. Keep up the good work ❤

This was great. 9-ball pool on that pool app is great too.

Great vid, this channel does really well in coverage, tips etc. Keep it going Stephen, keeps me playing. If you fancy a frame and you're down in the Midlands let me know!

hear me out: stephen and karl as a commentating team would be the greatest thing ever. they have such a natural banter and both super smart talented dudes. never going to happen because stephens from snooker but i can dream

@flashcat6665

5 ай бұрын

Doesn't mean anything, it could very well happen. Mosconi Cup 2022 had Allison Fisher in the commentary box for most of the tournament, and she's a former snooker pro.

This was great!

I played Karl first round of an English pool KO in a pub around 20years ago, I broke off, potted nothing and he cleared up but went in off the black so I progressed to the next round, it was an outrageous injustice 🤣

Steve Davis did fine playing 9-ball after he was finished with Snooker. ...had a major comeback win over the Legend Efren Reyes after being down something like 8 - 2. Think he came back to win 9 - 8.

@yippeeki-yay1691

5 ай бұрын

Davis was still a top 16 or so player when he dabbled in 9-ball - out of all the Snooker players, he was the one who seemed to take it a bit more seriously, probably because Barry Hearn dragged him into it 😃

great watch Stephen

Oh this video is so funny. Their banter is so good

very entertaining Stephen is the man.

Thoroughly enjoyable

Great video thank you. How about having your old doubles partner Mike Hallett on?

Lol I still have my Stephen Hendry Cue from Argos. I got it because they were out of stock of the Jimmy White one. Years later someone gave me a cue with some younger pro's name on it.( couldn't tell you who) It's the same cue.

This is the type of commentary we want. Cue Stick, Dominant eye, Earnings, Skill Factor, Table and so much more. Opinions and comparisons is what we like to hear, great episode!

Phil Taylor plays a small amount of pool. This would be brilliant to watch.

Stephen: "Get out of there!" 😂😂

That pool table is absolutely exquisite

Check out Karl Boyes vs Ralf Souquet 2018, Karl came back from 2 - 7 down to win 8 - 7, lots of good stuff there.

The links in the description don't work

I like this bloke, could watch this all day

best ep so far

Does anybody know what cue brand they're using?

I don't know anything about snooker or pool, but from an engineering standpoint a carbon cue will always be a massively more stiff cue. When designed and made properly of course. But like for like it will deflect far less under any circumstance, it will be lighter, and it will retain more of the energy after a hit or deflection. I assume only the initial deflection is really a positive there but I don't know the sport. But carbon fiber is one of the best materials to use for stiffness - you can almost think of it like glass in that it refuses to bend and will crack first. In reality there's more nuance, but it's a good start as to what makes carbon so popular in many products compared with fiberglass, plastic, metal or other options.

Hendry the shark!😀Great episode, Karl seems a real nice guy and I don't know why I don't watch 9-ball - it's far and away the most entertaining cue sport.

You need to get Hazel Irvine on this, would be great 😀

Great lads Karl & Stephen

Would love to see more pool

I used to have a graphite cue. I smashed it over the snooker table when I lost a game. Ahhh, the joys and idiocy’s of youth 😁

Great stuff...

*"The balls roll funny for everybody, kiddo."* ~"Fast" Eddie Felson

Ger stephen lee on see if he has rhe cue power still

@Tomkim1995

5 ай бұрын

He’s still got his appetite that’s for sure

@Stephen Hendry you say you first met Karl in China but I do remember the IPT in 2006 at The Venetian. You were playing Poker across the road and came over to watch Karl playing Ronnie. Jimmy was there too and I was watching with you. Remember you picking up Ronnie Cue after the game and knocking a few balls commenting about his tip and Ronnie told you it’s better if you use the playing cue not the break cue lol.

I had to think for a second who Boyes was then remembered he did commentary at the last tournament I watched. Surprised he quit in 2015, he must have earned enough to call it a day!

Thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Hendry seems like a real likeable fellow. And he picked up 9 ball, jump cue, etc. right off (or "straight away" to you Brits).

Watched Stephen practice a lot in Spencer's he couldn't miss was like a machine

@johndean4765

5 ай бұрын

When did u see hendry play at Spencer recent or many years ago?

@garyreid5101

5 ай бұрын

@@johndean4765 many years ago place has been shut a long time now

I never knew Karl retired

@trident1314

5 ай бұрын

He's now one of the best commentators and pundits IMO

@ryanstockley9495

5 ай бұрын

@@trident1314 I know I have seen him on the coverage but I didn’t know he had fully retired

More of this 🤩

How lovely of him to let you win 😀❤️

Stephen you must try American Rotation pool. Balls 1-15 pocketed in rotation. First 1-10 balls are worth 1 point. 11-15 are worth 2 points. Total 20 points per rack. You can play for example race to 100 points. Rules are listed in internet👍🏻

@jlatirl4316

4 ай бұрын

When I played that the balls were worth their numbers meaning 120 points available at the start. Get more than 60 to win. You could pot higher value balls once you play the lowest available ball first. Great game rather than just potting easy balls. The table is crowded at the start of each rack so position can be tricky. Great game

Do a video with Jasmin Ouschan!

I love this!!! I think Steven would love one pocket, it’s a bit more technical and strategic…

I could have watched more of that. How about there's a re-match?

I’ve always played snooker and just cannot get to grips with pool shot choices, I’m always loosing 😬

A surprise to be sure - but a welcome one

Awesome ❤

I would like to see the Mosconi Cup played on a full-sized snooker table and 10-ball! Of course 2 1/16" balls to

An idea for the channel, get 5 subscribers on to play a few shots with Stephen. The 4 who ask the 4 best questions and me as the 5th for coming up with the idea obviously! ;) The man is my hero i’d love to be able to just ask him 1 question. He will always be the king in my eyes!

It's not your "dominate eye" that matters at all. It's actually your "vision center". The vision center is created in your brain with both eyes. When your head is square to the shot and your vision center is aligned then left and right cut shots are equal.

When your snookered 2 rail kick is almost always the way especially for a ball close to rail I dont know how so many people don't know this