I thought they had events scheduled for the rest of this week, but now they're not showing any more matches until Saturday. Bummer.
Anyway, they do have a lot of snooker and pool videos available with the OnDemand link, and they don't have annoying ads. They also have a "matchroom pool" YouTube channel with different stuff. A few weeks ago, they put up some videos from the 1996 Mosconi Cup, the yearly 9-ball tournament between 5-man teams from the USA and Europe. This was only the third Mosconi Cup, I think, and back then there weren't a lot of European professionals playing 9-ball, so a lot of the European team members were snooker players. In 1996, Jimmy White was supposed to be on the team but had to drop at the last minute, and Ronnie O'Sullivan took his place. In the singles competitions, Ronnie drew the legendary Earl Strickland, widely regarded as the greatest American pool player of all time, and probably the most temperamental. Now, playing on a huge 12x6 table with narrow pockets makes snooker players exceedingly accurate, which is an advantage when they play on a 9-foot table, but the American pool balls are larger and heavier than snooker balls and the table cloth is different, so the "feel" for pocketing balls and controlling the cue ball is completely different. Also, snooker players rarely shoot combos (plants) or banks (doubles), which are very difficult in snooker because of the tight pockets but are vital in 9-ball. Ronnie had only played a few games of 9-ball, apparently, because several times he had to ask the ref about 9-ball rules, but nonetheless he defeated Strickland! Incredible! He was on the team again in 1997, but that year he lost to another legend, Nick Varner, who essentially outplayed him with a better defensive game.
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