i agree... cant stand tappers. rather go 4 it me

Haha yeah, onua needs to show you how It's done, would be an interesting game, be like watching Ebdon against Steve Davis!!

Tappers like that idiot above disgust me, they have no real skill and put me to zzzzzzzz..

I'd have to name _kirk_

1) _kirk_
2) _kirk_
3) _kirk_
4) _kirk_
5) _kirk_

Most of all this guy has his head firmly on his shoulders and anything you have done he has done better...

Kirky boy, you're simply the best pal

Why has no-one metioned me? So bizarre!

would be at an high level...... with us both 7balling eachother every game

shame he deactivated last night then aint it

He will come back as he has the most tournament wins. He has deactivated about 300 times in the past and always comes back

That's old news now....he'll be back for sure!!

Lol tratter, have you got any better jokes

Dear Onua,

I challenge you for your crown.

Regards,
Your new and improved 8uk KING

gg_ul
tappa (think thats right cant remember)
squeezy
cityfan
rankripper
all of the above hands down would wipe the floor with any of the "top players"

so many more i could go on and on

bahhhhh woooops

Edited at 04:31 Thu 09/05/13 (BST)

wrong thread hun

in my oppinion
its_me
onua
kirk
simply above everyones standard

redherring
coach
mich
_egotistical
andyw1
all great players

tappers v potters

no contest in skill levels, tappers are the class, they set you up, then have the potting skills to match any potter

how anyone can say a potter outways class, is unreal, to take these players on you need to be good v good

stop harping about the way the game is played, learn how to play and beat them

then stake your claim

Well I wouldn't even class myself as good nevermind v good, but I'd still give most of them you mention a tough match, most people can tap and pot on the uk table, It's that easy.

In my experience the opposite is much more true, to beat a tapper all you require is patience which most players lack because they don't want to play a long game they want to pot and play an exciting attacking game.

I find tappers don't match up to the potting ability of the proclaimed potters, which is why they tap. The best players in the game are the best potters. The eemad's, the destiny's, the dvz's. Most if not all the players that have gone above and beyond the level of the good and great players.

I've played plenty of tappers who've well and truly outdone me in snookering. But they've gone on to lose the frames because they don't have the potting ability to take the difficult shots on a clearance. The tapping players tend to need an easy finish to win, and have trouble digging it out themselves. Potters can win the game from any point, even from a safety which tappers can't.

The best way to beat a tapper is to clear up, else you're in for a long and tedious frame. Clear up and they look silly being 5, 6 or 7 balled because they refused to pot and went for a safety to get a carry/free shot which they often rely on to win.

safety is an art form not fear

a player who brings, safety to a game dosnt fear his opponent, not at all

uk allows a tactical battle, not a few bangs to open up tables, its a true game of skill, mental strength and ability.

its a battle.

ask the top players their oppinions what game they love to play, these players are elite in this game type

of course they want a battle, to pit their wits against all players, learn and evlove thier game

potters pot ,,,,, nothing wrong with that
but hey amazing its many of them who twist

tappers win more games than they lose by far

To be fair if you aren't confident on the clear why would you go for it knowing you are gonna lose? In that case you play tactical and hope your opponent doesn't clear.

I don't really like the word tappers, it is just basically having good tactical sense.

Best way to be is to be able to do both, keeps the opponent guessing

The best players are able to play equally well in both styles of play. My "tapper" game used to be my strong point, although I've always prefered a quick potting game. However my tapping is now distinctly average, but my potting's still alright.

This is showing in my win ratio as I've dropped from 75% down to 73.6%...doesn't seem like much but this does take a while for me.

Anyone can figure out where and how to hit the balls to get em in the pockets, but very few can think it out to make the frame unwinnable for the opposition.

The great players are the ones who can see a table of 15 balls left and know whether to clear or play safe and more crucially....stick with that decision.

I can still see what I should do most the time but I go for the clearance anyways

Agreed mich, but there is a difference between not confident and not having the ability to do so, there is also a difference between good safety play and rolling up, that is what separates tratter and onua.

Because you don't have to be confident on the clearance for it to work. If you thought you were going to lose whether you tried to clear or played safety, would you not take the chance and risk the clearance.

I would distiguish tappers and good tactical players, as fuunky has above.

Safety players back the lack of ability of there opponent to win games, potters back their own ability. I don't think safety play is wrong at all, but tapping up when a clearance is on is to either wind an opponent up or because the potting ability isn't good enough. In the latter, that doesn't make a good player.



I would say that is more of an all round or average player. A potter I would say is someone who can pot from the impossible positions, and make a table clearable where it is not. A lot of the time that is much harder positionally than most safety play

Edited at 13:38 Mon 13/05/13 (BST)