Whether some players do it deliberately to put you out of your stride is one you’ll have to decide there’s no place in the snooker room for mobiles for me though.
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One team match I was in had most of the players from both teams looking at their mobiles and I pointed out to another players all the lights moving, it was like a scene out of Star Wars. The worst one for me is the players watching who are in a dark snooker room with their phones on and the light from the phone is moving around the dark walls like a light Sabre. I’ve been asked more than once if an opponent can leave the mobile on because they are waiting for a works call not easy to concentrate, especially if they then expect to stop the match whilst they answer the phone. The times I have played someone and whilst you are taking your shot they are looking at the phone, reading texts, actually texting, seeing the football scores or following the changing odds of a bet they’ve had, and the last one was actually in a recent match. Most of us go to snooker to get away from work, phones and stress but then along comes a player who seems more interested in the mobile phone than the match! So, take a look at the list below and you decide what you think, snooker cheat or just gamesmanship, let us know if you have experienced anything else that we can add to the list. Having had an 11 year break from snooker myself I was amazed that many of these issues had come to light that I certainly hadn’t noticed previously in some 20 years of league snooker. I guess what surprised me were the amount of players that had adopted those little things when the pressures on to niggle their opponent or distract them from their shot. No player wants to be labelled as a snooker cheat but I’m sure you’ll raise an eye brow as you read on.Īfter chatting with local snooker players, I decided to compile a list of all the experiences they had encountered where their opponents actions could be considered gamesmanship or out and out cheating. Well I thought I’d put pen to paper (so to speak) as this topic has created many a heated debate at local league level for a little while now and deserves a mention.