good on u wayne

RIP Dene. I'm even more thrilled now that you thrashed me at the Yacht Squadron that evening. What a great interview and a great insight into a great NZ snooker player.

Excellent player, great story behind him, one not told nearly enough, an inspiration, RIP Dene, gone way too soon

A really sad loss. R.I.P Dene. Sadly missed.

New Zealand has a proud billiards history and I’m certainly coming around and embracing their love for the sport. They love pool…all forms of pool but my favorite is their spots and stripes pool on 7 foot table. Rules are a bit funny but I could very easily and lovingly adapt my game into the NZ way of life. Beautifully stunning vistas their Islands have as well. The perfect retirement spot with golf and pool my retirement pasttimes.

Nice informative chat! Well done.

Great interview. RIP Dene

Goodnight Dene.

Had some great victories at the crucible,RIP Dean 👍

This was a very interesting listen 😊Always like Dene's playing style! New Zealand has sadly lost a real rem on a man, ture gentleman ! RIP. DENE

Dene was a good man RIP

Dene O'Kane a man from New Zealand yet still chats about The Great Alex.. Alex charmed and sprinkled his magic on everyone around the world

Knew him from the 80s coming up to Winners Snooker Club in Southgate, London... Lovely bloke, just a standard bloke and you would never of thought he was a pro snooker player... RIP Dene

Remember watching Junior Pot Black with Dene Okane playing ,along with John Parrot etc .

RIP Dene x

May you R.I.P Dene O'Kane. From another Kiwi.

RIP you were my hero on the table. My friend played you at a rsa. .

RIP Dene. Such a huge loss.

Such a talented player. RIP Dene, great loss for many of us.

Very sad to hear of his passing. Such a gentleman and a great ambassador for NZ.

RIP Dene. Great player and charismatic. Pity this interview has thar cretinous mood music throughout and a rather amateurish interviewer.

Great Interview Dene, REST IN PEACE. 🙏

to much annoying talk not enough pool

Its a lesson for Malayan that if there is a possibility call the shot..

First

Why did best of five go to 4 - 3

Really enjoyed watching this

wow, great final! with thanks for streaming this event! :)

Predator tables are just beautiful. Hope to play on one some day.😊

Turned pro at 84,wow

Banger

I enjoy watching your channel, thank you for sharing all this content! However, in this video you started constantly showing close ups of the pockets. Please stop doing that, because I can't see what is happening when you do that. I want to see the entire shot, including where the cue ball is going. Thank you

Thanks for the video guys. It’s also great to see you fixed the above Table Camera, that has previously shown a distorted Concave - Table view. Now it correctly shows a normal Rectangular Table. Thanks heaps for correcting this.

great chap

Fab…aside from the irritation of the porn music,this guy has tales that doesn’t need this disrespect of crap tunes above his cool tales, terrible

I remember Dean, not a bad player. man he got old :)

I've always liked watching Dene play and always rated him very highly. He's the trailblazer that nobody ever seems to talk about, which is a great shame because he sacrificed just as much as the others who are more celebrated - the likes of Neil Robertson, James Wattana, Ding Junhui, Eddie Charlton, Cliff Thorburn, and so on. Still a classy player, always a classy chap. 🙂

Fascinating interview, spoiled, for me, by the ultra-irritating background music. I would have watched the whole thing, but the music forced me away after about 7 minutes in as i could not stand listening to it any longer. --Mike

Should do the Seniors next Year ,nice guy great player 😊

Dene O'Kane beat Steve Davis in a team event once. He played very well. Incidentally i recall reading that he borrowed the book Spencer on Snooker so frequently from his local library that the Librarian eventually gave the copy to him.

Mercentile credit sponsored a big tournament.

Nice video. Well done Dene O'Kane, himself and Clark McConachy the best ever from NZ.

The Connaught Rooms in London mentioned by Dene is still there and held the qualifiers for the Dulux British Open in 1985. It was the only time a snooker event was held there. The snooker club next door is now called Sway and is a drinking/club establishment. I remember seeing Dene in HSBC near Holborn around 20 years ago.

I remember it all so well Dene, great days, well done mate!

Great interview. Dene made huge sacrifices at such a young age to achieve his dream. 17 year old boy with just a cue and £700 in his back pocket, travelling to the other side of the world - now that is dedication.

Great Interview - hope to see Dean more around the NZ snooker scene - come have a game at PCC

A great listen, didn't realize the level of achievement was that high. Well done Dene!

A good interview Dean, regards Chris Anderson .

@Mark Watson "You're good enough to do that deliberately" - Umm, Mark, you do you realise Marco is a very successful Professional Player with several International Titles, don't you? Is that "good enough"? Great work as always Marco, you set a great example for players of all ages.

@Masse - The overhead Camera is dreadful in the Convex setting! The Table is extremely distorted & it definitely should not be, this needs to be fixed - either change the Camera settings or the Camera itself. You never get these issues in Tournaments.