The Complete and Complex History of Pool | Billiards Through the Centuries

[@DupreeTrickshots]

Hey guys! I just wanted to address the notion that this video and other videos on my channel similar to it are "made by AI." The only two things in this video generated by AI are the actual speaking of the voiceover and a two or three AI generated images for some pictures I couldn't find online. All of the words in the voiceover were written by me, just spoken by the AI voice. This video took hours of writing and editing and didn't want that to go to waste, but in the future, as much as it pains me, I will record more voiceovers the old fashioned way. Thanks!

[@bleearg13]

I don't know. I hate AI voices but this one isn't bad.

[@mobiledetail4you]

Don’t bend to the will of haters… do it how it makes sense for you. Good videos will win out. If the info is good and interesting..

[@bicivelo]

Good to know. It sounds good.

[@corbinhelt2782]

Thanks for the heads up. There’s just too much bullshit content out there with AI voice, and the ruins it for everyone.

[@sociologie4507]

People who think that this totally made by AI are ignorant and not well versed in what you can do with AI systems these days. As if you could fetch and weave all this together with AI automatically.

[@Woodstock271]

Very cool history of my favorite game. Being older, I’m not into the whole AI stuff and voices. But still I found this very interesting while cringing at the computer voice. Still, it was much worse a few years ago. Us boomers won’t ever accept the inaccuracies and fake voices of AI technology but I guess we don’t matter anymore. You’re a fine pool player and this was an interesting history of the game. Efren is still the best and he’s from our era.

[@Spurlinthemusic]

Love this video!!! Lots of hard work here. Love the funny little edits you put in there too haha - great stuff!!

[@user-jd1mq8gg7e]

hard work? a few pics and idiotic stock videos of mostly ppl being unable to make a break. plus the AI voice over mediocre story with idiotic nonsense like 'snooker was similar to russian pyramid'. what a waste of time

[@ΓιάννηςΧατζηγεωργίου-θ9σ]

Just an amazing job and an excellent video!! Everything on line with another documentary about our beloved sport i have watched 2 decades ago. If i may...meanwhile you were extremely analytical and thorough with every different type of billiards, you forgot to mention 5 birilli and Goriziana, 2 great billiard games invented by Italians. Wish you all the best!!🙂

[@franks2910]

Mark Selby! What about Ronnie O'Sullivan?

[@attackcatt]

I don't think he likes the Irish.

[@ZenKingscom]

The '70s throughout the early millenial years were also completely skipped. It is just badly structured. Too much AI and matchroom here.. 🤣 Snooker was just let down and likewise many important players. ... Leaves content for another documentary about just pool billiards, its players, brands and tournaments in the 20th and 21st century...

[@godjhaka7376]

Why not make your own video with your own perception and ideas of pool? You forget just because something is posted or online don't mean it's factual, even truthful, and definitely not the entire story. So you can tell a part of the story you wish to hear about.

[@joeahopelto8032]

"The Hustler " featured an all night 14.1 between Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason (who was a very good player in his own right). Nine ball was the game of choice in "The Color of Money " starring Tom Cruise and Paul Newman (as a returning Fast Eddie Felson). It's good to know that over the decades, most professional pool players were genuine gentlemen.

[@anyone.147]

Incredible stuff You're a hero to the community

[@larryblack2062]

Very educational... and interesting. Well done!

[@RonanOBrien-s5z]

Amazing, thank you for sharing! I love pool and snooker, been playing for 30+ years. Must look into russian billiards, seems interesting

[@Archsage]

13:00 He said “I feel you Sam”, as I’m pumping my fist going “ayeeee” haha 😂

[@MrBac755]

Super cool video!! :) I'm forever down to learn more about the game I love so much. :)

[@tylerhay6560]

This is absolutely marvellous! And refreshing to not hear a single word about the blessed O’Sullivan!

[@Zigarius1123]

Great video! That rack at 31:08 though lol

[@Corylents86]

It was horrible

[@e.g.8134]

Great work, thank you for making this video!

[@Mojotasticification]

There was a mistake where you say that 'The Hustler' popularised 9 ball when you ment 'The Color of Money'. I think it’s important to mention that in the modern era you really should have discussed Snookers popularity and influence more, particularly it’s prominence from the late 70's to the early 90's easily being the most popular televised billiard sport during this time with 1985's world champion final reaching 18.5 million viewers till 1am (snooker players also being on par with footballers and musicians with fame and popularity in the uk). Side note: It'd be better to hear you speak rather than rely on AI or if not you please hire an actor to read it (we need the work😅) Otherwise good stuff and looking forward to new stuff.

[@NineBallPool]

Yes - Ths Hustler was centred around Straight Pool - The Color of money was Nine Ball

[@user-jd1mq8gg7e]

there were a lot of mistakes.

[@jeromelarson6732]

Great video Dupree!

[@KingNast]

That was awesome, great job! (And the AI voiceover didn't bother me)

[@thesanolsquad7434]

Efren is the greatest ❤

[@DennisEHayes]

Excellent video.

[@NuncHistoria]

Very well done

[@hbgstorm]

I was searching for information about the history of billiards, but I couldn't find any substantial content anywhere. Thank you for providing this information. However, I did notice something peculiar. Between the years 1900 and 1950, pool tables were 10 feet in length. Why were they subsequently reduced to 9 feet? It seems counterintuitive that they would become smaller over time; one might expect them to have grown larger. Additionally, pool balls during the period of 1950 to 1980 were made of clay. Earl mentioned that these balls did not accumulate as much chalk on the cue ball as the ones used today.

[@bw4593]

Omg just watching all those lose racks hurt me inside 😂. Good video though

[@mikemck4796]

The evolution of all rotation games should probably get a mention. Given that 9-ball was just one of those. Covered a lot of good stuff though.

[@hakwilstv3003]

can you do a video about different bridge hand and strokes please.. thank you and more power

[@Jesters_Thorny_Crown]

2 min of snooker clips, not one of Ronnie?!?

[@analogtom]

Good job, thanks

[@CL78138]

Great video

[@middleagedshred]

Kool..i almost clicked off when I heard the A.I. voice but when I saw it was you and not just a random channel that does AI vids I knew it wasnt just pure AI with no thought to it.

[@harper626]

how the heck did they and do they make the ball so perfectly round?

[@alfedtron9043]

one big foul in this video was no mention of Rony

[@d23890w549874A]

Ronnie Pickering?

[@blindi6326]

I think the AI voice sounds really good, what TTS software do you use?

[@earthtribe786]

badass bro

[@yoohjeaneabe5018]

did I miss the part when they started putting pockets on the billiards table?

[@byronledesma4726]

Amazing 😊 Idon't know about romano game. Paganica. In future videos about billiard history please mention the mostró important player. Mr Raymond Ceulemans, a World champion many times in three cushions. In balklime 71/2, 47/2 and libre carom. Thanks so much.

[@pennicles]

10 ball is the last variation of billiards.

[@Jsk12219]

Efren Bata? One of the Greatest? He is the GOAT...

[@michaelb866]

The history of ancient Rome and Greek times is fascinating. What's more fascinating is how they have achieved nothing since then.

[@warrenwatkins9650]

I believe 8 ball's popularity was due to coin operated tables in bars. You can't pull balls out and spot them back on the table, like in a billard hall, without putting more money in the table.

[@REAL-BLINKY]

If you want billiards go upstairs to room 305 and knock on the door. Thats Hurricane Jessie's room.

[@michaelmunro8337]

I read that women were not allowed to use the wide end of the mace and so they used the handle. But then the women started to get better than the boys, and that's why it switched. I don't know my source, but it was from the time of books.

[@T.h.e__T.r.u.t.h]

Did anyone else think the black and white photo in the middle of the thumbnail Pic was that fast food reviewbrah, aka the report of the week

[@saltymark4564]

Is billiard a sports? Why it is not played in the olympics?

[@raymondpatosa6526]

LOUDER

[@Elite7555]

Making us watch beginners playing like shit is utterly distracting when explaining the fascinating history of my favorite sport 😆 I would have preferred more, ehm, favorable footage like towards the end of the video 😀

[@DupreeTrickshots]

haha understood! The people who make stock footage aren't necessarily the best players, but at least the footage isn't copyrighted and I can keep this video up!

[@erezgoor]

Mark Selby?!?

[@tomas10094]

Good video, would be worth to voice over authentically i think

[@bertrandguichard8819]

L’inventeur du procédé est François MINGAUD et non Minguad, bon travail dans l’ensemble malgré quelques autres erreurs et surtout un point de vue en faveur des billard à poches, et donc beaucoup de grand champion et mode de jeux très populaires oubliés ; Willie Hope, Maurice Vignaux, joueurs de cadre (Balke line, jeu à la bande) mais aussi le billard Artistique discipline non citée etc

[@joeahopelto8032]

Correct spelling - - - - Willie Hoppe, one of greatest 3-cushion players of all time.

[@johnstorton]

Interesting video, but OMG! That background noise was driving me nuts after only 8 minutes!

[@Fi4s4]

Yeh you're right. Having a familiar ai voice that you hear everywhere else.. makes me think it was made by a group of monkeys. The perfect voice is the one that has the passion of the material for me. Don't know about others.. edit: you know also what is nice is the sound of the balls as they make contact and pocket.

[@corpseofchrist4620]

So 10 ball doesn't exist?

[@nickbond6447]

Thought you may have recognised the rise of Chinese 8-ball

[@cannabissolutionscanadainc7019]

That rack at @31:10 made me cringe 🥴

[@jimmysalford8415]

Snooker was actually invented in Russia. If memory serves, the inventor’s name was Inoff the Red.

[@LHudsonARTLIFTS]

😂

[@weeroger7048]

I thought the russian game invented the triangle of balls were the balls got put into a pyrimad shape

[@annefranklin2097]

Just got my PHD in billiards

[@annefranklin2097]

Gonna info dump allllllllll over the pool hall

[@Jesters_Thorny_Crown]

The Hustler was straight pool. The Color of Money was 9 ball.

[@MaxPower-zw7go]

Now is it true philosopher Bill Yards invented it.

[@ThePhilmaywalt]

How can you do a video that includes snooker and not mention The Rocket (Ronnie O"Sullivan), Mark Williams, Judd Trump, Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry and a huge cast of characters from that discipline??? Just wondering... PS, My liking this video went up 2000% after I just saw your Grateful Dead Dancing Bears shirts...LOVE IT. BTW I've been playing for 62 years and have been to 645 Dead shows since May 1, 1970 at Harpur College in Binghamton, NY

[@IcyFrost_art]

Efren?

[@raymondpatosa6526]

Why?

[@gloribertsanchez4684]

Try to discover the pinoy pool... Not balls but we use disc ..

[@bradanderson440]

You forgot to mention English Billiards kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIncf3-FgL1pZ68

[@bradsmith33]

no mention of Efren?

[@balluduku]

Mark Selby?! Like him or not, he's one of the snooker players most often described as "boring to watch"...

[@skiman863]

Only scoundrels play pool. I will forever be a scoundrel. ;)

[@witzar]

Was this mad by AI? Still pictures & movies shown are often totally unrelated.

[@johnirvin7880]

This is a great video. Except for the part where you describe modern male pool professionals, and yet you make no mention of great women players like Jean Balukas, Allison Fisher and Karen Corr. Great players like Strickland are mentioned, who BTW Karen beat handily more than once. Is this a video about pool players, or boy pool players?

[@raulrodriguez9174]

BILL WORSE

[@nday76]

Ai generated picture makes the entire video very questionable and drops credibility. You should refrain from using it

[@joeahopelto8032]

This video was human narrated. Passion cannot be reduced to a mathematical formula especially when limited to binomial theory. Human emotions cannot be programmed.

[@CueKefner]

I'm pretty sure the OP states that the voice-over is AI in one of their comments

[@Minist4R95]

If mark selby is the pinnacle of snooker then let it die as game ,he is so boring to watch , once he took over 5 minutes to play just one ball ,who wants to watch that

[@joeahopelto8032]

Nick Varner has been known to study a shot in 9 ball for over 20 minutes. Now shot clocks are used in 9 and 10 ball tournaments with automatic time extensions.

[@roldandiwas1302]

Therefore efren bata reyes is a time traveler accidentally settled in philippines😅

[@ChelsiePahuyo]

But still not included in Olympic.