World Pool Billiard Masters #7 = Tony "The Tornado" Drago vs. Thomas "The Lean Machine" Engert

[@SteppenwolfGR]

A tornado passing by holland devastated a lean machine....It's the first time i feel like i'm watching a blockbuster.Keep posting matches like this BClub :) With fast players i mean :) :) :)

[@WolfieTed]

Good call. I was just saying that in his shop he has got pictures of all the pros he has worked with, and I could name most of them. Almost every face from the Pro Snooker circuit was up there, including Hendry after his cue was broken...He tried out Parris' cues for a while, not sure if he is still using his cues. All I was trying to say was that he is well known and respected in the UK for his cues, not just by nobodys like me, but by the top pro's as well.

[@tommy9927]

You have to distinguish between pool and snooker. Tony said in an interview that he likes his Parris poolcue, but it's not as good as the normal pool cues. Parris is a top snooker cue maker, but in pool there are others like Scruggs or Szamboti. AND there are 3 world top cuemakers in Germany. Eurowest (learned from JossWest Bill Stroud), Arthur and Vollmer (learned at BlackBoar and Hohmann became WC with a Vollmer)

[@kaozbender]

i dont know anything about famous pool players, but man, that guy tony is a BEAST

[@andyhounslow]

thanks :) enjoyed this match

[@tommy9927]

Just wanted to point out that there are huge differences in cues with Parris, Riley or BCE and pool cue makers like Szamboti, Scruggs, Nitti, Southwest or my fellow german cuemakers like Eurowest, Arthur or Vollmer Many top players use sponsorship cues available for little money like Lucasi (Hohmann) or Longoni (Feijen), Pagulayan (Schon R12 until it warped) or John Schmidt playing experimental OB Cues

[@whipy9203]

any chance of uploading the o'sullivan match they were talking about? thanks in advance!

[@SeanVillagracia]

On the small ferrule comment by Wych, I believe that's an I shaft. McDermott's low deflection shaft. Due to his level of play and the cloth he typically would find himself on in major tournaments, I believe that Engert probably possesses an I-3 shaft. Out of the 3 of the I shafts the I-3 is the shaft more for "feel" players and faster cloth.

[@LeonFleisherFan]

Starting to Tony's pool game better (always liked his rhythm, although that's ultimately just a individual characteristic of each player, the pace of one's internal clock, so to speak), he isn't just knocking in balls from anywhere anymore, he's really starting to get the drift of this game. He really appears as quick-minded a learner or student of the game as he is a player. Apart from that, not one of Thomas's best days, it looks like, taking too much time to adjust to the speed of the table.

[@dongchinchin]

how much does parris usually charge? does he make pool cues too?

[@Jahwarrior91]

i love the fast players like drago, strickland and others

[@PedroAlvaradoUo]

i cant imagine a game between Ronnie O´Sullivan and Tony Drago

[@WolfieTed]

Danny B, Nellio, Rod all these guys in my local area (who play pretty damn good english pool) all play with Parris cues made for them. You would look at about £350 upwards for a custom cue, built just for you. He does have stock cues (there is nothing stock about them mind you, still great cues) and these start a little lower. he will also take a cue down to a lower tip size on any cue, maintain any cue and try to fix any problems you have. I have been told he will make an american pool cue...

[@Cityshamaani]

Drago is an excellent player, but the only thing I dislike of him is his break(and his break cue :D) I want too see if he`d change his break cue, that if there would happen any difference on the break.

[@lucasicues]

Mika played alot of snooker before he started pool.. He also played kaisa in wich he was one of the best in Finland..

[@italiombiano]

lol the speed drago plays is just amazing.

[@barn312009]

i can't beilve how good he is, i wish i was that good and able to play that well too

[@liverpix]

I don't think Mika played much snooker in the UK where the top tounaments are played. Did he have a world ranking ? Drago was ranked No. 10 in the world at one stage. I saw Tony drag play a lot on tv , but never seen Mika on TV in the UK.

[@lemonite1]

@silenttrigger86 Predator is o.k, but have you tried Southwest?

[@nickwilkes3730]

what is with the camera in the interviews

[@mimotan]

It is a John Parris cue...best cuemaker in the world (It is written in his profile).

[@shadmonk]

John Parris cues are some of the best

[@koneye]

Put up the game with Ronie and Wu PLEASE

[@eleazarmorillon2015]

wow i love it....

[@WolfieTed]

Sure snookerloopy08. I didn't mean to sound defensive. The truth is you seem to know a lot more about it then me, and I may have "assumed" a few things, and we all know the cliches surrounding assumption. just having a nice chat. Unlike some of the comments you find on youtube. People just love to get a rise out of each other! Back to Hendry, I couldn't believe his cue was worth £30 or something. It won him so much, I guess that is the true testament to the skill of a player over the cue

[@WolfieTed]

Not just Ronnie mate, over half the pro snooker payers use Parris, John Parrot Steve Davis Jimmy White etc etc etc a lot of the guys at my club use his cues too, he is a Forest Hill legend. I do agree though that he might not make the BEST cues, only consistant cues that are made to your specs. They feel stunning though

[@ValerioPlayLife]

tnoy drago used a snooker cue?

[@shadmonk]

why so many top players use parris? o'sullivan, davis, etc etc i got a parris cue, amazing quality, only made to order

[@take65]

wow tony is awsome...

[@Deathugee]

i would have thought peach was a better pool convert than drago. what do people think?

[@Korbi21]

16:12 woooow!!!

[@liamosborne5338]

16:28 sick

[@liverpix]

Well Tony is the best snooker player among the 4 players you mentioned. I've hardly seen Mika Immonen play snooker. Tony was ranked no. ten in Snooker at one time and reached the World quarter-finals. I think Jim was talking about male players, so you can't really include Alison and Karen.

[@prayong09]

super player

[@Smaxey843]

thats what the commentators do, and while they have an appreciation and their own skill level, they constructively criticize the players from time to time.

[@tfn105]

@adianohto No idea. Does it matter?

[@pompidompom]

lol drago cleared one rack in like 30 seconds :p thx bclub

[@ViolatorDM]

What's with the 240p guys? Come on, you can do better than that!!!

[@bungal251]

I seldom have any problems with the announcers but the camera crew and the director of it seem always to fail us! Of course the director of video is problem!

[@DeftDel]

oh jeez he does play fast i thought they were exaggerating for a bit

[@TJonkman]

and i just went for a cup of tea damnit

[@levith1992]

i like drago, i want play so fast as him ^^

[@nguyennguyenkn]

Drago finish the rack so fast

[@ValerioPlayLife]

@giggyism Brilliant Tony Drago =)

[@dongchinchin]

100% true.

[@de23Emil]

first view:D thanks Bclub! keep posting!

[@PoLaKosTeone]

drago es el mejor *-*

[@askbob]

yup 3 mins or so

[@barn312009]

well really nobody can critize them because none of us here are better than them. and if anybody says they are. they are full of it

[@dongchinchin]

jeanette lee one time challenged efren reyes to a race to 15 racks of 9 ball. final score: lee-3 efren-15

[@muckle8]

Pockets like buckets , kids stuff for a snooker player

[@silenttrigger86]

Yeah they good...but when it comes to 9 ball and pool....nothing beats a Predator cue!

[@barn312009]

i meant the people who are commenting on youtube

[@barn312009]

never mind i just got what you meant

[@francescopaterni3759]

He should've gone for a less direct approach to that 3 ball...He just needed to touch the 3 ball and then touch the 8 ball which was in front of the pocket and the 8 ball would've gone straight in the pocket!

[@RayHusted]

@silenttrigger86 so many things stomp all over a predator cue... they have a good shaft thats about it lol.

[@lucasicues]

Mika started out with snooker and kaisa. No, Mika never were the best in the world in it but he is a decent snooker player...

[@dand100]

i've you've got a good enough game to ... "give them a game" ... finding the money isn't hard... walk into any pool hall and start playing... lay a 50 on the table... you DON'T have the game

[@liverpix]

Yo can't compare the men's and women''s games like that. They are separate for obvious reasons. When someone is commentating on a men's pool, snooker , soccer, golf match, they are obviously referring to the male players. Women's games are at a lower level than men's, so obviously Alison Fisher would have more snooker titles. If Tony Drago played Alison in those same (wome's) tournaments, he would have beat her in 9 out of ten tournaments, if not in all.

[@xDBZY]

Tony lives across the road from me he is so fat now haha

[@SNIFFMYBADGER]

I used to go out with his daughter

[@FateAtYourWindow]

Ted Learner didn't even know what a century was !!!! He certainly wasn't much of a "learner", how can he commentate ANY billiard games with NO knowledge of the basic terms of snooker? he just made a fool out of himself because he KNEW basic snooker terminologies would come up in ANY billiard games he commentate.

[@راكانالقحطاني-ب5ك]

the best is efren reyes

[@bungal251]

Sad that Drago is playing exceptionally well and we see the opponent is NOT playing his game. If he played me like that I would win. A bad day for Thomas and no player has not had them. It is not luck, just happens!

[@xanh350]

I really dislike Jim wytch commentating, he makes it sound like football :( ! bring back Grady & incardonna pleaaaaaaase!

[@winterguitarkingyea]

Drago a good man person, but stomping stumbling around remains me of a bull in a china shop lolllll, It's absurd his rushing to miss a shot style. Is it suppose to intimidate any great player? Lollll, they'd welcome it, waiting for him to go off, he rushes plays like a sucker in my opinion (yea i know you didn't ask for it, lolll).... The Smiler is Engerts real pool nick name, call him by it, lollllllll... "The Smiler"

[@eleazarmorillon2015]

wow i love it....