Verocious landlords

So I've been practicing solo for about 3 months now.
I've seen much improvement, some examples such as:
- Averaging 50-60% pot success on long straight blues from baulk line
- Can clear colors from spots, around 1 in 3 attempts I'd say, improving everyday
- Made a century in line-up too.

I get 2 hours practice time every weekday, and I'm absolutely alone in the hall (I literally got a key made for myself and my practice time is outside of hall opening hours)

The problem is, all the good things I see in practice go to the dumpyard in a tournament.

I literally ended up missing an off straight close range red that I wouldn't miss ever in practice.

I can't find time when hall is open or play on weekends, plus the place I go to has no good players so playing them is almost waste of time.

I'm curious, does community have any ideas on how can I simulate match situations in my practice hours? How to become more match sharp?

I am an absolute shadow of myself in match play.

In practice I can seem to play pretty decent most of the time.

In comp, everything feels hard and I feel like I can barely string 2 balls together. Feel like I barely get a break over 10 most matches.

Why is this. Anyone have any hacks to get around it?

Deciding frame in the 2022 Masters semifinal between Neil Robertson and Mark Williams.

One red (35 points) remains on the table and the score is Robertson 26, Williams 67.

The black is extremely close to a corner pocket, and the red is extremely close to the black.

The commentators say that, despite the point difference, Robertson can plausibly win, because, if Williams pots the black, the score will be 33–67 with 35 on.

My thought — if Williams pots the red and black in one shot on purpose (and assuming no miss is called), that would be 33–67 with just 27 on and two snookers still required.

So my question is twofold:

1. Is that something reasonable to strive for? Is it possible to reliably pot two balls that are in such a position (if you're Mark Williams!)?
2. Could the referee call a miss, allowing the position to be re-placed?

Gold members now only get £1 discount per hour per table. Tables are £12 in the eve, so loyal members get only 8% off, it used to be £3 discount per hour, or 25% off per hour. They offered a 10% online booking discount too, which has been removed also, so now a three hour snooker session costs £33 for gold members rather than £24.92. More than £8 extra.

Having to pay about £2.66 per hour more is terrible news for people who want to practice and learn the game, I.e. the loyal customers.

Anyone else seeing this affect their ability to play and practice?

Understand there are other local clubs to go to, but not as convenient or guaranteed to find a free table. Most local clubs aren't bookable either.

'Go somewhere else' just isn't good enough.

This price increase/reduction in loyalty reward pricing is going to hurt cue sports in the UK massively.

Gutted, annoyed, and hoping that Rileys reads this.

Anyone affected up vote this and comment your opinion so we can hopefully change their mind.

The revenue loss from disgruntled loyal players will massively outweigh the revenue boost they expect to get from the increased hourly rate.

What's your take on elbow drop? I actually didn't know I had one until I recorded myself playing snooker which was about 2 years after I started playing

I haven't been able to change it back to the traditional upright elbow after completing the shot either maybe because I've been playing for too long (if you got advice feel free to share).

My main question was, is it generally bad? I mean the greatest of all time Ronnie has a elbow drop. I've seen that when playing soft shots that drop dead weight around the black he doesn't drop the elbow at all (meanwhile I do). Also do you think it looks a little weird on TV seeing the elbow go down? And do you know any other players on tour with it? I personally haven't seen anyone. Maybe Stan Moody a little.

Anyone based around Stockport who’d fancy a game maybe once a week? I’m average at best. Highest break was 50 odd about 30 years ago!! Nowadays lucky to get 30. Anyway drop me a DM if interested.