IT IS DIFFICULT NOT TO LOVE a book that begins by comparing Ronnie O’Sullivan’s embrace with Judd Trump at the end of the 2022 World Snooker Championship with Bill Murray’s unheard whisper to Scarlett Johansson at the end of Lost in Translation (2003). It is one of the more low-brow references in Deep Pockets. The books comprises 22 chapters — one for every ball on the snooker table — with such titles as “Time”,
