whats the difference between pool and snooker?
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Simon Buckingham has written a great article at SnooHoo, telling us the basic difference between pool and snooker. Such information is often assumed known, but many professionals will fail to accurately distinguish between the two. So, here are the major differences between these two amazing cuesports.\nPool and snooker are two similar sports which both entail using sticks called cues to pocket balls of different colors into six holes on the sides and corners of a rectangular table. Yet these two sports go a long way to illustrate the difference between the old organized world and the new unorganized world.\n\nSnooker is a sport from the age old organized tradition. You are much more likely to get dressed up when playing snooker, often in a dinner suit and bow tie. You play snooker on a long table of well over two meters in length and a meter wide. You hit the balls gently, relying on their smooth passage across the slate-bedded table to reach their destination pocket.\n\nBecause the table is so large, success (known as "break building": an unbroken series of pocketing the balls) depends upon using spin to position the white cue ball for potting the subsequent ball. There are set rules which are strictly adhered to, for example, if you accidentally tap a snooker ball with the end of your cue you "foul" and forfeit your shot.\n\nSnooker is played at a thoughtful, leisurely pace and some time can elapse between shots. One frame between average players can take up a good hour. \n\nThe contrast between snooker and pool is clear. Pool represents the unorganized world. You can play in any clothes that you find comfortable. The pool table is much smaller, just over a meter in length and less than a meter wide. The pockets are larger relative to the size of the balls. Paradoxically, even though the pool table is smaller, you tend to hit the balls harder because the cloth on the table (which can be and often is blue or red as well as green) is more coarse. The rules are less strict, insofar as the acceptance of minor mistakes when setting up a shot tends to be greater. The pace of pool is quicker: you don't need complicated implements such as "spiders" which are supplementary cues that let you reach areas of the snooker table in order to play shots that human size would otherwise preclude.\n\nGames between good pool players can be over in 10 minutes. There is less break building because the table is small enough for the good players to pot a few balls and win. \nPool is a sport which is much more attuned to today's quicker, faster unorganized world than the more organized world of snooker. Our goals remain the same: personal prosperity (potting the balls) and the infrastructure of the world (the table) is smaller and more accessible. As with the world, pool games are played at a faster speed, the rules are fewer, innovation rather than strategy much more important. The entry barriers are lower: people who have not played pool or snooker before can pick up a short pool cue and have a go and pot something. \nNew beginners could be playing snooker a long time before they pocket a ball. The start up costs for the pool equipment are lower, and the ease of carrying around a pool cue greater.\n\nWith its smaller table and wider pockets, pool is like technological capitalism, giving its players both the opportunity and the opportunity to pursue that opportunity.\n\nThe image of the pool player in the movie "The Hustler" contrasts with that of the gentleman in his country mansion playing snooker. As someone once said, "The best things come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle". Rack up those pool balls, and play on, play on. \n\nthis answer provided by: Internet_Professor\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/my/profile;_ylt=AgZKwWiLBpWHkgb7xuemvlwezKIX?show=AA10505536
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swimming pool offers more exercise\ntrampoline is much funner for friendly parties\nswimming pool is more fun for sexy parties\ntrampoline is better for kids
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I only know golden break.\n\nGolden Break - In the pool game 9-ball, whoever pockets the 9-ball wins. So if the player pockets the 9 on the break (first shot), it is called a golden break!
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You're thinking about the 7 ball in snooker.  It's black...and you can get it at any Billiards shop
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Pool and online pool are two TOTALLY different things. You might be awesome in the real world but you suck online. or vice-versa. You CAN'T practice online for a real pool tournament or vice-versa. If a real pool tournament, then practice real pool. If online pool, then practice ONLINE!
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Depends on the size of the snooker, I guess.\n\nKidding. \n\nAccording to official BCA equipment specifications, the weight may be from 5 1/2 to 6 oz. with a diameter of 2 1/4", plus or minus .005".
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I believe it's on ESPN2 every so often, isn't it? I know I've seen it somewhere...Yes, I'm talking about actual snooker.
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Both are played on a court with a ball, a net, and 5 players. In both if you  send the ball out of bounds the ball is given to the other team. In basketball the idea is to put the ball in the net while in volleyball, it has to go over the net. in basketball the players can roam the entire court, but in volleyball they have to stay on their own side. In volleyball you serve the ball to the other team while in Basketball you pass the ball to your teamate. In volleyball the other team serves the ball to you, in Basketball you have to steal it from the other team. In Baketball you play a timed games, but in volleyball the games are regulated by the points scored. And the match isn't over until the first team wins two games. In basketball the team with the most points at the end of the final period wins, in volleyball the first team to 15 and leading by two points wins.
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Tricky question. I personally think that if you play snooker, pool or billiards the best cue is the one that suits you best. Steven Hendry was given a cue when he was either 12 or 14 and he won the world championship like, 5 times in a row using that same cue. Sadly, a couple of years ago he had to buy a new one because he went to play in Japan and his cue got broken by some clumsy baggage handling on the plane!
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If you go to WWW.ASK.COM   and put in pool,snooker you will have many choices, including these following sites:\n\n\nSnooker Rules \nCity, IA 52240. Phone 319-351-2112. Rules of Snooker Type of Game ... Pool Guy Q & A General Rules 8 Ball Rules 9 Ball Rules 14.1\n www.billiardworld.com/snooker.html · Cached · Save \n\nFree Pool Lessons, Billiards Instructions and Snooker Tips online - \n[ Answer] Your Free Resource for Pool, Billiards & Snooker Instruction. Welcome to www.easypooltutor.com - the only website that ... freely...\n www.easypooltutor.com/ · Save \n\nBilliards - Pool - Snooker - Links - A categorised directory of... \nA mammoth site of categorized Billiard, Pool and Snooker links worldwide.\n www.blackball.org.uk/ · Cached · Save
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In a billiards game, a scratch is when the cue ball goes into one of the pockets unintentionally. It depends on your game, then, if the next player must shoot from the "kitchen" (regular ball rules) or if the play is "ball in hand" (APA rules). In Pub rules it can also be shot from the "D".
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in of the black while trying to pot it.............potting the back by mistake.........missing the black while trying to hit it...........hitting the black by mistake..............brushing against the black with a piece of your clothing or part of cue or part of your body...........getting called for a miss while trying to hit the black in a snooker and missing.....only one way to be snookered on the black if the cue ball and black are sitting in the corners of the pocket and you havent got a direct line to hit the black....hope thats enough ways for you i cant think of any more
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In the 70's and 80's, snooker was known for being a drinking and smoking mans sport, you could rarely see the table for all the cigarette smoke! because of a lot of drinking, many players had the shakes, beta blockers will counter act it, and enable even the most hung over of people to play, You don't hear about it much now because drinking whilst playing has stopped.
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Straight pool - 15 \n(clear rack on break)\ngood luck though! :)\n\nSnooker - 15 \n(pot all the red balls in one shot)\ngood luck though :)\n\nEnglish Billiards - 2 \n(winner and cannon combined)\nhappens often!
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Yes, I play pool. You need to find a cue that has a good tip and feels good in your hand. Plan on spending a couple hundred dollars for a solid cue, most cues you get for under 100 dollars are just glorified bar cues. Plan on spending a couple hundred and look at btrands like Mcdermott, viking and some other quality brands, then you know youre getting a good cue.
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what is snooker anyway.
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I found a definition of billiards from Encyclopaedia Britannica,\n"any of various games played on a rectangular table with a designated number of small balls and a long stick called a cue. The table and the cushioned rail bordering the table are topped with a feltlike tight-fitting cloth. Carom, or French, billiards is played with three balls on a table that has no pockets. The other principal games are played on tables that have six pockets, …" [1]\n\nEnglish Billiards is played with only 3 balls. 2 whites and 1 red ball.  \nYou can find some information at the following link, look down the page for the title 'English Billiards".  It also provides some information on snooker.\nhttp://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Billiards-Snooker.htm\n\nThe rules of billiards can be found here\nhttp://infohost.nmt.edu/~billiard/house_rules/english_billiards.html\n\n\nJust in case you do not know what a 'cue' ball is.  It is the ball you have to hit with your stick or cue.\n\n\nSnooker has 1 white ball, 15 red balls, and 6 coloured balls.  The 6 colours being Yellow, Green, Brown, Blue, Pink, and Black.\nThe white ball is the 'cue' ball.\nThe red balls are worth 1 point.\nThe coloured balls are worth Yellow - 2 points., Green - 3 points, Brown - 4 points, Blue - 5 points, Pink - 6 points, Black - 7 points. [2]\n\nThe page I gave with English Billiards also has snooker information, you need to go to the title of 'Snooker' on the page:\nhttp://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Billiards-Snooker.htm\n\nMore snooker rules can be found here:\nhttp://www.billiardworld.com/snooker.html\n\n\nPool is usually played with 1 white ball and 15 coloured and numbered balls.  There are a few varities to snooker, including 8-ball, 9-ball, etc.\nYou can find the rules to these different varieties from the following web page.  You will have to click the link on the left that says 'GAME RULES' and selct on of the items in there.\nhttp://www.bca-pool.com/play/\n\n8-ball is probably the most known game, and its rules, objectives, etc can be found here:\nhttp://www.epa.org.uk/wrules.php