How difficult is snooker compared to pools as in billiards ?

Question

In recent years, more and more young people are playing pools than snooker. Wonder if it is very much a fashion and fad thing...

Answer 1

to me snooker is alot harder to play than pool I cannot explain why but it just is and I have been playing pool for over twenty five years now.

Answer 2

I'm disagreeing with Vegas Matt on this issue...Snooker definitely is a more challenging game than regular pool...how do you think Allison Fisher & Karen Corr won the snooker tournaments over there before coming here, dominating the pool games pretty much instantly?...Allison even told me in person that Snooker is more difficult, when I went to Vegas...That's why they say once you succeed at playing on a big table with smaller pockets, you'll excel at playing on any smaller table, regardless of the pockets...you get used to aiming for the small pockets that the regular pockets seem HUGE!.......So who's to believe? Allison or Matt?......on with the verdict..lol.. :P.........DreO

Answer 3

2 in a row exactly backwards How many bank shots do you see in snooker??

Compare Chess to checkers

Pool being Chess

Snooker being Checkers

You can play a good game of snooker with 3 diffrent shots

Pool with 200 shots you can still come up short

A 150 year old Fad ?? maybe

But you really cant compare the 2

Answer 4

Snooker is much more difficult.  It's all about bank shots and angles, and where you leave the cue ball.

Answer 5

Snooker is NOT more difficult than pool. If it were, professional snooker players would dominate professional pool tournaments, and that simply is not the case. In fact, Efren Reyes has won a professional snooker tournament, and he hardly even plays.

I personally do not believe either game is harder or easier, they are just different. Snooker is all about shotmaking. Being able to pocket balls on a snooker table is 95% of the game. The strategy is very simple, which is why people who exclusively play snooker rarely excel at pool.

In pool, it's all about strategy and cue ball movement. If you can't play 3 rail position and shots with english, you can't be a good pool player, and this is where snooker players come up short.

I've played snooker players at pool and pool players at snooker. I can tell you without a doubt, that snooker players generally are not great pool players, and pool players are generally not great snooker players.

BTW, this question comes up from time to time, and is often full of answers by snooker players who've never even met a good pool player. I think some of them need to step off their high horse and realize that just because it's a bigger table with smaller pockets doesn't make it a harder game.

Dre: Fisher and Korr dominated the WOMEN's tour, where the level of competition is much lower. Snooker players don't have nearly the same success in men's tournaments. And snooker is her primary game, of course she's going to say it's harder. I've seen in an interview where she said she doesn't even like to play pool that much, she just makes more money.

Answer 6

The snooker table is larger.  The pockets are smaller, and the entrance to the pocket is rounded rather than being a straight cushion.

If you can shoot straight in a pocket, without relying on bouncing off of the short rail at the pocket, then snooker is not all that difficult.

Billiards is perhaps a simpler game.

In both games "shape," is essential.

Normally the softest shooter wins.