What is the difference between billiards,pool & snooker? I'm confused, please help.?

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What is the difference between billiards,pool & snooker? I'm confused, please help.?

Answer 1

Pool is played with 15 numbered balls with the object being to put specific balls into the holes in the table (Depending on which game you are playing, eight ball, straight pool or 9 ball) into the holes.  Billiard tables do not have holes in them, the object is to contact red and white balls, touching each with every shot.  Snooker is similar to pool but is a larger table with narrower openings and rounded corners to make sinking the ball harder, you must be much more accurate.  The game is different and involves numbered and solid red balls.  Excel at snooker and you can play any of them competitively.

Answer 2

Some pretty arrogant posts on here.

Snooker is NOT more complex than pool. Snooker strategy is actually pretty simple compared to pool.

Being a good snooker player does NOT necessarily make you a good pool player. I've played several snooker players at pool and most of them sucked.

And I pretty much guarantee most snooker players are terrible 3 cushion players, since snooker players almost never play carom shots or multi rail position.

Answer 3

A quick answer: Billiards is the oldest of them - very few balls and to me incomprehensible rules. Snooker came from it, devised by people that fancied something a bit easier to understand. You have a quantity of red balls, and a number of colored ones (and a white cue ball). Basically, you break the reds up and try to put them down the holes. When you pot one, it stays down. When you pot one, you can also then try to pot a coloured one (which have different scores on them). If you do, it comes back up and is replaced as near to where it started as is possible. If you miss, the other player has a go. When all the reds are gone, the colours are taken in a set order. Highest score wins. Pool has two sets of balls - plain and striped (or some other such thing. You decide which you are potting by the first player to pot one going for those afterwards. When a ball is down, it stays down. The 8 ball (black) is the last to be potted. There are other sets of rules for pool, but 8 ball is thee commonest.

Answer 4

3 entirely diffrent cue sports

Cant really compare them fairly

Its like Chess checkers  & Monopoly being board games

Now did I happen to hear a Snooker player say he wanted to play some pool Bring a comfortable seat your going to do a lot of setting

Ask your Ronnie O how he liked pool Im not sure he beat anybody before he went home .But didnt Reyes win a major pacific Snooker Tourn ?

Answer 5

Snooker is more fun to watch

Answer 6

they are 3 different games. Your question was like asking what's the difference between freestyle swimming and backstroke!!!

Answer 7

billiards involves 3 balls

snooker = 22 balls

pool 16 balls

plus lots of rule variations

Answer 8

They're spelt differently, duh.

Answer 9

The original game was billiards.  Officers in the army based in India developed the game into snooker with fifteen reds and one each of white, yellow, brown, green, blue, pink and black.  

The rules of snooker were too complex for Americans who developed their own game, pool