What's The Difference Between A Pool Table & Snooker Table & Billiard Table

[klinger]

practise on a snooker table, which is free in most clubs, and ya pool game becomes alot easier!

[Daddles]

All I know is that seeing that I don't play it much (though do enjoy it) I'm crap for the first 7 or 8 games of pool after a long spell.

And then I play like a man possessed

I'm possessed with an inability to judge angles, moderate power and to strike the ball cleanly. Other than that ... I'm really rather bad at the game Guess my youth wasn't mis-spent enough.

Richard

[Felder]

Pool is also known as pocket billiards.

Really? I know a different definition of pocket billiards. I'm really quite good at it, too.

[Lignum]

Really? I know a different definition of pocket billiards. I'm really quite good at it, too.

Ive never met anyone from NSW who wasnt a master at it

[Shedhand]

The wonderful art of snooker and billiards has been bastardised by the seppos..

There ARE pockets on a billiards table. Snooker is a game played on a Billiard table. In billiards (the competition balls are now coloured; a red; a yellow and a white. the red being the spotted ball) points are scored for cannons and pots.

A billiards table is 12 feet by 6 feet with 6 netted pockets, 2 at each corner and 1 each side equidistant from the corners and adjacent to each other..

Kelly Pool, 8-Ball, 9-Ball, Pool are pub games played by people unable to play the pure form of the table game. They require little skill and a lot of bashing around with stunted cues carved with all sorts of ridiculous cowboy patterns.

Signed
an 'A' Grade Snooker player who won the only 8-Ball Calcutta he ever played in and laughed at how easy it was as he departed with a tad over 2 grand in his pocket.

[Felder]

Ive never met anyone from NSW who wasnt a master at it

We even nicknamed one of our cricketers "Tugger".

[MurrayD99]

The wonderful art of snooker and billiards has been bastardised by the seppos..

There ARE pockets on a billiards table. Snooker is a game played on a Billiard table. In billiards (the competition balls are now coloured; a red; a yellow and a white. the red being the spotted ball)..................an 'A' Grade Snooker player who won the only 8-Ball Calcutta he ever played in and laughed at how easy it was as he departed with a tad over 2 grand in his pocket.

Thanks for the clarification re pockets - thought I was going mad for a minute there.

As to the rest..... Spot is now red? Yer joking! There's a lot of fellas turning in their graves. TV has a lot to answer for.

[joe greiner]

Back to Bob's original question, there are plenty of sizes and forms to choose from (including no pockets, if you like, but 3-cushion caroms can be frustrating).

For a quite complete dissertation, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiards.

For exact shapes of pocket entrances, search Google for plans. The cushions should be available from a specialty supplier. Ditto the cloth.

[Bear in mind that for maximum utility, the cushions should be at least one cue-stick length from walls or other obstacles. This could dictate a non-standard size for the table or the cue sticks, or both.]

Joe

[Bleedin Thumb]

On yah Sheddy, can't believe some of these answers people have been posting!
Also the angled entrances is also an American "innovation" as far as I know.
They make it easier to get a pot but destroy your chances of doing a finesse cushion shot near the mouth. IE its a dumbed down sort of idea.

EDIT Sheddy I can't agree with what you say about pool... it would mean that I have wasted a large part of my youth.
Also I hate large white balls, if you know what I mean.

[Lignum]

Bob, why dont you make a round or eliptical one Ive played on a round one and its very challenging

[Shedhand]

EDIT Sheddy I can't agree with what you say about pool... it would mean that I have wasted a large part of my youth.

Yep. I reckon you did cobber...

[abitfishy]

Same table for each game, just different balls.

Billiards is with 3 balls. Two red, one white
Snooker is with the reds (15) and the coloured balls (green yellow, brown, blue, pink,black)
and the numbered balls are for 8-ball or Kelly Pool

Whats the game then where one person has to sink all their half coloured balls, the other the full coloured balls, then the black ball to win? Or am I confused? Are there white balls included on the table as well??

[Cliff Rogers]

Whats the game then where one person has to sink all their half coloured balls, the other the full coloured balls, then the black ball to win? Or am I confused? Are there white balls included on the table as well??

Half colours, full colours, black ones, white ones...... now what is left.

[Shedhand]

Whats the game then where one person has to sink all their half coloured balls, the other the full coloured balls, then the black ball to win? Or am I confused? Are there white balls included on the table as well??

8 ball used to have half banded colour balls numbered 1 to 7, the black ball, bumber 8, then the full coloured balls numbered 9 to 15. Whatever, you potted first you stayed on - banded or solid colour. The cue ball was and still is white. In some states the cue ball was slightly smaller (and more difficult to control) than the coloured balls and in some states the white ball was bigger (which made trick shots easier). Nowadays they use 7 red, 7 yellow, the black and the white cue ball. I believe this change was made at competition level to cater for Television broadcasting of the game. The same happened for Billiards, the white cue ball with the dot has been replaced by a yellow ball.
Cheers

[abitfishy]

Cliff, Oh shush you! I'm as good at games as I am at woodworking.

But I'm serious, I'm sure I've played a game where one has to sink their half colours, the other the fulls - but not sure where the black and white come into it. Anything else is too confusing. And I'm confused enough already.

Thanks for that shedhand. Typical, I start learning something and some smart alec has to change it.