The officially sanctioned size for a pool table is 8 feet for regulation games and 9 feet for tournament games. This explains why pool is popular in the United States, while snooker is the game of choice in Britain and its former colonies of Canada, Australia and India, as also the Middle East and Europe. There is also a geographical and cultural dimension to the two games. This does make it seem that snooker is the more challenging of the two games. ![]() The snooker table is different from the pool table in that it is larger the balls used smaller, the pockets narrower and the pocket lead is curved. UK pool tables use napped felt, which causes friction and slows down the balls.Pool and snooker are two different games and the tables they are played on are also different, though they may look the same to people who do not know. UK standard pool tables are 7ft in length, but come in 6ft and 8ft too, (unlike American pool tables, with their standard tournament table size being 9ft). ![]() The winner is the player with the most points at the end. After each player’s turn, the red balls stay in the pockets but the coloured balls return to their original positions. Between each coloured ball, they must pot a red ball. If they successfully pot one, they can then attempt to pot a coloured ball for points, in the specific order of yellow (2), green (3), brown (4), blue (5), pink (6), black (7). Players take turns using the snooker cue to hit the white ball, in order to pot a red ball. The 15 red balls are placed in a triangle towards the edge of the table. The yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black snooker balls, each worth a different number of points, are all placed in a specific position on the table. Points are awarded for legally potting balls in accordance with the rules outlined below, or when the opponent commits a foul. The aim is to strike the white cue ball so that it strikes the coloured and pink balls in turn and causes them to fall into one of the six pockets. Once all a player’s coloured balls are potted, they must pot the black ball to win. If the player pots the black ball before the end, they have lost. Their go ends when they fail to pot a ball, pot the white or opponents colour ball or the ball comes off the table. ![]() If one of the coloured balls goes in a pocket, this is now their colour and they can try to pot another one in, using the white ball. The first player starts by hitting the white ball with their pool cue, aiming to break the triangle of balls at the other end. The white ball is placed at the opposite end of the table, and the triangle is removed. The red and yellow balls are put into a pool triangle, with the black ball in the top centre. There are multiple variations of pool, but in the UK, the classic game (8-ball pool) involves 7 yellow balls, 7 red balls, a white ball and a black ball. Pool is a type of billiards game that is played with pockets. Keep reading to find out more about the different games. Snooker tables are larger than pool tables, but the 6 pockets on a snooker table are smaller than those on a pool table.Īlready, we can see some of the major differences, one being the number of balls in play. ![]() Snooker is played with 15 red balls, 6 coloured balls and 1 cue ball - they are all slightly larger than pool balls.
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