Snooker

[Bakster]

Is anyone following the World Snooker Championships?

[SiR gUt]

I am, that card game kicks ass.

[MathWiz20]

Snooker    Never heard of it, how do you play?

[Bakster]

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[Dodger]

Is anyone following the World Snooker Championships?

Yes I am. Who won tonight's game?

I am, that card game kicks ass.

Wtf...Card game? LMAO 

Snooker    Never heard of it, how do you play?

I didn't realise they didn't have snooker in America.
It's like pool...Actually, probably a better definition would be; It's not like pool.
Is that clear?

[SiR gUt]

opps pool**

[ultswordsman]

snooker is that when you roll or throw things and closer person wins?

[Dodger]

snooker is that when you roll or throw things and closer person wins?

No, pretty sure that is Curling.

Snooker is slightly like American Pool. Only in the way that you have a 'Cue' and have to hit a White ball into different coloured balls in order to pot them in pockets on the Table. Understand?

There are big differences between Pool and Snooker.

A Snooker Table is much larger than a pool table, about...3 times as big.

There are 21 Balls on a Snooker table, 22 inclucding the White 'Cue Ball'

There are 15 red balls, and 6 other coloured balls.
The coloured balls are
Yellow
Green
Brown
Blue
Pink
Black

The aim is to pot a red ball, followed by one of the 6 other colours, then a red ball, then one of the 6 other colours, and so on until there are no red balls left.
After one of the 6 colour balls is potted, it is respotted on the table, in it's specific place.
The 6 colours are respotted each time they leave  the table until there are no reds left.
After all the reds are potted, the other 6 colours must be potted in order shown above.

When you pot any ball you get points, each ball is worth a different amount of points.
Red = 1 point
Yellow = 2 points
Green = 3 points
Brown = 4 points
Blue = 5 points
Pink = 6 points
Black = 7 points.

The winner is the person who has the most points when the last ball is potted.

It's a great game. Obviously very English. Hard to master, fun to play.

[MathWiz20]

I definitely gotta visit England one day and see what I'm missing out on

[Bakster]

My definition of snooker:

It's like pool, except it's more enjoyable to watch and less enjoyable to play.

snooker is that when you roll or throw things and closer person wins?

Could be bowls as well as curling. They are both shit anyway.

[Dodger]

My definition of snooker:

It's like pool, except it's more enjoyable to watch and less enjoyable to play.

I play snooker, much more skill in it than pool. I enjoy playing snooker more. And by playing snooker for a few years, I am now amazing at pool. Win-win situation

[MathWiz20]

You funny ol' brits...how'd u come up with the name snooker?

[Dodger]

At least it's more original than "American Football". Pfft.

[Bakster]

I play snooker, much more skill in it than pool. I enjoy playing snooker more. And by playing snooker for a few years, I am now amazing at pool. Win-win situation

Pool isn't about skill, it's a social game. You can't play snooker with the tiny amount of skill you get in pool. You have to work hard for snooker just like for any other sport. You don't for pool.

At least it's more original than "American Football". Pfft.

Damn straight.

[Dodger]

Pool isn't about skill, it's a social game. You can't play snooker with the tiny amount of skill you get in pool. You have to work hard for snooker just like for any other sport. You don't for pool.

I agree, you play pool socially, down the pub or whatever 
It's funny watching Pool Pro's play snooker, they are never any good