Snooker

[tooj]

The know alls in my snooker club keep telling me there is a difference between snooker tables and billiard tables. They wont tell me what it is. can anyone enlighten me because I cant see it, and they think its funny.

[SlackAlice]

Pocket sizes and jaw angles.

[Dudley]

I would check that with the WPBSA because I remember many years ago both games were regularly played on the same tables. Try their website at worldsnooker.com

[scotman]

As I recall 'proper' billiard tables don't have pockets.

[paddywak]

I agree with scotsman. Traditional billiard tables don't have pockets you score with cannons

[MarkRae]

They probably think that snooker tables have six legs and billiard tables have eight. This is not the case, but lots of people think it is...

[paddywak]

Mark, the number of legs is irrelevant in my old mines welfare we had two snooker tables both of which were used in various competitions one had six legs the other eight It was the bed and pocket size that mattered

[MarkRae]

See, that's why I wrote "This is not the case, but lots of people think it is..."

[paddywak]

I's a while since I last played snooker But if I remember standard table was 12ft x 6ft and pockets were about 3in across the jaws with the balls being 21/6 dia

[paddywak]

that should be two and one sixteenth of an inch dia I don't know why I remember that it's just one of those things that seem to stick