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Snooker is played throughout the world, there are REAL world championships unlike America where they say it's worldwide but is only in America.
Yep and it is becoming even more popular all over. The Current World champion lives 10miles from me, so i kinda gotta suppory him😅. Altho Luca definetly is no Ronny O'Sullivan ( too voltile, not consistant enough. One day he is unbeatable, the next he misses easy pots) I just want to be watching on one of those invinceble days and see him perform his magic.. , 🤘❤️
Well, yes and no. True, there are snooker players all over the world, and sometimes they win a tournament (like Luca Brecel), but for the most part, it's just people from the UK and China.
@@MotherGoose264 I loved to watch the World Championship, the Scottish open, Beijing open, etc. on Eurosport with my late father. He was a huge Ronnie the Rocket fan.
@@MotherGoose264 as far as I remember O'Sullivan used to play much better than now. He is still one of the best players if not the best but even through TV it seems to me that age is starting to affect the game
😂😂😂
That was a very poor explanation of snooker! Played here in Australia, as well as Pool which happens to be a pub game. Billiards is a totally different game to Snooker and Pool. It's played with 2 cue balls, 1 for each player, and a single red ball.
Both snooker and pool are "billiards" games. In continental Europe people usually play "carom" billiards, which is with just three balls on a table without pockets. In the Netherlands at least there is also a pub variant with obstacles which have to be negotiated and a hole at the center of each short end of the table.
"Billiards" is a term that can be applied to the entire family of "cue sports" like Pool, Snooker etc. The balls used in every sport are technically all "billiard balls" of various types.
I hate how the guy pronounces it wrong too, it is SNOO ker not snuker
I wonder why billiards was never as popular as snooker, or even pool. Especially on TV. Maybe, it's all about the number of balls you have?
You don't have to have both feet off the floor. You misheard that. At least one of your feet has to be touching the floor when you take your shot, or a foul is called. What he didn't mention is that there is a referee who monitors professional games, who calls fouls and announces the points scored by players. The ref sets up the table between frames and puts coloured balls back on the table when potted. Snooker is popular in countries other than the UK, it is huge in China.
The referee wears white cotton gloves. This is to prevent contaminating the surface of the ball with oil or sweat from his hands. They are also used, when requested by a player, to polish the cue ball, the only ball meant to be hit by the cue. The tip of the cue is chalked to give better contact with the ball and this chalk can build up and potentially make the contact more ‘sticky’ than they would like. You’re effectively talking about a layer of dust here, but it’s such a finely tuned game it can be enough to make a difference.
yeah I know. It is growing in popularity constantly.
Snooker Butler.
No worries, he had his American moment.
I thought the explanations in the instructional video were not very clear. The feet off the ground reference was very ambiguous. Also the graphics looked more like the size of a pool table. Somewhere there must be an explanatory video that uses a real snooker table. I think that even just watching a complete game would make the rules clearer.
Snooker is to pool like chess is to checkers; a far more sophisticated and technically demanding game.
8-ball in a bar involves crashing numbered balls into pockets. Snooker involves physics, finesse and strategy.
And risk taking. (But I supposed it was implied in strategy). Yes, you can curve the ball, you just can't make it jump.
Yeah whenever I play pool I win easily cos I grew up playing "snuckr" as this guy seems to call it.
American pool table pockets, you could pot a grapefruit in them 😅 I've played steaming drunk on American tables and hit shots where I miss the jaw of the corner pocket by a good 2 inches and it still goes in 🤣
@@Pandemonis Wrong. Jumps shots are perfectly legal in snooker.
At last! Someone from the States tries to get their head round snooker!
Snooker is hugely popular across the World, rather like rugby (also largely ignored by the USA!). I do love a game of pool down the pub, but snooker is a whole different level of skill. Think of it as pool crossed with chess - it's lengthy, highly tactical, and completely enthralling for many of us.
Have to say, I think for many Americans to enjoy it, they'd need to put to one side their expectations for instant gratification - "safety" play can be ponderous, though equally engaging.
Please follow this up by watching a few FULL "frames" (not highlights 0r "clearances") - you'll need to be patient, but I promise it's worthwhile. You'll learn a lot more from watching a full frame.
(Don't be put off by what you've just watched! IMO this video is an absolutely dreadful, confusing explanation of snooker. Loads of utterly unimportant stuff, and an absence of really important info.).
Agreed, but if he watches frames, its unlikely to be good reaction video given most frames are 20-30 mins.
The guy in the video was (IMO) completely useless, no continuity in the ball positions, no markings on the 'table'
@@stephenlee5929 Not if he sees Ronnies fastest 147;)
@@NorwayMan36 If your going there then I think Alex Higgins is your target.
@@stephenlee5929 ? A fast frame and not Sully?
I wasn't thinking about us watching every shot, I was thinking more about him learning about the game - I figure he could edit it for our consumption.@@stephenlee5929
I had to pause and look up a video of British people talking about snooker to make sure i haven't been pronouncing it wrong my whole life 😅 phew.
I felt the same way, had to make sure too. 😂
Americans are really out here saying 'snuck her' 😂 even non English countries say it properly
I'm glad I'm not alone, I've just had to look up David Attenborough saying his OWN name after hearing Americans say "Atten-Borough" like he's some kind of town or rabbit burrow.
Merekuns, huh?
Well I’ve been playing snooker most of my life and if I had to watch this so-called explanation of it , it would’ve confused me as well
This is a terrible video, I mean it's kinda right but not? Just watch a few frames. It's not half as complicated as he makes out. (You can't have both feet off the floor BTW. You have to have at least 1 foot on the floor. The tables are big and sometimes it's hard to reach the cue ball. it's to stop people climbing/leaning onto the table
My god i laughed so hard when he thought you had to keep both feet off the floor. 😂 It literally said "here are the ways to foul".
The video he is watching is a terrible explanation, and it's no wonder someone with no knowledge of the game would get confused. The narrator talks like a computer and uses word emphasis in a way that makes context difficult to identify
SNOO KER not SHNUKER !!
SNOOKER is played word wide. It's big business worth a lot of money to the winner of each tournament.
You don't play on a POOL table !
BILLIARDS and POOL are two completely different games .
The coloured balls are placed on a marked spot on the table.
The start of the game is called the BREAK. Not a TIE BRAKER !
We just call it a CUE, not cue stick.
You MUST keep one foot on the floor at all times .
The sides of the table are called the CUSHIONS.
In fairness the Welsh pronounce it Shnuker so maybe he's watched a video with Terry Griffith or Ray Reardon on it and picked up on their pronunciation.
Don't you hate it when an American (Mr. Animate in this case) creates a video on a subject that Americans know F all about?
Snooker used to be called Snooker Pool. It is played on a full-size billiard table. Billiards is played with only three balls, 2 white and one red. There are other variations of billiards played around Europe, some with tables the size of pool tables. I have seen one variation that doesn't have pockets.
All I understood is if one misses the opponent gets a blue ball.
@@24magiccarrotthey don't say it snuck her though 😂😂😂
unfortunately you chose a piss-poor video to watch to learn about snooker - there are far better ones out there. However, for a 5 minute masterclass from a world champion, search for Ronnie O'Sullivan's fastest ever 147 break (the maximum score possible in a single visit to the table).
Man, if I didn't know how to play snooker, I don't know if I'd say that I did after watching that video. Some of the choices they made when to introduce different rules were wild. XD
But I think the basics came across.
Ronnie O'Sullivan doing a 147 in under 6 minutes is awesome
Brilliant 😂
1. I love the idea of only playing a shot if both feet are off the floor, as if you are flying like superman (Actually that's a foul...!)
2. The OO letters in Snooker are pronounced as in Pool, not as in Look. Otherwise the word just burns my ears, they're still hurting now.
Mine have burned right off.
thanks for writing that! I was just about to write something similar... but probably much 'rooder'!
It's pronounced the way that video did in Welsh
@jamesdignanmusic2765 cool, ofcourse you can pronounce how ever you want 😅. If you pronounced it snucker where I live you'd get some funny looks. But yes, I can hear it that way in a Welsh accent 😄, as long as the rest of the sentence is in a Welsh accent too!
I'm Scottish and to me you have just given two words with an 'oo' in them which are pronounced exactly the same way!
This is an incredibly great game. I love watching the different tournaments on TV, especially those from the UK. I'm German and there are a few Sbookerhallen here, but unfortunately I'm not talented enough. I'm taking this opportunity to say hello to everyone from the UK. It's an incredibly challenging game and very difficult to master like the UK stars. My favorite player is Ronnie O'Sullivan
I'm from the UK but worked in Frankfurt Airport for a number of years we stayed in Raunheim where they have a snooker club open to all. We spent many days or nights off in there. Maybe 12 tables
Ronnie is probably most peoples' favourite.
Ronnie and Judd are my favourites hello from the UK
You can always find the correct pronunciation of a word by looking it up in a dictionary. The video presenter obviously didn't bother to do that or listen to any commentary on the game. Snooker is a brilliant game. My dad bought a table for us when I was a kid and I played a lot as a student. Recently I play online which works really well if you cannot find a real table easily.
Snooker is hugely popular in the UK-the peak came in 1985 when nearly 19 million people stayed up past midnight to watch the conclusion of the world final. Massive in China & Thailand & popular in many other countries like Germany, Belgium, Malta, Australia, New Zealand etc. It was massive in Canada from the mid 1970''s to the late 1990's-Cliff Thorburn won many titles-including the world in 1980 & three masters in four seasons & there were many other top players around.
Although popular before then snooker really started to take off as a spectator sport in the UK when matches were televised in the show "Pot Black" in 1969 as a way to promote colour television.
Bill Werbeniuk was another top Canadian snooker player, though he wasn't as good as Thorburn.
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 Kirk Stevens was incredibly talented but the party lifestyle ruined his career & he choked at the business end of tournaments. Incredible that Bob Chaperon won a ranking event, yet Kirk didn't.
We always say the snooker cue, not stick
It's called a snooker line in the US. 😂
Both feet off the ground is a foul shot. You have to keep one foot on the ground when shooting. Pool is a popular pub game because the tables are very much smaller. Snooker Halls used to be very common. Where they had the space for several tables. English Billiards is played with only 3 balls.
I would not want to play this game personally. It seems very off, that there are so many complicated rules, that also seem not to be well defined. I mean what is this: The ball must keep contact (what if it jumps just a little bit, so that you cant see it, at what point is it a jump,...), A few inches, not hitting multiple balls at once (hard to observe if it is at once or not), being able to play the ball you want, if the opponent does a fool and by this creates a szenario where you would else have to male a fool by yourselve (how do you even observe, if the situation is unplayable for you? I mean eg. curved balls are possible).Also not being able to hit a ball with another one, or at first hitting the walls just ruins the fun for me, i think. There are just so less options, that would normally lead to fun in the game, but this way the fun is taken away, i guess.
@@neutronenstern. Please don't judge snooker by that video, whilst it gave the rules, it didn't give them very clearly or explain them well at all. Whoever made it isn't even pronouncing "snooker" how most people pronounce it here, where it's popular.
It feels like he's an American (because of his accent) who's read the rules but never played it or seen it played.
@@neutronenstern.You have TOTALLY misunderstood! E.g. you CAN get out of a snooker by curving the ball but AFTER a foul (not fool) you do not have to take the shot. Balls do not run smoothly then jump - that is against the laws of physics. The game has a REFEREE who keeps a sharp eye on the game to determine fouls. The rules are not vague, difficult or complicated. Similar to pool, in the opening shot you have to hit a red ball in the triangle but any red ball(s) potted as a result count as long as not a foul (like a non-red being potted in the same shot.
Who calls it 'English Billiards'? It's just Billiards. It's played the same way in Scotland, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Wales, England etc.
Yes a snooker table is a Billiard table.Billiards was played before snooker. I remember watching snooker on a black and white tv and somehow we still knew the colours! 🤣
Ronnie O Sullivan's fastest 147 break is well worth watching. Very impressive.
But someone who's never played snooker will never be able to appreciate just how great that break is.
@@Lilly8Listens I think anyone who's played 8 ball or 9 ball pool will have some appreciation of the difficulty of potting 36 balls in a very specific order, on a 12' x 6' table in a little over 5 minutes. Rollie Williams 'Snooker for Americans' video shows this 147 break while he explains the basics of the game and how difficult it is. It's a better introduction to snooker than the video featured here.
I am a lifelong football supporter, played rugby, tennis and cricket but, as a far as competitive sports go, nothing enthrals me as much as snooker.
In Snooker, while there are red balls left on the table you must pot a red, and then you can try to pot a colour, then a red and so on, at this stage the colours are replaced on their spot after being potted. The colours are potted directly, in order of value, once all the reds are cleared. Most players would not 'break off' as he has shown, you will see that when you watch a few games or 'frames' as they are sometimes called. On the break, most players aim to get the white cue ball into a safe position after the break where your opponent cannot pot a red, or at least make it very difficult to do so. You get the points value of the colour as you pot them, 2 through 7. You must keep at least one foot on the ground when playing a shot. His definition of a 'push' shot is wrong.
Hello from Switzerland (i.e. an amateur spectator 😂😛), Snooker began to fascinate me about 20 years ago when I was watching Steve Davis, his style of safety game was absolutely fascinating, along with the risky style of play of Jimmy White, who often played just took a risk and managed legendary shots. A new era began with the long shots, which the younger players took with great success. With Ronnie O'Sullivan a player came to the table who strived for perfection like no one else, absolute ball control and frame building like no one else.
If you stand in front of a snooker table and look at how far the distance is diagonally for a ball to hit down there (as accurately as possible), you can get some idea of how difficult that is.
In my opinion, it's not entirely clear from the clip that if you only sink a red, you also get a point, even if you can't sink a colored. Another point where I'm not sure is with the two feet on the ground, I think I've seen games where only one foot was on the ground and it was legal (someone please comment, I'm really unsure here ).
Curve balls are not at all uncommon, but the radius is usually small so that you hardly notice it.
I can only recommend that you watch some games on YT, after a while you will understand most of it and also recognize the fascination of it.
Ahhh Jimmy White! My favourite player of the 80s…..I used to watch a lot of snooker when I was young.
"Another point where I'm not sure is with the two feet on the ground, I think I've seen games where only one foot was on the ground and it was legal"
Yes, one foot on the ground is enough. The video was describing "two feet off the ground" as an illegal shot.
@@louisfrancisco2171 He didn't get that...
Steve Davis vs Jimmy White was like Bjorn Borg vs John MacEnroe. Ice against fire.
A player only has to be in contact with the ground, the toe of one shoe is enough, it's rumoured that some pro players wear bigger, pointy shoes to take advantage of that... cheers
This guy isn't even pronouncing snooker correctly. Its Snoo-ker
I'm sure the mispronunciation is deliberate to drive comments. Saying something just wrong enough people point it out in droves without being so upset they stop watching is something you see a lot on UA-cam.
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I know we Brits do say snooooker but it's understandable that others pronounce it snucker, after all every other word we have with a double o like this we do pronounce it as a u sound..hooker, looker, booker, cooker etc..😊✌🇬🇧
@@lynnhamps7052 But "boot" is pronounced with the long "oo" sound.
So annouing. Just grates.
There are at least three O’s in Snooooker!
Next you need to watch a video of a "147 break". Which is the score where the player pots all the balls in the correct order in a single break.
A 147 break can only really be appreciated if you have actually played snooker for 5mins, and realise how hard it is to pot a ball compared to Pool? Don't you think?
I've never played ice hockey, but I've tried to stand up on ice skates so I can imagine how hard and dangerous that game can be. 😂
May as well be the best one ever, ua-cam.com/video/9D2rFMPN9js/v-deo.html
Both feet off the ground was one of the penalties mentioned in the list of penalties : )
Is also rubbish as at least one foot must be touching the ground, or you would have committed a foul!
That mention of fouls was pretty vague though, I missed it first time.
Feet on the ground. You misheard: the rule is that at least one foot must remain on the ground when making a shot. If the shot is otherwise impracticable, you can then use a ‘rest’ to support the end of the cue so you CAN make the shot.
As you commented - watch a couple of frames to get an idea - it really is quite a simple game, but difficult to play well.
Snooker was invented by a Slough man - Sir Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain, who was born at Upton Park on 13 January 1856. Chamberlain trained at Sandhurst Military College before joining the 11th Devonshire Regiment in 1873 and being posted to India. It was in 1875 that Chamberlain created snooker.
You made me check if he was the same Chamberlain who uncovered the strenght of signatures on a paper when he came back from Munchen after betraying Czechoslovakia to Germans and Poles in 1938.
@@Northerner-NotADoctor And was it?
@@Northerner-NotADoctor - "Peace in our time.", and all that. If he was born in 1856 then it wasn't the same chap. Naive WWII Neville was no spring chicken on his return from Munchen, but he wasn't in his eighties, I'm sure.
@@renejean2523 Listen to "peace in our time" carefully. Chamberlain knew perfectly that doom for a significant % of Europeans is coming and that Hitler's signature is just an ink on a paper, nothing more. Listen to his speech carefully.
Some 40 million Slavs, 6 million Jews, 5 million Germans and over 0,1 million Anglosaxons found the peace he was talking about.
@@PeterDay81 No, the Prime Minister Chamberlain was 14 years younger that the snooker-inventor Chamberlain.
Ronnie osullivans 5 minute masterclass , he scores the maximum possible 147 points ( pots every ball ) in a time that defies belief. Snooker and golf are often compared for skill level in sport but snooker is far harder in my opinion PLEASE !! watch Ronnie's 5 minute 147 break/ points it's perfection 👏👍
They just mean "It is also a foul if you have both feet of the floor."
We also play pool in Europe.
Even though perfect games happen where player scores 147 points in one break happen, it is like so incredibly difficult compared to pool it almost defies belief that it actually happens.
In a perfect game of 8 ball you have to pocket 8 balls to win in one visit.
In a 147 game of snooker you have to pot 15 red balls 15 black balls and then all non red balls in order, on a table that is 3 times bigger than a pool table with smaller balls and smaller pockets.
Billiards, snooker and pool are three completely separate games. Billiards is played on a snooker table using two white balls (one with a spot) and a red ball, great game but sadly rarely played these days. Then there is "bar billiards" which utilizes mushrooms and of course "pocket billiards" which uses only two balls.
Hope you found this helpful but probably not.
No, snooker is played on a billiards table. Billiards came first.
They are all billiards - as that is just a group of games that includes pool & snooker. There are variants of billiards as well, like English, Bar (don't forget your mushrooms), french etc.
@@MoodyMarco-vj3oeyeah, i only said snooker table because Ryan now knows what a snooker table is. If i had said billiard table then that may have confused him somewhat. And yes i have always called it a billiard table, you are correct.
The full-size, tournament-spec Snooker table is 12ft in length, and just over 6ft wide. Much larger than a pool table, which could fit on a Snooker/Billiards table four times!
We have a bar billiards league locally
😂😂😂 I love your logic, just because the table is twice the size of a pool table automatically the cue should be!!!😂😂😂❤
He is American
they dont use the half butt are as i call it the beachcaster anymore lol
Billiards, a game older than snooker, is played on a billiard table which is similar to a snooker table, but has no pockets. All versions of pool are played on much smaller tables. Billiards has just three balls - one red, two white (one with a spot, one without). Pool has 16 balls, and snooker has 22.
pool tables in usa are 50% bigger than uk tables.
Yes but Americans call pool billiards the same way they call their game football. They are so cut off from the rest of the world but I respect the fact that people like this guy are expanding their horizons and trying to learn about other sports and other cultures and countries
In the UK, a Snooker table is much larger then a pool table. After playing pool, moving over to a snooker table and taking a shot is like leaning over and playing on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. It seems huge, and the balls are WAAAY over there somewhere... big means all far shots are more difficult.
*than a pool table
4 x the size of a standard pool table (not American) if I remember correctly around 12' x 6' playing surface
a pool player would be mostly useless at snooker, whereas many snooker players are good at pool, with snooker controlling the cue ball is key as the table is so big, the pockets are smaller then on a pool table. the edges around the table are called cushions
Snooker players were like football stars in the UK in the 1980s, the game was and still is to a degree extremely popular. please watch any of Ronnie O'Sullivan 147 standard maximum breaks for a exciting way of learning how points are scored.
dear dear. The comentator said a foul will be commited if-------- two feet are off the floor. Just as in pool.
A great TV commentary on the days before colour televisions, "For those of you watching in black and white, the green ball is next to the pink !!"
literally 3 days ago I was thinking there is no americans reacting to snooker well done. You will love this avenue. watch some highlights of Ronnie O'Sullivan and Judd Trump.
Embrace the suck did a good reaction'
You found it confusing because the gentleman was American and made a bad job of it and even pronounced it wrong. Try to find an Englishman to explain it.
As to judging whether a ball is touching another to determine it a possible push shot, in tournament play there is always an umpire.
There were several TV series of a highly popular programme called Pot Black in the UK. Top players competed over a series for a trophy. We always watched it while I was still living at home. Apparently it was first commissioned after colour TV became standard, because obviously the game would make no sense without being able to see the colours.
Commissioned by David Attenborough when he was in charge of BBC2.
What was missed in the video is the presence of a referee, who's decision is final. He's the one who decides about touching balls and fouls etc. When playing snooker both feet off the ground is a foul. This sometimes happens when a player over reaches, remember the SIZE of a snooker table (about twice the size of a pool table) plus all the pockets are smaller than those of a pool table. Once you understand the rules you will really enjoy the game. The art is not only in pocketing the ball but where the white ball ends up after a shot. It becomes obvious when you realise to carry on the "break" positioning of the white ball becomes critical. At the start you must pocket a red ball, you are then able to pick a colour. To get the maximum score (147) you would need to pocket each red followed by a black(7points)and then all the colours in sequence. Want to see a max break? watch Ronnie O'sullivan video (current world number one) on scoring 147. Ronnie is just amazing. He payed Strickland in the Mosconi cup 1996 and won. Ronnie once called a 147 after he pocketed his first black!.
OMG, snooker is played in Australia too. Of course. We are English-based and colonised by the English so it is played here too
The thing I like about your videos is that they're always the opposite of my experience!! I played snooker all my life and have only played pool a couple of times!!
Simultaneously in contact is a thing you figure out in advance by checking if the balls are touching. If it's touching you must play away from the ball since otherwise the instant you touch the cue ball it'd be a foul(since the cue ball would be touching the other ball too).
In a pub you'll probably not be playing on a perfectly flat table so playing away is enough, but in a tournament the object ball moving at all indicates a foul since you must have "pushed" it during the shot.
Balls don't have to touching to be a push shot. If the cue ball is close to the object ball when the cue ball is played straight into the object ball and the cue ball follows unnaturally fast it is seen to be a push shot. This is the same as international rules 8 ball
The aim is to pot one red, one black or colour, until all the red balls are gone. Once they have been potted you must pot the remaining colours in order from yellow 2 points up to black ball 7
If you miss a shot the other guy get to try, but must start with a red or lowest coloured ball. Watch a game you'll get a better understanding
One foot, or toe must be touching the ground!
Am 69 years old , played Snooker every lunch hour and free periods during HIGH SCHOOL Years !! Then Eight Ball in the later years in the Taverns !!! 👍🏿👍🏽👍✌🖖🍁🌲🌻💛💙🇺🇦
You chose the wrong guy to explain Snooker to you..
Big in Australia as well, it used to be anyway.
Snooker is not that easy to learn from a video but if you have someone explain it to you and answer your immediate questions you will grasp it quite quickly. I look forward to more snooker videos and especially Ronnie O'Sullivan reactions!!! :D
The video actually made the game of snooker sound much more difficult to understand than it actually is 😂😂
Yes Ryan, you have to have BOTH feet off the floor to make a legal shot in Snooker. That's why it's so popular on the International Space Station. 👍
Snew-ker
It would help if you listened instead of talked over the video and you would have realised both feet off the floor is not required but disallowed.
listening is difficult for americans
they talk more than they listen
Billiards is a very old British game played with just three balls. Later, the British army in India invented snooker, which became so popular that Billiards is hardly played today.
Pool, like so many other American games, is a corruption of snooker.
Pool not a corruption of snooker, it is descended from English billiards and American four ball billiards around 1850-1870s and is really a number of different games that are sort of related. Snooker was first played around 1875 they are both descended from billiards.
Also snooker is actually descended from black pool and pyramids both pool games. So calling pool a corruption of snooker is not just inaccurate it is backwards.
I love snooker. Ronny is one the best snooker players in the world. I’m from canada. He said if both of ur foot r off the ground
No, you may NOT lift both your feet off the floor.
Snooker is usually not a Pub/Bar game, it's serious.
What he didn't mention is that not only is the table larger than a Pool one, but the stick points are smaller, and the pockets are smaller.
And yes, O'Sullivan is by many considered the GOAT
To be fair there are some more gentil pubs that have snooker tables (there used to be a nice one in the Hare & Hounds, in East Sheen, in London, pub appears to be still there (via google maps) and many Working Men's Clubs (probably Conservative and Liberal Clubs as well as local area and sports clubs) have them there are also Snooker Rooms/Billiard Halls, these seem to be getting rarer, used to be over tailor shops (Burton's) in London.
Pool has the advantage, that there is no standard size table, I have even played on an L shaped table.
Note you can play pool on a snooker table, but the pockets are nowhere near as easy, jaws are much tighter.
Something else that differs from pool (or at least the pool in UK Pubs) the cue ball is the same size as the object balls in snooker not so with pool (with pool this allows the cue ball to return whilst the object balls are retained, this alters the angles.
@@stephenlee5929 TBH, I haven't been to the UK for a while, and haven't been to a pub there since 1990 or so, but at that time snooker tables were very rare at pubs. My thinking is that they took up too much space, and are kind of hard to play on beeing tipsy, it's hard enough being sober
@@matshjalmarsson3008 They are, as you say, very rare.
You need clients who respect the table, its also difficult to charge for, and you tend to slow the drinking/eating. So generally not a good match, but the Hare and Hounds was good (1976ish).
1. Sn 'oo' ker is normally pronounced 'oo' (as in 'moon') - you'd think someone making a video about the game would know this.... 2. He listed lots of foul scenarios very fast, so I'm not surprised you were confused about that whole 'feet off the floor' thing. 3. Your best bet is to watch a top International game. For example: ua-cam.com/video/n4jRAW5kP9A/v-deo.html You'll understand the rules way more easily and start to appreciate that there are a great many times where a tactical shot is made; the player is opting to make life difficult for the opponent, rather than taking the obvious points. Enjoy!
I grew up with snooker my whole life. I remember snooker being on tv in the early 70's when some people still had black and white tv's. The joke on BBC commentary was that they would say, he has just pitted the pink ball and for those of you watching in black and white, that's the one behind the blue. 🤦As most balls were indistinguishable on black & white tv's, apart from the black and white ball, it became an own goal of sports commentators and became a meme before that was a thing!
My grandpa watched snooker when he came to visit and in the old tv's they were wide on top. In the top ledge my day would sit and sleep when it was warm but he or she got excited when snooker was on and was always running behind the tv looking for the balls that had been pocketed. It was really cute and funny.
There was a song by Chas & Dave called Snooker Loopy and the song listed the correct order for putting the balls.
*Pot the reds then screw back for the yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black. Snooker Loopy nuts are we, we're all Snooker Loopy!*
It even featured World Snooker Champion of the time Steve Davis!
To understand snooker 🎱 properly watching a competitive game played by professionals is a must, next look up darts 🎯 😂
No wonder you're confused, worst explanation of snooker ever.
Agreed, it was awful
even if it was explained properly he would be confused
That's typically American, they can't listen
Neither you, nor the video narrator are pronouncing the word right. Snoo-ker. Its really not that complicated, and seriously he explains it very poorly.
Snooker is most certainly played in Australia and New Zealand
That explanation was as clear as mud.
Two feet off the floor is a foul, one foot is permitted.
You must keep part of one foot on the floor-the referee will be in a position where they can see that, if you are up on the table bridging with the rest then your feet can both come off the floor. If you pot a ball as a free ball then that only counts as a red-even if it is a colour & so you only get one point & then you have to play a colour after. You don't have to call out the colour of the ball unless it is ambiguous-say you are trapped down by the cushion where the reds are & you have to play up off a cushion to head one of the baulk/D colours then you must nominate the colour you are playing for-if you don't the referee will call foul & award points against you. You cannot pot any colour off a red or the other way round-if you do then it will be a foul stroke. Players will generally call fouls on themselves like push shots, feathering a ball while bridging over it, touching a ball with their waistcoat while down on a shot, grazing the incorrect ball etc-sometimes the ref misses it & thanks the player for telling them. It is very rarely a player would not as it is considered bad sportsmanship & rare for them to argue with the referee if they call it.
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When he mentioned the two feet being off the floor, he had already explained that he was listing what things constituted a "FOUL" so the rules actually state that a player must at least one foot touching the ground, otherwise a foul will be called and the player will give the opponent 4 points. I hope that clears things up for you.
Reds:
Red = 1 point
Colours:
Yellow = 2 points
Green = 3 points
Brown = 4 points
Blue = 5 points
Pink = 6 points
Black = 7 points
The white ball is the ball you touch/hit with your cue so it hits/pots other balls. (like pool and other billiard games.
You must pot a red then your chosen colour (that you say before you take the shot) then another red ball.
You must try to pot (hit) balls in the order: red, colour, red, colour, red, colour etc.
If you pot multiple balls in this order, this is called a break.
So a break of 34 for example could be:
Red, black, red, pink, red, black, red, black, red, yellow.
You always have to have one foot on the floor when taking a shot.
Fouls:
A player can foul by:
1. Hitting a colour before a red
2. Potting a colour when aiming for a red.
3. Hitting a red/different colour before the chosen colour
4. Potting a red/different colour when trying to hit a chosen colour.
5. Missing the balls entirely.
6. Potting the white ball.
Other Fouls:
7. Hitting a ball other than the white with your cue.
8. Taking a shot when it is not your turn.
9. Having both your feet off the floor when taking a shot (a part of your body must always be in contact with the floor while taking a shot).
10. Double-hitting the white when taking a shot (if you hit the cue ball/white twice, it counts as two shots).
This rule is similar to strokes in golf as each time your golf club hits the ball it counts as a shot, every time you hit the white/cue ball it counts as a shot.
There are probably more fouls that I am forgetting but these are the most common fouls.
Penalties for fouls:
Fouls on Yellow, Green, Brown, Reds or most other fouls:
4 points awarded to the opposing player.
Fouls on blue, pink, black:
The value of the ball is awarded to the opposing player.
Basically, when there is a foul, the other player is awarded either 4 points or the value of the colour that caused the foul, whichever is higher.
When reds are still in play:
Reds:
Stay in pockets
Colours/Cue ball:
Returned to the table
After all the reds are potted, pot all colours in ascending order:
Yellow, Green, Brown, Blue, Pink, Black.
Billiards is played on a Snooker table and there are only three balls. Your ball, your opponents ball and the cue ball. It is totally different to Pool.
I remember Cliff Thorburn winning world title and he's north American.
He'd drop by Seymour Billiards in Vancouver, and run the tables with each opponent praying for a shot.
Two feet off the floor is a foul! Pool 🎱 is not the same as what the UK know as Billiards.
The maximum break is 147. All red balls followed by black each time (8pts x15) and then all colours in numerical order (27pts).
There is a standard.
Basically, snooker tables have spots on them to tell you exactly where the blue, pink and black balls go. His diagram really should have the spots on it.
When you put out the reds, in a pyramid, you put them just behind the pink spot, leaving room for the pink.
I'm not a fan of many team sports (major league baseball and NHL hockey make up the bulk of the list) but I love both snooker and billiards along with English darts (this last because I was once very good at it). All of snooker/billiards and darts are as much about strategy and psychology as anything else. A manual skill combined with the overall strategy of the game make it a fantastic and intriguing passage of time.
There's no such thing as 'English Darts' it's either Darts or Pub Darts, no single country names included because it's played in so many countries. That's a lot like saying 'Scottish Football', because it was originally played in Scotland first but then developed into the modern game in many countries over time. Darts has been around for more than 700 years in some form but was modernised in Britain and Ireland into the modern game played now.
Yeah, Ronnie O Sullivan is pretty GOATed in the snooker world. Probably the most successful player in the world at the moment, though I wouldn't recommend watching just him - plenty of other fantastic players out there. Judd Trump, Ding Junhui, Mark Selby, Mark Williams, Luca Brecel, Shaun Murphy, John Higgins and Neil Robertson all tend to make top shot compilations fairly regularly. And that's only players in the modern game. Jimmy White, Alex Higgins, Ray Reardon, Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis are all legends of the old game. I'll undoubtedly miss some names off, but it's better to watch a compilation than just one match to start with.
Happy New Year to you mate.
tbf you did well, that video gave a very muddled explanation. Your pronunciation of Snooker is the one used in Wales, but most everywhere else is pronounced in the way many other comments are telling you! It's a great game, one I haven't played in a long time, but it's a great way to spend an afternoon. It's not as complicated as you probably feel it is after that video. Take it in turns, your turn ends when you fail to pot or commit a foul. While there are reds on the table, you alternate potting a red then a colour, replacing the colours back onto the table as you go. Once all the reds are gone, you're in the end game, pot the colours in order of their value. Proper snooker table has marks for where the colours go.
Snooker used to be mainly confined to the UK, but has now spread to many other countries, particularly China.
The commentator should have said that at least ONE foot must be on the ground. Having both feet off the ground results in a foul shot.
The commentator was listing foul plays and he moved on to the next one but it would sound confusing if you weren't listening properly and Ryan was talking about over the segment.
The correct pronunciation is to sn-uke-er. (uke like nuke, rather than uck like book).
When only the colour balls are left, the player that pots them still wins the assigned number of points.
To be "Snookered" is when the player's cue ball does not have a direct path to the next required ball. (eg. The cue ball has a colour ball directly between it and any available red balls, when red needs to be played).
Players may sometimes deliberately snooker their opponent if they have no way to pot a ball themselves.
The maximum achievable score in a single break is 247, by the player potting red, black, red, black ... Until all the reds are gone, and then they pot all the colours in order. - there are substantial money prizes for a professional snooker player that achieves this.
What they didn't show were the bridges you use to support the cue when reaching across the huge table or to get the right vertical angle on a ball. They are a similar length to the cue and the end is placed on the table and the cue slides over the business end of it instead of resting on the player's hand.
The bridge is shaped like the letter X or has with two feet spaced wide enough to bridge an obstructing ball and has slots on its upper edge in which the cue is placed to take the shot. They allow shots to be made where the cue ball is too far away to play with the feet still in contact with the ground and where balls around a cue ball prevent it being played easily.
As other have said, at least one foot must be on the floor. Push shots are actually very easy to determine. If the balls are very close you would typically "play away", which means you either go for a different red/other colour, or if you can only hit the ball in front of you, you aim to clip it. If you are touching the aim ball, you always play away as to aim at it is breaking the rules, but you have hit the ball by virtue of of them touching before shot is taken. The referee (or you agree between you before a shot is taken) will declare a "touching ball" before the shot.
But before they play snooker. We give each player 7 laxatives, and 80 cans of beer. When then close the toilets ,
They stumble around drunk and really needing the bathroom while paying,
Look up "Snooker Central" or "Ronnie O'Sullivan perfect frame". Other amazing players you could search are Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry, Jimmy White, John Higgins.
On your turn, pot a red, ( 1 point ) then a colour of your choice, then another red, followed by any colour, and so on, until you miss a pocket, and that's end of break.
Then your opponent does the same, and all the points are marked up as you go along.
A maximum break is when a player pockets all 15 reds, followed by blacks, and then the 6 coloured balls, in order.
That would give a score of 147.
A snooker is when the white cue ball is hidden behind a colour, making it difficult to hit a red.
Many pubs have pool tables, but snooker tables are too big.
Although it would be a foul, it's possible to have both feet off the ground if you are letting the table take your full weight. There have been occasions where the referee has had to closely watch a player's foot to ensure their toes are just touching.
If you are playing with a referee, if the cue ball is touching another ball he will declare "touching ball". You then have to ensure that you play the cue ball away from the ball it is touching. The other ball cannot move.
Non professionally, pool is actually played by many more people in the UK as many pubs and clubs have pool tables. It's simply easier to fit a pool table in. Some people have pool-sized tables in their homes, however, we will often use those tables to play snooker, just on a smaller scale. (With 10 reds instead of 15.)
My GOD!!! The narrator explained snooker in the most CLUMSY way. He made it more difficult to understand than it actually is!!! Crazy!
Best way to understand snooker is to watch a couple of matches. That way you can very easily pick up the basics in a short time.
A break is red + colour + red + colour until you miss. Add all the point together. The colour ball is returned to its starting point on the table each time. Once all the red (15) red balls are potted, then pot the colours in order - yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, black
Watched your "german stuff reaction channel" (because i'm german, obviously) a few minutes ago and now i'm on my way to the snooker place. There are fans of this sport in germany as well :)
Some brief incomplete clarification.
Snooker, English billiards, American pool, British pool and pyramid are called pocket billiards hence pockets.
Other forms of billiards include libre (caronbole) and 3 cushins and no pockets.
Snooker is played on a 12ft by 6ft table and has the objective of scoring more points than your opponent.
Pool games mostly center on potting the last ball, either black, nine or ten. ( yeh i know straight)
English pool is played on a 6 by 3ft table
American pool tables varies from 7 to 11ft long. So not that small. But mostly played on 9ft tables
Other differences are ball sizes smaller for snooker then A.pool but same for English pool.
And cloth with or without nap direction.
Snooker is considered more difficult. But I'll say It's less easy to step in. Seeing that any fool can clear a pool table but will take hours to clear a snooker table.
That said, a good pool player is just as able in potting balls and working out angles. I will never underestimate a good pool player.
Would love to see a cross-over tournament one day between snooker pool and 3 cushions one day.
Ronny O'Sullivan, The Rocket, IS the GOAT.
There are spots on the table marking the location of all colours. Those are brown, dark grey or black.
The cue ball CAN jump on the table, as long as it never pass over any other ball.
Its common in everyday speach to say you're snookered when you're in a situation that can't be resolved.
Snooker is popular in Australia, we had a world champion a number of times. Horace Lindrum is one. You need to play it to get to know the game. It is hard to explain.
He said you MUST NOT have both your feet off the ground. Maybe the ball is in a place where it's hard to access, so you have to sit on the edge of the table to reach it. If you sit on the table, at least one of your feet has to touch the ground at all times.
Snooker is the most strategic variation of Billiards.
Fun fact about the push shot for you Ryan, you're right it can be very hard to see it happen but it's rarely the referee who calls it. The players often self referee this and call the foul on themselves thus awarding points and control of the game to their opponent, even at the highest level with a lot at stake
recommend alex higgins best shots , happy new year love your show
Pool is played on a pool table, billiards is played on a snooker table. The cartoon table displayed was not a snooker table. They have individual net pockets on all holes. Snooker is massive in China. Snooker is played in the civilized part of N America called Canada.
i was constantly thinking of the Futurama scene where they take Fry to a Blernsball game and he's like "hey this is like baseball" and gets super confused as more and more nonsense rules are explained xD
Having both feet off the floor is a fault. You have to have at least one foot touching the floor.