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- Chipesh, on 12/01/2008, -2/+14Shouldn't it be Pool tricks ?
. - dargoesdigging, on 12/01/2008, -1/+12They're all pool trick shots, not snooker. There's some nice shots in there all the same.
- cawpin, on 12/01/2008, -2/+10I'm not really sure why this submission and the Youtube video it links to are called "Snooker" anything. They aren't using snooker tables or balls.
- junkstore, on 12/01/2008, -3/+10At the risk of making myself unpopular...
Snooker > Pool - scubastza, on 12/01/2008, -4/+9Still trying to figure out wtf snooker is.
- MrARPA, on 12/01/2008, -1/+5Snooker is like pool ... except it requires genuine skill.
- sphigel, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4Pool is a pretty broad term. Are you referring to 8ball, 9ball, 14.1, rotation, one pocket, bank pool, 10ball, or 7ball?
My point is there's a lot of different pool games and some are more complex and interesting than others. My personal favorite is one pocket. - ScaryUK, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4still trying to work out what Google is for too!
- bashnu, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3Apply this to planets.
- Jicima, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a large baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regulation (full-size) table is 12 ft × 6 ft (3.6 m x 1.8 m). It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white cue ball, 15 red balls worth one point each, and six balls of different colours yellow (2 points), green (3), brown (4), blue (5), pink (6) and black (7).[1] A player (or team) wins a frame (individual game) of snooker by scoring more points than the opponent(s), using the cue ball to pot the red and coloured balls. A player wins a match when a certain number of frames have been won.
Snooker is particularly popular in many of the English-speaking and Commonwealth countries,[2] and in China,[3][4] with the top professional players attaining multi-million pound career earnings from the game.[5
Am I the only bloke who remembers wikipdia? - Tollboi, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3These shots would be much more difficult on an actual snooker table, the pockets are much more narrow. Still an entertaining video though.
- dermoth, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3Pool requires skill. Snooker requires considerably more skill. Mainly because a full size snooker table is ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE and the pockets are TINY. Also, from a tactical perspective, pool is to snooker as tiddlywinks is to chess.
This is why a frame of pool is usually over in minutes, if not seconds, while a frame of snooker can go on for hours. And this is probably why snooker (and most other lengthy, tactical sports) never took off in the US - very hard to squeeze advertising in around all that sport. - JKAL, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3the 1st guy is Japanese actor Masaaki Sakai, most of you would know him as Monkey Magic,
every year he takes on challenge to do something amazing, this year his challenge was to get hole in one on a par 3, and got it, although took him all day.
He is still awesome!!! - MrARPA, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2True enough. Snooker is much more interesting and demanding - pool is just the poor relation.
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -2/+4Pool != Snooker.
poor yank. - BaileyCowboy, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Boy they can open their mouths wide.
- sithie, on 12/01/2008, -1/+2I like how he just combined videos everyone's seen before. A+ effort.
- suburbanWMD, on 12/01/2008, -1/+2Dugg for funny asian guy making faces whilst doing his shots.
- Spoomeister, on 12/01/2008, -1/+2Snooker? Snicker.
Pool. - jfinke, on 12/01/2008, -1/+2Not snooker. Both the submitter and the original video submitter have it wrong. Snooker is played on a much larger table, with smaller balls and smaller pockets.
- bashnu, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1balls
- grow, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1None of those tricks were on a snooker table. The holes are way too big and the tables are too small. None of those tables were 12' x 6'. The biggest was 9' x 4.5' with the Asian dude.
- hakluytbean, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1Introduction to Snooker, for Americans by an American: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O28V3HlCezE
- planetmac, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Yeah as pointed out this is not snooker. Snooker is a much more difficult game to play than Pool.
This is why most Snooker Champions piss all over american pool champions at their own games.
I must admit 9 Ball Pool is a great game but expensive to play in must UK pubs. as the tables are priced to play 8 Ball. - tehWyman, on 08/19/2009, -0/+1Polo?
- bonjourmr, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1Monkey Magic!
- Kivenkantaja, on 12/01/2008, -0/+0Great skill display.
I like watching/playing snooker or pool great use of geometry and physics - mrjigglyfly, on 12/01/2008, -0/+0Ball in hand.
- crushfan, on 12/01/2008, -2/+2Americans NEVER know the difference. First "soccer", now calling pool "snooker"? Tsk tsk tsk..
- Spacejack, on 12/01/2008, -0/+0French playing cards are like German playing cards except they require genuine skill.
Oh wait, they're both game systems in which many games can be played often which are quite unlike each other. - inactive, on 12/01/2008, -4/+4It's billiards for people that haven't learned their numbers yet.
- jmcal, on 01/29/2009, -0/+0Not bad. I liked that one. Reminder me of tricks I set doing as a kid, theough at about 0.1% of this quality. More Info: http://www.neatanswers.com/articles/snooker
- SecurityBlog, on 02/17/2009, -0/+0Awesome shots!
http://www.premsp.com
http://www.redweld.com - yacks, on 12/01/2008, -1/+1hehe... you said snooker.
- jc7012, on 12/01/2008, -2/+1that's what she said
- bl4hness, on 12/01/2008, -2/+1I like the parts where the balls go into the pockets.
- bl4hness, on 12/01/2008, -2/+1Wow, just wow.
- Tomasborlin, on 12/01/2008, -2/+1thats not snooker
- Tomasborlin, on 12/01/2008, -2/+1No WAIT, THAT IS SNOOKER!!!
- upick, on 12/01/2008, -4/+3Simply amazing, he's able to get like 8 balls in at once in all pockets!!!!!~
- adamrgolf, on 12/01/2008, -2/+1Marco ...
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