Snooker Games

 snooker games is a fun game for beginner or professional player, it requires skill, a keen eye and a steady arm. Read on and learn why the snooker games is so widely adopted and why it is so much fun!.Playing snooker is easier than you think. It may look hard, and it is! But everyone can play and with a bit of practice can get good at snooker. Talent is a major ingredient to being good at snooker games, however you can still play a good game if you practice hard and are disciplined.Snooker 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 cushionsA player or team wins a frame individual snooker games 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, generally regarded as having been invented in India by British Army officers, is particularly popular in many of the English-speaking and Commonwealth countries, with top professional players attaining multi-million pound career earnings from the snooker games

Snooker tables

 

Snooker Table Sizes
Snooker tables are available, in 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 foot snooker table sizes.
Snooker Table weight

A full size snooker table weighs between 1000 and 1150 kilograms, dependant on the make, model and build specification of the item. Smaller tables decrease in weight due the table size and reduced components used in the tables production.

Snooker Table:

• Fitted with 100% English pure wool napped cloth

• Diamond bench precision ground slate bed playing surface.

• Available in solid Mahogany, Oak and Ash hardwoods.

• Available in 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 foot table sizes.

• High performance match-play rubber assembly fitted to all six cushions rails.

• Solid brass pocket plates and broad bow pocket leathers, pocket nets and pocket rails.

• Table legs are turned with vertical routing.

• Cushion sliding panels available left plain, or with vertical routing.

• All table wood is hand polished and finished.

Snooker Balls

Snooker Ball sets for the sport of snooker look at first glance like a mixture of American- and British-style pool balls. There are twenty-two snooker balls in total, arranged as a rack of fifteen unmarked reds, six coloursnooker balls placed at various predetermined spots on the table, and a white cue ball. The colour balls are sometimes numbered American-style, with their point values, for the amateur/home market. They are numbered as follows:


2. Yellow

3. Green

4. Brown

5. Blue

6. Pink

7. Black

Snooker Balls are technically standardized at 52.5 mm (approximately 21⁄15 in) in diameter within a tolerance of plus or minus 0.05 mm (0.002 in.) No standard weight is defined, but all balls in the set must be the same weight within a tolerance of 3 g. However, many sets are actually 21⁄16 in. (a little under 52.4 mm), even from major manufacturers. Snooker sets are also available with considerably smaller-than-regulation balls (and even with ten instead of fifteen reds) for play on smaller tables (down to half-size), and are sanctioned for use in some amateurleagues

Snooker Rules

There are 15 solid red balls each with a value of 1 point. The (other) colored balls are valued thus: Yellow (2), Green (3), Brown (4), Blue (5), Pink (6), Black (7). The cue ball is white (not shown).


The cue ball is placed within the "D" for the break

Think of snooker as a game whereby sinking a red ball earns the player an opportunity to go after one of the colored balls. Therefore, the player must pocket alternately a red and then a "colored" ball.

After pocketing a red ball, the player may shoot at his choice of colored ball.

After pocketing a red ball, the player may shoot at his choice of colored balls. If he sinks a colored ball, it is respotted to its assigned spot (diagram above), and the shooter may attempt to pocket another red ball, followed by any colored ball. All red balls stay down, but the colored balls are respotted immediately after being pocketed. Play continues this way until there are no red balls remaining on the table.

When all of the red balls have cleared from the table, the remaining colored balls are pocketed in ascending order from where the cue and object balls lie.

A player is awarded one point for each red pocketed, and the numerical value of each colored ball pocketed after his turn at the table is ended by a miss. If a shooter fouls, the opponent is awarded 7 points (no point deduction from offenders score.)

Snooker Cue

A Snooker cue stickr simply snooker cue, more specifically pool cue, snooker cue, or billiards cue), is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards. It is used to strike a ball, usually the cue ball. Cues are tapered sticks, typically about 58 inches (1.5 m) long and 18–21 ounces (510–600 g). Most cues are made of wood, but occasionally the wood is covered or bonded with other materials including carbon fiber or fiberglass. An obsolete term for a cue, used from the 16th to early 19th centuries, is "billiard stick".

Equipment

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Chalk
The tip of the cue is 'chalked' to ensure good contact between the cue and the cue-ball.
Cue
A stick, made of wood or fibreglass, the tip of which is used to strike the cue-ball.
Extension
A shorter baton that fits over, or screws into, the back end of the cue, effectively
lengthening it. Is used for shots where the cue-ball is a long distance from the player.
Rest
A stick with an X-shaped head that is used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension.
Hook rest

Identical to the normal rest, yet with a hooked metal end. It is used to set the rest around another ball. The hook rest is the most recent invention in snooker.
Spider
Similar to the rest but with an arch-shaped head; it is used to elevate and support the tip of the cue above the height of the cue-ball.
Swan (or swan-neck spider)
This equipment, consisting of a rest with a single extended neck and a fork-like prong at the end, is used to give extra cueing distance over a group of balls.
Triangle/Rack
The piece of equipment is used for gathering the red balls into the formation required for the break to start a frame.
Extended rest
Similar to the regular rest, but with a mechanism at the butt end which makes it possible to extend the rest by up to three feet.
Extended spider
A hybrid of the swan and the spider. Its purpose is to bridge over large packs of reds. Is less common these days in professional snooker but can be used in situations where the position of one or more balls prevents the spider being placed where the striker desires.
Half butt
Usually housed underneath the side of the table, the half butt is a combination of a table length rest and cue which is rarely used unless the cue ball needs to be struck in such a way that the entire length of the table is the actual obstacle.
Ball marker
A multi-purpose instrument with a 'D' shaped notch, which a referee can
(1) place next to a ball, in order to mark the position of it. They can then remove the ball to clean it;
(2) use to judge if a ball is preventing a colour from being placed on its spot;
(3) use to judge if the cue ball can hit the extreme edge of a "ball on" when awarding a free ball (by placing it alongside the potentially intervening ball).

How To Play Snooker

Snooker is one of the most popular billiards games in the world. Similar to pool, the snooker game takes place on a felt-covered table with 6 pockets, a cue stick and a set of balls. Here you can learn how to play snooker.

Steps 1

Obtain the proper equipment. Snooker is played with 22, unnumbered object balls, divided into two groups of 15 red balls, 6 balls of different colours and one white ball (the cue ball). Each ball has a different point value: red=1, yellow=2, green=3, brown=4, blue=5, pink=6, and black=7

Steps 2

Understand that you're trying to score a higher number of points than your opponent by potting the balls, i.e. sinking the red and the coloured balls alternately into the table pockets

Steps 3

Toss a coin to decide who is to play first. The first player has to cause the cue ball to contact a red ball. If he fails to do this, the other player tries

Steps 4

The first player to cause the cue ball to contact a red ball continues by potting one of the coloured balls and then a red ball in sequence until he fails. Then, the turn is moved to the other player, who has to pot a red then a coloured ball in sequence until he fails

Steps 5

Continue in that manner as long as there are still red balls on the table. As long as there are red balls on the table, all the pottedcoloured balls return to their original position on the table

Steps 6

Pot the lowest value to the highest value coloured balls in sequence after the red balls run out. From then on, the coloured balls are no long put back in their original position

Steps 7

The snooker game ends when there are no longer balls on the table. The winner is the player who had scored the highest number of points