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Snooker is a cue sport played on a rectangular, green baize-covered table with six pockets: one in each corner and one in the centre of each long side. The game is played with 22 balls of varied point values, including the white cue ball. Players take turns striking the cue ball with a cue stick, or simply ‘cue’, aiming to pot the other 21 balls in the correct sequence and score points, called ‘counts’. Only the tip of the cue can make contact with the cue ball, and it is never used to strike any of the coloured balls.
Of the 21 balls, the distribution is as follows:
In snooker, the games are organised into frames. A player can win a frame by scoring the most points by the end of the frame, and the match ends when one of the players wins a predetermined number of frames. At the start of the frame, the 15 red balls are positioned in a triangular pack and the six remaining balls are placed in a specific arrangement on the table. Players take alternating turns at playing shots, aiming to pot one of the red balls into a pocket and scoring a point. Once a red ball falls into a pocket, the striker must pot a coloured ball of their choice (other than red). If successful, the point value of the coloured ball will be added to the player’s score, and they must pot another red ball; if unsuccessful, the turn passes to the opponent.
Red balls will always remain potted, while the coloured balls are returned to their position on the table. The game continues until all red balls have been potted, after which the coloured balls must be potted in the ascending order of their value (eg: yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black). In case of a tie, the black ball is used as a tiebreaker; it will be returned to its designated spot on the table, and a coin toss by the referee determines which player strikes first.
To the untrained eye, billiards, pool and snooker are just interchangeable names for the same game. This couldn’t be further from the truth! Before you dive into snooker betting, let’s note some of the key differences, aside from the rules:
In the 1870s, billiards games were a popular pastime among British Army officers stationed in Jubbulpore, India, which led to several game variations over the years. One of these variations combined pyramid pool and black pool, and the first official rule book for the new variant was published in 1882 by Sir Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain had a custom-made table shipped to India, and the game became increasingly more popular across the Indian colonies and the United Kingdom. At the time, the word ‘snooker’ was a slang term used to describe new or inexperienced military personnel, and Chamberlain often used it to describe the inferior performance of his fellow officers at the table — little did he know, harmless banter ended up branding the game!
In the late 19th and early 20th century, snooker was played almost exclusively by military officers and the gentry, with tables occasionally found in a handful of gentlemen’s clubs. As the game’s popularity spread, so did the number of clubs and bars that installed their own snooker tables. The first official snooker tournament was the 1908 American Billiards Tournament, won by Charles Dawson. In 1919, the Billiards Association and Control Club was formed, and a new, standardised set of snooker rules was introduced.
The first World Snooker Championship was played in 1927, organised and won by Joe Davis. Davis went on to win not only the first event, but every single World Championship until 1946! After Davis’ retirement the same year, snooker gradually fell out of favour with the public. It wasn’t until David Attenborough suggested using snooker to showcase the BBC’s new colour broadcasting technology in 1969 that the sport sparked the public’s interest once more.
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