
Snooker, which is the most famous style of all the billiards, originates from Britain. Compared to eight ball and nine ball, it's much more complicated and difficult, which is not only showed by more balls and complex rules, but also the table is bigger and the pocket is smaller.
While playing snooker, there will be 15 red balls which form a triangle on the table and also 6 colorful ball put on the certain place, cue ball will still be on the other side from the red balls, and it should be put in the small semicircle with white line on the table.
Every time the player pot in one or more red balls which worth only one point, he got the qualification to hit those colorful balls which worth two to seven points differ from the color. And then no matter you pot in or not the colorful ball, you need to turn back on hitting those red balls, and those colorful balls which get into the pocket will be put back on the original position immediately after they fall into the pocket. When all the red balls get cleaned, the player needs to hit those colorful balls by the order of the points they worth, from 2 point ball the yellow ball, to the 7 point ball the black ball. The pot of the black seven announced the finishing of the game, then compare the points both player get, and the winner will be the one with higher points.
As there is certain limit on jump shot in the snooker, if the player jump shot the cue ball and it hit the object ball while the cue ball doesn’t touch the table, this hit will be judged as foul, so jump shot is so risky that players aren’t willing to try it in the game. Some audience think that this limit restricts the colorfulness of the snooker, but actually this limit also helped the birth of a new strategy which is called to make snooker, the players can control the cue ball to move to a place that has one or more balls blocking on the route from the cue ball to the object ball that their opponents will hit, which can make them foul. In the snooker, the penalty for foul is not only that the opponents can put the cue ball everywhere in the semicircle, but also they can add 5 points.
If everytime you pot in a red ball, you choose the black seven as the object ball and pot in, meanwhile you don't miss any hit, then you will get 147 points which is the highest points that the players can get in one continuous series of hit. Let's enjoy one 147 show.
This is really amazing. I never knew such skill has to be put in to billiards. Great Article.
回复删除This is really cool, I kenw there was a lot of skill in billiards but I didn't know what it took to be good a tit until now.
回复删除I never knew about this type of pool, I want to try it out!
回复删除I didn't know different balls like the "cue" ball existed. This was very interesting!
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