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Bump...trying to catch the eye of anyone that may be interested in proper (international rules) snooker. Just looking for a few pool/billiards players in the far northwest suburbs of Chicago...centered on Crystal Lake. Say an area encircling Palatine, Barrington, Cary, Lake Zurich, Fox Lake...

ACES Snooker Club in Crystal Lake, IL is looking for new members. If you are a player who has been displaced by the recent pool hall closings in Algonquin, Fox Lake, and Palatine, consider plying your craft on a full size snooker table. Beyond bar boxes and a few bowling alleys, quality...

The simple answer to your question is yes, it is possible to elect and legally pot a different color ball when touching a color ball. For more detail, read on... The "touching ball" rule in International Snooker should be viewed as being a shot choice OPTION that you may or may not use as...

That is the best video instruction of the stance that you like so much (with the added bonus of a thin Cliff Wilson). I have read and re-read Joe's books numerous times. I do like to mix the written instructional word along with some video so without a plethora of video selections from Joe, I...

A gift from a club member: This is a personal memento, photo taken by the club member, Joe spectating at an amateur event in London, 1977. I would have been 11 then. It would still be the better part of a decade before I ever even heard the word "snooker" said. I remember when Elvis died...

Here is my take on the subject: I love Triumph, distributed by Tweeten. I have tried a few other types, but I have absolutely no reason to ever change at this point. I have known people who seem to try some new "latest and greatest" tip every time. No one seems to have heard of Triumph. It is...

SlickRick, I am not sure that I am understanding the point of your post, and I am even less certain that you are understanding the point of mine. I know that I do tend to be wordy so here I will try to be succinct. The original question is "Will Snooker catch on in the US?". Simply due to space...

Underclocked, of course you are right as a matter of mathematics....snooker would be more popular as a percentage of the population that would play the game IF it suddenly became more convenient for them, if only short term for everybody to walk into this new building that suddenly appeared at...

As an avid snooker player knowing or caring little about the pool games, I had never heard the name of Corey Deuel until he played the US Snooker Championship. I was impressed with his ability to adapt his considerable skill set to play a reasonable game of snooker. Some foolish pundits opined...

If you are certain about the table in Edwardsville, you should report it to the guy that does the "www.findsnooker.com" website. Here is a link to the appropriate Illinois page: http://www.findsnooker.com/Illinois.html Scroll to the bottom of the page to see instructions for submitting...

Good advice from pt about the rail height and from Scaramouche about the weight. If you are good with math, there is a way to calculate the proper ratio of cushion height to ball diameter. Here is a link to it: http://plus.maths.org/content/outer-space-cushioning-blow What it boils down to is...

Scaramouche, you do tend to be a little harsh on the Americans whether your intent is tongue-in-cheek or not. The OP has not indicated anything about his table other than the fact that its nominal dimensions are 5' x 10'. In England, I always preferred a proper full sized table, but I...

From what I gather, it looks like some engineer/draftsman basically reversed engineered a presumably correct table to create these 3D models. In other words, I don't believe this is "authorized" or even necessarily perfectly accurate information from the WPBSA or IBSF. It is some interested...

I have tried to set my table as accurately as possible using simplified homemade templates based on borrowed IBSF templates from quite a few years back. These were gifted to me by a craftsman for which I am eternally grateful, but I don't really know for sure if I am on the tight side, loose...

The OP posed the question "How to rid the foul and miss", presumably in anticipation that everyone would WANT to eliminate the FAAM, to which philthepockets provided the ideal response of "I think this subject is more akin to banning Unicorn hunting." meaning that you are wasting your time to...

Perhaps my final word on this subject: I believe that there are three mighty boughs on the great tree of cue sports, and one vastly smaller branch. First, the small branch we will simply call "Miscellaneous" and it includes the novelty games like "Bumper Pool" and that goofy round billiard...

Underclocked, I think I have a way to help explain the British (International) concept of "touching ball" and perhaps make it more palatable for you. See how this works: I am thinking of an optical illusion.....I am sure you have seen it. Simply, two symmetrical curvy vertical lines, the three...

Colin, I just had a flash of inspiration over my morning coffee. It goes like this: Your original post is suggesting that we should eliminate FAAM and replace it with the option to purposely commit a foul. I don't know how big basketball is in Australia but here in the US, the NBA takes the...

Thanks, now I get it. When someone says "frozen ball", I assume they are talking about an American version of a game. The "international" version in my mind is touching ball. As for "wacko", I guess it's just a matter of perspective. I cut my teeth on the BSCC (Billiard and Snooker Control...

:smile:This man has a way with words. I have read through these rules three times now and I cannot find anything regarding frozen (touching) ball. Are these rules complete? As for Rule # 11) "If a player fouls and the incoming player is blocked from seeing any part of a ball on, the player...