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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON [quote][i]Originally posted by Cushionz[/i] - I always thought that pool is for pool players and that one should not confuse a game that can be played by anyone with a game that requires a lot more skill. Ok, I see a lot of snooker players playing in money comps for pool. How they can do that and still play good snooker is amazing because there has always been a belief among the snooker elite that switching balls of different sizes and weights can only harm one's game. Pool is popular and snooker is not so popular. Nothing has changed there but it may be noticed more since the advent of web access from a pocket device. But aligning the different games has got be asking for trouble... and confusing. How it gets confusing is that snooker has a world set of rules and so does billiards. But in other countries they refer to pool as billiards and also play different rules for Carom and 3 cushion billiards without pockets. As for pool rules, I haven't counted how many different sets of rules there are for pool lately, but some countries have several different formats. For example the game of pool in USA is nothing like what we play in Australia... the tables are much smaller, the balls are a different size and weight, the pockets are huge and there is no nap on the table cloth... unlike that used worldwide for snooker and billiards. [/quote]   Check here to subscribe to this topic.