Is anyone following the World Snooker Championships?
I am, that card game kicks ass.
Snooker ??? Never heard of it, how do you play?
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Quote from: Bakster on April 22, 2006, 10:50:23 PM
Is anyone following the World Snooker Championships?
Yes I am. Who won tonight's game?
QuoteI am, that card game kicks ass.
Wtf...Card game? LMAO :D
Quote from: MathWiz20 on April 22, 2006, 11:28:51 PM
Snooker ??? Never heard of it, how do you play?
I didn't realise they didn't have snooker in America.
It's like pool...Actually, probably a better definition would be; It's not like pool.
Is that clear?
opps pool**
snooker is that when you roll or throw things and closer person wins?
Quote from: ultswordsman on April 23, 2006, 06:43:30 AM
snooker is that when you roll or throw things and closer person wins?
No, pretty sure that is Curling.
Snooker is slightly like American Pool. Only in the way that you have a 'Cue' and have to hit a White ball into different coloured balls in order to pot them in pockets on the Table. Understand?
There are big differences between Pool and Snooker.
A Snooker Table is much larger than a pool table, about...3 times as big.
There are 21 Balls on a Snooker table, 22 inclucding the White 'Cue Ball'
There are 15 red balls, and 6 other coloured balls.
The coloured balls are
Yellow
Green
Brown
Blue
Pink
Black
The aim is to pot a red ball, followed by one of the 6 other colours, then a red ball, then one of the 6 other colours, and so on until there are no red balls left.
After one of the 6 colour balls is potted, it is respotted on the table, in it's specific place.
The 6 colours are respotted each time they leave the table until there are no reds left.
After all the reds are potted, the other 6 colours must be potted in order shown above.
When you pot any ball you get points, each ball is worth a different amount of points.
Red = 1 point
Yellow = 2 points
Green = 3 points
Brown = 4 points
Blue = 5 points
Pink = 6 points
Black = 7 points.
The winner is the person who has the most points when the last ball is potted.
It's a great game. Obviously very English. Hard to master, fun to play.
I definitely gotta visit England one day and see what I'm missing out on :D
My definition of snooker:
It's like pool, except it's more enjoyable to watch and less enjoyable to play.
Quote from: ultswordsman on April 23, 2006, 06:43:30 AM
snooker is that when you roll or throw things and closer person wins?
Could be bowls as well as curling. They are both shit anyway.
Quote from: Bakster on April 23, 2006, 05:01:39 PM
My definition of snooker:
It's like pool, except it's more enjoyable to watch and less enjoyable to play.
I play snooker, much more skill in it than pool. I enjoy playing snooker more. And by playing snooker for a few years, I am now amazing at pool. Win-win situation :)
You funny ol' brits...how'd u come up with the name snooker?
At least it's more original than "American Football". Pfft.
Quote from: Dodger on April 23, 2006, 06:52:35 PM
I play snooker, much more skill in it than pool. I enjoy playing snooker more. And by playing snooker for a few years, I am now amazing at pool. Win-win situation :)
Pool isn't about skill, it's a social game. You can't play snooker with the tiny amount of skill you get in pool. You have to work hard for snooker just like for any other sport. You don't for pool.
Quote from: Dodger on April 23, 2006, 07:56:02 PM
At least it's more original than "American Football". Pfft.
Damn straight.
Quote from: Bakster on April 23, 2006, 08:16:48 PM
Pool isn't about skill, it's a social game. You can't play snooker with the tiny amount of skill you get in pool. You have to work hard for snooker just like for any other sport. You don't for pool.
I agree, you play pool socially, down the pub or whatever ;D
It's funny watching Pool Pro's play snooker, they are never any good :)
I suck at both.
So Dodger, who are you rooting to win the tournament? My favourite player is Hendry, but he lost in the first round :'(
Now I'm going for O Sullivan
Sucks that Hendry is out...I was rooting for him too...I don't know who the strongest player is at the moment...
I thought Hendry would win after the respotted black thingy, but oh no! Hendry played 4973309057 crap shots in a row!
Quote from: Dodger on April 23, 2006, 07:56:02 PM
At least it's more original than "American Football". Pfft.
Just for your information:
In America, we do not call it "American Football." We simply call it "Football." The only reason Europeans know it as "American Football" is because what Americans call "Soccer", Europeans call "Football." So, in order to not confuse the two, Europeans call our game "American Football."
So there, Brit Boy ;)
oh yea, the americans just told of the brits. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA and by the way, snooker is also a card game.
Quote from: MathWiz20 on April 23, 2006, 10:55:44 PM
In America, we do not call it "American Football." We simply call it "Football." The only reason Europeans know it as "American Football" is because what Americans call "Soccer", Europeans call "Football." So, in order to not confuse the two, Europeans call our game "American Football."
So there, Brit Boy ;)
So what? You still stole the name 'Football' from us.
Quote from: SiR gUt on April 23, 2006, 11:35:47 PM
oh yea, the americans just told of the brits. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA and by the way, snooker is also a card game.
No card game that I've ever heard of. Can you prove this?
Quote from: Dodger on April 23, 2006, 11:43:49 PM
So what? You still stole the name 'Football' from us.
And the players of that sport utilize their feet extremely rarely. Bloody Thieves!!! :P
go search on google
I did, it just comes up with lots of game sites, that have snookers games, and card games. No Snooker Card Game... :-\
well it's a card game for sure
We are at the quarter finals. Watched the first few frames between Mark Williams and Ronnie, quality stuff ;D
Proof that snooker is indeed a card game!
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Snooker
LMFAO ;D
And for those who care (No-one), Graeme(sp) Dott won the World Championship, beating Peter Ebdon.
Wow, that information just changed my life.
K thx bai.
Quote from: Bakster on May 05, 2006, 09:50:14 PM
And for those who care (No-one), Graeme(sp) Dott won the World Championship, beating Peter Ebdon.
That sucked.. The final was an awful game. I didn't even watch it all...It went on for aaages.
Quote from: The_Guest on May 05, 2006, 09:52:46 PM
K thx bai.
This a new Guest trademark?
Quote from: Dodger on May 05, 2006, 10:31:02 PM
That sucked.. The final was an awful game. I didn't even watch it all...It went on for aaages.
This a new Guest trademark?
There was a 75 minute games Lolz
K thx bai.
I like how you talk.
K thx bai.
I don't like how you talk.
K thx bai.