Hi Bill

Of course I knew that pool is more popular; it's that I don't think I've ever heard the word "snooker" spoken by a US mouth and I've never seen a snooker table on any TV or film. Billiards, of course, is played on a snooker table anyway. Here every fire station and police station has a snooker table, not pool.

Snooker, of course, is also a much tougher game than pool.#

Terry

>Hi Terry,
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>I know they have snooker tables in this area, but I believe that pool (tables) is "generally" more popular here. There is also billiards which is, I believe, a generally tougher game to play.
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>Bill
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>>Didn't know whether to put this in sport or not. Over here we've just had, again, another world championship in snooker. Now this "sport" strikes me a little like baseball, in that we have a world championship but, afaik, only one contestant was from outside the British Isles, and that was Honk Kong, an ex-Brit colony. The only other guy I can conjur to mind is Cliff Thorburn, and ex-contestant from Canada.
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>>Is it that Snooker is only practised in British Commonwealth lands? I've never seen any evidence of it in the USA or Europe. Incidentally, the guy who just lost the final has twice been world champ at 8-ball pool