>Yes, I can remember playing on a snooker table (a long time ago) and it was much harder than pool due to the smaller pockets with rounded cushion edges. The billiards I'm thinking of would be "carom billiards" and played on a table with no pockets as opposed to "pocket billiards" which, I guess, would/could be played on a snooker table.

I think, officially, it's the other way round: snooker is played on a billiards table. :-)
BTW "Pocket billiards" in UK speak is also a euphonism for something that only a man can practise, :-)

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>Bill
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>>Hi Bill
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>>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.
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>>Snooker, of course, is also a much tougher game than pool.#
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>>Terry