My sis used to compete in Pool tournaments. Had her own cue made especially for her. Decades ago of course. Thank you for your reply m2c and Happy Thursday to thee! :)
This post was edited by RosieG at September 5, 2019 4:14 AM MDT
I don't play billiards or snooker, though I've occasionally played pool, but they are different games.
Pool is an American game derived from billiards (an English invention) and snooker, but played on a small table.
Snooker and billiards use a much larger table, but it does not have the "posts" My2cents mentions.
Snooker and Pool use full ball sets; Billiards uses only three balls.
Snooker is played at professional league level, televised and all; but you hear much less about billiards, for some reason.
There is or was a pub game called Bar Billiards, which is related. Once popular in Southern England, it comes from France and Belgian but is of Russian ancestry. Judging by photos of a bar billiards set, its smaller-size table does have "posts", or more accurately small mushroom-shaped wooden pins. I don't know how their purpose, or how the game is played, though.
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