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Snooker (pronounced UK: / ˈ s n uː k ər / SNOO-kər, US: / ˈ s n ʊ k ər / SNUUK-ər) [1] [2] is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets: one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side.
The World Snooker Championship trophy. The World Snooker Championship is an annual snooker tournament founded in 1927, and played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England since 1977. The tournament is now played over seventeen days in late April and early May, and is chronologically the third of the three Triple Crown events of the season.
Snooker table, drawn to scale, with starting positions of all object balls and the cue ball placed within the "D" for a break-off shot. Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a baize -covered snooker table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions.
Snooker balls are smaller than American-style pool balls with a diameter of 52.5 mm (2 + 1 ⁄ 16 in), and come in sets of 22 (15 reds, 6 "colours", and a cue ball). English billiard balls are the same size as snooker balls and come in sets of three balls (two cue balls and a red object ball). Other games, such as bumper pool, have custom ball ...
The Triple Crown in professional snooker refers to winning the sport's three longest-running and most prestigious tournaments: the World Snooker Championship (first held in 1927 and staged as a knockout tournament continuously since 1969), the invitational Masters (held annually since 1975), and the UK Championship (held annually since 1977).
Illustration from Michael Phelan's 1859 book, The Game of Billiards. Cue sports techniques (usually more specific, e.g., billiards techniques, snooker techniques) are a vital important aspect of game play in the various cue sports such as carom billiards, pool, snooker and other games.
American snooker is a cue sport played almost exclusively in the United States, and strictly on a recreational, amateur basis. Diverging from the original game of snooker , rules for American snooker date back to at least 1925, and have been promulgated by the Billiard Congress of America (BCA) since the mid-20th century.
The 2025 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2025 Cazoo World Snooker Championship) is an upcoming professional snooker tournament to be held from 19 April to 5 May 2025. [1] It will be the 49th consecutive edition of the World Snooker Championship to be held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield , England.