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To my fellow Americans, Snooker is insane. Balls are smaller, table is bigger (6x12 in UK I think) and the pockets are rounded. It's so hard to get used to, but if you can you will be a much better pool player.

I started watching about 5-6 years ago. Love it.

In case the video isn’t available in your area, https://youtu.be/XgNnH_kLnPQ

You the man

Thanks. Now why are videos in the year of 2022 still restricted to a specific area? Snooker??

Love snooker but tables to play on are a lot harder to find.

I remember as a kid having played pool loads and then the first time you step up to break on a snooker table. You're bent over clenching your cheeks trying not to shit yourself

So the shot is legal? Even if it is running the ball down the outside of the rail...weird.

Meant to do that.

Not all heroes.......

As Ronnie OSullivan describes snooker vs pool: "snooker is like a nice fillet steak and pool is like an old bit of mashy ham". A bit disrespectful, but snooker is a league above pool in terms of difficulty. Many snooker players have easily transitioned into playing professional pool, both American pool and English pool. Very few, if any, pool players have made it at snooker. Effren Reyes is apparently very good at snooker. That doesn't seem surprising though

The rule is about where the balls "lay to rest". Theoretically you could smash a ball off a plantpot in the garden and if it lands on the bed of the table, or is potted, it's legal.. provided no other rules are broken (such as chipping the cue ball over another ball before it's made contact with a legal object ball).

You can't have the cue ball come off the table to bounce it over an intervening ball (you can in pool) but if balls start bouncing after impact that's not by itself a foul.

If balls don't end up on the table or in a pocket it's always a foul though.

Because it's on the BBC and the BBC is funded by tv license fees and not by advertising.

I have one I can sell you! lol.

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Lol at his competition’s face…. Like he wants to rage flip the table

what would the penalty have been had the black ball fallen off the table?

These amateurs don't even call slop??? :-)

7 pts

So there's no "slop" rule in snooker?

Seriously? But it’s not like he tried to make the black ball do that, you can get screwed over if the table and other balls don’t cooperate with you?

> Very few, if any, pool players have made it at snooker.

Mark Selby would like a word.

It’s a weird shot, as a non fan, what is the significance beyond luck. He should have put it in the corner easily, right?

It's just counted as a foul, nobody would ever tries to do a foul but they happen.

It's 7 pts because it's the black, if it was another colour the foul would be the value of that colour, with a minimum of 4 pts.

It is just pure luck, he hits it hard so that the cue ball ends up where he wants it to for the following shot and by mistake pulls off that insanely lucky shot. Very simolified of course but you get the jist

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Alex Pagulayan plays snooker at a decent level, as well as Corey Deuel!

I know Efren also plays.

His opponent was not even the tiniest bit impressed.

Fair point but Selby has always played both. He's been a pro snooker player since he was 16/17.

That's the other problem: having a room in your house big enough to have a full size snooker table.

Yeah so basically he's putting a lot more concentration in to where the cue ball will end up. Ideally wanting to smash them reds to give plenty of options for his next shots.

He's an Eagles fan.

Just like he planned

Although you can get UK tables in the US, a US snooker table is 5x10, still massive, but not the behemoth a UK one is.

Its snooker, the pockets are super tight and your angles have to be literally perfect. A shot played at that speed off by a few millimetres will miss.

Oh and that's a bad miss.

I have enough trouble with normal pool, not looking to make it harder.

No, because the BBC only has the rights for the UK. Doesn't matter how they are financed.

>BBC iPlayer is funded by the UK TV licence and its use is restricted to UK residents only.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/questions/watching-outside-the-uk/reside-outside-uk

>A valid TV licence is required to watch or download any programmeson BBC iPlayer, as well as watching or recording live TV on any channel. Doing so without a TV licence is a criminal offence and you could beprosecuted and fined up to £1000 (or £2000 in Guernsey).

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/questions/about-bbc-iplayer-and-our-policies/tv-licence

>You must be covered by a TV Licence to download or watch on BBC iPlayer

Source: https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/bbc-iplayer-and-the-tv-licence

This one backs up your point but contradicts the other three that I was able to find:

>Due to rights agreements, you need to be in the UK to stream and download programmes or watch BBC TV channels on BBC iPlayer.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/questions/watching-outside-the-uk/outside-uk

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Edit: On reflection I think there's no contradiction. BBC requires a license to use iplayer due to how it's funded (my point). BBC acquires programming under the agreement that said programming will only be available online to license payers (the rights agreements as per your point)