Jamil Abubakar, from Lagos, Nigeria, is not only a pilot, but he is also an executive director at Aximites Energy, Ltd. Outside of his professional life, Jamil Abubakar has several interests that include playing snooker.
While similar in theme, snooker, pool, and billiards are games with a few nuances including very different rules to winning the game. Two of the major differences among the three are their ball and tables sizes. Pool games use 16 balls, snooker 22, and billiards three with pool balls being the largest and snooker balls being the smallest. As for table sizes, billiard and pool games typically measure seven-feet (bar table), eight-feet (recreational table), or a nine-feet (professional), and snooker and pool tables are pocketed whereas billiard tables are not.
All three games have rules that have variations. In snooker, the winner is determined by how many balls they pocket in a frame with each of the 22 balls being assigned a numerical value. The rules also govern which balls can be pocketed on any given play, and when the wrong ball is pocketed, it is considered a foul.
While there are many different ways to play pool, straight pool is a call-pocket game requiring the player to call the shot before making it. Similar to snooker, players win by scoring points by pocketing balls-each ball is worth one point.
Originally called carom billiards, billiards only requires players to accumulate “counts.” Players earn counts by bouncing the cue ball off the other two balls.
While similar in theme, snooker, pool, and billiards are games with a few nuances including very different rules to winning the game. Two of the major differences among the three are their ball and tables sizes. Pool games use 16 balls, snooker 22, and billiards three with pool balls being the largest and snooker balls being the smallest. As for table sizes, billiard and pool games typically measure seven-feet (bar table), eight-feet (recreational table), or a nine-feet (professional), and snooker and pool tables are pocketed whereas billiard tables are not.
All three games have rules that have variations. In snooker, the winner is determined by how many balls they pocket in a frame with each of the 22 balls being assigned a numerical value. The rules also govern which balls can be pocketed on any given play, and when the wrong ball is pocketed, it is considered a foul.
While there are many different ways to play pool, straight pool is a call-pocket game requiring the player to call the shot before making it. Similar to snooker, players win by scoring points by pocketing balls-each ball is worth one point.
Originally called carom billiards, billiards only requires players to accumulate “counts.” Players earn counts by bouncing the cue ball off the other two balls.
