Like in Geometry class, you're not drawing isosceles triangles or measuring the length of its hypotenuse at a pool table. However in the game of billiards, you need to consider about angles, positioning the cue ball to ricochet off other balls. This makes them to go into each six pockets in a perimeter line of the pool table.

You can play different kinds of games at a pool table using 15 balls in your typical game is snooker. Snooker is a game that started off in Britain and came to be called "snooker", the definition of "Snooker" is a first year cadet. It is believed that Neville Chamberlain referred to an army cadet as snooker. Chamberlain then referred to the rest of the men playing with him that they were all snookers. Since then the name stuck to the game.

However the object of the game is quite similar to your regular 8-ball game. You need to put all the balls in the pockets that line the table. But the way in which the balls are set up at the beginning of the game--not to mention the balls' colors, the multiple "fouls" that can be committed, the number of balls used, the referee, and the fact that each game is made up of multiple frames--makes this game truly unique when compared to its counterparts.

Snooker has never really become famous in the United States but that doesn't hold true for the United Kingdom. In fact, it is the most watched sporting event outside soccer, or football, as it's known throughout most of the world. In 1985, one-third of the United Kingdom population place themselves in front of their television sets to watch Dennis Taylor win on the final shot--a performance that is remembered as one of the sport's best moments. Since 1927, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association organize the professional tour and championship; the champion ship is held in Sheffield.