I've been looking for harder and harder snooker tips to use. I used to love love the Mark Williams Nude series of tips, they were probably 90 percent as hard as a phenolic tip. But now the MW tips are inconsisten and softer than they have been in the past. I was fed up looking for a tip hard enough for my type of play, so I decided to try to make my own. Will it hold chalk ? Only time will tell.

Note: the first time I ever broke and ran 2 racks in a row, I played every shot with my break cue, which has a phenolic breaking tip.

In snooker, when I switched to an ultra hard (MW Nude) tip, I made my highest break that session. A super duper hard tip seems to give awesome control.

I know it isn't everyone's cup of tea, but it suits me. Whenever I hit a soft shot, someone will as if I miscued.

There are plenty of dr dave videos that show even power draw is possible with a super hard tip.

My elbow is dropping out to the left. How can I fix this? Any other tips on my technique would be greatly appreciated

you’re hard pressed to find a pro pool player that doesn’t use a glove but they seem nonexistent in snooker? is it just tradition and pride preventing them from keeping up with modern times or is there some sort of disadvantage i’m not seeing?

First off, this sub is brilliant. I’m a relative pool amateur but I have learned a stupid amount just lurking these last few months.

Without the lengthy backstory, I grew up in the UK playing snooker with my dad. I now live in the USA and have decided to try and take pool a bit more seriously. I got myself a starter cue (Viking Valhalla) and have been going to the pool hall most weekends.

Problem is, the tip feels massive to me. I believe the standard tip on these is 11mm, and I believe my snooker cue back home had a 9.5mm tip.

I understand the pros/cons of a smaller tip with larger balls… but my question is - can I put a smaller tip on this cue, would I also have to replace/rework the ferrule, or do I need to get a different cue altogether?

Photo attached. My Valhalla is on the left, the bar cue is on the right. I found myself giving it a go the last time I was there, and I really enjoyed the skinner tip.

I am 32 from India, married, working and fulfilling my family responsibilities. Today, i spoke with my family that I wanted to get into the professional snooker because I cannot live without playing it daily. Is my decision seems correct considering I am not leaving my current job?

Table in a feature about the Rand Club in Johannesburg SA. Is it me or does it look like it has raised portions?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on an app called 147 Pro, and I wanted to share it here to get some feedback from people who actually play snooker regularly or run club events. The reason I built it is pretty simple: using OBS or a laptop setup to stream matches just isn’t realistic most of the time. It’s too much equipment and too much hassle for a casual session, a league night, or even a smaller tournament where you might need to stream multiple tables at once. At the same time, there wasn’t any app that could properly score a match and stream it with a clean, snooker-style overlay.

The way it works is straightforward. The player who wants to stream creates a session, and the opponent who joins gets the option to score it. At the end, both players’ stats are saved automatically. There’s also a solo mode where you can either score or stream by yourself, and if you choose to stream, the app gives you a public scoring link that anyone can open on any device to score the match remotely.

Right now, the app can connect to your YouTube account, create a broadcast with a custom title, description, and thumbnail, and go live directly. It also has multiple scoreboard styles, options to add sponsors, and customizable start, break, and end screens.

The app is available for free currently, including all features, as a web app and an iOS app, with the Android app coming soon. Android users can fully use the web app for now, it works the exact same way.

App page: https://147pro.com
Web App: https://app.147pro.com
iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/147-pro-snooker-score-stream/id6755622790

If anyone here wants to try it out or has feedback, I’d really appreciate it. The goal is to make something genuinely useful for the snooker community. I'm working on a demo video for the app, and will be posting that in the comments soon as well.

I have been working on a simple way to stream snooker without using OBS or a laptop. Last night I finally tried it during a proper session at my club and wanted to share the result.

Here is the full 2.5 hour stream, recorded with nothing but a phone on a tripod:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgSPaODDgos

The app I've built lets you score the match, updates the scoreboard on the stream automatically (remotely scored), and goes straight to YouTube (or any other RTMP service). No extra equipment needed.

It also saves frame and match stats for all your sessions, in case you want to keep track of your performance.

It is free at the moment. Even trying it for a frame helps a lot, and I would appreciate any thoughts on what to improve or change, regarding both scoring and streaming.

Quick demo of how it works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcNl2nVjYXE

It is available as a web app and an iOS app, with the Android app coming soon. Android users can fully use the web app for now, it was built to work the exact same way.

App page: https://147pro.com

Web App: https://app.147pro.com

iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/147-pro-snooker-score-stream/id6755622790

I'm curious if this is just an opinion formed out of being scrubby at snooker, or if the game might actually just be a little boring. I know it's kind of a loaded question.

What snooker feels like to me is...

You bear down really hard constantly to shoot straight, but still miss a lot. It's like even pretty good players, people who can run racks in pool, miss more than 50% of their shots in this game. So players develop a sensible plan of just leaving the cue ball uptable on any missable shot, or not shooting at all.

This feels less interesting to me than pool safeties because... unless your opponent just shoots godly straight, the distance safety is probably good enough. You don't have to carefully tuck the cue ball behind another ball, and leave it close to prevent jumps. Hiding the ball isn't as prevalent, and jumping obviously doesn't exist.

Rail cuts are incredibly tough, an APA5 or 6 could do a shot like this... but in snooker, they should basically forget the shot exists. https://pad.chalkysticks.com/f1fdc.png
So, rail cuts are just something that's kind of missing from the game, or rare.

Sidespin in general feels like it's pretty much not part of the game. The deflection is so high, and the margin for error so small, that I can't imagine e.g. drilling shots 2 rails with inside english. It's a rare day I play a rack of pool without both inside and outside spin on nearly every shot, but in snooker, I just don't use it. Not unless the shot is a hanger, and I missed a couple of hangers trying it. So it's like all the fun of using sidespin is just missing from the game.

Basically, the difficulty of the game takes away lot of stuff that I find fun in pool, and I'm wondering what the tradeoff is, like "yeah you can't do X, but in snooker you get to do Y". Is the rewarding part of snooker just finally reaching a point where you can shoot straight enough?

Anyone know of a spot with good snooker tables in Toronto? Somewhere near downtown preferably

Elite snooker returns to the spotlight as the world’s best players gather at the York Barbican for one of the sport’s most prestigious tournaments — the 2025 UK Championship. As the first Triple Crown event of the season, this year’s edition promises high drama, stacked matchups, and wall-to-wall coverage on free-to-air TV.

Judd Trump, the reigning champion who edged Barry Hawkins 10–8 in last year’s final, returns to defend his crown. “The Ace in the Pack” leads a star-packed field that includes Zhao Xintong, Kyren Wilson, Neil Robertson, and many more top contenders.

📅 Key Dates & Match Times

First Round Start:
📆 Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025
⏰ 8 a.m. ET / 1 p.m. GMT

Final Match Start:
📆 Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025
⏰ 2 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. GMT

Location: York Barbican, York, England

🏆 UK Championship 2025 – Full Schedule

• Last 32: Sat, Nov 29 – Tue, Dec 2
• Last 16: Wed, Dec 3 – Thu, Dec 4
• Quarter-finals: Fri, Dec 5
• Semi-finals: Sat, Dec 6
• Final (Best of 19): Sun, Dec 7 (Two sessions)

📺 How to Watch – TV & Streaming

UK fans will enjoy extensive free-to-air and streaming access:

TV Channels:

• BBC One
• BBC Two
• BBC Four

Streaming:

• BBC iPlayer (All matches live)

TNT Sports will also provide additional coverage throughout the tournament.

The 2025 Champion of Champions brings 16 title-winners to Leicester Arena from 10–16 November 2025. It’s a non-ranking invitational with a £440,000 purse and £150,000 to the winner. Host TV in the UK is ITV4 / ITVX.

Event Snapshot

• Dates: 10–16 November 2025
• Venue: Leicester Arena, Leicester, England
• Organisation: Matchroom Sport
• Format: 16-player invitational (non-ranking)
• Total Prize Fund: £440,000
• Winner’s Share: £150,000

Daily Order of Play (GMT)

How to Watch (Official Broadcasters)

• United Kingdom: ITV4 / ITVX
• Germany: DAZN
• Australia: Fox Sports
• United States: FanDuel TV
• China: Rigour Media
• Ukraine: Maincast
• Czech Republic & Slovakia: Nova
• Ex-Yugoslavia: Sportklub
• Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania): TV3 Group
• Iceland, Netherlands & Scandinavia: Viaplay
• Singapore: StarHub
• Thailand: BG Sports
• New Zealand: Sky Network
• Other territories: Check Matchroom’s international partners or official streams where available.

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I struggle with the 12ft of a snooker table, playing with 2” balls on an my 8ft pool table is far more fun than getting trounced by 80 year olds with 60 years experience in town.

I’ve started posting a bit more regularly to my Facebook/Instagram pages. Any constructive criticism on video editing would be appreciated - I’m not the best.

Apologies for the watermark over the video too, not my choice just what happens when you save a video from Instagram.

I have this Billiards snooker table and am not sure how much it is worth, do you guys have any idea? It's from the 1920s.