(5th post) top 10 famous snooker players

This are the present top players by rankings:
(there is a link to each of the players bio)

1. Ronnie O'Sullivan
http://www.prosnooker.co.uk/players/ronnieo.html

2. Stephen Hendry
http://www.prosnooker.co.uk/players/shendry.html

3. Stephen Maguire
http://www.prosnooker.co.uk/players/smaguire.html

4. Matthew Stevens
http://www.prosnooker.co.uk/players/mstevens.html

5. Paul Hunter
http://www.prosnooker.co.uk/players/phunter.html

6. John Higgins
http://www.prosnooker.co.uk/players/jhiggins.html

7. Peter Ebdon
http://www.prosnooker.co.uk/players/pebdon.html

8. Jimmy White (My favourite player)
http://www.prosnooker.co.uk/players/jwhite.html

here is a video of his amazing shot.



9. Mark Williams
http://www.prosnooker.co.uk/players/mwilliams.html

10. Stephen Lee
http://www.prosnooker.co.uk/players/slee.html

(4th post) techniques and styles

This few examples from youtube are the basic pool techniques and styles video tutorials

(1st) The Stance


(2nd) The "Open, Tower, or V Bridge


(3rd) The Closed Bridge


(4th) The Cue Ball Control for Basic Cue Ball Effect


(5th) Cue Ball Control for Drawing the Cue Ball


For more lessons on youtube visit this line===>http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D9B8803599EEBC5A

(3rd post)goal and achievements

i have been training and sometimes challenging others on snooker and pool every weekend.
And i have been practising this trickshots.. here is a video of what i am practising.

(2nd post) history of Snooker/Billiard

The History of billiards is long and very rich. The game has been played by kings and commoners, presidents, mental patients, ladies, gentlemen, and hustlers alike.

It evolved from a lawn game similar to the croquet played some-time during the 15th century in Northern Europe and probably in France.

Play moved indoors to a wooden table with green cloth to simulate grass, and a simple border was placed around the edges.

The balls were shoved, rather than struck, with wooden sticks called "maces." The term "billiard" is derived from French, either from the word "billart", one of the wooden sticks, or "bille", a ball.

Snooker is generally regarded to have originated in the latter half of the 19th century.

Billiards had been a popular activity amongst British Army officers stationed in India, and variations on the more traditional billiard games were devised.

One variation, devised in the officers' mess in Jabalpur during 1874 or 1875, was to add coloured balls in addition to the reds and black which were used for pyramid pool and life pool.

The word snooker also has military origins, being a slang term for first-year cadets or inexperienced personnel.

Who Invented Snooker?
The game of snooker was invented by a Britain, Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain (the picture on the right) of the British Army garrisons of India. The game is believed to have came about as a mix of other billiard games, mainly english billiards, this new billiard sport of snooker surfaced around 1875.

One version of events states that Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain of the Devonshire regiment was playing this new game when his opponent failed to pot a ball and Chamberlain called him a snooker.

It thus became attached to the billiards game now bearing its name as inexperienced players were labelled as snookers.