Like the real game, online billiards demands discipline, skill, and a great eye for all potential outcomes. There are many sites with a variety of billiards games which feature beautiful graphics, animation, and fun. With the development of web based graphic technologies such as Flash and Java, online billiards has become very popular. Carom 3D is an online multi-user billiard game created with special 3D graphic effects. It has interesting features such as straight pool, 6 balls, 9 balls, 8 balls, and exotic pyramid games. These are available in both single player and multiplayer modes.

Online billiards simulates billiard physics including side ball spin, realistic ball movements, back spin, forward spin, lights playing on ivory and bronze, exact cue shots, environmental effects, and curve ball trajectories. Some of these sites allow the user to play freely whereas some others who offer more sophisticated games demand a registration fee. Online billiard websites also provide tutorials on the game, which is a great help to the beginner.

There are certain online billiard sites where you can buy billiard and game room accessories at reasonable prices. Cue sticks, billiard tables, paintings of great billiard players are among the items you can buy. Online stores accept almost all credit cards.

Newcomers may find it a bit intimidating to learn snooker, but the actual rules are not that complicated. Perhaps the most difficult part is setting the table properly:  Snooker is played on 6 feet by 12 feet traditional billiards tables.  A standard set of snooker balls is required. This set of 22 balls includes 15 red balls, 1 each of pink, yellow, brown, blue, black and green balls, and 1 white cue ball. The green, brown, yellow balls are placed at one end of the table, with a 6 inch gap between them. The blue ball goes in the dead center of the table. Pink splits the distance between the blue ball and the end of the table cushion on the far side. The black ball gets its own special spot, marked about 13 inches from the far cushion. The fifteen red balls are set in the triangle rack and placed immediately behind the pink ball. The apex (‘point’) of the red triangle should come as close as possible to the pink ball, without actually touching it.

Now the game can begin! One player “breaks” by striking the cue ball into the group of red balls. Whenever a player sinks a red ball, she or he is then allowed to try to sink any one of the six colored balls. There are points assigned to each colored ball: black is worth seven points; pink is worth six; blue counts five; brown is worth four; green counts for three; and the yellow ball is good for two points. After a colored ball is sunk, the points are added to the total, and the ball is retrieved and spotted back in its original spot on the table.There are also varieties of snooker that you can try out after you have mastered the basic game. As you can see, snooker is not terribly complex, but it can still be a drag on the fun part of the game for newcomers trying too remember all the rules, so it is best to have an experienced player explain the snooker rules to you.

Snooker has been a much beloved sport in England for more than a century, and with good reason. It is a fun game, that is easy to play, yet offers many skills challenges as one progresses. If your house already has a regulation-sized pool table, make sure you purchase a set of snooker balls and instructions soon, and add this fantastic game to your family’s activities. Snooker has never really caught fire 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.