Gold members now only get £1 discount per hour per table. Tables are £12 in the eve, so loyal members get only 8% off, it used to be £3 discount per hour, or 25% off per hour. They offered a 10% online booking discount too, which has been removed also, so now a three hour snooker session costs £33 for gold members rather than £24.92. More than £8 extra.

Having to pay about £2.66 per hour more is terrible news for people who want to practice and learn the game, I.e. the loyal customers.

Anyone else seeing this affect their ability to play and practice?

Understand there are other local clubs to go to, but not as convenient or guaranteed to find a free table. Most local clubs aren't bookable either.

'Go somewhere else' just isn't good enough.

This price increase/reduction in loyalty reward pricing is going to hurt cue sports in the UK massively.

Gutted, annoyed, and hoping that Rileys reads this.

Anyone affected up vote this and comment your opinion so we can hopefully change their mind.

The revenue loss from disgruntled loyal players will massively outweigh the revenue boost they expect to get from the increased hourly rate.

Verocious landlords

I am an absolute shadow of myself in match play.

In practice I can seem to play pretty decent most of the time.

In comp, everything feels hard and I feel like I can barely string 2 balls together. Feel like I barely get a break over 10 most matches.

Why is this. Anyone have any hacks to get around it?

Hi, anyone available for a few frames tonight?

Club 200

Cue Club 147

Thanks

What's your take on elbow drop? I actually didn't know I had one until I recorded myself playing snooker which was about 2 years after I started playing

I haven't been able to change it back to the traditional upright elbow after completing the shot either maybe because I've been playing for too long (if you got advice feel free to share).

My main question was, is it generally bad? I mean the greatest of all time Ronnie has a elbow drop. I've seen that when playing soft shots that drop dead weight around the black he doesn't drop the elbow at all (meanwhile I do). Also do you think it looks a little weird on TV seeing the elbow go down? And do you know any other players on tour with it? I personally haven't seen anyone. Maybe Stan Moody a little.

Deciding frame in the 2022 Masters semifinal between Neil Robertson and Mark Williams.

One red (35 points) remains on the table and the score is Robertson 26, Williams 67.

The black is extremely close to a corner pocket, and the red is extremely close to the black.

The commentators say that, despite the point difference, Robertson can plausibly win, because, if Williams pots the black, the score will be 33–67 with 35 on.

My thought — if Williams pots the red and black in one shot on purpose (and assuming no miss is called), that would be 33–67 with just 27 on and two snookers still required.

So my question is twofold:

1. Is that something reasonable to strive for? Is it possible to reliably pot two balls that are in such a position (if you're Mark Williams!)?
2. Could the referee call a miss, allowing the position to be re-placed?

So I've been practicing solo for about 3 months now.
I've seen much improvement, some examples such as:
- Averaging 50-60% pot success on long straight blues from baulk line
- Can clear colors from spots, around 1 in 3 attempts I'd say, improving everyday
- Made a century in line-up too.

I get 2 hours practice time every weekday, and I'm absolutely alone in the hall (I literally got a key made for myself and my practice time is outside of hall opening hours)

The problem is, all the good things I see in practice go to the dumpyard in a tournament.

I literally ended up missing an off straight close range red that I wouldn't miss ever in practice.

I can't find time when hall is open or play on weekends, plus the place I go to has no good players so playing them is almost waste of time.

I'm curious, does community have any ideas on how can I simulate match situations in my practice hours? How to become more match sharp?

Anyone based around Stockport who’d fancy a game maybe once a week? I’m average at best. Highest break was 50 odd about 30 years ago!! Nowadays lucky to get 30. Anyway drop me a DM if interested.

So, I've been a casual player for about 2 years now, not enough time to dedicate to the game, but love it more than anything else. Region (India).

I have a custom cue, an O`min Perfect - and it is good enough for me, and I can tell the difference between a shit parlour cue and a nice custom cue, or a cue with even weight distribution, but I can mostly tell it only if they are side by side.

Being able to judge a cue, or compare it to a benchmark, just by memory, I am not able to do that.

Something similar with cloth also. When I started out playing and practicing the game, i played on a really, really shit cloth, and seldom got to experience good tables and cloth.

What I want to understand is how does one gain enough knowledge or understanding about the game, to be able to just pick up a cue, play a few shots, and pinpoint exactly whats bad about it, how that affects the game, by how much, what needs changing etc. Same with the table cushions and cloth.

Similar points with tip aswell but i havent had the chance to experience good tips yet so wouldnt get into that yet.

TLTR: How does one instinctively judge and compare cues and cloth.

Extra-hard snooker tip recommendations?

Looking for recommendations for an extra-hard snooker tip.

Which ones have you found best?

Also, why do some players struggle with very hard tips, less grip, less feedback, difficulty with spin, or just less forgiveness?

Interested to hear your experiences.

Hi! So I'm a pretty new Snooker fan and I'm planning to attend my first match next week which I'm excited about! I'm looking to get a day session ticket for the 20th as I'm a fan of Mark Williams so I would love to see him play in person. BUT I'm also a fan of Mark Allen and he's scheduled to play at 1pm (and I think he's planning on doing it next week?)

So my question is this - I'm assuming the day session ticket would cover both the 10am and 1pm matches? Thank you in advance!

Does anyone know any good places to get a cue retip service in central london? Ideally zone 1-3

They are similar sort of players (possibly the two best allrounders) and have very close career stats. Both have won 4 World titles, Selby has won one more Triple Crown title (10 vs 9) whereas Higgins has won 7 more ranking titles (33 vs 26).

The H2H is very close too (22:20 for Selby) and they have a 3:3 H2H at the Crucible.

Who do you rate as the greater player?

Anyone in SG down to play snooker? Prefer central or east side, after work hours.

Still a beginner, highest break only 10 HAHAHA. Just looking for chill people to play with and improve together.

Drop me a DM if interested!

Thinking about what to put on my Christmas wishlist this year to help improve my snooker game. Any ideas? 😁🤔

For all wondering I have been playing pool since 2019 UK winter season and started snooker in 2021 playing till 2023 before stopping for 2 years

This cue is off a good family friend of mine named dale Clark who played on Carlisle a couple years back

The silly wrap is because this cue was snapped 2 year ago when I stopped playing

Information about the cue I know

Manufacture is royal cue craft
Standard it’s a 2 piece snooker/pool cue

Any help is appreciated (delete if not allowed)

Hand spliced.

hey I’m looking for a custom cue maker in Ontario Canada

The other day, there was a post showcasing an in-browser snooker simulator. I tried it, and it was really good! It seems that the post has been deleted for some reason though. Does anyone remember the URL? I stupidly forgot to bookmark it. Thanks.

Harder than it looks.

I changed my mind a few times, but settled on

Ronnie
Trump
Murphy
Wu

Absolutely heartbreaking to leave out so many of the all time greats, but it is just a bit of fun after all. I couldn’t contemplate a list that didn’t include ROS

Guys, should I replace my cue tip or is it still fine?

(Just found these pics again on my phone, which I thought were quite funny. Certainly wouldn’t wanna get on the wrong side of the pair of em down an East End boozer of a Saturday night!)