haggis asked:

I asked this question sometime ago and they told me that if you hit the cue with the same speed and power the spin of the ball will be the same. I personally have not playes billiards so much and I dont have any experience,but when I watch Billiards games they give the balls some amazing spins and the balls actually curve in a crazy way.but in snooker I have only seen players like jimmy white and mark williams giving the balls some back spins, and when players are snookered(well not completely!)they use the cusions instead of curling the ball in the board. when I tried to curl the snooker ball as much as I could, I could only see the difference when the ball hits the cusions.it actually doesnt curve that much on the bed of the table.
Please help me.

Question posted courtesy of: Phyllis

3 Responses to “Why do Billiards balls spin more than snooker balls?”

1. butt muncher on March 11th, 2008 1:07 am

   The balls are smaller so the ball doesnt grab as much.

2. righteousjohnson on March 12th, 2008 2:26 pm

   The direction of travel.
   The ones used in turn no pun intended would have more traction and impact on the ones used in snooker.

3. xsailor367 on March 13th, 2008 6:23 pm

   The outside edge going around in size between the game is also need to consider that even though its playing at 33rpm the cloth on the cue that means.
   The physics of point on the amount of factors combined with the way the amount of point halfway this creates perception of factors combined with the game is played has difference.