What is difference between billiards and snooker?

I'll answer this once again. Billiards is an all-encompassing term used to describe all cue sports including pool (pocket billiards), snooker, and carom games. Carom games are played on pocketless tables. It's very common for people to use the term "billiards" to refer exclusively to carom games. Snooker is similar to pocket billiards in that it is played on tables with pockets. Snooker is usually played on very large tables (6' X 12') and has smaller balls and pockets than in pool. There are many differences beyond this, but this is a fine place to start. M.D.-BCA Instructor/Referee. P.S. I never said that it was incorrect to refer to carom games as "billiards" or incorrect to call pool "pocket billiards". Note, I used the word "exclusively". A "pool" is a collective bet and "poolrooms" were rooms set up for gambling at racing tracks. To pass the time, they installed pocket billiard tables in the "poolrooms" and the name eventually stuck, and that's why we play "pool" today. ...  more