They might be the opposite sides of the same coin but they still remain as different as chalk and cheese. Billiards and Snooker are two games that are played on almost the same kind of table but still have mighty variations in their playing order. These aspects make these two games differ tremendously though their approach might be the same. The pub pool table or Standard Pool Tables usually have both these games being played on them and hence, differentiating becomes quite a tedious task. To start off with, Billiards is basically played with three ball types, White, Yellow and Red. The White Balls and the Yellow Balls are played by the opponents with the objective of scoring points and the players doing the same first is the one who wins. Snooker has 15 Red balls, A cue ball and Six Coloured Balls. The player goes on potting a red ball and then has to pot a coloured ball out of the six. The coloured ball is taken out and placed at its original position post which a red ball is potted once again. It goes on till all the red balls get potted and only the coloured ones are left, which too have a sequence to be followed. These forms are followed well on the Standard Pool Tables and the Pub Pool Table that gets used up well in pubs and other public places. Tables put through pool table recover process also have these processes followed.

In Snooker, every red ball carried one point with 2 on Yellow, 3 on Green, 4 on Brown, 5 on Blue, 6 on Pink and 7 on Black. They have to be potted in ascending order and the player scoring the most number of points is the one who ends up getting declared as victorious. Billiards is won through a different approach as you have to be the first one to pot all of your designated balls before your opponent pots all of his. The Billiards tables have huge pockets in comparison to their Snooker counterparts. The balls played with in the game are also huge. Though the tables might look very similar in design and crafting, they are quite different when it comes to suiting the style of the game. The snooker balls are smaller in size and easy to hit. Standards Pool Tables on which these games are played along with the Pub Pool Table can be used to convert the game of Billiards into a game of Snooker. The Billiards Balls are numbered where as the Snooker ones are not.         

One can also convert the Billiards table into a Snooker Table as the holes can be made smaller. The rules given beneath are quite simple and hep people in differentiating between both the games and the ways in which they are played. Both of them have their own sets of rules and both are prolific in their own ways. The enjoyment that both provide are quite different and player also revel very differently while playing these two forms of table games.