Do any of you actually play ?
I still play. After my cataract surgery ten years ago I got lens implants and it took me a while to figure out how to see without the thick ass glasses I'd worn my whole life. But I'm good now. Never liked playing in pubs because the equipment is always shit, although back in my drinking career I always played in a tavern league.
We have pool halls here, though, and one of my neighbors has a decent table in his home. Snooker and Billiards are tougher, I think there's only one snooker table in the whole county and maybe 2 billiard tables. They take up more room than a pool table.
I like pool. From comparing notes with Reaper I think American pool is easier and considerably different than English pool, but American snooker is pretty much the same as English (except American snooker tables are smaller.)
Billiards is my great love, though, especially 3-cushion. I was snooker champ of my college 2 years running but there were too many crafty old professors playing billiards and I couldn't compete.