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Luney, Graham (17 December 2018). "Mark Allen pockets £70k Scottish Open title with a 'nice fluke'". Hafez, Shamoon (2 December 2018). "Ronnie O'Sullivan 'ready to go' with breakaway snooker tour". 11 December 2017). "BBC Extends World Snooker Deal". Morgan, Liam (8 October 2017). "World Snooker Federation launched in bid to improve Olympic Games prospects". Since its launch in October 2017, the World Snooker Federation (WSF) has been advocating for snooker to be added to the Olympic and Paralympic programme. Every player on the World Snooker Tour is assigned a position on the WPBSA's official world ranking list, which is used to determine the seedings and the level of qualification each player requires for the tournaments on the professional circuit. As of the 2024-25 season, players in the top 64 on the official ranking list are guaranteed a tour place for the next season, as well as a maximum of 31 players who are currently on the first year of a two-year tour card, What is a billiards club and the top four prize money earners during the most recent season who are not already qualified; this being assessed after the World Championship. World Disability Billiards and Snooker (WDBS) is a WPBSA subsidiary that organises events and playing aids in snooker and other cue sports for people with disabilities.

Recommended for Billiards because: Reasonable rates and lots of tables get you waiting less and playing more. There are also games such as English billiards that include aspects of multiple disciplines. A game called pyramid pool, like pyramids, was also played on a billiard table in England prior to 1850. The rules of these two games were very similar. In straight pool, a third successive foul results in a loss of 16 points (15 plus one for the foul). In one-pocket, in which a set number of balls must be made in a specific pocket, upon a foul the player must return a ball to the table. If a player is awarded a free ball with all fifteen reds still in play, they can potentially make a break exceeding 147, with the highest possible being a 155 break, achieved by nominating the free ball as an extra red, then potting the black as the additional colour after potting the free-ball red, followed by the fifteen reds with blacks, and finally the colours.

The most prestigious amateur event in England is the English Amateur Championship; first held in 1916, this is the oldest snooker competition still being played in the world. Joe Davis was the World Champion for twenty years, retiring unbeaten in the event after claiming his fifteenth world title in 1946 when the tournament was reinstated after the Second World War. 1969 when the World Championship became a knockout event. The World Championship uses a longer format, with matches ranging from the best of 19 frames in the first round to best of 35 for the final, which is played over four sessions of play held over two days. Shanghai Masters, the Masters and the World Snooker Championship. The leading tournament on the women's tour is the World Women's Snooker Championship, the winner of which receives a two-year tour card to the main professional tour. To better grasp the basics of billiards, observe professional billiards players in action through matches and tournaments. Beginning in the 2014-15 season, some players have also received invitational tour cards in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the sport; these cards are issued at the discretion of the World Snooker Board, and have been awarded to players including Steve Davis, James Wattana, Jimmy White, and Stephen Hendry.

Several players, including Ronnie O'Sullivan, Mark Allen and Steve Davis, have claimed that there are too many tournaments in the season, causing burnout of players. Non-professional snooker (including youth competition) is governed by the International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF). It takes little time for an entrepreneur to open a billiards club. However, that game of pyramid pool was played at this time in England with fourteen reds instead of fifteen. Tenball was a snooker variant designed specifically for the television show of the same name, an LWT production that was broadcast for one series in 1995. An extra ball worth ten points (the yellow and black "tenball") was added between the blue and pink, and the game had a slightly revised set of rules compared to the standard game. In carom billiards games, when all the balls are kept near each other and a cushion so that with very soft shots the balls can be "nursed" down a rail, allowing multiple successful shots that effectively replicate the same ball setup so that the nurse shots can be continued almost indefinitely, unless a limit is imposed by the rules. Same as draw. See illustration at spin.