Top professional players noo compete regularly aroond the warld an earn millions o pounds on the Warld Snooker Tour, which features players frae across the warld. Syne 2000, Ronnie O'Sullivan haes won the maist warld titles, wi five. Key figures i the gemme war Ray Reardon i the 1970s, Steve Davis i the 1980s, an Stephen Hendry i the 1990s, each winnin sax or mair Warld championships. The "modern era" began in 1969 efter the broadcaster BBC commissioned the snooker telly show Pot Black an later began tae air the Warld Championship in 1978. Joe Davis, a key figure i the early growthe o the sport, won the championship 15 straucht times atween 1927 an 1946. The Warld Snooker Championship haes taken place syne 1927. It i noo governed bi the Warld Professional Billiards an Snooker Association (WPBSA).
The gemme grew i popularity i the United Kingdom, an the Billiards Association an Control Club wis formed i 1919. The wird snooker wis a lang-uised military term fur inexperienced or first-year personnel. Snooker gained identity in 1884 whan armie officer Sir Neville Chamberlain, stationed in Ooty, Tamil Nadu, devised a set o rules that combined pyramid an black puil. A match i won whan a player wins a predetermined batch o frames. An individual gemme (or frame), is won bi the player scorin the maist pynts. Usin a cue stick an 21 coloured bawls, players must strike the white bawl (or "cue bawl") tae pot or pocket tha remainin bawls i the correct sequence, accumulatin pynts fur each pot. It is played on a rectangular table covered wi a green cloth (or "baize"), wi pockets at each o the fower corners an i the middle o each lang side. Snooker (pronountit UK / ˈ s n uː k ə/, US / ˈ s n ʊ k ər/) i a cue sport tha originatit amang Breetish Armie officer stationed i Indie i the second hauf o the 19t century. Snooker table, snooker balls, cue stick, triangle, chalk Three-time warld champion Mark Selby playin a practice game
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