practising snooker help pool?

[lukeeyw]

would you say that practising snooker drills would help my 8 ball ability as much or even better that practising pool with regards to potting and positioning?

[Particle Physics]

Yes and No. Yes, it will improve your set-up, because if you play snooker, you'll have no choice but to pay attention to set-up and technique. This will make potting balls on the baby table a walk in the park. You'll be able to screw three lengths of the table, stun round 8 cushions, that type of thing. The only problem is the balls. Snooker balls are all of equal size, and they're bigger. I find hitting pool balls a bit fidly now, it's like playing snooker on a kiddies plastic table with chopsticks cues. If you can get over these things when you go back on to the pool table, snooker will help you. A friend who plays pool played for England, and is now on the verge of automatically becoming pro because of his success at money competitions. He's a good snooker player with a high break of 132 (many years ago admittedly) and swears that snooker improves his game; it certainly makes him a clearance player at least every second frame of pool. It doesn't work the other way of course. Playing pool doesn't improve snooker playing IME.

[AKashyap]

Well let me tell you that pool is also quite an advanced game, despite of the fact that it is played on a small table with few balls .. If you can finish a rack of 8 ball, say 8 out of 10 times, then you have almost mastered it and are among the professionals ... !!

Learn how to break clusters, hit and move other balls in general and pot the required balls at the same time...
Learn bank shots at different speeds, center ball, screw back and follow !!!
Learn to come more than 3 rails for a shot at the other end of the table ...
Last but not the least, learn to do safeties ... The worst case being.. You have just the black remaining .. And the opponent has 6 or 7 balls remaining, but you are snookered behind one of his balls with the black stuck on a cushion.. If you can learn break this snooker and snooker your opponent in the same shot almost every time, then you surely are a kick ass player. If you are, you must know how hard of a shot it is and that it should be avoided at all costs ..
Never forget positional shots ... From potting balls making in a circle with cue ball in middle .. to down the line shots ... to rail shots .. And perfect position for the next shot, with the better angle for the 3rd shot .. !!

[AKashyap]

... My bad. Double post ...