Chin off cue

[j6uk]

Along with wearing slippers and smoking a pipe,?, j6.

and don't forget the tights babe.. no but seriously even without the tights just slippers and pipe its not easy to keep it all together, especially when your 0-2 down and you need to dish for your first frame

[vmax4steve]

A great number of pool player play with chin well off cue and very upright position always wondered why.

US pool tables are lower than snooker tables, could well be a factor.

[ace man]

US pool tables are lower than snooker tables, could well be a factor.

No, not really. I've been around those pool guys a lot. While all of them admire top snooker players and watch a lot of it on TV, none take the time to work specifically on cueing fundamentals...not even excellent 9ballers. This is why you see that see saw cue action of theirs very often. They think that learning proper snooker style is too time consuming and not really beneficial on more generous pockets.
Of course, I can only speak for those players that I know personally.

[DeanH]

FYI
Snooker table - 851mm-876mm (33.5"-34.5")
World Eight Ball Federation - 800-850 (31.5"-33.5")

so a pool table could be 2" lower that the lowest snooker table; that is of course if the tables are correctly adjusted