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===Pockets=== A snooker table has six pockets, one at each corner and one at the centre of each of the longest side cushions. The pockets are around 86 mm (3.5 in),{{clarify|date=February 2010|reason=3.5 in is 89 mm! Which is it, and convert more accurately, please. Also, what is actually being measured?}} though high-class tournaments may use slightly smaller pockets to increase difficulty. The amount of {{cuegloss|Undercut|undercut}} (trimmed underside of the rubber cushion's protruding {{cuegloss|Nose|nose}} at the pocket opening),<ref name="SnookerGames">{{cite web |url=http://www.snookergames.co.uk/glossary1.html |title=Definitions of Terms used in Snooker and English Billiards |last=Stooke |first=Michael P. |work=SnookerGames.co.uk |publisher=self-published |location=Dorset, England |date=14 March 2010 |access-date=25 December 2011 |archive-date=17 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120417173644/http://www.snookergames.co.uk/glossary1.html |url-status=dead }}{{tertiary|biblio=yes}} Stooke is a snooker instructor and writer whose work appears to be presumptively reliable, based on the sources he does cite throughout his materials.</ref>{{rp|8}} if any, has a strong effect on how easily a ball is accepted by the pocket (the "{{cuegloss|Pocket speed|pocket speed}}"). On snooker and English billiards tables, the pocket entries are rounded, while pool tables have sharp "{{cuegloss|Knuckle|knuckles}}". This affects how accurate shots need to be to get into a pocket, and how fast they can be when not dead-on, including shots that run along and against a cushion, making snooker more difficult to play than pool. According to the WPBSA official rule book, "the pocket openings shall conform to the {{cuegloss|Pocket template|templates}} owned and authorised by The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA)".<ref name="WPBSA 2011" /> The WPBSA and IBSF rule books' equipment sections do not actually specify the measurements and shapes of these proprietary templates<ref name="IBSF 2011" /><ref name="WPBSA 2011" /> which change from time to time, requiring that the templates be dated.<ref name="BCCSS">{{cite web |url= http://pooltableindia.weebly.com/snooker-table.html |title=Standard Size of the Snooker Table|date=1995|publisher=India Cue Sports Society |location=Delhi, New Delhi, India |access-date=25 December 2011}}</ref> The organizations do not recognize tournament play or records ([[Highest snooker break|maximum breaks]], etc.) if not performed on tables that conform to then-current templates.<ref name="BCCSS" /><ref name="FCSnooker">{{cite web |url= http://www.fcsnooker.co.uk/latest%20links/147_breaks.htm |title=Maximum Breaks (Professional Competition Only) |at="Unofficial 147s" section |work=FCSnooker.co.uk |publisher=The Frank Callan Suite |location=Preston, England |date=2009 |access-date=24 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120108113450/http://www.fcsnooker.co.uk/latest%20links/147_breaks.htm |archive-date=8 January 2012}} FCS is a snooker equipment manufacturer that also runs a snooker statistics site.</ref>
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