Hi all. The pure, shortest description of snooker: tick, tick, plock. That first 'tick' is the cue striking the white, the second is that cue ball hitting the object ball and that oh so wonderful 'plock' is the sound of the object ball changing course from horizontal to vertical against that leather covered brass edge of the pocket it so mysteriously disappears into. One down.

Or at least that's the glamorous way, almost BBC like if you will, most of us look at snooker when it's displayed at it's very best form on TV.

As you've probably guessed by now we have been playing another competition match of snooker last night. And again it wasn't pretty. This time however I've been playing quite nicely. Apart from my first frame which was even worse than Tuesday when Bas and I practiced and put down another couple of frames in our best of one hundred match.

After the break off shot of the first frame I spotted a chance, went for it and messed it up. The other guy kept potting balls and there was little I could do against it. I made the mess, he cleared it up. Simple.

What was lacking in the first frame however, I made up in the second. I wouldn't mind playing like that all the time. Things went so smooth, just about every ball I went for dropped like it couldn't have been any other way. In no time I was about forty points in front which, on our level of competence, is a lot.

When we came to the colors he kept trying to come back but when the brown went in he gave up, like I would have done also. For some reason the brown ball is some kind of turning point and when I'm far behind and it's gone, so is the frame.

My third and last frame was one of the nicest in play for a long time. Mainly because of two factors: first of all due to that second frame I was beginning to play really good snooker. Almost like the old form I once was in ... And the second reason was that he played snooker like I do which makes a frame even more enjoyable.

The (my?) basic idea of a good frame of snooker is that you simply try and pot balls of which you believe you can pot them for about fifty five point seven percent (rounded off to the nearest decimal ;-) or more. Not that 'hm, I don't know if that's going to work lets put it safe' kind off snooker. Which can be very useful at some times, but lets face it: it's boring. If I didn't want to pot the balls I would have turned to playing billiards and not snooker ;-)