what made you start playing snooker?

[Harry Hossack]

hi all,
im just curious to know what things made you pick up a cue and start playing. i was on holiday playing pool and started to enjoy it so when i came back i started playing on my granddads 8x4 table and it all went from there tbh.

[tomw]

The answer is: STEVE DAVIS.

When the BBC came on cable in 1984, I was 13 years old.
The first match I watched was the Embassy World final Davis-White (18-16). I didn't miss that many matches since ;-)
When I was a teenager, I was a BMX-racer. I quit BMX in 1991, because I (finally) wanted to play snooker in competition. I started playing tournaments in the summer of 1992, and won my first "official" tournament in november 1992.

Some people compare Steve Davis to god, I think that's silly. Ok, he is fantastic, but he is not Steve Davis...

[BenBradshaw]

Watching Judd Trump at last years world championships

[acehead]

Jimmy white and Steve Davis

[nrage]

I'm a relative newcomer to the game, despite being over 30 I started playing after coming to the UK and watching the 2007 World Championships. I was looking for work at the time so I had ample time to watch /a lot/ of snooker Prior to that I had played a fair bit of pool, but never snooker .. it's just not that common to find a snooker table in New Zealand, except in the retired serviceman's association (RSA) clubs where all the old boys who fought in the war play it.

[willtyson]

I played a fair amount of pool, began to watch a bit of snooker and wanted to play from then. I went,played and got the bug

[tony9ball68]

Dartitis I am afraid

[cally]

My old man had an 8x4 table in the early 80's i was maybe 5 years old...and i've been a massive snooker fan as far back as i remember, i don't remember a time when i wasn't 'into' snooker...

[ADR147]

My old man had an 8x4 table in the early 80's i was maybe 5 years old...and i've been a massive snooker fan as far back as i remember, i don't remember a time when i wasn't 'into' snooker...

same, truthfully i can't ever remember a time when i didn't play snooker. and my nipper will be the same.

[irfeen75]

alex higgins, jimmy white, kirk stevens, steve davis, ray reardon, all the greats from the 80s when I first started watching on tv