Despite being based at Singapore, Vashi shuttles regularly between his base camp and Chennai, ensuring that Billiards Point operates without hiccups. Legend has it that billiards and snooker was initially popularised by the British at Ooty. Pool is a handout of the Americans. Interestingly, billiards is regarded as the mother game, the basic from which people graduate to the next step, that is snooker. Coloured balls are used for all three games - billiards using three and snooker fifteen red balls and additional six balls of varied colours.
Balls have to be potted, each ball carrying certain points, based on which the score is added up.
The person who gets more is, of course, the winner. Incidentally a minimum of two and a maximum of four can play the game at a table at a time. Most families love to play it. It's a free for all with no specific rules being followed in it. But Subramaniam, the Manager of Billiards Point, feels that billiards requires a lot of patience so its not exactly the rage that snooker is among the 'hip hep' crowd in the city.