Sinuca brasileira Sinuca brasileira Sinuca brasileira (Brazilian Portuguese for Brazilian snooker), often simply called sinuca, is a cue sport played on a snooker table, using only one instead of snooker's fifteen, with the normal six of the standard set of snooker balls. Each ball carries the same basic value as in snooker. As with other pocket billiards games, a white is used to the red and other coloured balls. The game is played almost exclusively in Brazil and is little known outside this region. Ball values are the same as in standard snooker (red = 1, yellow = 2, = 3, =
Power Snooker Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, organisers of the World Snooker Championship and other ranking tournaments, and regulators of the professional game. The format has however been officially sanctioned by the WPBSA's chief shareholder, Barry Hearn. Simons has stated that he sees Power Snooker as simply another format of the game, it being one of many new experimental formats and several new tournaments introduced since Hearn took control of World Snooker, rather than a threat to the established format of the traditional game or a competitor to WPBSA tournaments. Power Snooker advertises itself as part of the World Snooker Calendar of