Snooker rules and refereeing
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  • Rules you must understand as a player
    • The Break
    • Frame, Game or Match?
    • Who takes the top scorer
    • Keeping score
    • When is the Frame over?
    • Understanding the 'Miss'
    • Understanding the 'Three Miss Rule'
    • Angled Ball (Pocket hook)
    • Seven Point Fouls
  • How do I .....
    • Rack the balls
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Prior to 2011, the rules referred to an "Angled" ball, where the pocket prevented the cueball from striking a ball ON directly, and there were special rules which defined the situation.

The latest 2011 rules do not make a special case for a ball being angled. 

If you are angled, you are NOT snookered, since the table cannot snooker you. If you attempt to strike a ball ON indirectly and fail, it is a foul and a miss, and you can be put  back.

If you are angled as a result of a foul, you cannot nominate a free ball, since you are not snookered. You can, of course, put your opponent back in.

Note, however, that the "3-miss" rule does NOT apply, since you have no "Centre Ball, Full Ball Contact" on a ball on.