potentialities

I've only ever heard of snooker in the context of Andy Capp comics.  He seems to be something of an enthusiast.  I've verified the similiarity of this game to billiards by looking it up on Wikipedia, and thus, as always happens when I foolhardily look up anything on that site, I have gotten sucked in and spent the last half hour reading all about it and linking to related articles.  Curse the internet and its wealth of moderately interesting information!