Billiards: 8 Ball Billiards

8 Ball is the most popular style of Billiards in the States. It has 16 balls on the pool table, and 15 of them are marked with numbers, those balls with number 1 to 7 are named solid balls, while those balls with number 9 to 15 are stripe balls, and the only ball that is completely white is cue ball, and as it's called 8 Ball, that black ball with number 8 has to be very important during the game, actually it's a special ball, win or loss all depend on it, you can understand in the later introduction. The cue ball which is for hitting other balls into the pocket will be put on one side of the pool table, and other balls will be put together on the table in a shape of triangle on the other side.

In a typical 8 Ball game, in the beginning, players just need to try to pot, and after the first pot is done, there are some rules applied on the game. For the player who pot in the first ball, he can choose set either solids or stripes balls as object balls, if players hit the object balls indirectly, they will be given a penalty, and their opponents will get a chance to put the cue balls wherever they want and start on fire. The player who pot in all the balls that he chose can hit the black eight and then if he also pot in the black eight at last, then he won the game. But if he didn't finish all the balls that he need to pot in, and by accident, the Black eight slowly move into the pocket, you lose directly. And in more professional occasion, player will be asked to point the pocket he want to pot the Black eight in, if the Black eight goes into the other 5 pockets, he lose the game too. So now we can see how the Black eight is determining the victory of the game.

Actually, among most formal kinds of Billiards, 8 Ball is the most suitable one for those people who are new to the Billiards. If you pot in one ball, no matter if that's the kinds of object ball you chose or not, you can continue to play on the table. So many people believe in using strong power to play on 8 Ball, and they call it '' strong power makes the birth of miracle." But in those professional game. Nice skill should take place the strong power. Everytime you pot into a ball, accurate power and angle will help to control your cue ball to be in good position for potting in another ball. So 8 Ball does need a lot of thinking and calculation. With professional skills, those players can finish a game very quickly.

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