The Most Famous Billiard Games For Beginners

January 20th, 2010 by Jim Ryan

Billiards in a nutshell is playing pool, but there are a lot of different types of games to be played in billiards. Some of the most famous of these are 9-ball, 8-ball, snooker, One Pocket and Cut Throat. Depending on where you are from will determine the most popular for your region, I think 8-ball and 9-ball has the others beat though.

There is another billiards game played here in the United States known as Straight Pool or Fourteen and One. Back in the day this used to be the most popular game. This game takes a long time to play and involves clearing many racks to end one game, which could cause a game to last a very long time.

Eight Ball has became a very popular billiards game due to the bar scene, as most sports bars have a pool table or two, sometimes more. There are many different rules to Eight Ball depending on where you are from but the basics is you have fifteen balls, the last one being the eight ball, one person gets stripes the other gets solids.

Nine Ball is popular because it is fast paced and the game can be won with a combination any time during the game. I would have to say that Nine Ball is probably the other most popular billiards game besides 8-ball.

If you want a really fun game to really test your pool playing skills then you should try to play one pocket. This is a game where you have 8 balls that you must get into one pocket only, similar to 8-ball besides the one pocket only rule.

A popular game for multiple people is Cut Throat. There are three players that are in the billiards game of Cut Throat, and the rules are the same as 8-ball in most cases. One player will have 1-5, the other 6-10, and the last player will have 11-15. The object of this game is to hit any ball in but your own.

There are many other games in pocket billiards. You could visit Wikipedia and do a search for billiards game for a pretty complete list. These are just some of the more popular ones that you will find. At Wikipedia you will find details and rules of every game.

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