Play Billiards

Billiards is played on a pool table with six pockets and fifteen pool balls. Pool balls are divided into two categories, solid and striped, with one white ball and one black ball. The object of the game is to use your pool cue to hit the white ball in order to knock your balls into the pockets of the table. If you have the solid balls, then you try to hit only the solid balls. Once you have all your balls in the pockets you then hit the black 8 ball into the pocket and you’ve won the game.

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Learn To Play Pool

If you’re going to learn to play pool, pocket billiards, pocket pool or 9 ball, then you’ll need to know the rules of the game. From being a leisure pastime enjoyed by millions to a high stakes game of strategy in tournaments around the world, pool has become more than just a game for many people.
Nine ball, the game generally played by most pool players in tournaments, is played with nine object balls that are numbered from one through nine, plus a cue ball. The balls are marked in stripes or solids in order to differentiate one player’s balls from another’s. The first ball that the cue ball strikes must be the lowest numbered ball on the table, however the balls do not need to be pocketed in numerical order.

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