Billiards Basics: Learn How to Shoot Pool & Have Fun
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Or maybe you know all of that - but want to know some secret pool player tricks you can use to beat the competition in a tournament, or even your friends gathered around your pool table in your den.
You want to be able to make the cue ball bounce over one ball and knock another in the pocket. You want to know how to bank off one side of the table and sink a ball on the other side. It's okay to show off in the game of billiards.
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Billiard Rules - Is Every Game the Same?
When it comes to the rules of playing pool, it's not as cut and dry as do this, but don't do that. Billiards has many games within the game, and each one has its own rules, but the most important are the fundamental rules for a standard game of pocket billiards.
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When it comes to play, you have to know a few things about billiards rules. There are too many rules to list here on a single page, but basically, you need to watch how you hit the billiard balls - cue tip only!
Don't keep trying to pocket a ball if you strike and fail to pocket one the first time. Let someone else have a turn! Learn what constitutes a legal pocketing of a ball and when you've fouled out.
There are specific rules about crossing the lines when you're breaking, so before you break, make sure you understand the right way to line up for your shot. Before you whip out a billiard playing aid, see if it's legal. In some games, it may not matter - but if you're playing by the rules, trick equipment probably isn't allowed.
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Pool Playing Tips to Help You Improve Your Game
First of all, make sure your equipment is in good repair. You want to have a steady cue stick with plenty of chalk on hand to chalk up your cue tip. Chalk before every shot, just like professional pool players - not every few shots, like amateurs like to do.If the shaft of your cue stick gets bent, you want to have it repaired or replaced. This can throw your entire game off! It's better to splurge for a more expensive, yet sturdy and long-lasting cue stick than to skimp and pay for it later.
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If you don't have a lot of arm strength to break the balls, try bending down more and using your hands only to lightly guide the stick. Let your body movements (thrusting forward) put the power behind the shot to break the balls with force.
Before you try to use any trick shots that you pick up in the pool halls, make sure you practice the shots when you're not under pressure to perform. Some of the shots seem easy, but the tension of being watched mounts, causing you to miss the pool shot completely.
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Billiards: Just One of Many Cue Sports You Can Play
Cue sports (sometimes spelled cuesports), also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .
Historically, the umbrella term was billiards. While that familiar name is still employed by some as a generic label for all such games, the word's usage has splintered into more exclusive competing meanings in various parts of the world. For example, in British and Australian English, "billiards" usually refers exclusively to the game of English billiards, while in American and Canadian English it is sometimes used to refer to a particular game or class of games, or to all cue games in general, depending upon dialect and context.
There are three major subdivisions of games within cue sports:
*Carom billiards, referring to games played on tables without , including among others balkline and straight rail, cushion caroms, three-cushion billiards and artistic billiards
*Pocket billiards (or "pool") generally played on a table with six pockets, including among others eight-ball (the world's most widely played cue sport), nine-ball, straight pool, one-pocket and bank pool.
*Snooker, which while technically a pocket billiards game, is generally classified separately based on its historic divergence from other games, as well as a separate culture and terminology that characterize its play.
More obscurely, there are games that make use of obstacles and targets, and table-top games played with disks instead of balls.
Billiards has a long and rich history stretching from its inception in the 15th century; to the wrapping of the body of Mary, Queen of Scots in her billiard table cover in 1586; through its many mentions in the works of Shakespeare, including the famous line "let's to billiards" in Antony and Cleopatra (1606?07); to the dome on Thomas Jefferson's home Monticello, which conceals a billiard room he hid, as billiards was illegal in Virginia at that time; and through the many famous enthusiasts of the sport including, Mozart, Louis XIV of France, Marie Antoinette, Immanuel Kant, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, George Washington, French president Jules Grévy, Charles Dickens, George Armstrong Custer, Theodore Roosevelt, Lewis Carroll, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, and many others.
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