Billiards and Pool

billiard chalk is many different colors the color of the chalk is most influenced by the color of the table so the felt wont be multi colored its ezier on the eyes and doesnt throw off angles. To answer your question most chalk is blue because most cloth is blue

The balls are all equal from a points perspective in English Billiards, Carom Billiards, and Pocket Billiards.

Technically, is a scratch, but most people will just let you put it back.

Canadian snooker player Kirk Stevens hit a televised maximum break of 147 in the Benson & Hedges Masters in 1984, against Jimmy White - the only such break in the competition until match by Ding Junhui in 2007.

There are no holes in a pool table. The pockets are formed by the edges of the rails and the drop area is a semi-circle cut in the table surface. The radius of the semi-circle is 2 1/16 inch at the corner and 2 1/4 inches at the side.

A successful billiards player learns to focus on the task at hand, shutting out extraneous information, a difficult task of concentration. The importance of practice and "muscle memory" is an important lesson that is learned over time. The scientific player will learn lessons in simple angles and the more complex physics of rotational momentum changes for offset center of mass for collisions on the table.

Scoring is not an issue in pool, therefore there is no "highest" break. In that particular form of billiards, the break is the action of taking the first shot and splitting up the racked bals.

You may be confused with snooker: in this, the highest break possible is 147 points (all reds with blacks, then all colours).

10 points being 2 points for hitting both your opponents and the red ball (a cannon)

a further 2 points for then potting your opponents ball, potting the red gives you an additional 3 and a further 3 points for then going 'in-off' that red giving 10 in total

To mark any pool table(as they vary by manufacturer in exact size,)first measure the width of the slate then half this measurement. This is the spot mark, (which should be the centre point between the middle pockets and the corner pockets in an imaginary cross between the pockets). IE if the table is 39" wide,then measure from the edge of the slate,19.5"up the table and place the spot mark 19.5" from the edge of the table where the measurements meet.This is the exact spot mark. The line (baulk line) is one fifth of the slates length from the edge of the cushion. IE if the slate is 75" long then a fifth of this is 15"...measure 15" up the table from the edge of the cushion,place a mark on both sides and draw your baulk line. centre of baulk line spot will be 19.5". Sounds more complicated than it is and its easy to do but harder to explain. This method works for any pool table size up to 8' as far as i know. Hope this helps.

The major advantage of a slate bed pool table is that it provides a more true and even run of the balls. On other surfaces the balls are more likely to deviate from straight lines. Slate tables will also allow the balls to react better to spin.

The exacting requirements of the billiard ball are met today with balls cast from plastic materials that are strongly resistant to cracking and chipping. CurrentlySaluc, under the brand names Aramith and Brunswick Centennial, manufactures phenolic resin balls. Other plastics and resins such as polyester (under various trade names) and clear acrylic are also used, by competing companies such as Elephant Balls Ltd., Frenzy Sports.

32 million. Many Americans play pool and most do not participate in any assocaition or league play. For league play, the American Poolplayers Association (APA) has 265,000 players that play in leagues today. There are many other leagues throughout the US, but the APA is the largest.

1.Efren Reyes - The best pool player ever 2.Johnny Archer - Best tournament player out there 3.Mika Immonen - Great all around player despit some big chokes 4.Alex Pagulayan - U.S. open and World champion 5.Ralf Souquet - The surgeon 6.Franscisco Bustamante - Strongest break on tour 7.Shane Van Boening - Best American Player right now and U.S open champion this year 8.Ronnie Alcano - Last years world pool champion 9.Dennis Orcollo - One of the best money players out there 10.Earl Strickland - What can you say an all-time great even though hes on his way out

I really did'nt concentrate on order but this is roughly how I would rank these players maybe bump up Alcano a bit.

Ralf souquet is NOT known as the Surgeon. That accolade was used, earned, and given to a UK pool player from Wigan, many years before Souquet was even playing. Maybe he liked the monicor, and 'stole' or 'borrowed' it for his own use.

There are 3 "diamonds" per rail for a total of 18.

Black , Pink, Blue

This depends on the wood, the level of intricacy of the design, and the anticpated quality of the cue and its finish. Some cue makers can take more than 18 months to turn a cue to its finish size to minimize chance of warping. Then the construction can range from hours to weeks depending upon intricacy. Finally, as many as 25 layers of lacquer, each hand polished will finish the cue, so there is drying time between each as well. Add it all up, and the best pool cues take about 2 years, and possibly more. Less intricate and more affordable custom cues can be made in 6 months that arguably are just as good.

Billiards is a game that has been royal in nature and dates back to the 15th century. In order to play Billiards the first thing you need is a cushioned table which should have NO pockets, and carefully spaced diamond markers along the rails where the balls should be shot. To shoot the cue ball, a cue stick is necessary and additionally you would also need a cue chalk to sharpen the cue stick point in order to shoot the ball effectively. Note that billiards is a completely different game - played on a completely different table - with only 3 balls (instead of 16) as the game commonly called "pool".

58" cue length, ~19oz weight, with a 13mm tip diameter is often considered a "standard" cue setup, however, many cue manufacturers will do custom orders. Typical ranges for custom cues are ~56-60", 18-21oz, and 11-14mm.

"House" cues (one piece) come in a variety of sizes with 57" being the most common full size house cue.

Your cue can be anything you want. However, in competition, under World Standardized Rules:

Length of Cue: 40 inches [1.016 m] minimum / No Maximum

Weight of Cue: No minimum / 25 oz. [708.75 gm] maximum

Width of Tip: No minimum / 14mm maximum

There are none in English Billiards. In Carom Billiards, there are none. In the Pocket Billiards games, the 8 ball is the only black ball - 7 Ball has no 8 ball, hence no black ball, but all other games include the 8 ball, so, they have 1 black ball.

It's the same name, whether it's pool, snooker or billiards.... The Cue-ball

Zero. There are no points in conventional pool games for any balls, although in straight pool, a point is scored for each legally pocketed ball, regardless of color.

There is no offiacal rule that says that you can win like that, however in almost all friendly games, people play like that.

well actually there are a couple of rules that might apply .1. In Most Friendly games the people that Know the rules and the game play by either BCA or CPA ( from Canada apa for the states) rules 2. on the case that you get the 8 ball On the break in BCA ,gets spotted or reracked and same person either keeps shooting or gets to break the rerack . In cpa/apa I THINK you win but I don't play cpa

The United tables are specific to the UK and have limited value as a used item. The model and size matter, but $500 to $1500 is the range to expect, with most being at the low end.

The table should have 5 feet of space on all sides. The normal pool stick is approximately 57 inches, so you need the space when the cue ball is on the rail. Some professionals say that 4 feet 6 inches is adequate.