CUE BALLS CODE

The black ball typically bears a number '8', though numberless variants are not unknown.

The game uses unnumbered, solid-coloured object balls, typically red and yellow, with one black ball. A pool table in a pub in Wetherby, West Yorkshire Note the pattern of reds and yellows (colours can be reversed). In the years following, the British game diverged from the American in equipment (including the use of casino-style balls, which had died out in the US) and rules. In the years following World War II, playing eight-ball on small coin-operated pool tables became a common pub game in American bars, a pastime which spread to Britain by the early 1960s. These were introduced to make it easier for spectators to identify the two sets in early professional games held in casinos, and became known as 'casino-style' sets. In 1925, the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company began offering ball sets specifically for the game using unnumbered yellow and red balls (in contrast to the numbered solids and stripes found in most pool ball sets), a black eight ball, and the white cue ball.

CUE BALLS CODE

The English version of eight-ball has two main sets of playing rules used in professional play those of the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), known as 'blackball rules', and the code of the World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF), known as 'international rules'.Īmerican-style eight-ball arose around 1900, derived from basic pyramid pool. In the UK and Ireland it is usually called simply 'pool'. It originated in the United Kingdom and is played in the Commonwealth countries such as Australia and South Africa. The English-originating version of eight-ball pool, also known as English pool, English eight-ball, blackball, or simply reds and yellows, is a pool game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen usually unnumbered object balls) on a small pool table with six pockets. A blackball player performing a kick shot

Not to be confused with English billiards.

Cue balls