How to Play 8-Ball : Racking the Balls in Billiards

[Donbeiren]

This is wrong....

[frigginfreddy]

I used to date a chick with great RACK!!!

[9SuperMonkeyBall0]

The only mandatory placement in an 8-Ball rack, is the 8-ball in the middle, the other balls are just highs, & lows, and the top ball on the foot spot, and the cue ball behind the head-line.

[veit0036]

The first one is wrong, it should be stripe in the bottom left, and solid in the bottom right. BCA rules.

[ProdigyKimXP]

@veit0036 They just need to be opposite. It can stripe left solid right or vice versa. BCA rules.

[NguyenEmpir3]

Can you rack on either ends of the pool table or just the one with the dot?

[azoldtime09]

@NguyenEmpir3 Either side, the both should have a dot.

[NorgithDemonrace]

people that frequent bars must not understand physics very well. they do what seems fair. but it is actually completely opposite of fair. its a triangle, not a square. solid, stripe,solid is unfair to the stripe side. all three of the corner balls are solid and keeps them along the sides of the pool table if hit properly. while the stripes remain towards the middle. the only way to do it completely fair is randomization.

[azoldtime09]

@NorgithDemonrace he was playing by himself,leave him alone.

[dumass072]

The first rack is bca and the second rack was done like we do it in bar in Texas

[runoutman]

dumbass

[glitch417]

Horrible job.. Completely wrong.. He had a triangle of stripes.. You can't do that..

[azoldtime09]

@glitch417 just shut-up, he did it right.

[glitch417]

@azoldtime09 Actually, you shut up... And he did it wrong.. He had a 4 stripe line. 3 solid corners.. You're just as dumb as him.

[azoldtime09]

@glitch417 nahh, you're an dumbass, he was playing himself,and it doesn't matter then retard.

[glitch417]

@azoldtime09 yahhh.. You're the dumbass.. He wasn't playing himself.. He was trying to teach people how to rack the balls wrong.

[azoldtime09]

@glitch417 you 2.

[joachimfck]

lol

[DIMITRISPAPO]

malakia

[runoutman]

technically in BCA rules it's eight in the middle and a solid and stripe at each corner and it doesn't matter where the one is. but his second rack is the one I usually use anyway. he should've explained that most importantly the three head balls must be FROZEN not even 1/100th of a centimeter away from one another. as far as how high or low I'd rather have the balls racked low than high. when the sardo rack started being used they put the nine on the spot so people wouldn't make as many balls

[aznelf13]

i hate the double solid ends, friggin bulsht since they can get to the end pocket

[amoody907]

Wheres my cheeseballs and steak sandwiches

[cs512tr]

this was by far, the best, most informative video from expertvillage. i am shocked! lol

[doogrisa]

8 buuall

[Neku171]

@doogrisa fuck

[doogrisa]

@Neku171 fuck

[290491c]

chinga tu madre

[olivercarlehed]

in championship the balls are differently placed everytime, but the yellow and black is always first and in the middle.

But what I don't understand is that he, by way of introduction, says "...solid here and a stripe in this corner" and later on, they are solids in each corner (!)

[robbone4]

He displayed two different racks, but he does contradict his self in saying the first was universal but the second is the most commonly used.

[Bora199420]

oh yeah he did that the one thet i just said

[Bora199420]

thas wrong u have to put solids and stripes like even and odd numbers

[darksinthe]

youre wrong, that is an urban legend.

[geoffskater]

Here's the deal. APA rules are the most common specific rules in the U.S. (because APA is "American Poolplayers Association")... The one MUST be in the front, eight MUST be in the center, and each the corners MUST have one solid in one, and one stripe in the other. I play with different variations myself sometimes, which is fine as long as all of the players in the game agree on a certain set of rules. Also, the one is in front because it has to be hit by the cue first for it to be a legal break

[crazypiikkis]

There is no reason at all to put the one-ball in front, in eight ball it doesen't have any special role, it's just one of the solid balls. 8-ball to the center and different "colors" for the wing balls, that's it. Real competition players never put the 1-ball in front unless it just happens to go there.

[yoboihte]

really nice tip, i didn't know the universal rule

[farlisah]

Nice tips there thanks alot