Playing Billiards : 8-Ball Pool Rules

[corkskrewclubhouse93]

If your opponent fouls and you only have the eight ball left, does ball in hand still apply? 

[strokersquid]

Nice

[qvrga]

someone tell me if there is a video in Spanish?

[Youllshitbrix101]

1:45

[thatonefatguy1]

omg every video ive been to is no what I wanted. I want the rules of the game not some tricks

[007kclaw]

for rules try looking up APA, BCA, or TAP they all have there own youtube videos now, and there is also bar rules which may chance depending on location, time of day, temperature, body fat %, color of felt, color of your eyes. sorry.... but bar pool is not pool, its a fight over the rules.

[niz32iqbal]

i still dont get the illegal break bit

[SuperFlashstep]

yes it does r u smart

[Shuffleking74]

He's wrong! The 1 ball does not need to be in the front!

[faztclix]

@Shuffleking74

I think that applies in APA rules

[future305]

Question what happens if the 8 ball is on the pocket and completely block by two of the opponents balls and is hes turn to shoot and fails to hit any of his ball in order not pocket the 8 ball by mistake and loose the game, I know this a foul and this is ball in hand, but i then i have no way to hit the 8 ball because is block, in this case doesn't the shooter of the balls in front of the 8 ball has to hit them,Can he just shoot without hitting his target balls in front of 8 ball.

[aj3omar10]

who want 2 play against me ..... better 4 him not 2 ...... because he will lose

[ProdigyKimXP]

BCA rules for rack = 8 in middle. Corner balls/wing balls are opposite suites. That's it! I find it hilarious how people spend even more than a minute making them in a specific order. Does not matter. They spread differently every time.

I did an experiment. Racked all the balls in the EXACT same order for about a week when I was practicing for an 8 ball tourney. Not once did I see any resemblance in the spread. Making the rules random just speeds up the racking time.

[Cssfiend]

@ProdigyKimXP takes 5 seconds to rack the balls in a specific order, and a good player can easily take advantage of an uneven rack

[ProdigyKimXP]

@FlushingBoyNY BCA rules require that only the corner balls be opposite (stripe solid) and 8 in the middle. THAT'S IT! I'm mostly a 9 ball player but in my little experience of 8 ball, the order DOES NOT matter at all. You get a different spread every time unless you break soft which... no one should be allowed to break soft in an 8 ball rack.

[esting11]

wow this god nice shot

[crazybandit35]

and let me add three more rules in which are optional 1.if you make a solid or stripe on the break you have to shoot that group of balls 2.you can play simple 8-ball in which you only have to call the 8-ball 3.everybody should know this one if you sink the 8-ball on the break without scratching you win but if you sink the 8-ball on the break and scratch you auomatically lose the rack

[nman48]

Why the 1 at the apex? Numbers have no meaning, just stripes or solids.

[sarzamineiran]

RON PAUL

[fakpo]

so he never played 

[ThankssBitch]

looks like archie from eastenders, yay

[Hineteel]

thx

[NicoA1990]

what happens if you have potted all of your balls and there's only the black ball left and one of the opponents ball.

What happens if you then pot the black ball but hit the opponents ball first? did you then win our lose the game?

[rampskater0102]

@NicoA1990 you'd lose

[BIGMERVS]

is it a foul i you only have the 8 ball left to make, but you dont make contact with it when you hit the white ball?

[BEATNIKCASS]

@BIGMERVS ......yes---in australia at least----you lose the game.

[jmd52]

this guy dont know shit

[crazypiikkis]

no 1-ball first, unless it's some APA-thingy...

[azoldtime09]

@crazypiikkis you can use the first 2 balls can be contacted on a 8-ball break.

[crazypiikkis]

@azoldtime09 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

lolwut, sorry :)

What do you mean?

[canaan1967]

"you have to be able to make a legal hit on the ball driving a ball to the rail or a cue ball to the rail"

So you mean if you pocket a ball without driving a ball or cue ball to the rail the ball isn't considered pocketed? You also make it sound like you can continue shooting if you merely drive a ball or cue ball to the rail without pocketing a ball

[Bagomaster]

The rail means the cushion/end.

[truegwbfan]

ron paul of pool?

[BlackANDRedMaster]

@truegwbfan I thought the same thing lol

[canaan1967]

What do you mean drive a ball to the rail?

[HHSbackflipper101]

@canaan1967 the side rails

[turkeyleggedtommy]

stutering bastard

[foxbull99]

Tthank  you