{"id":3379,"date":"2019-10-17T17:41:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T15:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/actualites\/breton-news\/decouvrez-les-regles-du-billard-anglais-ou-blackball\/"},"modified":"2023-09-27T15:55:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T13:55:12","slug":"rules-blackball-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/news-billards-breton\/rules-blackball-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover the rules of english pool also known as blackball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bold\"><strong>Blackball (also known as&nbsp;English pool) is&nbsp;a&nbsp;variant of&nbsp;billiards played on&nbsp;smaller 7ft&nbsp;tables.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is played by 2&nbsp;players with 16&nbsp;balls (1&nbsp;white cue&nbsp;ball, 1&nbsp;black, 7&nbsp;red, 7&nbsp;yellow) of&nbsp;50.8&nbsp;mm diameter.<\/p>\n<p>For break the 14&nbsp;colored balls are&nbsp;grouped in&nbsp;a&nbsp;triangle.<\/p>\n<p>The cue ball is&nbsp;placed in&nbsp;the starting area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">The player which will strikes first chooses the&nbsp;color he&nbsp;wants to&nbsp;play. The goal is&nbsp;then to&nbsp;pocket all the&nbsp;balls of&nbsp;his color and&nbsp;finally the&nbsp;black&nbsp;ball.<\/p>\n<p>Bonds and fault:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Once colors are set each player must always hit one&nbsp;ball of&nbsp;its&nbsp;family first.<\/li>\n<li>Pocketing cue&nbsp;ball is&nbsp;a&nbsp;fault.<\/li>\n<li>For each fault made by&nbsp;a&nbsp;player its&nbsp;opponent has a&nbsp;free shot. He&nbsp;can pocket or&nbsp;hit any&nbsp;ball.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some faults lead to&nbsp;loss of&nbsp;game:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pocket the black ball before all&nbsp;the other balls from a&nbsp;family are&nbsp;out of&nbsp;the table.<\/li>\n<li class=\"last\">Pocket the&nbsp;black ball while committing a&nbsp;fault.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Blackball billiard is&nbsp;very easy to&nbsp;play and&nbsp;fully accessible to&nbsp;beginners&nbsp;as&nbsp;the dimension of&nbsp;table is&nbsp;quite small (7ft&nbsp;\/&nbsp;2m10).<\/p>\n<p>Since it was created in UK during the 80\u2019s it&nbsp;has grown very fast and is&nbsp;now played in&nbsp;many bars and&nbsp;pubs.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison to American pool game, blackball is&nbsp;played with smaller and&nbsp;curved pocket entries which&nbsp;are adapted to&nbsp;the different size of&nbsp;the&nbsp;balls. Cushion rails also have a&nbsp;different profile and the&nbsp;cloth used is&nbsp;100% made of&nbsp;wool.<\/p>\n<p>Most of our models can be realized in&nbsp;blackball mode, with many customization options.<\/p>\n<p>In larger sizes (2m40 or&nbsp;2m60) it&nbsp;is also possible to&nbsp;play snooker on&nbsp;these tables.<\/p>\n<p>Finally all our blackball tables can&nbsp;be turned&nbsp;into&nbsp;dining tables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackball (also known as&nbsp;English pool) is&nbsp;a&nbsp;variant of&nbsp;billiards played on&nbsp;smaller 7ft&nbsp;tables. It is played by 2&nbsp;players with 16&nbsp;balls (1&nbsp;white cue&nbsp;ball, 1&nbsp;black, 7&nbsp;red, 7&nbsp;yellow) of&nbsp;50.8&nbsp;mm diameter. For break the 14&nbsp;colored balls are&nbsp;grouped in&nbsp;a&nbsp;triangle. The cue ball is&nbsp;placed in&nbsp;the starting area. The player which will strikes first chooses the&nbsp;color he&nbsp;wants to&nbsp;play. The goal is&nbsp;then to&nbsp;pocket all the&nbsp;balls of&nbsp;his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-billards-breton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18792,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions\/18792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}