{"id":3384,"date":"2019-10-17T15:47:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T13:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/actualites\/breton-news\/decouvrez-les-regles-du-billard-americain\/"},"modified":"2023-09-27T15:55:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T13:55:17","slug":"pool-billiard-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/news-billards-breton\/pool-billiard-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover the rules of US pool billiard game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bold\"><strong>Pool game is played on a&nbsp;6&nbsp;pockets billiard table with 15&nbsp;colored balls and 1&nbsp;white ball cue ball of&nbsp;57.2mm diameter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Balls numbered from&nbsp;1 to&nbsp;8 are completely colored,<\/li>\n<li>Balls numbered from&nbsp;9 to&nbsp;15 are only colored with a&nbsp;line.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are several different pool games, the&nbsp;most famous being:<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subtitle\">Eight ball game<\/h2>\n<p>It is played with 16&nbsp;balls.<\/p>\n<p>Each player takes a&nbsp;family of&nbsp;balls (full color vs&nbsp;line balls) based on&nbsp;break&nbsp;hit.<\/p>\n<p>He must pocket all the balls then finishes by&nbsp;the Eight ball (black&nbsp;one).<\/p>\n<p>Two rules are popular when a&nbsp;player commits a&nbsp;fault:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The player can put the&nbsp;cue ball anywhere behind the&nbsp;shot line.<\/li>\n<li class=\"last\">Cue ball in&nbsp;hand: the player puts the&nbsp;cue ball anywhere on&nbsp;the playing area before he&nbsp;hits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"subtitle\">Nine ball game<\/h2>\n<p>This game is&nbsp;played only with cue&nbsp;ball and&nbsp;balls from&nbsp;1 to&nbsp;9.<\/p>\n<p>The winner is the&nbsp;one who pockets ball&nbsp;n\u00b09.<\/p>\n<p>Players must always touch first the&nbsp;lower value ball on&nbsp;the playing area.<\/p>\n<p>It is therefore possible to&nbsp;pocket any ball, including the&nbsp;Nine ball, as&nbsp;long&nbsp;as the&nbsp;correct ball is&nbsp;hit first.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subtitle\">14\/1 game<\/h2>\n<p>All balls are&nbsp;used.<\/p>\n<p>Each ball has the&nbsp;same value.<\/p>\n<p>Each pocketed ball, a&nbsp;point is&nbsp;scored and the&nbsp;player continues as&nbsp;he pockets and\/or does&nbsp;not commit a&nbsp;fault.<\/p>\n<p>The game is&nbsp;played over a&nbsp;distance, that&nbsp;is to&nbsp;say, a&nbsp;number of&nbsp;points to&nbsp;achieve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">When there is no&nbsp;ball left to&nbsp;pocket on&nbsp;the playing and should the&nbsp;distance still to&nbsp;be made, the&nbsp;other balls are&nbsp;placed back in&nbsp;the triangle at&nbsp;their starting point for a&nbsp;new inning.<\/p>\n<p>Billards Br\u00e9ton American pool tables will provide you intense playing moments&nbsp;with friends which will discover a&nbsp;game requiring skills, strategy and&nbsp;thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Wood selection, wood or&nbsp;metallic frame, competition grade Simonis cloth: all conditions are&nbsp;met so&nbsp;that each game makes&nbsp;you progress!<\/p>\n<p>All our pool tables are&nbsp;available in&nbsp;5&nbsp;different sizes, with a&nbsp;large choice of&nbsp;cloth color&nbsp;in&nbsp;order to&nbsp;match your interior decoration. As&nbsp;an&nbsp;option you\u2019ll&nbsp;be able to&nbsp;add a&nbsp;centralized recovery system with drawers for&nbsp;balls collection.<\/p>\n<p>Finally all our pool tables are&nbsp;convertible to&nbsp;carom game thanks&nbsp;to our&nbsp;plug conversion system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pool game is played on a&nbsp;6&nbsp;pockets billiard table with 15&nbsp;colored balls and 1&nbsp;white ball cue ball of&nbsp;57.2mm diameter: Balls numbered from&nbsp;1 to&nbsp;8 are completely colored, Balls numbered from&nbsp;9 to&nbsp;15 are only colored with a&nbsp;line. There are several different pool games, the&nbsp;most famous being: Eight ball game It is played with 16&nbsp;balls. Each player takes a&nbsp;family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3384","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\/3384","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=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18793,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions\/18793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}