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Whenever the author refers to “billiards,” he’s talking about a game played on a pocketless table with three balls. He says “Pool” whenever he’s referring to p
by mrbrandonking 7y ago
Whenever the author refers to “billiards,” he’s talking about a game played on a pocketless table with three balls.
He says “Pool” whenever he’s referring to pocket billiards, the game that most people are familiar with.
- PeterStuer 7y agoThe preferred version her is 3-cushion. 3 balls, no pockets, the cue ball has to hit the other 2, but has to hit 3 cushions before touching the 3rd ball.
- yumraj 7y ago> Whenever the author refers to “billiards,” he’s talking about a game played on a pocketless table with three balls. You're right about 3 balls, but there are pockets in a billiards table and you do get points for pocketing the correct ball.[0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_billiards https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_billiards
- frobozz 7y agoThe no-pockets version is French Billiards
- yumraj 7y agoAh, didn't know that. For me while growing up in India, Billiards was synonymous with the English version.
- GrumpyNl 7y agoThats called snooker.
- dhruvkar 7y agonope, that's different: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooker#/media/File%3ASnooker_table_drawing_2.svg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooker#/media/File%3ASnooke...
- claudiawerner 7y agoSnooker is played on an English billiards (usually just known as "billiards" in Commonwealth countries) table.
- yumraj 7y agoAs the sibling comments mentioned, while snooker is also played on the English billiards table, it is a different game. Snooker is played with 21 colored balls which must be pocketed in the correct order. Billiards is played with 3 balls, 1 white per player (one has a black dot and the other doesn't) and a red ball. Billiards table is bigger than the American Pool tables.
- mrbrandonking 7y agoLook at the picture: American pool table in the foreground, pocketless carom billiards table in the background. My aim was to explain the author’s terminology for those who’ve never seen a table without pockets.
- the-dude 7y agoI know and have played variants with 4 balls. Very much fun.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoIs it usual to play US billiards on a pool-sized table? I've played a fair bit of snooker and billiards (English billiards in US terms), and it's always been played on a full size snooker table. That's 12ft by 6ft.
- snoogol 7y ago> In 1928 what he was best at was getting the three balls close together and then “nursing” them—that is, making long runs by keeping the balls together with a soft, delicate stroke. This means that the game is "English Billiards" with the pockets. A delicate stroke won't help in the "no-pocket billiards" as a valid shot needs to hit (atleast) 3 cushions.