Foookin better not be using it.
Which red ball is lowest?D ... Do they play 9 Ball with the BlackBall equipment..?
Which red ball is lowest?
In Australia the nine ball players use American-style tables, I'm pretty sure. The same is true in the UK. I've played on Tony Drago's 9-foot table which was at a pool/snooker/blackball room in London.
Does anybody play BlackBall in America. I know they play BlackBall in the UK, Ireland & Australia. Do they play 9 Ball with the BlackBall equipment..?
No.
Blackball balls are even smaller than snooker balls, and the cueball is smaller even than that. Even for that size of ball the pockets are extremely tight, plus the rail height would be all wrong. There is one more problem with the pockets, they are shallow. Meaning that shots fired into the center pocket can be spit out again, by hitting the back wall and coming back out. With a pool ball every shot would have to rolled, even then the ball would not fit for most shots. It's a tight squeeze to get even the uk balls in along the rails.
Also, the tables are extremely small for the most part. There are some 8 footers here and there, but the common size is 7 foot, some are 6 foot.
If you want to play a challenging game of 9 ball, try Chinese 8 ball tables. The blackball tables cannot be used.
No.
Blackball balls are even smaller than snooker balls...
Must be kinda embarrassing to order: " No, i really want smaller balls".Cmon, man.
That's nuts.
With numbered balls ( rather than red and yellow, or blue and yellow) 9 ball can be played and it does happen. Not at all seriously though - to the extent that the likes of Melling, Appleton , Shaw and Boyes are often referred to as “9 ball players” by the U.K. pool community because “American pool” is played on “ 9 ball tables” regardless of whether the game is 8,9,10 ball or another variant.
To answer the OPs question, I am 100% certain that there are blackball (I.e English pool) tables in the US but they will be largely in the homes of rich folk on the west coast or in the north east with some kind of British or Irish or Australian or.... background and they will be there just because they can have them there and they will play on them once in a while. It’s probably only a matter of time though before they appear in one or two places where some serious action will take place.
I don’t think you’ll ever see American players using 2-shots after a foul.
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