There are very few, two-player sports that one competitor can lose before he/she has been afforded the opportunity to participate. The introduction of an alternate-break format in the varied billiard sports was instituted to remove that particular oddity, thus preventing a circumstance allowing a single player the opportunity to ‘break and run’ his/her way to a match win. Rare though it was, it happened enough to lead to and eventually result in the format change. It doesn’t really alter the circumstances of a straight pool match because there are rarely any ‘scatter the balls all over the table’ breaks in […]
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