do you love playing billiards?

Philippines
September 22, 2008 6:55pm CST
guys do you love playing billiards?what are the skills that you need to be consider a good billiard player? honestly i dont have any talent about this game even a small one. i really dont know how to play this game.but i love watching on tv i love efren bata reyes the magician and sometimes i want to be like him. now guys do you love playing billiards?
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6 responses
• Indonesia
29 Apr 09
Hi, i am very love playing billiards. To be a good billiard player, the first thing you must learn is Basic Exercise, like stand, banking, straight cue action, learn all various shot (6 type shoot in billiard), etc. After the basic, you can learn Intermediate Exercise, like use english shoot, ball fraction, control your shot power, etc. After finished all of that, you can learn the Pro Exercise, like diamond system (mathematics rules), learn to read white ball running after your shoot, learn 2 type of white ball parking, etc. I think for finish that exercise, you need 2 years if you train every day for 3 hours.
@TheG3RG (43)
• United States
15 Apr 09
Now there are many games you can play on a billiards table, there is the very popular traditional 8-ball, 9-ball, cut-throat, 3-10 ball(same rules as 9 ball but with different about of balls). 8-ball - (two players or partners) you break the balls by hitting the cue ball(all white no number) across the table into the triangle of balls(in random order with 8-ball strait behind the front ball, there will be two balls in a row in between, then the 8ball between two others then 4 balls behind that, then 5 in a row behind that), first ball you make being either a solid color ball or a stripe ball will be the remainder of colored balls you try to shoot in. If you miss a shot your turn is over. hitting everything with the cue ball to hit all your type of ball, solids or stripes, EXEPT the 8 ball. It is solid black, but that is the last ball you shoot in. If you were to hit the 8 ball in early, you automatically lose. Balls 1-7 are solids, 9-15 are stripes. Hit all of your balls in, then hit the 8-ball in without scratching(knocking in the cue ball), you win. 9-ball - (two players or partners) break the balls, exept the one ball has to be hit first so it goes in front of the 9 ball as the 8ball sits in the normal triangle. 9ball set up is the one ball up front, two then three behind the one, 4 then 9 then 5 behind the 2 and 3, 6 then 7, then 8. YOU DO NOT USE 10 THROUGH 15 IN 9 BALL. You hit the one ball in, then you hit the two in, unlike 8ball if you hit in the 9 ball early, by hitting the next ball into it, causing it to go in a hole, you automatically win., or hit all the balls 1-8 in order then the 9 ball you win. Cut-throat - (Three players only)Take all the balls, random order in the triangle. flip a coin to see who goes first, then second then third. first person's balls are 1-5, second player's balls are 6-10, third player's balls are 11-15. player 1 breaks and plays if a ball goes in, keeps playing until he misses a shot. The object is to hit everyone's balls in to win. You can shoot your ball in to keep playing if necessary. longest response ive ever typed lol
@hellcowboy (7374)
• United States
27 Sep 08
I have always been a fan of billiards and it is a lot of fun and it can be a good way to relax after a hard day,and I have never been really good,but I do not play to win,I usually just play to have fun,especially since most of my friends are really good at the game,I have not played in a long while,since I do not see most of my friends anymore,and me and my fiance do not have the chances to play pool with them the way we used to.
@quhyum (62)
• India
26 Dec 08
hi this is sameer i love billiars because in my college life we are going to billiards shope and we are friends saying the bits how much you want to take the bit i m the champion in billiards that time i say how much do u want to invest the money he told me directly 1500 i m getting the smile and i say ok when i start the games with in a 15 minutes i completed the game on that time yo this time i never get low position this is my dreams in the world i m chalanging to the billiards players i will win the match no one can win this is sameerhearthroab chanange
@dhurianne (205)
• Philippines
13 Jan 09
I love playing billiards. I don't have knowledge about this game before and not interested either, but from the time I worked in a ball games station I find this very interesting one so I said to myself " why not try for myself and see if I will enjoy." So from now on I play billiards with my husband just for fun.
• Romania
7 Mar 09
Of course i like playing biliard. I usually play biliard with my friends , in weekends . This sport , if i can call it a sport, is very funn , and by playing it you get some skills and knowledge. First time i saw at tv 2 mans playing biliard, and i didn't understand anything. A very similiar sport is snooker , but the rulles are diferite from biliard there are just red balls and some colored balls . But for snooker you need to play excelent biliard and to have many skills. You should try it is very fun