The English-originating version of eight-ball pool, also known as English pool, English eight-ball, blackball, or simply reds and yellows, is a pool game played with sixteen balls on a small pool tabl
A player shooting a kick shot
The rack set-up. Note the pattern of reds and yellows (colours can be reversed).
A pool table in a pub in Wetherby, West Yorkshire
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Eight-ball is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls. The object balls include seven solid-colored balls numbered 1 through 7, seven s
Eight-ball pool (British variation)
…and Ireland it is usually called simply "pool", while the term "blackball" is common in other regions to distinguish it from the American-originated eight-ball. The English version of eight-ball has two main sets of playing rules used in professional play; those of the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA…
One of numerous proper racks in standardized eight-ball: The two rear corner balls are of different suits, the 8 ball is in the center, and the apex ball is on the foot spot.
Long-exposure photograph of a break in eight-ball