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Fun Facts About the Game of Pool

Pool History

Billiards (or pool) evolved from a lawn game similar to croquet played sometime during the 15th century in Northern Europe (probably in France).

The word "cue" is derived from the French queue, meaning tail. Before the cue stick was designed, billiards was played with a mace. The mace consisted of a curved wooden (or metal) head used to push the ball forward, attached to a narrow handle. Since the bulkiness of the mace head made shots along the rail difficult, it was often turned around and the tail end was used. Players eventually realized this method was far more effective, and the cue as a separate instrument grew out of the maces tail.

Throughout history, billiards has bridged the gap between the aristocracy and the masses. Both gentlemen and street toughs played.

In 1586, the castle of Mary, Queen of Scots, was invaded and captured. The Invaders made a note of forbidding her the use of her billiard table. They then killed her, and used the covering of the table to cover her body.

In 1765 A.D., the first billiard room was built in England. Played there was One-Pocket, which was a table with one pocket and four balls.

The term "pool room" now means a place where billiards is played, but in the 19th century a pool room was a betting parlor for horse racing. Billiards / pool tables were installed so patrons could pass the time between races. The game of billiards and the pool room became connected in the public's mind. Today, the two terms are used interchangeably.

Pool is one of the safest sports in the world (unless you get smacked in the face with the cue ball, that's never fun!).

What is billiard cloth made of? Amazingly, the main component of billiard cloth has remained unchanged for over 400 years. Wool was used in the 1500's, and remains the fabric of choice today. It has, of course, undergone some perfecting (and some wool/nylon blends are also produced).

The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiard room. In Jefferson's day, billiards was illegal in Virginia (what a scandal!)

Billiards was the first sport to have a world championship (1873).

The first coin-operated billiard table was patented in 1903. The cost of a game on the first pay-for-play table: one penny.

Before the invention of celluloid and other new-age plastics, billiard balls were made out of ivory. The elephants can thank their present existence on the invention of plastics. Because billiard balls had to be cut from the dead center of a tusk, the average tusk yielded only 3 to 4 balls.

Captain Mingaud, the inventor of the leather cue tip, was imprisoned for political reasons during the French Revolution. With the help of a fellow prisoner, he was able to have a billiard table installed in his cell. It was during his incarceration that be became obsessed with the game, that he devised and perfected his invention. His obsession became so intense, that at the end of his prison term, he actually asked for a longer sentence so that he could complete his study of the game. (Talk about dedication!)

The world's largest billiard hall was built during billiards Golden Age. The Recreation, a mammoth seven-story health spa, was a bustling Detroit business in the 1920's. It featured 103 tables, 88 bowling lanes, 20 barber chairs, three manicuring stands, 14 cigar stands, a lunch counter on each floor, a restaurant that could seat 300, and an exhibition room with theater seating, that could accommodate 250 spectators. (Now that sounds like a great place to go for Family Night!)

Charles Goodyear the inventor of vulcanized rubber, which revolutionized billiard cushions and countless other industries died a virtual pauper. His company failed, he was imprisoned for debt, and he profited little from his breakthrough invention.

The Hustler was based on a novel by Walter Tevis. The novel, however, was based on a short story he had earlier submitted to Playboy. Before "The Hustler" was released, the Philco TV Theater aired an episode called "Goodbye, Johnny", which bore an uncanny resemblance to the Playboy short story. In it, Cliff Robertson portrayed the cocky young hustler, making Robertson not Newman the original "Fast Eddie" Felson.

Marquetry the art of making pictures or designs with thin slices of wood, shell or other materials has long enhanced the beauty of tables and cues. The art form is hardly a recent development. It has been practiced in Egypt and the Orient for more than 3,000 years.

Throughout most of the 1800's, the chalk used on the new leather cue tips was carbonate of lime, better known as blackboard chalk.

The Church has long been a part of billiard history. From its earliest days, the game was often denounced as a sinful, dangerous, morally corrupt activity. In 15th century France, billiards play was forbidden, by the Church, as well as the King. In early American history, actual laws were passed (thanks to religious influences), outlawing the game in many parts of the land.

Until almost 1920, American billiards was dominated by the carom games. Pool was a dead, or dying sport. When the first championship pool tournament was held in 1878, the winner, and the event itself, all but went unnoticed.

The first 18.2 Balkline Championship was held in Paris, in 1913. It will probably be the only world championship in history ever decided by the courts. After six days of play, three contestants were tied for the first place. When a tie-breaking playoff was suggested, Maurice Vignaux, the French champion and notorious whiner when things weren't going his way, scoffed at the suggestion. He insisted the title should be awarded based on the highest overall average (which he, of course, had at the time). Vignaux refused to continue, and the matter wound up in the French courts. (Which of course awarded Vignaux, their countryman, the title after a delay of more than two months? I guess the squeaky wheel does get greased!).

No one knows exactly who, when or where the first billiard table was built. The earliest documented record of a billiard table was made in 1470. In an inventory of the possessions of King Louis XI of France, his table was said to have contained the following: a bed of stone, a cloth covering, and a hole in the middle of the playing field, into which balls could be driven.

What billiards game shares its name with British military slang for a lowly first-year cadet? Snooker. The military slang usage is confirmed by a quotation in the Oxford English Dictionary dated 1872, shortly before the game appeared in the mid- 1870's. Another quotation suggests that the original name was "Snooker's Pool."

Which US president installed the first pool table in the White House and had an alligator as a pet? John Quincy Adams owned a pet alligator which he kept in the East Room of the White House and also had the first pool table installed in the White House.

At times, including during the Civil War, billiard results received wider coverage than war news. Players were so renowned that cigarette cards were issued featuring them.

Pool Terminology

Scratch:The term scratch, as applied to a taking the prompt ball, was gotten from the punishment surveyed for such a foul. In pool's initial days, the score was many times kept on a blackboard. At the point when a player took the prompt ball, his rival scratched a point off the shooter's score.

Pool Cue: There's one more typical name for a Billiard Cue. It can likewise be known as a what? Pool Cue. Billiard Cues are for the most part more slender than a standard Pool Cue, however either is acknowledged as a conventional term for what you use to hit the balls with.

Stroke:The demonstration of swinging your arm like a pendulum and constraining the tip forward to raise a ruckus around town ball is expected to make a shot. What is this act called? A Stroke. Strokes are different between every player, except it is critical to keep a smooth and reliable one to succeed in the game.

Break:The previously gave starting a round of pool. A legitimate shot that once reported should be possible just quickly following the break where the player deliberately evades the item ball has a particular name. What is it called? Push Out. Push Outs are by and large done when the shooter that is up following the break doesn't have an unmistakable shot on the item ball. After the Push Out is finished, it is the accompanying players choice to take shots at the article ball himself or let the first shooter proceed.

Ferrule: The little sleeve toward the finish of a pool sign that the tip is stuck to. The Ferrule is utilized to keep the finish of your sign from parting and furthermore gives a strong, stable highlight which the tip can be secured.

Shaft and Butt: Most quality signals are made into two pieces (a Top and Bottom) that are in a bad way together prior to utilizing for interactivity. Shafts can change in thickness and tighten to oblige every client's preferences. The butt can likewise use various covers and wraps up to guarantee an agreeable grasp.

Masse Shot: When you hit down on the sign ball at a very steep point trying to bend it around a deterrent. There is a lot simpler variety, utilized by numerous great players occasionally, called (less insensitively) a "bend" shot. This shot is achieved by hitting down at only a slight point on one side or the other of the prompt ball, to inspire it to delicately bend that way as it rolls. The bending is brought about by the twist granted to the ball as it voyages, and holds the material and the twist changes its way. A "masse" shot is a substantially more outrageous variant of a bend, by which the player endeavors to make the ball twist its way fiercely. By and large, it's substantially more viable to either raise a ruckus around town off a rail first, or to hop it, instead of attempt a masse. Indeed, even the best players have too little command over what befalls the ball during a masse shot to utilize it frequently.

Side: In the game Pool, the British utilize the expression "side" for putting turn ready. The Americans refer to this shot as "English". Where did this phrasing start and why "English"? Obviously English guests to the USA told us the best way to utilize the twist procedure which is the reason Americans are the only ones to utilize that term.

Nursery Cannon (corresponding to Billiards): It is a simple cannon where the other two balls are exceptionally near one another, however implies you can hit them delicately and leave them in a comparative position and continue to get various more guns. It typically implies they're on the pad, and there's a restriction of 75 in succession.

The Game of Pool

An unlawful shot endeavor where the Cue is utilized to push the Cue ball after it has connected with the article ball called sort of shot? A Push Shot. Push shots ordinarily happen when the signal ball and the item ball are kissing (contacting) each other even before the shot is endeavored.

As indicated by research directed a couple of years back, billiard heroes have the most elevated typical age of any game, 35.6 years. So you actually have a shot at the star's.

Some Pool games require the utilization of a container containing numbered balls to be drawn indiscriminately. These little balls have a couple different normal references. What are they? Peas or Pills. Pills or Peas are drawn aimlessly from the jug for use in specific games or just to draw for the request in which you would shoot. These are additionally some of the time alluded to as container and dice.

Chalk is applied to the tip to support great contact with the Cue ball. After significant utilize the tip might get packed and smooth toward the end. This makes the tip lose its capacity to hold the chalk. What is a typical term for an utensil used to reestablish this capacity? A Pic. Pics can mellow then tip by making small openings and forms in the tip which permit the chalk to stick to.

Quality two piece pool signs might permit the client to change how light or weighty it is by supplanting something in the butt of the prompt. What are these things called? Weight Rods. Weight Rods can change from a fourth of an ounce to a few ounces to make the helpful load for the client.

At a major disadvantage A risky situation from which it is improbable one can escape. From a variant of the round of pool. The balls are numbered and should be pruned all together. The game is relinquished on the off chance that a player's sign ball stirs things up around town eight-ball first. An at a serious disadvantage position leaves a player in unavoidable peril of losing.

Throughout play, on one occasion a meeting military trainee commented that first-year recruits at this specific foundation were known as "snookers". At the point when the recruit missed an especially east pot, a comment was made "Why, you're an ordinary snooker!"

Tables initially had level vertical dividers for rails and their main capacity was to hold the balls back from tumbling off. They looked like riverbanks and, surprisingly, used to be classified "banks". Players found that balls could bob out of control and started purposely focusing on them. Subsequently a "bank shot" is one in which a ball is made to bounce back from a pad as a feature of the shot.

For what reason do many blocks and pool lobbies make it beyond reach for benefactors to attempt the consistently famous "masse" shot? The relaxed player can really tear the material of the table by attempting this shot. On the off chance that the material is appropriately extended, it's impossible yet it can work out, particularly when intoxication is involved as it regularly is. Breaking the prompt ball with the sign is basically incomprehensible. The tip of the prompt is by and large a kind of cowhide (or in modest bars, plastic), and the ball is excessively difficult to be harmed by it (pool balls used to be made of ivory, presently most are made artificially). Hopping a ball off the table can occur, and frequently does, yet bouncing it sufficiently high and hard enough to harm anybody while attempting a masse shot is incredibly improbable. The record has a provide for it, however scratching it for all time with the sign tip is beyond the realm of possibilities over ordinary play.

Is the appropriate way to "bounce" the signal ball to hit under it with your prompt, making it jump into the air? NO! Popping the ball up in the air by hitting under it with your prompt is really viewed as a foul by most normal rule sets. The legitimate way to "hop" the sign ball is to hit down on it with the butt-end of your prompt "lifted" (raised) in the air. Albeit irrational partially, this will make the ball hop in the air, because of the marginally compressible nature of record (the material that frames the outer layer of most pool tables, under the fabric covering). The ball will crunch down into the outer layer of the table marginally, and assuming you hit sufficiently at the appropriate point, the tension of the sign pushing down and the record pushing up, will send off the prompt ball up high, ideally far enough to clear anything that check was in its way.

A few high level players actually believe hop shots to be the "lesser player's" approach to getting away? This is valid. Pool is firmly connected with a game called, differently, "billiards" or "carom." These games are played on a comparative table yet without pockets, and the item is to bob around the table, reaching different balls to get focuses. Particularly in the Philippines, however in numerous nations somewhat, these games are a famous approach to learning the points around the table; subsequently Philippinos are known for their lethal point play. A few players consider bounce shots to cheapen the "unadulterated" soul of the game. Duke "The Pearl" Strickland is an American, however is the most popular of the counter leap shot detachment; in one well known match against Kunihiko Takahashi of Japan, Strickland verbally provoked Takahashi such a great amount for utilizing his leap sign over and over to escape troublesome places that few grievances were held up against Strickland for being unsportsmanlike.

Do numerous great players have an exceptional signal only for hop shots? Indeed! Particularly at the most elevated level, in big showdown play and in the public titles of most nations, a larger part of the players will either have a particular leap prompt, or a multi-reason sign that can be abbreviated by removing a fragment and took into a leap signal that way. Since you need to raise the butt of the signal seriously for a leap shot, having a more limited prompt makes it simpler. In many bars where space is restricted, they will have an abbreviated sign like a leap prompt that can be utilized on shots where a more extended sign (standard length is 57 or 58 inches) would be blocked by a divider or seat.

In the event that you hit a ball hard and at a point into the rail, it will fall off at an indistinguishable point, whenever estimated from the opposite side? Misleading, really, it will fall off at a somewhat more extreme point. This makes the alleged "bank shot" and the "rail-first" shot so troublesome. It's not unexpected said that you can pass judgment on such a shot by envisioning another table right close to your table, and going for the gold on the other table that you believe your ball should bank to, as though you were playing into a goliath reflect. This is mistaken somewhat, due to the steepening of the point off the rail, in spite of the fact that it is a decent spot to begin envisioning. The steepening happens because of the elastic rail really indenting to some degree when a ball reaches it, and "throwing" the ball back out into the table at a piece less of a point. The harder you hit it, the more prominent this impact is. By hitting it gradually, you can nearly nullify the impact out and out.

Can a heavier signal make you break harder? NO. A larger part of players, even great players, harbor the deception that a weighty prompt (some as many as 25 ounces, where the standard signal is somewhere in the range of 18 and 21 ounces) will assist you with breaking, or disperse the balls from the rack, with more noteworthy power. It appears to be natural that a heavier signal will bring about a higher speed and thusly a superior break. Actually, its material science essentially invalidates this thought. To get the heavier sign up to a similar speed as you could swing a lighter prompt, you'd need to invest more energy. With a similar measure of additional work applied to a break with a lighter sign, you could accomplish a higher speed. Force is equivalent to mass times speed increase; the higher the mass, the lower the speed increase you will actually want to place into the swing. The all out force conferred to the prompt ball will stay about something very similar, whether you swing with a 18 ounce signal or a 26 ounce. The way in to a decent break is to affect the rack as soundly as could really be expected, not to fiercely swing. This is particularly evident assuming that you are a more modest individual; using a prompt that is excessively weighty for you can really make it more challenging to break.

What's the distinction between Billiards, Pool, and Snooker? My comprehension is that billiards initially elaborate a pocketless table with 3 balls, the object of which was to carom (bank) and strike the item ball for a score. Billiards and pool became equivalent some place in America, and includes a table with 6 pockets, a prompt ball and 15 item balls that might be stashed all together, contingent upon whether you're playing 8 or 9 ball pool. Snooker is like pool in that the article is to take scoring balls, yet the balls are more modest, the table bigger, the pockets less than in pool. In each of the 3 games, a fundamental part is the 'leave', or snookering, which includes making as troublesome a went for your rival as conceivable when it's his move. Billiards is the most established of them with not many balls and to me tremendous guidelines. Snooker came from it, conceived by individuals that liked something a piece more obvious. You have an amount of red balls, various hued ones, and a white signal ball. Basically, you split the reds up and attempt to put them into the openings. At the point when you pot one, it stays down. At the point when you pot one, you can likewise then attempt to pot a hued one each having and relegated number of focuses to them. In the event that you do, it returns up and is supplanted as close to where it began as is conceivable. In the event that you miss, the other player has a go. At the point when every one of the reds are gone, the tones are soaked in a set request. Most noteworthy score wins! Pool has two arrangements of balls - Solids and stripes. You conclude which you are preparing by the main player to sink one in a pocket that is their ball style until the end of the game. At the point when a ball is sunk, it stays down. The 8 ball (dark) is the last to be sunk. There are different arrangements of rules for pool, however 8 Ball is the most widely recognized. 9 ball is most likely second then so on.

Pool Trivia

There are 15 shaded balls in billiards, 7 strong, 7 striped and the dark 8-ball.

What number is the strong purple ball in pool? The four ball.

Who and from what nation is the world billiard/pool champion who seldom plays with his false teeth on? Efren "Bata" Reyes of the Philippines.

What number of pockets are there on a standard billiards table? 6: one for each corner and two side pockets.

Which shape do you rack the balls in for 8 ball? A Triangle

Which shape do you rack the balls in for 9 ball? A precious stone

Which number is the strong yellow ball? The one ball.

What is the shot where the prompt ball first caroms off a rail and afterward strikes the article ball sending it into the pocket? Banking or Kicking.

What variety is the ball you hit with the pool stick? White

What did prompt balls initially consist of? Ivory

The surface on a prompt's butt can go from exposed wood to an assortment of gums and shellacs. You may likewise pick a covering around the butt like creature stows away or cloths. What are these covers alluded to as? A Wrap. Wraps can be utilized to support the solace and foothold of your hold or essentially to add to the presence of the sign.

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