Clean the table. This happens when a player sinks one ball after another until the last ball is pocketed, winning the game. This second one was the one I got familiar with here. The business of offering sympathy had been reduced to a system by the civilisation which these ladies helped to maintain; and, as it happened, there was one present who was familiar with this system. For example, if you just pocketed a red ball, the next one should be a coloured ball. A good player knows how to get cue ball shape on the next shot using stroke speed, topspin or draw, punching the cue ball with the stroke, gripping the stick harder or softer, using the cloth's natural tendencies to control the cue ball, besides cutting an easy ball a bit thinner or more thick to get cue ball shape, kicking off a rail and more. Cut shot. Any shot where the cue ball must hit the object ball at an angle for it to go in the direction of a pocket. We shall not be together long, now: it's been some time coming, but, at last, what is billiards we must separate: and the wife I've been to you!

The foot spot lies in the middle of the foot string and indicates where to rack the balls or where to return a previously sunk object ball to the table. In many pool games, the player who scratched has to return one previously pocketed object ball to the foot spot, and the other player has ball in hand. It is solid white in the game of pool, but in carom billiards, one player may play with a spotted or even a yellow cue ball. Solids. Object balls that have a solid color. To strike the cue ball in such a way to make an object ball go into a pocket. Bridge. Your bridge is how you position your supporting hand to hold the pool cue. He did get away with it, or that's what he appears to have done, but the white is in atrocious position. I plan to finish Play Your Best 8-ball and then read the 8ball section of Play Your Best Pool (my FAVORITE way to get ready for an 8-ball tournament) before I leave next Wed.

I then went to the one-loss side and played Terry Petrosino first. You may hear players call them side rails. The pockets in the middle of the long rails are called side pockets. Stripes. Object balls which are white and have different bands of color around their middle. The head spot lies in the middle of the head string. The Kitchen. This is the area from the head string to the head rail. Strings. Strings are two imaginary lines on the table which pass perpendicular to the head and foot spots, and all called the head string and the foot string. It is also known as the foot rail. The opposite end of the table is often called the head rail. The short rail is where you rack the balls at the start of the game. Short rails. The short rails are the two narrower sides of the table. The pockets in the four corners of a pool table are known as corner pockets. Diamonds. There are three diamonds or marks evenly spaced between each pocket on rails.

Daryl Peach breaks and three balls disappear. Open table. The target balls are not yet determined. There are two common techniques: an open or closed bridge. A bridge is also device that helps to support the cue stick during awkward shots. It is sometimes called a mechanical bridge. He made the called 11 in the corner on this choochoo train combo. For those not in the know, the only World 8-Ball crowns that the Filipino pool champions failed to win were those in 2005 (won by Taiwanese Wu Chia-ching), 2008 (German Ralf Souquet) and 2010 (Englishman Karl Boyes). In fact, Puyat Sports’ patriarch, Aristeo "Putch" Puyat, will grace the event, together with some of the who’s who in the Philippine billiards community, to bear witness to the up-and-coming talents in the Pool Capital of the World! Now it is only the best players who are masters equally of five or six clubs, and I doubt if this can be said truly even of them. The player who breaks, can place the cue ball anywhere in the kitchen. Cue stick. This is the stick players use to strike a cue ball.