General FAQs – Laws of Pool These apply to just about everyone. It is nearly impossible to avoid these laws and their consequence. They don’t apply every time, but when they do, it is a personal intervention from the hands of any one of the many billiard gods. • The more balls you make in an inning, the easier it is to miss an easy shot. • On a 9 Ball hill-hill game, if you make the 9 ball, the cue ball will scratch. • The better you play, the easier you can be beaten by a

Three-cushion Carom Billiards From the book “ Carom Billiards:  Around the World Patterns Patterns ” Group A: Short Leg into Long Rail, Group 1, Shot A1b Starting layout For this shot, this is how the balls are laid out on the table. With the cue ball at the lower left corner of the table, the other balls are up-table, near opposite side rails. The layout below shows how the shot was played. The Shot To make this shot work, the cue ball kisses off the red ball at a very thin

The level of how “good” you are is defined by your competition. For example, if you are playing with neighbors once a week around a home table, a little extra self-improvement effort makes you the big frog. In a pool hall, the regulars are of higher caliber. It will take a lot more time and effort to improve enough to become competitive—and a lot of practicing (and instruction) to rise to the top of that group. There are three things that determine good: Breadth of knowledge