Welcome to Billiards FAQ
Billiards had been so popular to all over the years. Since it has been played for centuries, its development goes along with it. And various games has emerged and gained their own popularity. Some varieties that are still being popularly played by numerous people are carom billiards, pool and snooker.
Carom billiardsis usually played on a pocketless table. It has four versions the straight, the cushion caroms, balkline and the three-cushion billiards which was said to be the hardest version of the game. Like all the billiard games carom begins with a break, in which the balls grouped together at one end and the player going first break them apart by hitting the cue ball into them from the other end.
The pool how ever is popularly known as pocket billiards has a smaller table compared with the billiards table. The most widely played pool games are eight ball, nine ball, rotation and straight pool. Eight ball billiard is the most popular game played. There are 15 consecutively numbered balls, divided into the balls numbered 1 through 7 (the solids) and 9 through 15 (the stripes). The first ball that is pocketed after the break determines which group the player most target.
Snooker is the most popular billiard game in