White Cue Ball 1 7/8"

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Pool balls are used to play various pool games, such as eight-ball, nine-ball, and straight pool. These balls, the most widely used throughout the world, are smaller than carom billiards balls, and larger than those for snooker. According to World Pool-Billiard Association equipment specifications, the weight may be from 5 + 1⁄ 2to 6.0oz (160–170g) with a diameter of 2 + 1⁄ 4in (57mm), plus or minus 0.005in (0.127mm). [8] [9] The pool is a game with many calculations and considerations to get right, and learning can take a lot of time and patience. While this is certainly cheaper for the establishment, it can lead to the balls being used on a particular table being different sizes or weights. This can have an effect on your game, but so can the newer, smoother pool balls being used alongside those that have a rougher texture due to wear and tear. This is usually the case when playing on a bar box or coin-op table. Using the same pool balls over time can also make them smaller and lighter. If the object balls are replaced and not the cue ball, it may be smaller than the others. We’ve listed the most common ways for different sized pool balls to find their way onto your pool table. Let’s look at each of these situations separately to truly understand how and why this can happen. Coin-Operated Tables

Touching the cue ball with anything other than the tip of the cue. The exception is that while positioning the cue ball "in-hand"; it may be touched by anything except the tip of the cue.From the 24th September there have been a number of law changes that will affect the way we can operate the club. ... readmore

Main article: Cue sports techniques §Semi-massé Also semi- massé shot. A moderate curve imparted to the path of the cue ball by an elevated hit with use of english ( side); or a shot using this technique. Also known as a curve (US) or swerve (UK) shot. Compare massé. session 1. Principally US: One or more sets, usually in the context of gambling. See also ahead race (a.k.a. ahead session) for a more specialized usage. 2. Principally British: Any of a group of pre-determined frames played in a match too long to be completed within a single day's play. A best of 19 frame match, for example, is generally played with two "sessions", the first composed of nine frames, the second of ten. This term is generally used only in the context of professional snooker, as matches at the amateur level are rarely played over more than nine frames. Longer matches can be split into three or four sessions. session to spare Principally British: In snooker, if a player wins a match without the need for the final session to be played, then they are said to have won the match "with a session to spare". For example, if a player wins a best-of-25- frames match split into three sessions (two sessions of eight frames and one of nine) by a margin of say, 13 frames to 3, the match will be completed after the first two sessions, with no need to play the third. set A predetermined number of games, usually played for a specified sum of money. Contrast race (a predetermined number of wins). Informally, sets may refer to gambling more generally, as in "I've been playing sets all day", even when the format is actually races or single games. set upA free ball is a player-nominated substitute for the ball "on" when a player becomes snookered as the result of a foul committed by the opponent. [1] The snooker is considered illegitimate in this case, and the affected player is allowed to nullify it by nominating any object ball as being "on" for the first shot of their turn. Once the free ball shot is taken legally, the game continues normally; however, if the player who committed the foul is asked to play again, a free ball is not granted. If the free ball is potted by itself, it is respotted and the player scores the points for the actual ball "on". These materials are very durable and make it much easier to construct pool balls of the same size and weight. a b c d e The Color of Money (film), Richard Price (screenplay, based on the novel by Walter Tevis), Martin Scorsese (director), 1986; uses a lot of pool terminology in-context. If a player pots one or more of their balls on their turn, or any ball on the break, they get to make another shot, provided they also did not commit a foul.