How to Play Pool The Basics

   

hello everyone and welcome to tvon.com my name is Grant and today I'm going to show you a little bit about playing pool or eightball as it's known so let's get it go ahead and I'll show you how to Rack some balls we'll go over a little bit on tool cues and we'll go over a little bit of the basics of the game what you need to

What You Need

break first off you'll need a triangle acustic billiard balls and chalk for your acti There are balls total one through and the Q ball so

Pool Cue

you want to make sure that your pool queue is not warped so one thing you can do is you lay it down on the table here and you just roll it back and forth just to make sure that the pool que is not warped and this one looks pretty good next what we want to do is as we hold the pool que we want to find the center the balance and this is going to determine where our our our power hand is going to be which in this case is my right hand so we want to go about an inch past where the balance point is and that's where you want to hold your pool que next thing we're going to go over is

Racking Balls

we're going to go on how to rack up your balls um now this kind of varies between different places where you go uh it's usually house rules to determin on how to rack up the balls but uh uh all every almost everywhere I've played you want the uh the number one ball to be um in the front you want the eight ball to be in the center and then you want two stripes to be on the corners that's just how I play but it it can be it can be racked a variety of different ways Setup uh so what we want to do is as we rack the balls we want to bring them all the way up here into the middle and we want the front ball to line up with the second Diamond up the table so you can kind of stick your fingers in to tighten up you want to get a nice tight rack your racks you push all the balls forward you let them sit and you lift off the triangle and there we have it it's that set up next thing you want to do is you want to make sure that the white ball is on the second diamond on the far side okay next thing we're going to talk about is the brake uh the brake is one of the more important shots of the game uh it's just to get the game started uh there's a variety of different ways that you can approach it you can hit it from the side you can uh you know you can hit it from over here hit in the middle um it it just really depends on your preference now I I like just to hit it on straight on so the goal is to get a real nice spread this one seems to be pretty good kind of spread the balls out all over the table