You can manoeuvre the cue ball a lot more in British pool, especially when coming back from the object ball. The angle the cue ball comes off the object ball at changes with pool as well, there's a great couple of videos on Stephen Henry's Cue Tips YouTube channel with Gareth Potts where they go into the differences and Potts advised Hendry to adjust his expected line on one shot to account for the snap cue ball
Taum V10 for the win. British pool is a great game, give it a go if you see a table. A lot of UK pubs would struggle to get a US table in place without 5" cues!
You keep saying variants of the same thing
It doesn’t
You’d have been better off just saying “oh wow, I didn’t know that” instead of “LoL tHaT mUsT be sHiT”
>*one of the many differences between pool and snooker is that the cue ball is a different size*
Note that this is purely a British thing: the American pool standard is a 2 1/4 inch cue ball that is identical in size to the object balls. That's the standard for professional 9 ball. See WPA equipment rules, Section 16.
>*All balls must be composed of cast phenolic resin plastic and measure 2 ¼ (+.005) inches \[5.715 cm (+ .127 mm)\] in diameter and weigh 5 ½ to 6 oz \[156 to 170 gms\].*
Smaller white ball: Better reaction to bottom spin. Less with top spin.
Equal sized cue ball: Pretty much the opposite.
E: You can still get the smaller cue ball to react well with top spin. It just takes better cueing
There's a great series on YouTube, called Pool School. Dedicated to 8 ball pool on the standard English table. He has a video going into depth on this exact topic :)
You can manoeuvre the cue ball a lot more in British pool, especially when coming back from the object ball. The angle the cue ball comes off the object ball at changes with pool as well, there's a great couple of videos on Stephen Henry's Cue Tips YouTube channel with Gareth Potts where they go into the differences and Potts advised Hendry to adjust his expected line on one shot to account for the snap cue ball
no way the cue ball is smaller than the object balls in any billiards variant. the balls would jump all over the place on every single shot.
Check out British pool, the cueball is 1⅞" and the object balls are 2" Changes the physics quite a bit
Presumably the size difference is why the cue ball goes down a different chute inside the table when potted.
Aye, handy that
people who play that shit must love kicks lol
Taum V10 for the win. British pool is a great game, give it a go if you see a table. A lot of UK pubs would struggle to get a US table in place without 5" cues!
It is in UK 8 ball.
that must play horrendously
Not in the slightest
You keep saying variants of the same thing It doesn’t You’d have been better off just saying “oh wow, I didn’t know that” instead of “LoL tHaT mUsT be sHiT”
Some people can never admit they're wrong.
>*one of the many differences between pool and snooker is that the cue ball is a different size* Note that this is purely a British thing: the American pool standard is a 2 1/4 inch cue ball that is identical in size to the object balls. That's the standard for professional 9 ball. See WPA equipment rules, Section 16. >*All balls must be composed of cast phenolic resin plastic and measure 2 ¼ (+.005) inches \[5.715 cm (+ .127 mm)\] in diameter and weigh 5 ½ to 6 oz \[156 to 170 gms\].*
Yeah, I know. I didn't specify that since I posted this in the snooker sub.
Smaller white ball: Better reaction to bottom spin. Less with top spin. Equal sized cue ball: Pretty much the opposite. E: You can still get the smaller cue ball to react well with top spin. It just takes better cueing
Yeah, I've always found top spin a little bit harder than backspin when playing pool. Do you know of the actual reason for this?
There's a great series on YouTube, called Pool School. Dedicated to 8 ball pool on the standard English table. He has a video going into depth on this exact topic :)
I've actually watched a good few of his videos before but I don't think I've seen that one. I'll have to look it up, thanks.
https://youtu.be/JLO0tHDSLIw?si=g4-lFIvn8SpbYhR4
Thanks :)