In 1925, the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company began offering ball sets specifically for the game using unnumbered yellow and red balls (in contrast to the numbered solids and stripes found in most pool ball sets), a black eight ball, and the white cue ball. The English version of eight-ball has two main sets of playing rules used in professional play those of the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), known as "blackball rules", and the code of the World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF), known as "international rules".Īmerican-style eight-ball arose around 1900, derived from basic pyramid pool. The game is played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen usually unnumbered object balls) on a small (6 ft × 3 ft or 7 ft × 3 ft 6 in) pool table with six pockets. In the UK and Ireland it is usually called simply "pool". A blackball player performing a kick shotĮight-ball pool, also known as English pool, English eight-ball, blackball or simply reds and yellows, is a pool game originating in the United Kingdom and popularized across The Commonwealth, such as Australia and South Africa. Not to be confused with English billiards.
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