Now that you know the difference between billiard tables and pool tables, you can decide which one is the best for you. Beyond pockets, the playing surface is the next biggest difference. There are different sizes, ranging from the standard 9-ft by 5-ft to the smaller ones with a 6-ft by 3-ft playing surface. On a billiard table, the playing surface is covered with a green cloth, typically 100% wool, then polished with a layer of sticky resin. The purpose of the rubber layers is to offer a bit of cushioning when the balls hit the playing surface and are also cheaper to produce than their billiards counterparts. Players will often play on even when there are not enough points available for them to win, hoping to force their opponent into playing foul shots by laying snookers. Nitrocellulose lacquer is spin-coated onto aluminium or glass discs, then a groove is cut with a lathe, to make one-off phonograph records, used as masters for pressing or for play in dance clubs.

Guncotton, dissolved at about 25% in acetone, what is billiards forms a lacquer used in preliminary stages of wood finishing to develop a hard finish with a deep lustre. While pool tables are also often made with a solid wood frame, there are lighter-weight models available for those who may want to place their table in storage at times. The game is played with 7 solid red balls, 7 solid yellow balls, and a black eight ball. Carom games such as straight-rail, three-cushion, balkline, and five pins make use of only three balls: a red object ball, one solid white cue ball for player one, and another cue ball that is white with a dot on it, or yellow, for player two. Some people think that games like billiards is not a sport because there really is no team and there maybe no strategy involved because all you do is hit a ball into a pocket. So, if the player strikes the cue ball, which strikes an object ball, the object ball must either travel to a cushion or a pocket in order to be a legal shot. The colours must next be potted in the ascending order of their values, from lowest to highest, i.e. yellow first (worth two points), then green (three points), brown (four points), blue (five points), pink (six points), and finally black (seven points); each colour remains in the pocket after being potted.

The table must be able to withstand the pressure of the balls hitting one another and the side rails. The balls are placed on a table in the shape of a pyramid (triangle). They are also larger than pool balls. How Would You Describe a Pool Table? If a player knocks the 8 ball off of the table at any time, that player forfeits the game. It can be transitory, such as a perfect shot with the cue ball stopping on the intended square inch of the table. A billiard table is designed for the use of the sport of billiards. Fast Eddie B, is described as a "world class croquet player", and two other gang members, Ihor Ihorovich and Scar Graynolt, also play the sport. Pool balls, on the other hand, are made from two layers of rubber. And, besides, the Lanesborough does not, as far as I can tell, appear to have a corner room that faces out on two close set neighboring buildings from which such windows could be viewed as observed in the shots from the pool room. The view we have of the Nathanson room with the pool room woodwork is so swift and abbreviated that it seems Kubrick intends no conscious notice that it shares that same woodwork, but it does, and thus Kubrick creates a connection between the two households, that connection also remarked upon with the red carpet that anticipates the pool table's bright red felt.

Same as draw. See illustration at spin. When Bill is on his way to the Nathanson's in the cab we see FIRE LANE on the street in such a way that LANE is the word that makes a most lasting impression in the shot. I've seen two photos reputedly of the Lanesborough Royal Suite, one a sitting room and the other a bedroom (I've yet to see anything remotely similar to the pool room in Eyes Wide Shut) and both have floor to ceiling windows, which Victor's pool room does not. To be fair, from how the game is portrayed in the media and pool tables being a familiar fixture in bars and restaurants, you can hardly blame anyone for melding the two together. But the style of windows of the above building--one pane of glass--doesn't match any of those viewed out the two windows in the supposed corner room of the supposed Lanesborough Royal Suite room used for a pool room. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This can't be so as the Royal Suite was said to have been booked only 10 days and we have a number of scenes in Alice and Bill's bedroom: the long conversation with Alice and Bill in the bedroom when they're high; the dressing room scenes; the scene after the initial party at Victor's; the long scene when Bill comes home from the "orgy"; the scene when he returns home from this last discussion with Victor.