Loy, Jim (2000). "The Chuck Nurse". Jim Loy's Billiards/Pool Page. NB: Each section of the newspaper page scans on this site can be clicked for a readable closeup. See the Nine-ball § Derived games section for the game. Tis game was clearly Whist in an imperfect form. It is remarkable that the "finest Whist player" who ever lived should have been, according to Mr. Clay, a Frenchman, M. Deschapelles (born 1780, died 1847). He published in 1839 a fragment of a "Traité du Whiste," which treats mainly of the laws, and is of but little value to the Whist player. Blackball was chosen because it is less ambiguous ("eight-ball pool" is too easily confused with the international standardized "eight-ball"), and blackball is globally standardized by an International Olympic Committee-recognized governing body, the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA); meanwhile, its ancestor, eight-ball pool, is largely a folk game, like North American bar pool, and to the extent that its rules have been codified, they have been done so by competing authorities with different rulesets. Tyler Eddy. In-context commentary by pool pro Danny DiLiberto. In-context commentary on rack 8 by pool pro Mike Sigel.

Direct definition of "on the hill" for viewers and two in-context uses of "hill-hill" in commentary by pool pro Vicki Paski. 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. Uses a set of yellow and red balls. In one-pocket, in which a set number of balls must be made in a specific pocket, upon a foul the player must return a ball to the table. In some games such as straight pool, a foul results in a loss of one or more points. British-style eight-ball pool, an originally British variant, also favoured in many Commonwealth countries, and parts of Continental Europe, with amateur and professional leagues. Excerpts from professional snooker matches with detailed kick-related observations by professional commentators, with slow-motion replays. Erring too much in this direction is "missing on the professional side of the pocket." It is so called because experienced players understand that on a thin cut, overcutting the object ball to a corner pocket will far more often leave the object ball in an unfavorable position, i.e. along the short rail for the incoming opponent than will an undercut, which often leaves the object ball sitting in front of or nearby the pocket it had been intended for on a miss.

Similarly, British terms predominate in the world of snooker, English billiards, and blackball, regardless of the players' nationalities. There are also games such as English billiards that include aspects of multiple disciplines. Only make billiards one of them. We must bid adieu to White’s, George’s, Brown’s, an all the polite Assemblies about Town, and that’s enough to make a Man mad instead of thoughtful. These make the game five points instead of ten, in order to revised laws (nearly all Hoyle) are given in every edition of Hoyle from this date. In the fifteenth edition the signature is impressed from a wood block, and in the seventeenth it was announced that Mr. Hoyle was dead. Barrington says that Whist is not named in the first edition of "The Compleat Gamester," but this is an error. One effect of Hoyle’s publication was to draw forth a witty skit, entitled "The Humors of Whist. A party of gentlemen (according to Daines Barrington), of whom the first Lord Folkestone was one, used at this date to frequent the Crown Coffeehouse, in Bedford Row, where they studied Whist scientifically. The following passage from the same pamphlet mentions the Crown - probably the Crown Coffee-house - and it has been inferred from this that Hoyle himself might have been one of Lord Folkestone’s party.

LORD SLIM. O yes. In straight pool, a third successive foul results in a loss of 16 points (15 plus one for the foul). In many pool games the penalty for a foul is ball-in-hand anywhere on the table for the opponent. 2014. These are also the rules of the English Pool Association and other national WEPF affiliates. EABAonline. English Amateur Billiards Association. In carom billiards games, when all the balls are kept near each other and a cushion so that with very soft shots the balls can be "nursed" down a rail, allowing multiple successful shots that effectively replicate the same ball setup so that the nurse shots can be continued almost indefinitely, unless a limit is imposed by the rules. Usually set-up in non-verb form, sometimes setup in noun form particularly. It is the most-played form of competition pool in the world, though not for professionals, among whom nine-ball dominates.

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