B. Equipment.
The game of Eight-Ball Pool is played with...
- A Cue Ball - being a white ball.
- Fifteen Object balls - consisting of:
- Colours - being a group of seven red balls (or balls numbered 1-7) and a group of seven yellow balls (or balls
numbered 9-15).
- The Eight-Ball - being a black ball marked with a number 8.
- A six pocket rectangular Pool Table with general characteristics as follows:
- The cloth will be marked with a Spot at the position where a straight line drawn diagonally from the centre of
a side pocket to the centre of a corner pocket would intersect with a
straight line drawn from the centre of the opposite side pocket to the
centre of the other corner pocket.
- The cloth will be marked with a Baulk
Line being a straight line drawn from cushion to cushion, parallel to,
and one fifth of the length of the table from, the face of the cushion
that lies the greatest distance from the spot.
