International 8 Ball Rules - Beginners Guide

Simon Webb gives a beginners guide to International 8 Ball Rules. Running though all the key things you need to know to play the game.

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[Zenilome]

Should one play towards cushion when remaining with black ball (i.e when black ball and cue ball are touching) or just play since it's the only object ball remaining?

[mamartinelli]

Could you please provide the exact size of the table? thanks

[fhdhejdnd]

If the only ball of the break potted is the eightball, it goes back on the spot, and then does your opponent come to the table, unless you pot a ball aswell as 8ball.

[Charlie_Dickinson]

Like these rules. Just need to convert the lads n lasses in the local clubs and leagues into playing them.

[lawrencebrumwell]

Question on your open table combo example. If you do it just like your example and pot a stripe after hitting solid first, it turns over, but even though you did not make the solid, are you now solids or is it still open?

[BarelyLegitBeats]

If you scratch the cue ball and pot the black on the same shot, do you win, lose, or respot the black? Thanks!

[nathansopeer]

With the points on the break, if a ball passes the centre line and goes in a pocket does it gain a point when it passes the centre line and then gain a point if it pots? so 2 points? or just the 1?

[terrybowkett]

Just a question do you have to have ball in hand after a foul or can you play it from where it is?

[Staropramen]

Am I right in saying you are not allowed to play a combo on the eight ball, it has to be potted in it's own right unlike blackball rules?

[llewellynsedgwick]

Hi Simon
When deciding colour's.
If I hit the ball I am going for (red) and I miss the pocket and it falls into another pocket. While this happens I also knock in a yellow

I went for red, but my red didn't fall first.
What happens

[geoffm]

The shot at 6:45ish ... playing your ball onto the opponents ball to pot it ....Leaving them snookered on their balls after this play is a legal shot. Possession is turned over and the opponent has to play from the snookered position with all normal rules applying thereafter. This is a very strong play in these rules.

[jackquinn]

If i call a pot while snookered, coming off cushion first, and miss the pot, and at the same time covering the intended pot pocket, but not hitting a cushion, IE an obvious pot, that surely isnt a foul? Therefore, if i just call a possible, but hard pot all the time, thats a get out of jail card for nit hitting a cushion afterwards?😊

[danielshayler]

If you pot say a red on the break can you still choose to be yellows?

[FantasticHuang]

After a breakshot, there is no any ball pocketed, then my opponent turn, he make a shoot but the cue ball and his object ball are pocketed at the same time. Do I still have chance to choose which color to shoot ?

[liamnotlast]

If you pot the 8 off the break, do you win or does it get respotted?

[jamesroche]

At 3:35 if you play red first when potting yellow you say it’s loss of turn, does opponent still have choice? Cheers

[markfleet]

I thought that the point system on the break counted balls which crossed the middle line even if they returned to the other end of the table. From your example, does this mean that only balls that come to rest in the other side of the table are counted (plus potted balls)?

[kmanpilkers]

Today I saw a game being played under international rules where the yellow player knocked in the 8-ball legally, but then also knocked in the remaining red ball on the table in the same shot as an accidental canon from the cueball. The cueball still ended up on the table. My understanding is that this is still a legal shot on the 8ball and the yellow player wins?

[good_one_raggy]

If you nominated red on first shot and miss can oponent then nominate red?

[dewiwilliams]

3:14 does this also include if the that yellow ball was also red (i.e you need to pot the ball you played)