Playing in tournaments is a great way to put your skills to the test, encouraging you to adapt your skills to each opponents individual playing styles. Finally, you need to remove the triangular rack without disrupting the balls or creating any slack amongst the arranged balls. Despite no longer being played at the professional level, these rules remain popular as amateur league rules in the UK, Ireland, Australia, some other Commonwealth countries, and a few European nations.

The balls are racked with the black (the 8 ball) on the foot spot (or "black spot"), in contrast with US-style eight-ball, nine-ball and most other pool games, in which the apex ball is placed on the foot spot. The only other set up rule concerns the corner balls, stating that the six and eleven balls should be placed in the corners of the triangular rack. Position the black 8-ball on the foot spot, remove it from the rack, and adjust the triangle until the spot is visible in the center of the gap.At Jackson Trophies we have a huge selection of pool trophies whether you're a winner, a runner up, or just taking part!

There is a requirement to either pot a ball or hit a cushion after first contact on each shot, meaning it is illegal to "roll up" to a ball. The English-originating version of eight-ball pool, also known as English pool, English eight-ball , blackball or simply reds and yellows, is a pool game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen usually unnumbered object balls) on a small pool table with six pockets.Push shots are allowed provided no double contact or sustained push can be seen clearly by the referee. The following is a list of PPPO world eightball champions, sanctioned by the PPPO ( Professional Pool Players Organization). One reason the pool balls were changed to two colours was that it was easy to replace Red or Yellow balls if one went missing. The cue ball cannot be moved, unless the incoming player has been left in a foul snooker, in which case they may nominate a free ball or move the cue ball to baulk. Other things to note about this ruleset include the fact that you must touch a cushion after getting out of a snooker, otherwise, this would be a foul.