There are 6 pockets in a standard table.
In billiards the corner pocket means an opening in the billiards table into which the balls are struck into. There are also side pockets. the idea is to get the balls in to the pockets.
Pocket billiards ("pool") tables have pockets. Carom billiards tables do not. Apparently the table in the video is a carom billiards table. Whether this was a specific choice or whether it just happened to be handy I don't know.
In most pocket billiards games, the table does not get cleared, so no record can exist.
In straight pool, it is easy to get a score of 128 on the pocket billiards table.
It is not a pool table if it only has 4 pockets. If the table is from the 1700's, it could be an antique pocket billiards table.
It doesn't. There is no "mat" related to the game of English Billiards or Pocket Billiards.
There are generally two terms used for billiards - English billiards or pocket billiards. Pocket billiards is also called pool. Billiards is a popular bar game that has a number of different names that it has been called over the years but the most notable and popular is simply that of pool.
This depends upon which billiards game - English Billiards is most popular in the UK. Pocket Billiards is most popular in the US.
The are no values to the balls in either pocket billiards or English Billiards.
Billiards covers English Billiards, Carom Billiards, and Pocket Billiards, and each has their own set of rules.
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