Wednesday, July 25, 2007

9 ball

In 9-ball, on all shots, the player must cause the cue ball to contact the lowest numerical ball. The winner is the player who pockets the 9 (even at anytime during the game). This makes the game tough yet entertaining because while the player tries to pocket the balls numerically, he also has to make sure if he fails, his opponent cannot have the 9 within easy contact. When that happens, both players will end up becoming damn guai lan because they will just happily park the ball at some difficult spot. It's a damn cool game. Congrats to Yang Ching-Shun from Taiwan who won the Guinness 9 Ball Tour Singapore leg. I couldn't find a video of his final game, but this is a cool one where he won a poor Hungarian who could only sit there after breaking the rack and watch Yang (aptly named 清顺) smoothly clean sweep him. Power.

Trivia: In billiards/pool, what is a Left English? :p The answer right up!

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