What is 8 Ball Pool ? Everything you need to know about the game

8 Ball Pool is an online and mobile-based billiard-themed pool simulation sports game maintained and operated by Mini clip, a games company based in Switzerland, Portugal, Italy and England.^[2] As of June 2015, 8 Ball Pool was ranked number one of one-hundred in Miniclip’s Top 100 List.

8 Ball Pool offers free content and is able to be played from any computer device and runs in any ordinary flash-enabled browser fluently. 8 Ball Pool is the largest multiplayer game of its genre, netting thousands of players daily. As of February 2013, the game had eighteen million active players.

A guy says ” The safety side of things is very important also. It’s very easy to clear 5 or 6 balls after the break but sometimes you may run into trouble. That’s where frames are lost. If you’ve messed up after clearing the table of most of your balls and left your opponent a nice easy table. You can avoid this by identifying the balls in awkward positions early on and try to break them up so you can pot them easily or play a safety game to force your opponent to make an error and take advantage of it. “

8 Ball pool Game Rules :

Calling pockets

• To call a pocket all you need to do is click the pocket you want to pot the ball into. Some of the mid-ranked tables require you to call the pocket on the 8 Ball and the higher rank tables require you to call a pocket for every ball.

Fouls Of 8bp

• Fouls that will result in a ball in hand for the other player
  • Running out of time: you have a short amount of time to take your shot, so don’t take too long or play passes to the other player. Your time gets a little shorter with every ball you pot in a game.
  • Cue ball not hitting your own balls: if the white doesn’t make contact with one of your own balls before hitting your opponent’s balls, or it misses altogether, this is a foul.
  • No ball hitting the rail: if neither the object ball nor the cue ball hit the rail around the edge of the table, this is a foul. This is to designed to prevent negative play

• Potting the 8 Ball: the following situations are fouls, and result in the win being awarded to the other player.
  • Potting the 8 Ball before all your object balls have been potted.
  • Potting the cue ball and the 8 Ball on the same shot.
  • Potting any coloured ball before the 8 Ball on the same shot.
  • In a tier that requires calling pocket on the 8 Ball, potting the 8 Ball into an uncalled pocket.

8ballpool Game mechanics :

• Breaking off
  • If you get to break off, you can move the cue ball anywhere in the space to the left of the white line.
  • If you pot one of more balls during your break you get another turn. However, the table will remain “open” so you can choose if you want pot the spots or stripes.
  • However, any spotted or striped balls potted during the break won’t count until you pot either pattern during your next turn.
  • If you pot the cue ball on your break, the opponent gets a ball in hand.

• Having a ball in hand
  • You will be able to move the cue ball anywhere on the table. Hover the mouse over the cue ball and it will change to a hand symbol for you to pick the ball up.
  • On Mobile just swipe to drag the ball around the table.

• Using spin
  • Spin can help you better position the cue ball after you’ve taken a shot, setting you up for your next one. You can also use it to snooker your opponent or stop you from potting the cue ball on your turn.
  • You can put spin on the ball by moving the red symbol on the cue ball with your mouse or using the arrow keys. That will cause the ball to spin in that direction after it’s hit a ball.
  • On Mobile, all you need to do is tap the cue ball in the top right of the screen and move the red circle to apply spin in that direction.