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Summary: Get tips on racking an eight ball game in pool and advice on setting up a pool game in this free billiards video lesson.
Mike Lopez has been playing pool in all of its forms for roughly sixteen years. He was the East Carolina University Nine Ball Champion in 1999. He currently is the top ranked player in...read more
"Hi, this is Mike Lopez with Expert Village. Now we're going to rack the most televised game 9 ball. Now we're going to discussed how to rack. Racking is very important cause you can't play unless you rack. Now we're going to teach you how to rack 8 ball, 8 ball is a game of highs and lows or most commonly solids and stripes. You rack 8 ball is you put a solid up front, you put stripes behind it, then the next roll is going to be all solids with the 8 ball in the middle and then you put two more stripes there, then you put solids in at the bottom, two stripes at the back, and some people rack this way or you can rack the other way at that point it actually does not matter. But that is how you rack 8 ball."
eHow Article: How to Rack an Eight Ball Pool Game