How to Play Eight Ball

Video Transcript

"This is Mike Lopez with Expert Village and now we're going to discuss the basic rules of 8 ball. Eight ball is your most standard game of pool most people call it solids and stripes or highs and lows. The solids or low balls run from the 1 ball to the 7 ball, the highs or stripes usually always run from the 9 ball to the 15. The 8 ball is set aside to pocket after an individual has pocket all of their object balls. The object balls are determined on the break and now when breaking an 8 ball you have to break from the kitchen. The kitchen is marked by the two shots on the breaking side of the table, from here back is what's known as a kitchen. The cue ball cannot be anywhere above that line and now on the break if you make a solid or a stripe then you are either a solid or a stripe. If you happen to make both it is the breakers option on which he wants to be. However, on this break there was no balls made on the break so the table is now as what we call open to the next players shooting. The next player has an option of pocketing either a solid or stripe after which that object balls are designed to that player. From the layer of the table you want to take a shot at the easiest ball on the table which is the 4. So what you're going to do is take your stance and you pocket the 4 on the side and those will be your object balls."