At the start of the game, the red balls are racked into a tightly packed equilateral triangle and the six colours are positioned at designated spots on the table. Players start at one stake, navigate one side of the double diamond, hit the turning stake, then navigate the opposite side of the double diamond and hit the starting stake to end. The table must be able to withstand the pressure of the balls hitting one another and the side rails. The distinctive factor on a pool table will be the six pockets, one in each corner with one in the middle on each side. With these pockets, you can play a game of pool. Beyond pockets, the playing surface is the next biggest difference. There are different sizes, what is billiards ranging from the standard 9-ft by 5-ft to the smaller ones with a 6-ft by 3-ft playing surface. In fact, playing our billiards games is like having an entire billiards hall at your fingertips!

I mean, I’m having a good time, I’m in a good mood, so I sort of tipsily swagger over to the cue rack on the wall and pretend to be sizing them up. All the three games involve the use of a cue stick and balls over a table covered in cloth with rubberised or leather cushions on the edges. IMDB has the lore this pool room scene took three weeks to shoot, but the 1998 Guardian article states that the Royal Suite was booked for 10 days. The game only has three balls, which are red, white (with a spot), and another white one (without a spot). However there are key differences between a billiards table and a pool table, and knowing the difference is important while you shop for the right one for you. A billiard table is designed for the use of the sport of billiards. Vote: What's the toughest sport of all? Fast Eddie B, is described as a "world class croquet player", and two other gang members, Ihor Ihorovich and Scar Graynolt, also play the sport.

Blackball was chosen because it is less ambiguous ("eight-ball pool" is too easily confused with the international standardized "eight-ball"), and blackball is globally standardized by an International Olympic Committee-recognized governing body, the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA); meanwhile, its ancestor, eight-ball pool, is largely a folk game, like North American bar pool, and to the extent that its rules have been codified, they have been done so by competing authorities with different rulesets. This leads me to think that Kubrick didn't like what was shot during those 10 days at the Royal Suite, that a set was built for the billiards room, and that woodwork from that set was also used for the Nathanson apartment. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This can't be so as the Royal Suite was said to have been booked only 10 days and we have a number of scenes in Alice and Bill's bedroom: the long conversation with Alice and Bill in the bedroom when they're high; the dressing room scenes; the scene after the initial party at Victor's; the long scene when Bill comes home from the "orgy"; the scene when he returns home from this last discussion with Victor.

Cut to shot 500 which shows the interior of the pool room and Victor crossing to receive Bill at the door. In shot 499 the butler leads Bill down this hall to the closed door of the pool room. As can be seen in the image below, the woodwork at Victor's is the same as briefly observed at the Nathanson residence when Rosa answers the door for Bill. They have come to mean the same thing in the minds of the general public. During that time we have seen enormous change and have gone from a general sports retailer to a specialist Billiard & Games Company. From the usual pool games is now a real sport, followed with no less anxiety and emotion than football, watching thousands of spectators. Pankaj Advani won the gold medal in the billiards in the 2006 Doha and 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. The victory in Riyadh was the third Asian billiards title for Dhruv Sitwala. See the Four-ball billiards main article for the game. Was the pool room scene, that we see in the film, shot at the Lanesborough? The pool room is a corner room with two windows, the one beyond the sofas and the one seen behind a ship model.