-how does playing pool deal with science?
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It deals with geometry in that you have to set up proper angles and predict where the ball should end using multiple angles. It also deals with physics in that you have ot control how hard you calculate your shot in order to end in a specific location, as well as things like friction coefficients, ball speed, ball rotation and spin, energy transfer, energy loss, and other aspects that you normaly dont think about when playing  a rack in your local bar.
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depends on your leagues ranking system.  what is the scale from 2-7? how many higher or lower ranked players than you are there?  the ranking program might factor in overall skill level of the league when ranking its members.  by what margin did you win the 7 games and by what margin did you lose your 2 games?  the ranking program might also consider this information.  if you broke and ran all you games and just barely lost the 2 games by 1 ball then you might move up sooner than you wanted.  \n\nbest advice is just to play pool and learn all you can about pool.  hopefully you are playing pool for the enjoyment of it and not to scam people in your pool league by dumping just enough games to keep a lower handicap until the league finals come around.
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Game theory (link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory) is not typical mathematics as you would normally consider it.\n\nIt was invented by a mathematician who was also a computer pioneer John Von Neumann (link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann).\n\nIt does not necessarily have equations as you would typically think of in the field of mathematics. It is more of a way to consider a situation (called a game) where competing/cooperating members have choices to make that can affect the outcome of the game.\n\nGame theory has wide ranging implications, from business, computer software, investing, biology, sociology and even law enforcement.
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Simon Buckingham has written a great article at SnooHoo, telling us the basic difference between pool and snooker. Such information is often assumed known, but many professionals will fail to accurately distinguish between the two. So, here are the major differences between these two amazing cuesports.\nPool and snooker are two similar sports which both entail using sticks called cues to pocket balls of different colors into six holes on the sides and corners of a rectangular table. Yet these two sports go a long way to illustrate the difference between the old organized world and the new unorganized world.\n\nSnooker is a sport from the age old organized tradition. You are much more likely to get dressed up when playing snooker, often in a dinner suit and bow tie. You play snooker on a long table of well over two meters in length and a meter wide. You hit the balls gently, relying on their smooth passage across the slate-bedded table to reach their destination pocket.\n\nBecause the table is so large, success (known as "break building": an unbroken series of pocketing the balls) depends upon using spin to position the white cue ball for potting the subsequent ball. There are set rules which are strictly adhered to, for example, if you accidentally tap a snooker ball with the end of your cue you "foul" and forfeit your shot.\n\nSnooker is played at a thoughtful, leisurely pace and some time can elapse between shots. One frame between average players can take up a good hour. \n\nThe contrast between snooker and pool is clear. Pool represents the unorganized world. You can play in any clothes that you find comfortable. The pool table is much smaller, just over a meter in length and less than a meter wide. The pockets are larger relative to the size of the balls. Paradoxically, even though the pool table is smaller, you tend to hit the balls harder because the cloth on the table (which can be and often is blue or red as well as green) is more coarse. The rules are less strict, insofar as the acceptance of minor mistakes when setting up a shot tends to be greater. The pace of pool is quicker: you don't need complicated implements such as "spiders" which are supplementary cues that let you reach areas of the snooker table in order to play shots that human size would otherwise preclude.\n\nGames between good pool players can be over in 10 minutes. There is less break building because the table is small enough for the good players to pot a few balls and win. \nPool is a sport which is much more attuned to today's quicker, faster unorganized world than the more organized world of snooker. Our goals remain the same: personal prosperity (potting the balls) and the infrastructure of the world (the table) is smaller and more accessible. As with the world, pool games are played at a faster speed, the rules are fewer, innovation rather than strategy much more important. The entry barriers are lower: people who have not played pool or snooker before can pick up a short pool cue and have a go and pot something. \nNew beginners could be playing snooker a long time before they pocket a ball. The start up costs for the pool equipment are lower, and the ease of carrying around a pool cue greater.\n\nWith its smaller table and wider pockets, pool is like technological capitalism, giving its players both the opportunity and the opportunity to pursue that opportunity.\n\nThe image of the pool player in the movie "The Hustler" contrasts with that of the gentleman in his country mansion playing snooker. As someone once said, "The best things come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle". Rack up those pool balls, and play on, play on.
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It depends on the game you are playing, but there are two very popular games played on the standard pool table.  Eight ball features15 balls one being the black eight ball, seven solids and seven stripes.  The object is to sink all of your balls (either solid or stripes) in any of the six pockets before sinking the eight ball.  A player may continue shooting until he misses a ball.  If a shot cannot be made, then it is to the players advantage to "hook" his opponant leaving the cue ball in a spot where a shot is difficult or impossible, thus regaining control of the game.\n\nNine ball is played with the balls numbered 1 through 9.  The object is to sink each ball in numerical order, sinking the nine ball last.  Each ball is worth one point, the nine is worth two.  In competative pool, players have to reach a certain number of points before their opponant. In tournament play it often goes by games won-like the first to win eleven games, as opposed to recording points.  A player may win the game early if they sink the nineball using the numbered ball they are hitting.  For example if I am shooting the one ball, I can hit the one into the nine and pocket it, winning the game.  Strategy is important in nineball, along with cueball control.  It is a great game to play to practice banking, hooking, and cueball control.\n\nBesides these two games there are other variations that can be found, and many bars have their own house rules. In an unfamiliar place it is a good idea to check what the rules are before play.
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My magic 8 ball says no. \n\nSo does my physics professor.
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if you are talking about yahoo pool, go click on the cue stick to aim for position, then set your power bar ready, click on the cue and drag it, let go.. and see the ball rip apart ! cheers !
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erm, bit hard to show you on the net. You rest the pool cue (tip end pointing away from you) between your thumb and finger of your non-writing hand, hold the cue with the other hand near the other end of the cue, slide the cue back and forth a bit to get used to it, then hit the white with the tip in the centre of the ball.\n\nGood luck
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How to win state and national lotteries.\nDo you want to win a BIG, BIG prize? Do you want to have all your financial worries sorted out? Do you want to win the lottery? The secret is very, very simple. Anybody can manage it. All you have to do is buy a ticket with the numbers that are going to be drawn at the next draw. If you do this I can GUARANTEE you will win the lottery.\n\n That's not exactly new information, is it?\n\nNeither is the idea that nobody can predict what those numbers will be. However, when a lottery machine selects the numbers this is in no sense a random action. It is 100% predictable. There is nothing stopping anybody calculating exactly which balls not only will, but MUST be drawn. Nothing stopping you. It will simply take a measuring and timing tolerance at the edge of possibility combined with a huge series of calculations.\n\nYou can measure the balls and know their properties. You can time the intervals between starting and stopping the contra-rotating tumble dryers. You can project the trajectories of every single ball and their interactions with each other. It can be done. But it would probably cost more than the size of the lottery jackpot to fund the project and nobody is going to be very happy with people standing around and timing the balls to that degree of accuracy, because one microsecond will totally disrupt all the calculations. The lottery ball machine is totally predictable and not in any way random, but exactly the same thing can be said about a woman. Both are determined and predictable systems, but they simulate randomness far more elegantly than true randomness would. True randomness is a willo-the-wisp entity, like infinity, the highest prime number and the function of half of the roundabouts in Warrington. Lottery machines are not random, but they are chaotic, and therefore, like the minds of women, very difficult to probe with the crude analytical tools we have at our disposal.\n\nSo, I can't tell you how to win the lottery. However, I can offer you some interesting advice that you might find helpful.\n\nYou have to be in it to win it\nThis is a very common slogan used by lotteries and football pools companies alike. What this slogan is saying is you can't dream of winning the lottery or the pools unless you part with your beer tokens. Of course they are right. If you never buy a ticket you can never win. But how many times do you dream of winning? Do you have to win every week to be happy? Of course not. You only have to win once. So you only have to buy one ticket, at some time in the future to be able to legitimately dream of winning a huge jackpot.\n\nOne ticket will do\nYour chance of winning a share in a big jackpot prize is very low. In the UK national lottery (now named Lotto) your chances of having a share of a top jackpot, by getting 6 balls out of 6 representing the numbers 1 to 49 are 1 in 13,983,816. \n\nNow most weeks people win, often several people share the jackpot. So it does happen. But if you staked £5 every week on those odds you would not have a realistic expectation of winning a share in a jackpot in a normal lifetime. But you knew that anyway, didn't you?\n\nSo you might as well get used to the idea that winning the lottery is unlikely. But it's also nice to have a dream, it is good for your mental health. So here is the secret: Buy a ticket. One day. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe not.
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www.online-betting-guide.co.uk/skill-games.php\n\nhttp://www.terragame.com/pool_king.html
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This is always so much fun, isn't it.  This is probably why the previous answerer is now looking for satisfying employment in the food-service sector.\n\nBy the way, you forgot to mention if they have to specifically be in that order or in any order, though.  It's a very different answer.\n\nOkay, what's the probability of drawing one green marble each time you draw, if you put the marbles back each time?  It's the partial over the sum, or in other words 4 out of 6, or 2/3.  Similarly the probability of drawing a red marble is 2 of 6, or 1/3.\n\nSo if you specifically want the order to be green, green, red, then you just multiply the probabilites each time.  2/3 * 2/3 * 1/3 is  4/27.\n\nHowever, suppose it can be in any order?  Here's where it gets tricky.  First we figure how many ways there are to draw two greens and a red -- we can draw (g,g,r) or (g,r,g) or (r,g,g) -- so three ways.  The probability is the same for each time so we add them together, essentially 3 * 4/27 is 12/27, or a little less than 50%.\n\nPart b) is harder, since the probabilities change with each draw.  The first time we draw it's a 2/3 chance of getting green, but after that there are only 3 green marbles out of 5, so it's now 3/5 instead of 4/6.  So if we want to draw two green and one red IN THAT ORDER it's 2/3 * 3/5 * 1/2 = 1/5.\n\nIf you don't care the order, then figure out each of the ways to draw 2 greens and one red (same as above) and add the probabilities from each time.  I'll leave it to you for the answer.\n\nActually there are very few interesting people in the world who like statistics.  But even the boring ones can usually find very good jobs.  Also it's been a while since my stats classes so if I'm wrong, please don't come after me with a baseball bat, thanks  :)
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Pool A\nA1\nA2\nA3\nA4\n\nPool B\nB1\nB2\nB3\n\nAll teams in pool A play each other once top team advances to semi-finals\n\nAll teams in pool B play each other once top team advances \n\n2nd and 3rd place teams in each pool cross over (2 vs 3) with other pool to pick other two semi finalist.\n\nThis way all the teams in Pool A get 3 games in pool play.  All the teams in Pool B get 2 pool games and at least one game trying to get into or in the semi-finals.\n\nHope that works for you.
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here may be help\n\nhttp://www.bestbilliard.com/rules/game_rules.htm\nhttp://www.bca-pool.com/play/tournaments/rules/rls_8bl.shtml\n\np.s check the pool game at yahoo games here you wont regret  so can play pool at home ;) \nhttp://games.yahoo.com
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There are many "Diamond systems" out there. You may want to check out Robert Byrne's books. Also for general pool physics, I would suggest the site below. Tons of articles on everything from basic aiming and tangent lines, to more advances stuff, including some videos.
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Depends on what trick you want to play, learn to play pool first, the basic stuff
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You're refering to "Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land", and as for the equations, I dunno.  But if you imagine hitting a ball straight on (with no english...no spin), then the natural angle (after hitting a second ball) will carry the ball off the tangent at the point the two balls made contact, while the second ball will travel at a right angle from the tangent.  In other words, picture in your mind you just just shot the cue ball at the 9 ball.  Got it in your head?  Now slow it down to the point where the two balls make contact and pause.  Now, if you don't know anything about tangent lines, I've got some info below.  Basically, a tangent line touches a circle (like the balls) in ONLY one point.  When the two balls hit, the first ball will travel along the tangent, while the second ball will always travel at a right angle.  Again, this is WITHOUT any spin, which will either increase or decrease the angle of the path of the balls.  That's one way you can control the balls and use them to your advantage, but you can start with learning the natural angles.  Practice...you'll get it.  Hope this helps :-P
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they sure do!!!--some of the best profesional women pool players were former snooker champs---alison fisher--karen corr--to name a few!!!---i have played a few games of 9 ball with both of them---humiliating!!!