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When you are learning pool, the first thing you know is to learn the rules and strategy. There are many different pool games, and the rules vary according to different pool games. Since snooker is the most popular one among international pool games, this article will focus on snooker rules and strategies only. The following tells you the rules and strategy of snooker.

* Table and Balls:

The snooker table is 350 cm long, 175 cm wide, and 85 cm high. There are 22 balls which are divided into eight colors: 15 red balls (1 point), a yellow ball (2 points), a green ball (3 points), a brown ball (4 points), a blue ball (5 points), a pink ball (6 points ), a black ball (7 points), and a white ball (used to hit the other balls). There are six pockets, and each side of the table has three of them: two at the end, one in the middle. There is a D-zone at one end of the table, with yellow, brown, green balls put on the starting line but with in the D-zone. The brown ball is put in the middle, and the yellow one and the green one on the points where the semi circle of D-zone meets the start line. Then, on the way to the other end of the table, the blue one is put at the center of the table surface, and then pink ball is put at the center of the other half of the table. The 15 red balls are put in a triangle with the point of it next to the pink ball. Last, the black ball is put near the other end of the table.

* Rules:

1. The game is to be played by two players.

2. The players use their cues to hit the white ball and get it to hit the other balls. It starts from within the D-zone, and must first hit the red balls.

3. They should hit a red ball then a color ball to get them to fall into the pockets alternatively. If the red balls fall into the pocket, they cannot be taken out again, but the other color balls will be taken out and placed back at the original place. If there is no red ball left, the color balls should be hit into the pocket in the following order: yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, black. The black ball is the last one to be hit into the pocket.

4. The player who has the higher score than the other wins the game.

5. Fouls:

Fine 4 penalty points if it is less than four points, and if the ball is more than four points, the penalty points will be the same with the ball points. The following actions are regarded as fouls:

Instantly hit without letting the main ball(white ball) stay static;
Hit the main ball with cue more than once;
Hit but not touch the main ball;

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