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the fun thing about billiards is that being bad at the "sport"
is never a real handicap. let me explain this a bit.

like i said in the list, there's either two white balls (one of
em has got 2 spots on them so its recognizable as a different
ball than the other white), and a red one. two players each have
their own white ball; one has the spotted one, the other has the
clean white.

to score a point in this sport, you have to shoot a "carambole".
this means that with your white ball, you will have to hit both
the other white and the red. after you scored a carambole, you
can take another shot, until you miss; then it's the opponent's
turn to take a shot.

now here is why being bad at the game is not a real handicap.
every player is actually not playing against his opponent, but
against himself. it's all about your own avarage.

say, i have an avarage of 1,5. that means that, in 10 turns i
can hit 15 caramboles when i play like i normally play. this
means that, in a match or competition, i will have to shoot a
certain amount of caramboles, say 25. now my opponent has an
avarage of 2. in a competition he will have to shoot, say, 31
caramboles. if i were to play against this player, who has a
higher avarage than me, then i have to shoot 25 caramboles in
the same time that he has to shoot 31. so basically, i have no
handicap because he simply has to shoot more caramboles than i.

ok, enough with the info. if anyone has any big questions, you
can ask them :] all i know is i love this "sport", because it
includes drinking a couple of beers with my best mates. it's
both fun and competition.