Billiards and Pool
at
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
(New Mexico Tech)
BILLY AARDD'S CLUB
Student Activity Center ,
Socorro, NM 87801, USA ,
(575) 835-5927.
Updated: Tuesday, 10-Mar-2009 12:53:04 MDT
Maintained by Ray Piworunas
(ray@nmt.edu).
Contents
- Introduction.
- Meetings. (Fridays at 5:30pm in the
Fidel game room.)
- Ladders.
(14.1,
9-ball,
3-cushion,
straight-rail,
and snooker.)
- Tournaments.
November 8 - 17.
NMT ACUI Qualifier.
Entry deadline: November 6 at 6:30 p.m.
History of ACUI at NM
Tech.
- Recommended Equipment Care.
- Rules.
- History of Game Room billiard table layouts.
- Links to Other Sites.
Learn more about the Billy Aardd's Club at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
You can also view the Billy Aardd's Club
constitution, and our club's
operating procedures.
This semester our meetings will be held on Fridays at 5:30 pm in the
Fidel game room.
Sign up on the round sheet of which ever ladder you want to play on. Be
sure to leave your name (first and last), your phone number, and an
email address (preferably one from Tech).
- Handicapped 14.1 Continuous Ladders ,
Our original 50-pt
Handicapped 14.1 Continuous Ladder was started in the Summer
of 1983 by John Hagstrom following an idea to set up some sort of
ladder for people interested in regularly scheduled competitive
play. It uses a 100% handicap system, with a minimum LBPI
(ladder balls per inning) for spot calculations of 0.400, and a
maximum spot of 200-balls.
In February of 1999 we started running a 75-pt Handicapped 14.1
Continuous Ladder. This ladder uses a 60% handicap,
limits the minimum LBPI for spots to a 1.000, and has a maximum
spot of 125-balls. (It folded when we didn't have enough
people on the ladder for good movement. If we get enough
interest we'll probably start it up again.)
- 9-ball
Suspended for lack of activity.
- Straight Rail Carom
,
(cushion contact is optional.)
Suspended for lack of activity.
- Three Cushion Carom ,
Suspended for lack of activity.
- Snooker ,
canceled for lack of a ladder director.
-
Announcements and Schedules
presents current and past (BAC) tournament information.
-
History of ACUI at NM
Tech.
-
Score Sheets
House Rules
Pocket Billiards
- General Rules of Pocket
Billiards.
- Seven-Ball.
- Eight-Ball.
- One, Fifteen,
Eight-Ball.
- Any Eight (created
by a Billy Aardd's member).
- Nine-Ball.
- Back Pocket Nine-Ball.
- Bank Pool.
- One Pocket.
- 14.1 Continuous.
- Cutthroat.
- Bowlliards.
- Whammy (created by
bored Billy Aardd's members).
- Cribbage.
- Cricket (created by
Ken Hart).
Snooker
- American Snooker.
Pockets and Caroms
- English Billiards.
- Cowboy Pocket Billiards.
- Bottle Pocket Billiards.
Carom Billiards
- General Rules of Carom
Billiards.
- Carom Billiards.
- 18.2 Balkline Billiards.
- Three Cushion
Billiards.
- Progressive
Billiards.
Tournament Considerations
- Tournament Rules and
Regulations.
Other Rule Sets
Cannonball Pool is a
variation of Eight-ball that allows more variety in shot selection.
poolshark.com has an
interesting collection of rules.
Mouse
Ball Pool. While the table dimensions are a bit strange it seems to
be doable.
Alan Hopkins' Q-Skill Rating Systems scorecard
. (A single page copy of the
scorecard and rules.)
Carom Billiards
- United States Billiard
Association.
- An instructional series for straight-rail and balkline play, The Weingartner
Billiard Program.
- For an introduction to 3-cushion billiards check out The Carom Cafe.
- Walt Harris' Billiard
Atlas books on numerous diamond systems.
- 3cushion.com - The online
source for billiards.
- Axel's Carom
Billiards.
- A compilation of Artistic
Billiards shots.
- An interactive 3-Cushion Billiards training system can be found at billiardsystems.com.
Pocket Billiards
- A variety of practice drills can be found the Barenada site's Pool link.
- Pocket Billiards practice drills courtesy of Nadine.
- A site for the One Pocket
player (or those curious about the game).
Snooker
- A site with a tutorial section - fcsnooker.co.uk.
-
Ronnie "The Rocket" O'Sullivan fastest 147 .
About tables
- Pool Table Plans.
- A Pool
Construction Website.
Other links
- The Billiard Congress of
America site has many things (including the World
Standardized rules for Eight-Ball, Nine-Ball,
and 14.1 Continuous pocket billiards).
- If you're looking for some used billiard or snooker books try www.bookarea.com/Used.
- AZbilliards.com"
- InsidePOOL Magazine.
The source for news from the world of billiards and pool.
- Hard Times Billiards
- Jim
Loy's page of interesting Pool and Billiard links.
- Oran Green's massive
list of links.