These were normally placed in front of the 50 and 200 holes often with a fourth mushroom in front of the 100 hole. Earliest versions of the game used wooden mushrooms instead of pegs which have a thin curved stalk and a flattish rounded cap. There are two white pegs one either side of the 100 hole with one black peg in front of the 200 hole. On the playfield are normally placed three pegs or mushrooms. Potting the red ball in any hole scores double points. There are eight balls in all, seven white and one red. Gameplay īar billiards is played on a unique table with no side or corner pockets but with nine holes in the playing surface which are assigned various point values ranging from 10 to 200. Sams also made a narrower version with a 28-inch (71 cm) width playing surface. The standard "league" tables have a playing surface approximately 32 inches (81 cm) wide. There are also leagues in Guernsey and Jersey. The game's governing body is the All England Bar Billiards Association. It is now a traditional bar game played in leagues in the English counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Kent, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex and Yorkshire, and also the Channel Islands. Tables were also made by Sams, Riley, Burroughs & Watts and Clare. He persuaded the Jelkes company of Holloway Road in London to make a similar table. īar billiards was first imported into the UK during the early 1930s when David Gill, an Englishman witnessed a game of billiard russe (Russian billiards) taking place in Belgium. The game was transformed into Billiard Russe during the 16th century for the Russian Tsars and a derivative of Bagatelle played by French royalty. The game of bar billiards developed originally from the French billiard, which due to the expensive tables in the fifteenth century was played only by the French monarchy and the very rich.
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