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Carefully constructed relentlessly rehearsed shots are required in a billiards game. In the game of bank pool the shooter is required to take a shot that in the process of a shot involves the cushion or wall, making it doubly more demanding. A game of bank pool could last hours for the unaccomplished billiards player, and this is the reason for which it is not recommended to play it at the local community center or the bowling alley.

The rules of the game are very easy to follow, generally speaking because the shot that the player is making has to be a bank shot and in order for him to win, a greater number of balls must be pocketed than the opponent. The shooter can continue to shoot as long as he makes contact with a ball and a wall or cushion and finally makes it to the pocket after the opening break is successfully performed. The shot does not have to be declared before the shot where the desired ball will be pocketed, but still, the shot must be a bank shot and must be pocketed.

The banked shot cannot include any extra caroms of other balls or strike another ball after the bank. This is one of the small changes from the rules of one pocket billiards. If by any chance any other balls are pocketed during the initial bank shot then the other pocketed balls will not be credited to the shooter and, depending on the conditions agreed at the beginning of the game, they could be re-spotted. In a much more simple way the shooter must make a shot without pocketing any extra balls and no extra points will be added to the score for extra pocketed balls.

You continue shooting until missing if you’ve pocketed the shot you declared to bank. This is the rule of continuation. Before the game begins, the competitors must agree on several terms like how to handle illegally pocketed shots and what exactly defines a bank shot.