What is the difference between pool balls and billiard balls?
A pool/billiard ball is a tiny hard ball utilized in cue sports, like carom table game, pool, and snooker. Depending on the particular table game being played, many diffenrent versions of pool/billiard ball sets exist, which varying in number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of the balls.
Considering a number of the most well liked billiard games, we made a simple break down of poo/billiard balls as bellow:
| Ball Type | Specifications | Games | Our Product |
| American-Style Balls |
Size: 2 1/4 in. Weight: 5 1/2 - 6 oz. One white Cue Ball. 15 Object Balls No. 1 - 8 are often referred to as solids, with balls No. 9 - 15 being the stripes. |
To play various pocket billiard games such as nine-ball etc. |
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| Pool Balls/Kelly Pool Balls |
Size: 2 in One white Cue Ball. 15 Object Balls No. 1 - 8 are often referred to as solids, with balls No. 9 - 15 being the stripes. |
To play various pocket billiard games such as eight-ball etc. |
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| Snooker Balls |
Size: 2 in One white cue ball, 10 red balls, as well as 6 additional balls of various colors |
To Play snooker game on 7ft, 8ft and 9ft tables
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Size: 2 1⁄8 in One white cue ball, 15 red balls, as well as 6 additional balls of various colors |
To Play snooker game on fullsize (12ft) table. | ||
| Blackball/British-Style Balls/ Casino Balls |
Size: 2 in or 2 1⁄8 in unnumbered seven yellow balls and seven red balls; one 8-Ball; 1 white cue ball |
To Play table game: the blackball |
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Besides the balls mentioned above, there are also training balls, that have systems of spots, stripes, differently colored halves and/or targeting rings.
For example, our Sportivo Training Ball, a cue ball marked with rings and targets on the surface of the ball. With the guide of these mark, players can better judge the effects of explicit amounts of sidespin, topspin, backspin and other forms of cue ball control. And help player learn higher management of cue stroke.