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Playing billiards is a great source of entertainment. It is a game that requires many skills. It is ideally played by two players but is at times also played by only one person or more that two individuals. Billiards tables can be placed inside the house or inside the bar. It is a good source of fun for a family and for people chilling and drinking in bars.

Billiards tables are common in bars. Why? Because it is fun, it is easy and it does not take a lot of energy. The reason that people go to bars is because they want to have fun, relax or get drunk. When a person goes to bar to have fun, playing billiards is a good way to do so. Shooting a ball into a pocket using a stick is a fun game specially when played with friends. The idea of a fun game on billiards tables is the one that does not require rules. Playing billiards could be as simple as shooting any balls into any of the six pockets. But if they want to add some rules in it, they can do so. The simplest game using billiards tables is the 15 balls.

The rules in 15 balls game is pretty simple. The goal of both players is to shoot as many balls as they can and the first to reach the score of 60 wins. The score of 60 means the total number of balls shot into the pocket using the numbers they represent, the yellow ball having a value of one, the blue ball having the value of two, and so on. The only rule is that the order of shooting must be from one through 15. If the player hits number two first when there is still a number one, then it is a bad shot and any ball that entered the pocket cannot be validly given to the player as his points. But if the said number 2 ball enters even if the number 1 ball was the target ball for that shot, the player gets the points from the number 2 ball. Emphasis supplied that this is only so if the player is able to hit number 1 ball first.

A usual scenario in bars is two billiards tables where friends are around it, holding a stick of cigarette on one hand together with a bottle of beer, and on the other, the billiard stick. It is a common recreational tool in bars because it is a good bonding opportunity for a date, it is a fun way of spending time with friends, and it does not take a genius to play it.

In a house, a billiard table is also often set up because it is a fun bonding moment for siblings. It is also a unique way of entertaining a guess, couple by a scotch and Cuban cigars.