RULES FOR RHIWLAS POOL
WE have been requested to publish the following:—
- As many balls as there are players must be placed
in a basket, shaken, and given out one to each player.
Then the players start progressively, as the colours are
placed on the pool marking-board, white spotting his
ball, and the black ball being placed on the centre spot.
- Each player has three lives at starting: red plays
from baulk on to white, and yellow on to any ball out of
baulk, and so on.
- Any ball out of baulk may be played on, but if all
the balls are in baulk, or the player and the black ball
only are outside, then baulk is no protection.
- Any one playing at a ball on the line or in baulk,
where there is a ball beside the black out of baulk, loses
A life.
- No ball can be moved or taken up, under any circumstance.
- Any player putting in any ball, if done according to
the rules, receives a life—such sum as may be agreed upon
—from the person who owns the holed ball, and after
the holing of each consecutive ball, the striker may play
at the black ball, and should he hole it, he receives the
value of a life from each player.
- The black ball cannot be holed twice in succession,
but a coloured life must intervene.
- Should a player, not having at the previous stroke
taken a life, hit the black ball before touching a coloured
one, whether he holes it or not, he loses a life, and pays
all round; but should he go in off it he pays all round,
but does not lose a life.
- The black ball remains on the place it is hit to, until
at is pocketed, when it is replaced on the centre spot.
- Should a player, having holed the black ball, play
his next stroke before it is replaced on the centre spot,
lie loses a life.
- Should a player, having at the previous stroke
taken a life, miss or go in off the black ball, he pays a life
all round, but does not lose one of his own lives; should
lie miss a coloured ball he loses a life, and pays the colour
that he should have played on in ordinary pool; thus,
red missing yellow would pay white; but if the ball he
should have played on is in hand, he pays the next colour
in order that is on the table.
- Should a player run in off one or more coloured
balls, he pays to the coloured ball first struck, and loses
a life.
- When black and the striker's ball only are on the
table, or in play, either in or out of baulk, the player
must play at the black; should he put it in, he spots his
ball, and the next player plays at him.
- Should a player after hitting a coloured ball, put
in the black either with the played-at ball, any other ball,
or with his own, he receives a life all round; and should
lie hole the ball played at, or any other ball as well, he
receives additional lives from the owners of those balls.
- If a player hits a coloured ball and then runs in
off the black he loses a life, and pays the coloured ball
that he hit first, but does not pay all round.
- Should a player, entitled to play at the black, put
in one or more balls by the same stroke, he receives a
life for every ball so put in.
- Any person playing before the black ball is spotted,
or before all the balls have stopped rolling, loses a life.
- Any number of stars are allowed, each star being
double the amount of the last taken; thus, if the first
star is one shilling, the second will be two, the third
four, and so on; but when three players are left in, one
more star only is allowed.
- Each person must declare if it is his intention or
not to star, before the next stroke is played at a coloured
ball.
- A player who is angled or covered, playing at a
coloured ball, missing it, and hitting the black, does not
pay all round, but loses a life, and pays the colour he
should pay in ordinary pool.
- A ball in baulk if put in by a cannon or by a hit
ball, does not pay or lose a life, but remains in hand.
- Division of the pool when two players are left in
with an equal number of lives is compulsory; but if a
player bets that he takes the pool and divides, he wins
his bet.
- In addition the player may lose a life under any
of the following circumstances: by running a coup, by
forcing his own ball off the table, or by playing out of
his turn; but playing with a wrong ball when in hand
does not lose a life, the wrong ball being exchanged for
the right as soon as the balls have stopped rolling.
- Should a player force another player's ball, or the
black, when in order, off the table, he receives, and the
ball so forced off, loses a life; if the black is forced off,
he receives all round.
- If a player clears the board of all the coloured
balls, he plays at the black, and should he hole it, spots
his own ball; if he fails to do so, his ball remains where
it stops rolling.
- If the striker should move his own ball whilst in
the act of making a stroke, he may replace it; should
he not do so, the stroke is foul, and he loses a life; and
should he by a foul stroke hole a ball, the owner of that
ball does not lose a life, and the holed ball must be considered
in hand. If a player moves another man's ball
while making a stroke it is foul, and he loses a life.
- After a hazard, if the striker stops or touches his
ball before it has done rolling, he cannot claim the life.
- If before a star two or more balls are pocketed by
the same stroke, each having one life, the owner of the
ball first struck has the option of starring; but should
he refuse, the owners of the pocketed balls must draw
lots for the star.
- No one may stop the ball except the striker.
- No advice to be given before the stroke under a
penalty of losing a life.
- All misses must be played with the point of the
cue under a penalty of an extra life, even if taken off the
star which may be gained by the stroke.
- A ball knocked off the table loses a life, and a
player knocking the black ball off receives all round J
if he knocks his own ball off from a coloured ball, he
loses a life, which goes to the ball that he flew off from;
if from the black he pays all round, but does not lose a
life.
- If a ball in baulk is knocked out of baulk by a ball
that has missed, it cannot be replaced but must remain
exposed.
- Any person playing with both feet off the ground
loses a life.
- Any person playing with the black ball pays all
round, but does not lose a life.
- All other cases are to be decided according to the
rules of the ordinary pool.