The Rules of Play (Effective 15/3/16) - Download PDF. 1. General Rules. 1.1 Player's Responsibility 1.2 Lagging to Determine Order of Play 1.3 Player's Use of Equipment 1.4 Spotting Balls 1.5 Cue Ball in Hand 1.6 Standard Call Shot 1.7 Balls Settling 1.8 Restoring a Position 1.9 Outside Interference 1.10 Prompting Calls and Protesting Rulings Following an EGM on 3 rd December 2022, the EPA agreed to start using the International 8 Ball Pool Rules for its main events from 1 st January 2023. Individual leagues are of course, still entitled to use any rules they wish to play. If your league wants to use World Rules they can do so. Similarly, if your league want to use rules such as the Fifteen-ball (15-ball) is a pool game played with all fifteen balls racked in the standard diamond pattern with the 15-ball in the center. Standard 9-ball rules apply. A fun variation of 15-ball is American Rotation. A Filipino version (called Rotation) has more-complex scoring. Rules of snooker. Snooker table, drawn to scale, with starting positions of all object balls and the cue ball placed within the "D" for a break-off shot. Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a baize -covered snooker table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. yQhh.