Eight-ball pool (British variation)

This article is about the game with red and yellow balls mostly played in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries. For the related game with numbered balls, see Eight-ball.
Not to be confused with English billiards.

The English-originating version of eight-ball pool, also known as English pool, English eight-ball, blackball, or simply reds and yellows, is a pool game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen usually unnumbered object balls) on a small pool table with six pockets. It originated in the United Kingdom and is played in the Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Ireland, and South Africa. In the UK and Ireland it is usually called simply "pool", while the term "blackball" is common in other regions to distinguish it from the American-originated eight-ball.

The English version of eight-ball has two main sets of playing rules used in professional play; those of the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), known as "blackball rules", and the "International Rules" adopted by the International Eightball Pool Federation (IEPF, formerly known as the World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF) prior to 2024).

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