On behalf of TVLesson.com, this is Roy Pastor. I’m a BCA accredited advanced level instructor with BilliardAcademy.com.
In this clip on advanced billiards, I’d like to explain the diamond system. Now, if you look at this pool table and the little dots on the side, we don’t see diamonds. But we have to understand that back in the day when they started using these things, all these little dots would have been diamond shape and we still call them diamonds today. Now, what these diamonds do is divide the table up into equal proportions which comes in very handy for bank and click systems. If we imagine a diamond in each of the pockets, because remember, originally, these diamond systems were designed for three rail billiard tables in which there are no pockets. But if we imagine diamonds on each of the pockets, then we have nine diamonds on the long rail which divides the table into eight segments. And we have five diamonds on the short rail which divides the table into four segments. This is a perfect rectangle. So we have four segments on the short rail, eight segments on the long rail. A regulation 4 ½ x 9 table will actually play exactly 100 x 50 inches on the playing surface. So what does this means to us as pool players?
If we would have drawn lines across from each one of these diamonds, we’d find that the diamonds if all connected form a perfect grid of squares on this rectangle. And what that allows us to do is assign numerical values of the cue ball and object ball and do wonderful five rail banks and wonderful things on the table. And that’s how we use diamonds on a pool table.
On behalf of TVLesson.com, this is Roy Pastor. Thank you for watching.
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