Billiard Etiquette. Beyonce Style.
Playing billiards requires social skills and manners.
Billiards is a game not unlike golf; it requires concentration, requiring players and observers alike to shh!
Serious players still adhere to the traditions of billiard etiquette, while some of the younger new-to-the-game players choose to be loud and boisterous causing commotion with their unsportsmanlike conduct.
Here are a few rules of billiard etiquette:
When a person is positioning or positioned to take a stroke:
- Do not call out a person’s name.
- Do not eat, open your bag of chips, crack your gum, or make a phone call.
- Do not even think about saying, “Whoo-hoo”
- Do not walk by, behind or in front of person positioned to take a stroke.
- Do not take an “action” shot for social media purposes; at least ask first.
- Do not place your drink or dripping sandwich on the table.
- Do not sit on or stand on the billiard table.
- Tell the truth, you touched it, admit it.
- Compliment your opponent if they make an amazing shot.
If you’re an amateur player, perhaps playing Beyonce Style is for you: Trash talk, booty shakn’, victory dance…to read more, click here.
My take: Learning the rules to any game shows respect to other players. It isn’t “winning” if you didn’t play by the rules. Some games still expect participants to adhere to time-honored traditions.
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