Different games of billiards Bumper Pool & Cowboy:

Bumper Pool - Bumper pool is a great game that can bring entertainment to the players. A bumper pool table differs from a standard pool table which has two pockets but in the standard pool table has six pockets. Again a bumper pool table contains 12 bumpers, among them two bumpers are placed beside the each pocket at the both end of the table and remaining 8 bumpers are situated around the middle of the table.

Each player or two teams has five balls of white or dark at opposite ends of the table. Each player will have to shot with a cue stick into the opponent's pocket with a one ball with a marked on it. This ball will be placed just in front of the pocket for the defending billiards player and both players attempt to make balls in the opponent’s pocket. In fact the first player to shoot his five balls into the opponent's hole which is the goal of bumper pool. According to its rule if the player happens to shoot his last ball into his own pocket, then he surrenders the game to his opponent.

At the start of the game, both players will shoot the marked ball to pocket in the bumper pool billiard games at the same time. It will become a foul and will allow the opponent to remove two of his balls from the table, if the player fails to pocket the marked cue ball first. Even the player with a ball closest to the opponent's pocket shoots again if no ball falls into the pocket in the first shot. But the player who sinks the ball regularly will continue his shoot.

Cowboy - Cowboy is another game of Billiards which combines carom and pocket billiards skill with a very unusual set of rules. This Cowboy billiards game is another example of a quick paced game. The player should have good deal of skill to play this game which is played with three balls. In the cowboy billiards game the table is settled with the cue ball in a far corner with the one ball set closest to the cue, the five balls are placed in the middle of the board, and the other three balls on the far side of the table. The main intention of the player is to get to 101 points by completing a variety of combination of carom shots. In fact there is no break shot. The shooter has to contact the three balls with the cue if he fails there is the option for the opponent player.

The scoring system of this cowboy billiards is quite amazing as it kept by combining the totals of the points on the numbered balls. The first ninety points exactly may be scored by any of these means on legal scoring strokes: pocketing any of the object balls: points equal to the balls' numbers; and/or carom of the cue ball off two of the object balls: one point; and/or carom of the cue ball off the three object balls: two points. The ninetieth point must be reached by scoring exactly at ninety, not going over, and each additional shot that it takes to reach 101 must be a carom, no direct shots. The player will be declared as loser if he fouls three consecutive times.