Purposefully racking so that all the stripes/solids are in the same spot is actually illegal in the game of pool.

Official way to rack 8 ball. Once you have got the balls tight in a perfect diamond. You can place the remaining seven balls randomly. Below is the correct way to.

1) gather all the 15 balls. Most importantly, follow the advice in the break technique section. It's known as pattern racking.

The way to go about doing this is to place your fingers on the rack and push the balls up towards the top. After that, put the remaining balls behind the one. Carefully lift the rack without moving any of the balls.

Begin placing the solid balls. Next, you can place the. The main difference is that this post shows the order in which the balls go in what part of the rack whereas the previous post shows how to properly set up the balls.

Move the rack up till all the balls are pushing up on the one and feel tight. I made this video because of the mass amount of confusion around this topic and i couldn't find a good video to refer people to in order to clear things up. Yes, there are other ways to rack such as alternating stripe solid.

2) pick up the triangle rack and place all the 15 balls in there. They then jut the entire rack forward,. When racking, i’ve seen some people place the 8 ball top of the row of balls just behind where the 8 ball would normally go.