Patent ID: 7909328

Claim:
A method for playing a pool billiard game wherein a pool billiard is used in combination with a set of a plurality of different cards and wherein the cards determine a course of a pool billiard game between at least two players, the method comprising the steps of: providing a pool billiard with a plurality of billiard balls and a cue ball; providing at least one set of a plurality of different cards wherein individual cards wherein the at least one set of different cards are associated with individual billiard balls of the pool billiard wherein each card includes a picture of a billiard ball from the pool billiard and wherein the different cards are the same except for the picture of the billiard ball from the pool billiard; providing each player with a card from the plurality of different cards to determine an order of play in the pool billiard game; providing each player with cards that determine the course of the pool billiard game wherein each player receives a given number of cards from the plurality of different cards and wherein the plurality of different cards received by each player establishes a corresponding plurality of billiard balls that must be pocketed; requiring a player, after a pocketing of a billiard ball and prior to attempting to pocket another billiard ball, to reveal a card from among the plurality of different cards received by that player corresponding to that billiard ball; assessing a foul against that player if the player does not possess a card among the plurality of different playing cards received by that player corresponding to the pocketed billiard ball; permitting the player to continue billiard play only if the player possesses a card among the plurality of different cards received by that player corresponding to the pocketed billiard ball; and establishing a winner of the game wherein the winner is the player whose plurality of billiard balls established by the plurality of different cards received by that player were pocketed first.