To become proficient at playing a billiards game, you need to have a good understanding of the basic principles. In this game, the players used an alternative tools such as marbles in playing billiard instead of cue balls. This technique is usually done in some places where they lack some materials and they find it easier to maneuver the pool cue.

  (marbles instead of cue balls)

Steps:

1. Rack the balls. All balls (except the white cue ball) start in the rack. For almost all pool games, you place the eight ball in the middle, the one ball on top and alternate stripes and solids around the rack.

2. Decide who breaks. Flip a coin, rock, paper, scissors, or you can each try to hit a ball as close to the railing as you can, and the closest breaks.Break the rack. Whichever you make (stripe or solid) are the types of balls you will be trying to sink for the rest of the game. When you do not make any, your opponent can shoot at any stripe or solid. When you make one of each, you can  choose.

3. Shoot as long as you keep sinking your balls. It is not your opponent's turn until you miss a shot. Alternate turns with your partner. When you are on a team, you can not shoot until you are partner has taken a turn.

Today, players typically use billiard balls instead of the smooth stone marbles of the past, partly because few Cherokee people are still alive who carve the old-fashioned marbles.

A sample video played by the famous Efren Manalang Reyes, OLD, PLH (born August 26, 1954) is a Filipino professional pool player and a two-time world champion.

Efren "Bata" Reyes on the left side