The Billiard Congress of America (BCA), the biggest non-profit pool association in the US is celebrating its 60^th anniversary. To mark this event, the BCA is updating the official rules of several pool games including 8ball and 9ball and the recently added 10ball pool game.

The updated version of BCA official billiard games rules is all wrapped and up for sale (via the BCA website, for example) in a special BCA 60th Anniversary Edition of Billiards: Official Rules & Records Book. The book includes the latest version of 8ball pool, 9ball, 14.1 continuous, one pocket and 10-ball rules, this year record breaking achievements in cue sports as well as billiard tips, tournaments results, biographies of the BCA hall of famers and more.

In short, what’s new in 8ball and 9ball pool games:

8ball rules - If a player pockets the opponent’s object ball, then the opponent is required to declare a foul prior to his next shot; otherwise, the other player will take over his group of object balls. 

9ball rules – a new category "Stalemate" has been added: the referee can decide a stalemate if non of the players can win from the current position, and allow each of the players to play three additional turns at the table. If both players are still not rescued from their dead end positions, the balls will be re-racked and the breaker will break again.

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