Behind the eight - ball

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When someone is "behind the eight-ball" he is in a difficult, if not impossible situation. The expression comes from the game of Kelly pool. Pool or pocket billiards, is a table game played with fifteen numbered balls and a cue ball. with the end of cue, or stick sending it into one or more of the numbered balls. The idea is knock each of the numbered balls into one of the six pockets around the edge of the pool table. In one kinde of pool game called eight-ball, players try to put the numbered balls into the pockets, with the eight-ball the last to go in. A player loses if he sinks the eight-ball before all the other balls are in the pockets. A player can put his opponent in poor position by leaving the cue ball behind the eight ball. The eight ball blocks his opponent from a shot at any of the other balls. So if you behind the eight-ball, your position is bad. There is almost no way out of the situation. You are in a trouble

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