Are you completly out of your mind? They changed the break because of snookers off the break? Man im left only to think that you gotta be 10 years old at tops. If you had a clue about 9 ball rules then you would know that off break you need to pot a ball or drive atleast 4 balls to a rail. Now thats exactly what fod changed it to. You see when fod made this game they didnt have it down 100% and their slowly making the right changes to make this game as real as possible by making the legal rules. Tell you what have a look at the oficial 9 ball rules for your self.......
http://www.bca-pool.com/play/tournaments/rules/rls_9bl.shtml
They made the change to snooker because snooker is played on a big table but they left the small table as for light because snooker is also played on a 9 foot table. Again rules change accordingly to the rules of the game. Im still amazed that no1 has asked for a game as to wher u pot the 1 last instead of the 9 with all the intelegence floating around here.