This is the amusing moment a woman's pool break utterly failed - and the balls ended up in exactly the same position as they started.

CCTV footage shows the player, named Xiao Ni, shooting her first shot with the cue at an arcade bar in Liyang, in Jiangsu Province, eastern China, on November 28.

She struck the cue ball and it hit the top of the racked balls, causing one of them to roll across the table. To her surprise, the balls circled around the pool table, hit several corners and bounced off each other, before each one rolled right back to leave the table looking as it had before she took the shot - and as if the balls had never been moved.

tunned by the unexpected outcome, Xiao burst out laughing at the wasted shot. Her friend then took his shot and broke up the balls.