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Cue sports
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Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a table covered in cloth, bounded by elastic bumpe
Interior view of a billiard hall in Toledo, Ohio, c. 1900
Interior view of a billiard hall in Toledo, Ohio, c. 1900
Billiards in the 1620s was played with a port, a king pin, pockets, and maces.
Billiards in the 1620s was played with a port, a king pin, pockets, and maces.
The sons of Louis, Grand Dauphin, playing the 'royal game of fortifications', an early form of obstacle billiards with similarities to modern miniatur
The sons of Louis, Grand Dauphin, playing the 'royal game of fortifications', an early form of obstacle billiards with similarities to modern miniature golf
Illustration of a three-ball pocket billiards game in early 19th century Tübingen, Germany, using a table much longer than the modern type
Illustration of a three-ball pocket billiards game in early 19th century Tübingen, Germany, using a table much longer than the modern type
Pool (cue sports)
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Pool is a group of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six pockets along the rails, into which balls are shot. Of the many different pool games, the most popular include: eight-ball,
Cue sports
…pockets, typically ten feet in length, including straight rail, balkline, one-cushion carom, three-cushion billiards, artistic billiards, and four-ball Pool, played on six-pocket tables of seven, eight, or nine-foot length, including among others eight-ball (the world's most widely played cue sport), nine-ball…
Dutch pool player Niels Feijen at the 2008 European Pool Championship
Dutch pool player Niels Feijen at the 2008 European Pool Championship
A player setting a rack
A player setting a rack
Historic print depicting Michael Phelan's billiard saloon in New York City, 1 January 1859.
Historic print depicting Michael Phelan's billiard saloon in New York City, 1 January 1859.
One of many correct nine-ball racks: the 1 ball at the apex centered over the foot spot, the 9 ball at center, the other balls placed randomly, and al
One of many correct nine-ball racks: the 1 ball at the apex centered over the foot spot, the 9 ball at center, the other balls placed randomly, and all balls touching.