Trick shot
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A trick shot is a shot played on a billiards table which seems unlikely or impossible or requires significant skill. Trick shots frequently involve the balls organized in ways that do not correspond t
World Champion professional trick shot artist Mike Massey setting up a trick shot.
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
Trick shot
…as balls being in a straight line, or use props such as extra cues or a triangle that would not be allowed on the table during a game. As an organized cue sports discipline, trick shot competition is known as artistic pool. Billiards trick shots are the subject of increasing international competition, both amateur…
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.
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