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2. Pool (cue sports) - Wikipedia

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   Historic print depicting Michael Phelan's billiard saloon in New York City, 1 January 1859.. The etymology of "pool" is uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary speculates that "pool" and other games with collective stakes is derived from the French poule (literally translated "hen"), in which the poule is the collected prize, originating from jeu de la poule, a game that is thought to have ...

3. Eight-ball pool (British variation) - Wikipedia

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   A player shooting a kick shot. The English-originating version of eight-ball pool, also known as English pool, English eight-ball, blackball, or simply reds and yellows, is a pool game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen usually unnumbered object balls) on a small pool table with six pockets. It originated in the United Kingdom ...

4. Eight-ball - Wikipedia

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   Country or region. Worldwide. Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes, [1] big ones and little ones, [2] or rarely highs and lows [3]) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a cue ball and fifteen object ball s ...

5. Play Pool Lucky Break 8 Ball Online for Free - AOL.com

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   Pool: Lucky Break 8 Ball. At Lucky Break Pool, play free online pool hall 8-ball with your friends! Chalk up your favorite pool cue, customize the billiards table, and chat with other players. You ...

6. Efren Reyes - Wikipedia

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   In the final, he met Mike Sigel in a best-of-three sets match, winning 8–0 in the first set and 8–5 in the second. [32] The following year, Reyes won the IPT World Open Eight-ball Championship over Rodney Morris 8–6, earning $500,000, which is still the largest first-place prize of any pool tournament in history. [33]

7. List of world eight-ball champions - Wikipedia

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   The following is a list of WEPF world eightball champions, sanctioned by the World Eightball Pool Federation. It was held for 22 consecutive years in Blackpool, England, then in 2022 for the first time was held in Killarney, Ireland. The WEPF rules were introduced in 1998 then modified for professional play in 2022 .

8. Cue sports - Wikipedia

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   Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth -covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions. Cue sports are also collectively referred to as billiards, though this term has more specific connotations in some varieties of ...

9. Billiard table - Wikipedia

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   A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards, pool, pyramid or snooker) provide a flat surface usually made of quarried slate, that is covered with cloth (usually of a tightly woven worsted wool called baize ), and surrounded by ...