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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...

in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool...

fiberglass. An obsolete term for a cue, used from the 16th to early 19th centuries, is billiard stick. The forerunner of the cue was the mace, an implement similar...

playing these games helped retire the billiard mace in favour of the cue stick. There are a number of pocket billiard games directly descended from English...

Played on a standard pool table, the game uses just two object balls, a cue ball, and a 6+3⁄4 inches (170 mm)[citation needed] tall, narrow-necked bottle...

(3.0 m × 1.5 m), pocketless billiard table with two cue balls and a third red-colored ball. In a one-cushion shot, the cue ball caroms off both object...

types of cue sports or billiards-family games, which as a general class are played with a stick called a cue which is used to strike billiard balls, moving...

(sometimes called a triangle) is a piece of equipment that is used to place billiard balls in their starting positions at the beginning of a pocket billiards...

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...

Pool Championship was sanctioned by the Billiard Congress of America (BCA) from 1966 to 2000; It was revived by CueSports International (CSI) for one year...

This was agreed, and "The Billiard Association of Great Britain and Ireland, India and the Colonies" (known as the Billiard Association) was formed. Ten...

Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a baize-covered snooker table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long...

center-to-center impact), the cue ball will travel in a line tangential to the point of impact between both balls – the tangent line. Because billiard balls are somewhat...

(1993). Winning One-Pocket ... As Taught by the Game's Greatest Players. Billiard World Pub. ISBN 0-936362-03-0. Robin, Eddie (1996). One-Pocket Shots, Moves...

× 1.7 m). Cue sports portal Timeline of snooker on UK television A game called pyramid pool, like pyramids, was also played on a billiard table in England...

into the Hall of Fame of the Billiard Congress of America on April 7, 2005. For 2007 he was ranked as #8 in Pool & Billiard Magazine's poll of the "Fans'...

materials. Cue lathes function similarly to turning and spinning lathes, allowing a perfectly radially-symmetrical cut for billiard cues. They can also...

requires three standard carom billiard balls of equal diameter: a cue ball for the first player, typically plain white, another cue ball for the second player...

the cue, and with the cue running down the middle of his chin. Davis could not focus with his right eye so he played using a stance in which he rested the...

player, but also as an entertainer. Wanderone was inducted in 1984 into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame for his decades-long public promotion...