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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 balls). The object balls include ...
As APA nine-ball is based on points and not games won (contrast with BCA Pool League nine-ball which is based on games won, where the winner of each game is the player pocketing the 9-ball), a match can end before all the balls of a given rack have been pocketed. Using the previous Player A (skill level 2) vs. Player B (skill level 6) example ...
American-style eight-ball arose around 1900, derived from basic pyramid pool. [1] In 1925, the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company began offering ball sets specifically for the game using unnumbered yellow and red balls (in contrast to the numbered solids and stripes found in most pool ball sets), a black eight ball, and the white cue ball.
Take some time off, play some pool-hall style 8-ball online in today's Game of the Day: Lucky Break 8 Ball! Lucky Break 8 Ball is a free, online multiplayer pool game.
The organization was founded in the United States in 1979 [1] [2] [4] [5] by equipment manufacturer Valley-Dynamo as the Valley 8-Ball League Association. It was later known as the Valley National 8-Ball Association , a name the league still uses sometimes [ 6 ] Despite its name, it is no longer just national, having leagues in eleven countries ...
8 Ball Pool (stylized as 8POOL) is a 2008 sports game developed and published by the Swiss company Miniclip. The game was released for browsers in 2008 and for iOS and Android in 2013. 8 Ball Pool allows players to play pool against others online in a variety of modes, including 9-ball.
This section lists world champions in British-style eight-ball, which exists in a few slight-variant versions (usually referred to as blackball and eightball pool) with different governing bodies. This version is played at the amateur and semi-professional levels in Commonwealth countries and a few continental European nations.
Magic 8-Ball → Magic 8 Ball – Having just reverted a previous undiscussed and incorrect, but good faith, move to lowercase the B, a quick check of the official website shows that this trademark product contains no hyphen in its name. The hyphen is ungrammatical anyway as the "8" is not an adjective here.