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[3] [7] [5] At the start of a game, the balls are racked on a pool table's foot spot, with a set of fifteen balls, placed in random order, and a cue ball. On the opening break shot , the player must either call a ball out of the rack and an intended pocket, or cause two object balls and the cue ball to strike a rail.
A player using a cue stick to push a billiard ball forward to move an object ball A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue) is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards. It is used to strike a ball, usually the cue ball. Cues are tapered sticks ...
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This category is for pool family of cue sports, including eight-ball, nine-ball, blackball, straight pool, and others. The main article for this category is Pool (cue sports) . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pool (cue sports) .
In 1966, the Billiard Congress of America created its hall of fame to honor people who have been known to enrich the sport, containing two categories — "The Greatest Player", a category including players who played either internationally or nationally for 20 years or more and have won at least one national or international championship, and "The Meritorious Service", a category for players ...
Losing hazard (in-off in snooker terms) – striking one's cue ball so that it hits another ball and then enters a pocket: 3 points if the red ball was hit first; 2 points if the other cue ball was hit first; 2 points if the red and the other cue ball are hit simultaneously. Combinations of the above may all be scored on the same shot.
Internationally standardized pool balls come in sets of 16, including two suits or groups of numbered object balls, seven solids (1–7) and seven stripes (9–15), a black 8 ball and a white cue ball. Standard pool balls are 2.25 inches (57 mm) in diameter and are 6 ounces (170 g) in weight.
Rotation, sometimes called rotation pool, 15-ball rotation, or 61, is a pool game, played with a pocketed billiards table, cue ball, and triangular rack of fifteen billiard balls, in which the lowest-numbered object ball on the table must be always struck by the cue ball first, to attempt to pocket numbered balls for points.