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Some versions of snooker, such as six-red or ten-red snooker, are played with almost identical rules to the standard game but with fewer object balls, reducing the time taken to play each frame. [ 198 ] [ 199 ] The Six-red World Championship , contested annually in Bangkok , Thailand, was a regular fixture on the World Snooker Tour between 2012 ...
Balkline is the overarching title of a group of carom billiards games generally played with two cue balls and a red object ball on a cloth-covered, 5 foot × 10 foot, pocketless billiard table. The object of the game is to score points, also called counts , by a player striking their cue ball so it makes contact with both the opponent's cue ...
Snooker, though a pocket billiards variant and closely related in its equipment and origin to the game of English billiards, is a professional sport organized at an international level, and its rules bear little resemblance to those of modern pool, pyramid, and other such games. A "Billiards" category encompassing pool, snooker, and carom has ...
Pack of reds, not touching the pink. Snooker balls, like Billiard balls, are typically made of phenolic resin, and are smaller than American pool balls.Regulation snooker balls (which are specified in metric units) are nominally 52.5 mm (approximately 2 + 1 ⁄ 15 inches) in diameter, though many sets are actually manufactured at 52.4 mm (about 2 + 1 ⁄ 16 in).
This is a sports game category that covers all computer games that emulate cue sports, such as pool or carom billiards. For snooker , see the subcategory, Category:Snooker video games . Subcategories
Russian pyramid game setup, with the object ball s in a triangle rack at the foot of the table, and the cue ball in front of (up-table of) the head string (baulk line).. Russian pyramid, also known as Russian billiards (Russian: ру́сский билья́рд, russky bilyard), is a form of billiards played on a large billiard table with narrow pockets.
Pool Paradise is a 2004 pocket billiards video game, developed by Awesome Studios, and published by Ignition Entertainment, released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, and GameCube. The game is the fourth game to be endorsed by professional snooker and pool player Jimmy White .
The game is played with 5 red and 5 white billiard balls, with one ball in each set marked. [1] [2] At the start of play, each set of balls is arranged on five spots near each edge of the table by a pocket with the marked ball placed directly in front of the pocket. [2]