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  2. Rotation (pool) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Ten-ball - Wikipedia

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    Ten-ball is a rotation pool game similar to nine-ball, but using ten balls instead of nine, and with the 10 ball instead of the 9 as the "money ball".. Although the game has existed since the early 1960s, its popularity has risen since the early 2000s as a result of concerns that nine-ball has suffered as a result of flaws in its fundamental structure, particularly the ease with which players ...

  4. Fifteen-ball pool - Wikipedia

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    Fifteen-ball pool, also known as sixty-one pool, is a pocket billiards game developed in America in the nineteenth century from pyramid pool. Created by members of the Bassford's Billiard & Chess Rooms in Manhattan during the late 1830s or 1840s, it is the ancestor to many American pool games.

  5. Seven-ball - Wikipedia

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    Seven-ball is a rotation pool game with rules similar to nine-ball, though it differs in two key ways: the game uses only seven object balls as implied by its name, and play is restricted to particular pockets of the table. William D. Clayton is credited with the game's invention in the early 1980s. [1]

  6. Chicago (pool) - Wikipedia

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    "Chicago" often refers to a variation of rotation pool in which the balls are initially placed in positions against the rails of the table. [2] [3] Another variation of Chicago is played in a similar fashion to nine-ball and rotation, where balls must be played in order starting with the 1 ball. In Chicago, all fifteen balls are used.

  7. Kelly pool - Wikipedia

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    Kelly pool is a rotation game, which means that the lowest-numbered ball on the table must be contacted by the cue ball on every shot. [7] No safeties are called in kelly pool; the legal pocketing (i.e., with no foul committed on the same stroke) of the lowest-numbered ball on the table permits and requires the shooter to continue play. [7]

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  9. Pool (cue sports) - Wikipedia

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    Pool is a series of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six pockets along the rails, into which balls are shot. [1] [2] Of the many different pool games, the most popular include: eight-ball, blackball, nine-ball, ten-ball, seven-ball, straight pool, one-pocket, and bank pool. Eight-ball is the most frequently played discipline ...